poking the Hollywood British Stereotype.

[burntcopper]

(re-read Why Does Hollywood hate Ireland, a rather fabulous rant) According to Hollywood :

Irish :
rural
poor
still stuck in the 1930s
romantic as hell.

Scots :
kilts
castles
rural

Wales :
Doesn't exist.

English :
We're lucky. lots of stereotypes. none are accurate.
Hugh Grant (added rural , emotionally stifled, boarding schools.)
Evil but sophisticated and intelligent.
tourist postcard of London - royals and buses.
Chim-chimeny, mary Poppins.

Did I miss anything?

Comments

[sbp.livejournal.com]

English stereotypes in English films: cockney hard man. plucky kid. kitchen sink drama.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

at least our stereotypes of ourselves are recognisable... F'r instance, Bridget Jones : my office is full of them.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Tea! You English, you love your tea, with your Shakespearean "Tea, Early Grey, hot" and your conquering of all of India just so you could get a proper cuppa. And your warm beer! And you're all posh RP-types except for the Cockneys who are Not As Repressed and who therefore get to dance to Irish-ish music before the Titanic sinks. (As my bother said one Christmas when we were wondering if we were in fact too drunk (being Irish) to change the channel, "For God's sake, quick, change it! They're about to start the ceili scene!" And we were no longer too drunk to work the remote. *shudders*)

Terrifyingly, apparently more tea per capita is drunk here than in your green and pleasant land. It's a wonder any of us can move out of the loo.

*dances a romantic impoverished jig*

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, that trailer's . . . somewhat stereotyped. Argh!

Dear Hollywood,

The Manolo gets it - why don't you?

No love,

Ireland

And now, something even more horrifying . . . Irish Jam

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

oh god. I just watched the trailer. She's a klutz and it's cute? And the plug thing? Is she actually Newt from Good Omens in a new body? (which would... make more sense) Clearly, no-one outside America has heard of a fuse box. I want to know where the producers find these cars - everyone I've seen in rural places has a truck, a landrover or a peugeot. and if they have anything that looks like a mini, it's a relatively new one. the only bit that made any sense was when the male lead laughed at her for the leap day concept.

Ballykissangel was more accurate.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Jaysus, apparently I really can't spell if I don't have caffeine during the day . . .

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

ooo, I'd forgotten the tea. often covered in the tourist london stereotype.

It's a horrific thing when James Bond is actually a more accurate model of the British than anything hollywood produces. But then, that's almost completely british produced, we just get the americans to pay for it.

Dear hollywood, just...stop making everyone wince. including your own people. (anything set outside LA)

[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

including your own people. (anything set outside LA)

Hahaha, I'm so used to it at this point I don't even notice. I had a flister get incredibly butthurt that SPN portrayed her town and it wasn't 100% accurate, and I was sitting there going "um, did you just think the entire rest of the country just happens to exactly like the area around Vancouver? Because yeah, all that snow in Louisiana in 'Route 666', that was 100% trufax."

[phadria.livejournal.com]

"Terrifyingly, apparently more tea per capita is drunk here than in your green and pleasant land"

well, according to a pack of Rizla i bought about 6 months ago, the only place that drinks more tea than england is iraq.
so unless you're implying that the rizla comapany WOULD LIE* then i think you're mistaken my friend. unless you're in iraq... in which case... erm...

*WHICH THEY WOULDN'T re: the tobacco industry has always been very open and honest about the healthful properties of smoking, particularly to asthmatics ahemcancerahem 'risks' of smoking

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

I trust Rizla! Ooooh, Baghdad!

[phadria.livejournal.com]

and we all thought the war was over oil... *shakes head and lols in a distinctly home counties way*

[gmh.livejournal.com]

Kindly boffins: thinking particularly of Q, Charles Xavier, Gandalf, et cetera.

[st-lemur.livejournal.com]

Q's Welsh! But never really identified as such.

[transtempts.livejournal.com]

WORD.

*twitches*

[xenaclone.livejournal.com]

Wales might be more in some Americans minds after Dr Who and Torchwood.

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

There are also pirates. All of whom are from Cornwall.