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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[Riverkilt]

Aye Todd,

But would have been cool if Michael and Sean were kilted in the movie.

Ron

[McMurdo]

Aye Todd,

But would have been cool if Michael and Sean were kilted in the movie.

Ron

Kilted through the Kiber Pass, that would have been something. Although IMHO The Man who would be King is one of those movies that need not be remade as the original is so good.

[Panache]

...Although IMHO The Man who would be King is one of those movies that need not be remade as the original is so good.

Here Here!

Cheers

Jamie

[Bugbear]

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" done in kilts. How about something like "Big Jake" done in kilts, complete with the motorcycle son wearing kilt and leather glengarry/ helmet... And don't forget "Planet of the Kilted Apes."

Sorry Ron, you said have some fun.