Michael Collins
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The film of his life on over the Weekend.
Who knew early 20th C Dublin was so foggy, and always drenched in atmospheric blue lighting?!?
And not a hen party to be seen in the shots on Dame St near Old City Hall.
A street on axis with the GPO…
Ah but you gotta love the whole Edwardian thing, the deep woods, early electric fittings, those heavy net curtains, the Georgian revival, the Castle Season, 20,000 families living in one room…
Dublin’s, indeed Ireland’s forgotton era.I also noticed the quantity of smoke/mist in the King Arthur film made in Wicklow was over the top.
Has it become necessary to use special effects to airbrush out one off houses in even the most scenic of locations?
It’s an interesting experiment, I find. Look at even the most remote of locations………………. a pylon, or airplane sky track or sheep or fence post or burger van always creeps in to the photograph.
Great film Michael Collins, by the way.
welcome back alan. hope u enjoyed ue trip around my county.
and yea..there is always something…like in braveheart wasn’t there some of the extra’s with watches on…but both great films…they can’t think of everything
………………handsome bastards all these Irish Patriots and were’nt the British as thick as mince.
Still can’t complain, there’s always Mel Gibson doing a turn for Scotland and was’nt Michael Collins good in Rob Roy, turned his hand to a lot of things obviously.
Lovely, lovely Donegal and Galway, Fin…….. ‘cept Donegal were bloottered by Armagh in the football, when I was there. Lot’s of sad faces.
…..the sets of the film Michael Collins all been recreated up in the grounds of Grangegorman of course…..hence the way North Earl Street faced directly onto the GPO.
That bit of imaginative set design actually worked I think. Plus it went well with the other historical “oversights” that featured so heavily when it was originally released.
But it still throws you, the geography of Dublin city centre was such a major player in this event – sure he might as well have built the GPO as a gothic folly while he was at it 🙂
The last scene is the best, cliched, but it works – and the scene under Connolly with the pillars either side is great, a part of the station so few people see.
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