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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2009-01-24 01:09 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2009-01-24 01:09 pm
How odd
Take four random famous Scotsmen:
William Wallace: Fought the English from 1297-1298, relocated to France after suffering military reversals. Was eventually captured and executed by the English.
Rob Roy MacGregor: Waged an ultimately unsuccessful feud against the Duke of Montrose.
Adam Smith: The father of modern economics.
James Watt: An engineer whose work on the steam engine helped create the industrial revolution.
Which of these would you expect to have had big budget films about them? The two failures or the two guys who helped make the modern world what it is?
I shouldn't complain: Hollywood doesn't know how to make a wide range of biopics so we'd just get a Adam that focused on Smith's struggle with his crippling heroin addiction or Watt's romance with his One True Fated Love (I am not sure if they'd pick Ann MacGregor for that or Margaret Miller - Miller does offer the tragedy of an early death).
William Wallace: Fought the English from 1297-1298, relocated to France after suffering military reversals. Was eventually captured and executed by the English.
Rob Roy MacGregor: Waged an ultimately unsuccessful feud against the Duke of Montrose.
Adam Smith: The father of modern economics.
James Watt: An engineer whose work on the steam engine helped create the industrial revolution.
Which of these would you expect to have had big budget films about them? The two failures or the two guys who helped make the modern world what it is?
I shouldn't complain: Hollywood doesn't know how to make a wide range of biopics so we'd just get a Adam that focused on Smith's struggle with his crippling heroin addiction or Watt's romance with his One True Fated Love (I am not sure if they'd pick Ann MacGregor for that or Margaret Miller - Miller does offer the tragedy of an early death).