"Wild Mountain Thyme" anyone? Here's a preview

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Also isn't Emily Blunt British?? (And obvs Jamie Dornan being Irish)You think they'd have a bit more cop on whatever about the rest of them.

Foil Arms & Hog are so funny. My favourite is the one with the policeman in England who can't speak Irish.

I kinda feel like this about it all

m.independent.ie/opinion/theres-no-point-being-offended-by-wild-mountain-thyme-its-just-a-bit-of-gentle-escapism-39733654.html

The accents. Like that film PS I love you. I literally turned it off (twice, because I had forgotten why I hadn't watched it in the first place) because of the star's accent (male) in the opening scene. No way I could have sat through that and I watched Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Far and Away!

Why is it that the Irish accent seems to be so hard to do? Or maybe foreign actors get other accents off too and I'm just attuned to the Irish faux-pas.

Maybe the intended audience is the Yanks?

@Shuddawuddacudda

Why is it that the Irish accent seems to be so hard to do? Or maybe foreign actors get other accents off too and I'm just attuned to the Irish faux-pas.

From a quick Google-

There are two types of difficulty: 1) the vowel shifts and 2) the prosody, or tempo and pitch, very different from most other English accents. A further difficulty for Americans is an Irish tendency to use some British figures of speech and others which are their own.

I suppose as well. There’s fewer examples of people trying to recreate a Valleys accent, or Black Country or Cornish. Plus if you’re familiar with how an accent should naturally sound, which I’d guess most people in the U.K. would re Irish, then it’s easier to pick out a shite attempt!

I don’t understand why there is so few (one?!) Irish actors un main roles! Emily Blunt is English, born and bred in London. That’s bad enough but Christopher Walken is even weirder. Is there no Irish actors or bo one respecting themselves wanted to go near this?

I might watch it once it’s online - I’m ready to cringe

@mrsfeatherbottom , the Amazon delivery one is a fave Foil Ams and Hog sketch of mine too. In fact, it would be easier to list ones I don't like.
They are on the list of people who have got me through lockdown.

Jamie Dornan, who is from County Down, has been described as a Northern Irish man impersonating an American impersonating a southern Irish farmer.

That made me chuckle I admit. As well as the tweet from Dublin Airport:

"There's fashion police, Grammar police, we even have airport police.
"Is there such a thing as accent police? If so somebody better call 'em.
"On the upside, Ireland looks nice."

I like the Leprechaun Museum quote ‘Even we think this is a bit much’.

Why is Emily Blunt’s face muddy throughout? Is her character too spirited to wash?

It took me FAR too much of the thread to realise you weren't all critiquing the Foil, Arms and Hog sketch thinking it was a serious film trailer - I was extremely confused

Many years ago I went to New York, and went to see Christopher Walken starring in “James Joyce’s The Dead: The Musical”.

The fact that walk-up tickets were available gave me a hint that perhaps it wasn’t going to be the greatest theatrical experience, (tbh the fact that it was “James Joyce’s The Dead: The Musical” gave me a bit of a clue) but I wasn’t prepared for the fact that while all of the rest of the cast did Irish accents of varying quality, Christopher played the lead in broad Queens, New York.

Twenty years later I now understand why the director of that play made that choice.

@psychomath , I love Foil Arms and Hog and think this sketch is brilliant. I did before the Wild Mountain Thyme fiasco and love them even more because so many people have picked up on the connection.

Can't wait for tomorrow's foil arms and hogg sketch

Hahhaaa they're brilliant they are! And the comments on this thread made me laugh out loud!

I made my husband turn the trailer off half way through because "Irish" accents aside I was annoyed that it was completely incomprehensible. are you telling me it's not set in the 1940s??? I may go back and have another look.

Please direct me to all the pisstaking you can give me of the film!

What has that got to do with Wild Mountain Thymes (one of my favourites as a wean)?

@banivani , if you are on Twitter then #Wild Mountain Thyme
will show you a lot. Dara O'Briain has had a good go. There's loads. Seen quite a bit of it also linking to this sketch

Americans think scotland and ireland are the same place, Butchy

Voice coach here, from Belfast. The accents of the west of Ireland and Belfast are just so different; it’s not a case of “oh he’s from Belfast, he should be able to do all Irish accents”.

His General American for 50 Shades was actually fairly sound. Maybe they got a decent voice coach on that one or it’s literally the only other accent he can do.

Emily Blunt makes some really odd film choices. I suspect she doesnt give a shit anymore or something eg. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Anyway, the accents are absolutely atrocious. Walken as well; what the fuck is he doing there? How do people still get funding to make anodyne, stereotypical shite like this? So many unanswered questions...

@Shuddawuddacudda

“the Irish accent”. Which one of the scores available do you mean?

Big Christopher Walken fan and I like Emily Blunt but yeah WTF were they thinking. It’s excruciatingly bad going by the trailer. I am going to have to rewatch The Quiet Man (relative is an extra) to recover my equilibrium. Another Foil Arms and Hogg fan here, the Maths class on zoom sketch so early into Covid was inspired. Anyone who hadn’t seen The Guard with Brendan Gleason should give it a go, sweary (well it’s Irish) but brilliant.