A Loch Ness Film, it seemed a worthwhile spontaneous purchase and the scenery and accents and action agreed with that. This has a lot going for it.
Then I checked the reviews, a dirth of Scots actors? I checked and only one Scots actor in the lead roles. I checked locations, no mention of the Loch Ness area, the west coast yes. A net barrier at the mouth of Loch Ness? The soundtrack mentioning the guns at a high point between Loch Lochy and Moray Firth. Goodbye to scenery and accent accuracy.
So, cinema is not always so useful for armchair tourism, detail is chosen for practical film creation reasons. This is still an okay story, but it would have been so easy to get the details to be a better fit. It also tells me of disparate legends of the water horse, how this fits some legends but not all.
Then I checked the reviews, a dirth of Scots actors? I checked and only one Scots actor in the lead roles. I checked locations, no mention of the Loch Ness area, the west coast yes. A net barrier at the mouth of Loch Ness? The soundtrack mentioning the guns at a high point between Loch Lochy and Moray Firth. Goodbye to scenery and accent accuracy.
So, cinema is not always so useful for armchair tourism, detail is chosen for practical film creation reasons. This is still an okay story, but it would have been so easy to get the details to be a better fit. It also tells me of disparate legends of the water horse, how this fits some legends but not all.