Local Hero

Local Hero is a film of Scottish director Bill Forsyth from the year 1983.

Action

The Texas oil executives MacIntyre travels on behalf of his company Knox in a Scottish village in order to buy along with the bay in which it is to set up a refinery site. The Knox Group Manager of the build here on the "good historical links the company to Scotland ". Group owners Happer, who is an amateur astronomer, at the same time, instructed him before nor to hold also for a new comet out. Happer is undergoing treatment of an eccentric psychotherapist who wants to strengthen through selected provocations Happers self-confidence.

After a lengthy drive through the misty Highlands, accompanied by the voice talent Oldsen, MacIntyre finally hits the supposedly unsuspecting villagers. However, these are already well informed about the purpose of the business and want to sell their homes at exorbitant prices. The negotiations take on the absurd. Due to the necessary phone calls to Knox, the cell phone of the village, which can also be called developed into a communication center.

Trapped by the charm of nature and the warm life of the villagers neglect MacIntyre and Oldsen their business tasks and must finally determine disappointed that the entire stretch of beach, the most important part of the business, ownership of the old hermit Ben Knox, who rejects a sale vehemently.

Happer, more of MacIntyre's astronomical reports as attracted to the progress of the business, eventually traveling even on the scene. After Happer by MacIntyre learns the name of the hermit, he would definitely get to know him. After a long, drunken conversation with the hermit, with the Happer sees itself magnificently, MacIntyre is sent back to Texas. As a result, from the entertainment, the refinery project is abandoned in favor of the new marine research laboratories that had already an expert who has examined the suitability of the bay promised.

MacIntyre, meanwhile, feels far from Scotland very alone and depressed, especially since he has fallen in the village in the wife of hoteliers and notary Gordon Urquhart. The last camera setting, the phone booth in which the phone rings.

Reviews

Prism online means those of Lancaster and Riegert as " brilliant." " Energize the magnificent scenery of Scotland, congenial underlain by Mark Knopfler ( Dire Straits ) film music, the rest to make the eco- comedy film to be event ". For the lexicon of international film Local Hero is a " poetic, sparkling comedy of self-irony with fascinating pictures, the questions about the meaning of life and quality is ."

Awards

The film won the 1984 BAFTA Award for his direction. Among the seven nominations for the BAFTA Award for clients such as Chris Menges, Mark Knopfler, David Puttnam, Michael Brad Sell, Burt Lancaster and Bill Forsyth (Best Original Screenplay ). In addition, each received the award for best screenplay Local Hero by the New York Film Critics Circle in 1983 and by the National Society of Film Critics 1984.

Background

The film was ( Pennan, Arisaig and Morar ) and filmed in Scotland in Houston. He arrived on 17 February 1983 in the U.S. and on December 2, 1983 in the German cinemas.

Trivia

The piece Going Home: Theme from Local Hero from the soundtrack to the film, played by Dire Straits, became the club anthem of the football club Newcastle United.

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