Talk:Brassed Off

message: It's a comedy/drama, but a black comedy? 
58.104.33.222 (talk) 02:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A comedy which features mass-unemployment, debt, poverty and an attempted suicide, may, I believe, safely earn the epithet 'black'.Bkpip (talk) 09:34, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

text: Vandalism, now removed Gnomingstuff (talk) 21:16, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Black comedy?

message: People get hung up on the accents too much where Brassed Off is concerned. I can honestly say that I didn't find them to be that bad, and they certainly did nothing to distract from what is a simply wonderful movie. Pete Postlethwaite's accent, although a Warrington man himself, was immaculate. Ewan McGregor and Tara FitzGerald were always going to have problems, but they tried their best, bless 'em. (I mean, who CAN do the abbreviating glottal stop outside Yorks/Lancs). Actually, I thought Tompkinson was the one who struggled. He attempted a very difficult form of Yorkshire accent and, although his overall performance was fantastic, this forced his execution of it to come across as laboured and unnatural sometimes.Bkpip (talk) 09:28, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Must say that I don't agree with you at all on that.  Perhaps, Harry could have passed off as Doncaster.  Tompkinson's kids were fine, but I presume that they were roped in from a local school.  McGregor was useless.  All of the vowels were rounded, bad glottal stops, pronounced words such as "nowt" and "summat" in more Midlands fashion.  I honestly think that it was quite poor.  I don't think that it was West Yorks neither except maybe somewhere like Ilkley.  Grimethorpe is right on the border with West/South.  There isn't exactly a huge difference between Hemsworth and Barnsley anyway.  81.152.12.70 15:58, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Many people around Sheffield round their vowels, and where I live, in the heart of West Yorkshire, everyone pronounces their 'nowts' in exactly the same way as the actors in the movie. It does no good to presume a strong knowledge of Yorkshire accent, just because one lives in and/or comes from the county. Its accents and dialects are so diverse as to require long years of careful study before one can definitively state that this is or isn't authentic broad Yorkshire.Bkpip (talk) 09:28, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

text: I know that many of the actors are from far away, but actors are supposed to be able to change for these things.  If you watch Rita, Sue and Bob Too (set in Bradford), listen to how George Costigan (who played Bob) spoke!  It's almost perfect Bradford from that era, yet he was from somewhere on the south coast.  When you consider that a low-budget 1980s film like that did not have linguistics experts to help him, I think that it was quite an incredible effort that he got it so spot on.  Rita and Sue weren't quite as good unfortunately.  Epa101 16:23, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We just have to face the facts that unless actors are cast exclusively from the locale, attempts at Yorkshire accents will always be flawed. It is, after all, a very difficult accent to imitate well, and a very easy accent to imitate badly. As for RS&BT, Costigan was fantastic...but having the two leading females sporting Lancashire accents in a Yorkshire movie! That surely has to be a greater crime than an actor and actress from foreign parts at least ATTEMPTING to get the accent right, even if they did essentially fail.Bkpip (talk) 09:31, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Regarding Accent

message: "Brassed Off is now used as a learning medium by famous Australian music teacher, Michael Faragher." -- Mr Faragher is apparently not all that famous according to Google. If you wish to re-add him to the article, please justify doing so here. -- 201.50.248.179 21:55, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "famous Australian music teacher, [[Michael Faragher]]" 

message: This paragraph is original research:
I'll move it here so that people can attempt to find sources for it.  But it shouldn't be restored without some kind of citation for this bit of  interpretation.  Themes, symbolism, and such need to be cited to reliable sources, as described in MOS:FILM#Themes. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:58, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: "In a Yorkshire mining community, being called a "scab" is an extremely serious insult."
This is very original research, but from my experience being called a scab in any WV mining community would be a great insult.  West Virginia has a great history of fighting and not being "friendly" to scabs.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_coal_wars are one example  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.195.15.177 (talk) 02:04, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "scab" 

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message: Articles about movies usually have a section about how the movie was received. I think that would be appropriate here. SlowJog (talk) 03:09, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is currently available to all to edit. If you have content to add, feel free to do so. Here is the Rotten Tomatoes review and the Metacritic review. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 04:24, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception