"I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And I'm going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return."
The most beautiful film ever made, fantastic acting terrific story line and glorious singing. Nobody sings like the Welsh. So many talented outstanding voices.
My very soon to be 90 years old mother, her 92 year old sister, my auntie, and I, just finished talking about this movie...they've probably seen it a hundred times in their lives, myself, at least 50 times in mine . They even remembered the opening monologue ..sigh...t'was an absolutely memorable experience
The original intention was to make the film in Wales, have Welsh actors & extras, & made in full colour, but the UK was of course at war at the time, making that impossible. So in the end had to be made in California, & in B&W as there would have a lot of obvious natural mismatches if in colour. With the casting only Rhys Williams (who played Dai Bando) was the only true Welsh actor in this.
Currently there is a left wing "debate", in the United Kingdom around Whiteness and if the British Empire was a force for good in the world. OK so this is the opening monologue of a Hollywood movie but I ask you, where is the White Privilege in being from a Welsh mining village or a skate quarrying community? Was the British Empire a force for good here? Were these people exploiters or the exploited? This was the reality of the majority of the British in the 19th and 20th centuries. Grinding poverty, exploitation, starvation and early mortality.
Gandhi on one of his visits to the UK in the 30’s famously stayed with the mill workers in Lancashire . He understood that these people were not our enemies .But the British empire was not a force of good . The damage it did is very profound and deep , remnants of which can be seen even today.
The most beautiful film ever made, fantastic acting terrific story line and glorious singing.
Nobody sings like the Welsh.
So many talented outstanding voices.
Good god, each shot is framed as beautifully as a painter's masterpiece.
Indeed.
My very soon to be 90 years old mother, her 92 year old sister, my auntie, and I, just finished talking about this movie...they've probably seen it a hundred times in their lives, myself, at least 50 times in mine . They even remembered the opening monologue ..sigh...t'was an absolutely memorable experience
This movie has always meant so much to me. Thanks for putting it up
I agree with you. I've shed many a tear watching this movie over the years and hold dear many of the ideas and ideals presented therein.
Thanks for the upload. loved the book and the movie both :)
Obrigado Carvalho 👍🏻
Fantastic film my blood is made from my father's and his father and his father coal mining years
The original intention was to make the film in Wales, have Welsh actors & extras, & made in full colour, but the UK was of course at war at the time, making that impossible. So in the end had to be made in California, & in B&W as there would have a lot of obvious natural mismatches if in colour. With the casting only Rhys Williams (who played Dai Bando) was the only true Welsh actor in this.
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How very Irish he sounds..
Currently there is a left wing "debate", in the United Kingdom around Whiteness and if the British Empire was a force for good in the world. OK so this is the opening monologue of a Hollywood movie but I ask you, where is the White Privilege in being from a Welsh mining village or a skate quarrying community? Was the British Empire a force for good here? Were these people exploiters or the exploited? This was the reality of the majority of the British in the 19th and 20th centuries. Grinding poverty, exploitation, starvation and early mortality.
Gandhi on one of his visits to the UK in the 30’s famously stayed with the mill workers in Lancashire . He understood that these people were not our enemies .But the British empire was not a force of good . The damage it did is very profound and deep , remnants of which can be seen even today.