Scottish film ideas
Braveheart (1995)
Altogether now - 'FREEEDOM!' Mel Gibson steps behind the camera to direct and achieves an unlikely feat: a Hollywood film, directed by an Australian and shot largely in Ireland which managed to become the biggest film in Scottish box-office history! It also inspired a generation of football fans to get creative with the face-paint.
Trainspotting (1995)
Based on Irvine Welsh's novel, Trainspotting defined the nineties and launched a thousand (well, five) faces, kick–starting the careers of Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Ewan McGregor, Euan Bremner and Johnny Lee Miller. The most adrenaline–fuelled look at addiction ever filmed.
Whisky Galore (1949)
Based on the true story of a wartime ship packed with 50,000 cases of whisky that ran aground off the Outer Hebrides, Alexander Mackendrick's directorial debut is as funny today as it was over half–a–century ago. (The real ship – the SS Politician – ran aground off Eriskay and it is said that one of the estimated 250,000 bottles of her whisky is still found by someone on the beach every other year!)
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Scottish Actors
Denis Lawson
Familiar to a generation of cinema-goers as Wedge Antilles in the first three of George Lucas's Star Wars film, Perthshire-born star Lawson's finest hour was undoubtedly as the charmingly scheming Gordon Urquhart in Local Hero. He's also Ewan McGregor's uncle!
