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Considine and Nighy


I enjoyed this film but one thing that really jarred with me was I couldn't see Paddy Considine (my favourite actor by the way) or Bill Nighy as miners!!??...The former looked like a school teacher and the latter looked like a Major from the Vicar of Dibley!

Noel

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Well, since they were playing playing guys who grew up in a town where you worked the mines, or you starved, I thought they looked the part(s) they played fairly well.

My brothers and I all worked as house painters, but we all look and dress differently and have varied interests. Folks that work with their hands can, and often do, look like they don't fit their role in the world. It's not always the big, burly, dude who can swing a pick.

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Miners don't generally swing a pick anymore, and the weren't doing it much in the 1980s either. There are big machines called continuous mining machines that extract the coal with big tungsten teeth mounted on a rotating drum; they've been around since the early twentieth century.

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Was it stated that Nighy's character was a retired miner? I assumed that he was an ex teacher or civil servant - something like that. His deceased brother was in the Forces (evident from the picture his widow was carrying) so maybe they weren't a mining family.

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