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Local Hero [Criterion Collection]
Director: Bill Forsyth Cast: Burt Lancaster , Peter Riegert , Fulton Mackay , Denis Lawson , Norman Chancer
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- Release Date: 09/24/2019
- UPC: 0715515234719
- Original Release: 1983
- Rating: PG
- Region Code: 1
- Presentation: [Wide Screen]
- Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
- Language: English
- Runtime: 6660
- Sales rank: 12,335
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Recorded in 2018, This Commentary Features Director Bill Forsyth And Film Critic Mark Kermode: On
Recorded in 2018, This Commentary Features Director Bill Forsyth And Film Critic Mark Kermode: Off
Disc #2 -- Local Hero (Criterion Collection)
Bill Forsyth
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Shooting From The Heart
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The South Bank Show
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The Making Of "Local Hero"
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I Thought Maybe I'd Get To Meet Alan Whicker
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This film stars Burt Lancaster as Texas oil baron Felix Happer, who sends employee MacIntyre as an emissary to a Scottish fishing village to negotiate for the rights to the town's oil reserves. Surprisingly, the Scots are more than anxious to sell, and MacIntyre's trip becomes progressively stranger.
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This warm-hearted fish-out-of-water tale highlights the cultural differences (and underlying similarities) between a big city American capitalist and small town Scottish villagers. Just as Mac falls in love with the country and its people, the villagers are equally seduced by his promises of instant, immense wealth. Rather than exploiting the cliché of an evil American oil company battling plucky Scottish townfolk, writer/director Bill Forsyth pursues a quirkier and more intriguing theme of the seduction of the Old World by the New, an idea that has animated such dissimilar works as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Forsyth's use of "magical realism" is equally understated and restrained. This Scotsman's deadpan, self-deprecating satire of his countrymen is more indebted to Alexander Pope than to the more savage Jonathan Swift. The whimsical characters may be oddballs, but they are not gullible hicks: they want the Americans to show them the money. Forsyth's gags rarely occur at the expense of people's dignity, instead highlighting our basic human frailty. Chris Menges gives us many panoramic shots of the surprisingly beautiful Scottish landscape, while Mark Knopfler's plaintive soundtrack perfectly accents the proceedings. The performances of Burt Lancaster as the eccentric and ambitious oil tycoon is a constant delight, while Peter Riegert's Mac is appropriately (and alternately) flustered and smitten.