Adding Kilts to Remakes of Old Movies

[Riverkilt]

Got to wondering if some movie classics could have been made even better, or a remake made even better, by adding kilts appropriately.

First, ya GOTTA close your history books and dictionaries and post a lookout for the kilt police. This is about having some fun.

Shouldn't Ray Walton's Mad Jack Duncan character in Paint Your Wagon have been kilted? Or wouldn't the movie been a bit better if he'd been kilted?

Wouldn't Dead Poets Society have been better if the school uniform had been tartan kilts instead of slacks?

Would The Man Who Would Be King have been improved a bit if the Michael Caine and Sean Connery characters had been from a kilted regiment?

Get the idea?

How about some more?

Ron

[Mr. MacDougall]

Zulu would definitely be better if it was a company of the Black Watch involved.

[macwilkin]

Zulu would definitely be better if it was a company of the Black Watch involved.

There were of course Scottish regiments in the Anglo-Zulu War, but none at the Battle of Rorke's Drift.

Regards,

Todd

[Jock Scot]

Zulu would definitely be better if it was a company of the Black Watch involved.

Would you care to suggest that to the South Wales Borderer Regiment?

[macwilkin]

Would you care to suggest that to the South Wales Borderer Regiment?

Aye, Jock...and actually, the regiment was known as the 2nd Warwickshires in 1879; the name "South Wales Borderers" would come with the Cardwell reforms of 1881. While the regimental depot was in South Wales, the regiment was not exclusively Welsh.

And one more point: Men of Harlech was not the regimental march; it was The Warwickshire Lads. The words used in "Zulu" were written especially for the movie:

http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/myths/myths.htm

Don't get me wrong; I love "Zulu" and especially Men of Harlech, but I love the real story as well.

Cheers,

Todd

[Jerry]

How about Return of The Kilted Jedi, with Light Claymores. Of course, kilts already appear in some of the Startrek movies, thanks to Scotty, but having the entire crew kilted would be great.

[Jock Scot]

Aye, Jock...and actually, the regiment was known as the 2nd Warwickshires in 1879; the name "South Wales Borderers" would come with the Cardwell reforms of 1881. While the regimental depot was in South Wales, the regiment was not exclusively Welsh.

And one more point: Men of Harlech was not the regimental march; it was The Warwickshire Lads. The words used in "Zulu" were written especially for the movie:

http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/myths/myths.htm

Don't get me wrong; I love "Zulu" and especially Men of Harlech, but I love the real story as well.

Cheers,

Todd

Hi Todd,yes I knew about the Warwickshire(pronounced worrick-shire) connection,but I did not want to complicate things!I have family connections to both the Warwicks and the SWB.I might have known you would pick me up on this!
All the best,
Jock.

[Bugbear]

Well... "Grease."

[macwilkin]

Would The Man Who Would Be King have been improved a bit if the Michael Caine and Sean Connery characters had been from a kilted regiment?

Ah, Ron, but there are references to a Highland regiment -- Peachy and Danny mention Pipe Major MacCrimmon, which the surname itself is a reference to the family of hereditary pipers:

http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/it...?item_id=38141

At one point, the story is told of when the Pipey sat down on an anthill in his kilt, causing him to jump up and lead a charge of Highlanders, while another story focuses on MacCrimmon betting Danny 10 shillings that he couldn't blow up a goat's stomach -- "Ten shillings was ten shillings to Pipe Major MacCrimmon!" :mrgreen:

So, there are "kilts" in The Man Who Would be King, you just have to "listen" for them.

T.

[Jack Daw]

Just the opposite DID occur. The remake of "The Wicker Man," sans kilts mind, was decidedly one of the worst movies I've seen. T'other, a cult classic.