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L OCAL H ERO

L OCAL H ERO. The Scottish movie. Director:  Bill Forsyth Writer:  Bill Forsyth CAST: B urt Lancaster as Felix Happer Peter Riegert as ‘ Mac ’ MacIntyre Peter Capaldi as Danny Oldsen Denis Lawson as Gordon Urquhart Jennifer Black as Stella Urquhart Jenny Seagrove as Marina

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L OCAL H ERO

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  1. LOCAL HERO The Scottish movie

  2. Director:  Bill Forsyth Writer:  Bill Forsyth CAST: BurtLancasteras Felix HapperPeter Riegertas ‘Mac’ MacIntyre Peter Capaldias Danny Oldsen Denis Lawsonas GordonUrquhart Jennifer Blackas Stella UrquhartJenny Seagroveas Marina Christopher Rozyckias Victor Fulton Mackayas Ben Knox

  3. LOCAL HERO TRAILER

  4. PLOT ‘Mac’ MacIntyre, an executive of Knox Oil and Gas from Houston, Texas, is sent to a little Scottish village of Ferness to negotiate buying all the properties, because his company plans to build an oil refinery in the area. In Aberdeen, Mac teams up with a local representative Danny Oldsen. They spend several weeks in Ferness, where they become friends with the locals, especially Gordon Urquhart, the hotelier, accountant and an occasional taxi driver of the village, and his wife, Stella. Danny falls in love with a marine researcher Marina. The villagers are more than happy to sell their homes and leave their difficult lives on the shore. They can’t wait to become millionaires, but their excitement is later ruined by an eccentric old beachcomber Ben Knox, who owns the village’s beach and refuses to sell it to the 0il company. Mac’s boss, Felix Happer, comes all the way from Houston to negotiate with Ben, but finds that they both have a great interest in the sky. Happer decides to build the oil refinery off-shore and use Ferness as a location for an observatory. Danny suggests combining it with an oceanographic research institute, a project of Marina’s. Mac is sent back to Houston to implement the changes with the company.

  5. SOUNDTRACK Soundtrack for the film was composed and recorded by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. The tracklist goes as follows: 1. The Rocks and the Water 2. Wild Theme 3. Freeway Flyer 4. Boomtown (Variation Louis' Favourite) 5. The Way It Always Starts 6. The Rocks and the Thunder 7. The Ceilidh and the Northern Lights 8. The Mist Covered Mountains 9.The Ceilidh: Louis' Favourite/ Billy's Tune 10. Whistle Theme 11. Smooching 12. Stargazer 13. The Rocks and the Thunder 14. Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero (audio clip: Mark Knopfler playing ‘Going Home’ live as an encore of a Dire Straits concert)

  6. Bill Forsyth's Local Hero could have been a film about what makes Scots Scots. Instead, the viewer gets many sings and symptoms of people being just human, not all that tied to their homes and country, people selfishly seeking ways of acquiring as much profit as possible. In fact, nearly every character acts against what could be called national or regional pride.

  7. In an standard film, Felix Happerwould have been the original enemy of the quiet village - it was him who wanted to turn the untouched beauty of the bay into an enormous oil refinery. In the end it is Happerand his passion for astrology who saves the bay from turning into an ugly sight.

  8. MacIntyre, the man who was sent to Scotland only because his name sounded Scottish (his grandparents were actually Hungarian), comes to love the place he is meant to destroy. The end of the film – the return of Mac back to Houston, gives the whole piece a sad note. Danny Oldsenspeaks French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Russian, Swedish, German, Japanese, Dutch and Polish, that is including English twelve languages, but he never cared to learn a language spoken in his own country - Gaelic.

  9. Gordon Urquhart, the hotelier and accountant of the village, encourages the locals to drain as much money out of the American company as possible. Also in a later part of the film admits to Mac that his otherwise discreet wife Stella is the boss of the family business, despite signs of the situation being otherwise. Victor, the Russian fisher, comes periodically to Ferness, the place he loves – and it was the 80’s, the Cold War was still a current issue. He keeps his investment portfolio with Gordon. All villagers consider him a friend.

  10. The eccentric beachcomber Ben is of the same surname as the founders of the oil company – Knox. Refuses to sell his beach and his knowledge of the northern sky gives Happer the idea of building an observatory in the bay. The village’s priest MurdoMacPherson is originally from West Africa. He, same as Mac later in the story, has come to love the place he was sent to and very likely felt much stronger connection to it than the villagers themselves.

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