0:00:03 > 0:00:06The Scots... Well, who's like us?
0:00:06 > 0:00:08Over the last hundred years,
0:00:08 > 0:00:09film has played a central role
0:00:09 > 0:00:12in creating a global image of the Scots.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16So, what stories have these films told the world about us?
0:00:17 > 0:00:19And what can these characters teach us about ourselves?
0:00:22 > 0:00:24And which of our on-screen traits have a whiff of truth?
0:00:26 > 0:00:28And which deserve to be pure boiled up in a sheep's stomach
0:00:28 > 0:00:30and fed to the Loch Ness Monster?
0:00:30 > 0:00:32Go!
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish?
0:00:37 > 0:00:39- It's sh....- ..great being Scottish -
0:00:39 > 0:00:41the most contented, cheerful,
0:00:41 > 0:00:42generous, gregarious,
0:00:42 > 0:00:44sober, assertive group
0:00:44 > 0:00:47ever begat into civilisation.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Some people like the English.
0:00:49 > 0:00:50Well, so do I.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52But the Scots, well, who's like us?
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Tonight, I'm inviting you to quit your cringing Jock
0:00:57 > 0:00:59and join me, friends,
0:00:59 > 0:01:01as we take a look at how the Scottish soul
0:01:01 > 0:01:04has been projected to the world.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07# Brochan tana, tana, tana, brochan lom na sughain... #
0:01:07 > 0:01:09- The good...- There's no stopping me now.
0:01:09 > 0:01:10..the bad,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13and the glorious of Scottish stereotypes.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17# If you want my body and you think I'm sexy... #
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Because, as the old toast kind of goes, wha's like us?
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Damn few indeed, and they're all fictional -
0:01:22 > 0:01:24which is probably just as well.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34Scotland has been doing a lot of national soul-searching recently,
0:01:34 > 0:01:36trying to figure out who we really are.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39This isn't some part of the country,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42this is Scotland, by Christ!
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Luckily, movies have been giving us sweet and salty answers for years.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49MUSIC: Matinee by Franz Ferdinand
0:01:49 > 0:01:52So, if you only knew the Scots from how we'd been shown on screen,
0:01:52 > 0:01:56what would be your first impressions?
0:01:56 > 0:01:58BAGPIPES AND ROARING
0:01:58 > 0:01:59So, you want some words?
0:01:59 > 0:02:01What's this area famous for?
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Some really dark, dark humour.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05Drunks.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Muggers.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Multiple social deprivation.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Drunken, brawling...
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Ah, bastard!
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Loud, drunken, ginger...
0:02:15 > 0:02:18# I'm so drunk I can barely see... #
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Unintelligible...
0:02:20 > 0:02:22I'm as good as you are,
0:02:22 > 0:02:24bad as I am.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26..by painting us really well.
0:02:26 > 0:02:27Us miserable sinners.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Douce and very repressed.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32There'll be no church for you in Snorvaig today.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Surly, aggressive...
0:02:36 > 0:02:38- Behave yourself.- Tight.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39Cannae beat a fish supper.
0:02:39 > 0:02:40Get off!
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Parochial sort of tartanry.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Could you tell us where we can find the local inn?
0:02:47 > 0:02:49- Lots of swearing.- Shite.
0:02:49 > 0:02:50- Bugger off.- Get tae...
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Dour, mean and hard.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54That is the stuff I am made of.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56What a bonnie nation.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02But should we even care about how we're portrayed in film?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04I mean, they are just movies, aren't they?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06'Amongst the islands of the Scottish Hebrides
0:03:06 > 0:03:09'lies the tiny isle of Begg,
0:03:09 > 0:03:10'an isolated community
0:03:10 > 0:03:13'without any of the advantages of modern civilisation.'
0:03:13 > 0:03:14Ehh!
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Without even television.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20Everybody wants their culture and their country
0:03:20 > 0:03:22portrayed in a certain way
0:03:22 > 0:03:24that is something you're proud of
0:03:24 > 0:03:26or something that makes you laugh or that's recognisable,
0:03:26 > 0:03:28because it's a calling card for the world.
0:03:28 > 0:03:33And stereotypes can be dangerous if misused,
0:03:33 > 0:03:37as illustrated in this terrifying Monty Python sketch.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39BAGPIPES BLARE
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Read all about it! Read all about it!
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Man turns into Scotsman!
0:03:43 > 0:03:45He'd always watched Doctor Finlay on the television.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49You see, Scottishness starts with little things like that
0:03:49 > 0:03:50and works up.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54You see, people don't just turn into a Scotsman for no reason at all.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57No further questions.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00BAGPIPES BLARE
0:04:01 > 0:04:03If the past is a foreign country,
0:04:03 > 0:04:05it seems that, for many people,
0:04:05 > 0:04:07that country is Scotland.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Many early depictions of "Scotchland: The Movie"
0:04:12 > 0:04:15feature Bonnie Prince Charlie.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17Kilts, tartan and Highland mountains
0:04:17 > 0:04:19all looked glorious in Technicolor.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Fellow Scotsmen,
0:04:23 > 0:04:24here is my sword.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27God defend Scotland!
