{"id":18429,"date":"2021-09-19T18:47:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18429"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:48:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:48:26","slug":"episode-428-the-quiet-man-through-the-mind-of-a-22-year-old-canadian-who-had-never-heard-of-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18429","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 428 “THE QUIET MAN”…through the mind of a 22 year old Canadian who had never heard of the movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 428      “THE QUIET MAN”…through the mind of a 22 year old Canadian who had never heard of the movie<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlan, why don\u2019t you go and see \u201cThe Quiet Man\u201d? said my Dublin host, Kevin Behan in a Dublin pub one evening.<\/div>\n
\u201cThe Quiet Man?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYes, you have been here in Dublin over a week waiting for your machines to arrive, you need<\/div>\n
a break\u2026and you will learn something more about Ireland.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWho are the lead actors?<\/div>\n
\u201cJohn Wayne, Maureen O\u2019Hara and Barrie Fitzgerald.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI thought John Wayne only did Western movies.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cTrue.  The Quiet Man was an exception\u2026it is a wonderful movie, Alan.”<\/div>\n

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So I went.  The John Ford movie had been running continuously in Dublin since 1953\u2026seven years<\/div>\n
non stop.   Must be good and I had nothing better to do.  So I went.  Turned out to be one of<\/div>\n
the best things I could have done.   John Ford got an academy award as director of The Quiet Man.<\/div>\n
I did not know that.  Lots I did not know about the film.  One thing I did know however was  that<\/div>\n
the film plot and life I was about to lead were congruent.<\/div>\n

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 The film was so green\u2026.John Ford had argued that the movie be made in Technicolor.<\/div>\n
Would the Ireland that I was about to discover be as green as the scenes in The Quiet Man.?<\/div>\n

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Would Bonmahon be as real as the imaginary village of Inisfree in The Quiet Man?<\/div>\n
Would there be a pub that served Guinness with people as full of joy as those in The Quiet Man?<\/div>\n
Would the local people like or dislike the sudden visit by a Canadian mining exploration crew?<\/div>\n
Would the hatred and violence that plagued Ireland in Time of the Trouble be apparent today?<\/div>\n
Would Bonmahon be a rural jewel?   Would there be singing?  Would there be abandoned<\/div>\n
castles and ancient fairy circles?   Would Bonmahon change my life?<\/div>\n

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The pub in The Quiet Man and Kirwin\u2019s pub in Bonmahon were similar as were the people<\/div>\n
and the pints of Guinness .  Of course I did not know that until I got to Bonmahon but<\/div>\n
I wished it would be so\u2026and it was.<\/div>\n

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This cottage is the original used in the movie.   Since 1953 so many people have stolen stones from the<\/div>\n
foundation that is was in danger of collapse so today tourists are directed to a replica.<\/div>\n

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Memories of The Quiet Man are preserved in wax\u2026not John Wayne and Maureen O\u2019Hara <\/div>\n

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MY PLAN FOR THE NEXT EPISODE(S)<\/div>\n

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I WILL TRY TO PRESENT BONMAHON THROUGH THE PICTURES I TOOK WHILE WORKING THERE IN 1960.<\/div>\n
YOUR JOB?  FIRST , TRY AND FIND THE MOVIE OR THE SCRIPT OR THE SHORT STORY BY WALSH.<\/div>\n
SECOND, YOU WILL SEE THE SIMILARITIES .<\/div>\n

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Note:  The plot for The Quiet Man was taken from a short story written by Maurice Walsh   in 1933.  John Ford got the<\/div>\n
rights to the movie for $10 .  It took years for him to persuade Hollywood to make the movie which became<\/div>\n
a hit that is still played and remembered.  The movie was romantic.  The original short story was quite different.<\/div>\n

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