0:04:27 > 0:04:30THEY CHEER
0:04:30 > 0:04:32The Highlands are on the march!
0:04:32 > 0:04:35Unfortunately, audiences in 1948
0:04:35 > 0:04:37proved less willing to march to cinemas
0:04:37 > 0:04:40to see David Niven's attempts in the role...
0:04:40 > 0:04:42God and St Andrew!
0:04:42 > 0:04:44..but Hollywood still loved its Scottish heroes,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47especially when you had Robert Louis Stevenson
0:04:47 > 0:04:49providing the source material.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Stuart heir,
0:04:51 > 0:04:53has landed on the shores of his homeland.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57The Master Of Ballantrae features a swashbuckling Errol Flynn.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Look at him swashing his buckles.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02Although, you suspect, he didn't quite fight as hard
0:05:02 > 0:05:05in his attempts to master the Scottish accent.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07I'm afraid Mr Bally doesn't care much for talk.
0:05:07 > 0:05:08He believes in action.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10That's a Scottish trait, isn't it, Mr Bally?
0:05:10 > 0:05:14Yes. There have been some who wished it otherwise, though.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16King George, for instance.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17Yeah, King George.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Ha-ha-ha-ha!
0:05:19 > 0:05:20Yeah.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24The same year, Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue
0:05:24 > 0:05:26is full of the type of Scoticisms
0:05:26 > 0:05:29which were fast becoming almost compulsory.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32HE ROARS
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Highland coos - check.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38Berserker pipers - check.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Swashbuckling hunks of masculinity.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43One stereotype which is obviously completely true.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Aye, as superhero costumes go,
0:05:47 > 0:05:49the kilt is pretty tidy, like.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Albeit, a superpower often seems to be
0:05:53 > 0:05:56losing in the most glorious way possible.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58BAGPIPES PLAY
0:05:58 > 0:06:01The men are coming home.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Aye, but some are not.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10We do tend to get a wee bit sentimental in Scotland,
0:06:10 > 0:06:12over our history in particular.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14When I was a kid and saw films,
0:06:14 > 0:06:16like Bonnie Prince Charlie and Rob Roy,
0:06:16 > 0:06:18we were all out in the playground
0:06:18 > 0:06:19fighting the dastardly English.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22And if I could be anybody else,
0:06:22 > 0:06:24I'd love to be this character -
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Alan Breck from Kidnapped.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Why am I not a bonnie fighter?
0:06:29 > 0:06:34The truth is, it wasn't quite the way that history is in the movies
0:06:34 > 0:06:36but, hey, as Mark Twain said,
0:06:36 > 0:06:38"Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story."
0:06:38 > 0:06:41So I'll go with that. I'll go with the movie history.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45It's my opinion that the choice of the field, for us, is suicidal.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47The first thing my men will find,
0:06:47 > 0:06:48when they do awake,
0:06:48 > 0:06:50is the enemy on them,
0:06:50 > 0:06:51cutting their throats.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56In 1964, a ground-breaking television film, Culloden,
0:06:56 > 0:06:58questioned these national myths,
0:06:58 > 0:07:00showing just how un-glorious
0:07:00 > 0:07:02the reality had been.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04HORSE WHINNIES
0:07:06 > 0:07:07Damn the wee fool.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Scatter...into the mist, find your own way home.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13But the appeal of rugged men showing off their knobbly knees
0:07:13 > 0:07:14never went away.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15In the mid '90s,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Liam Neeson cut a dash as Rob Roy.
0:07:18 > 0:07:19There they are!
0:07:19 > 0:07:21The honest Highlander fighting for his rights
0:07:21 > 0:07:24against corrupt aristocrats.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Well, who wouldn't want the Scots to win?
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Especially when all the English characters look like Captain Hook
0:07:29 > 0:07:32and act like dastardly pirates while they're at it.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Oh, well.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36The great McGregor come to hand at last.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41You can think of these films as basically Scottish Westerns,
0:07:41 > 0:07:43which, of course, would make the Scots the Indians.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Now, as a McKohli, that makes a lot of sense to me.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50BAGPIPE MUSIC BLARES
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Slosh.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Here are Scotland's terms.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Lower your flags
0:07:59 > 0:08:01and march straight back to England,
0:08:01 > 0:08:02stopping at every home you pass by
0:08:02 > 0:08:05to beg forgiveness for 100 years of theft, rape and murder.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09These films have come to represent Scotland the brand
0:08:09 > 0:08:11as much as Scotland the brave...
0:08:11 > 0:08:15and few of them loom larger than the biopic of old blue face,
0:08:15 > 0:08:17with its mix of stirring speeches,
0:08:17 > 0:08:19bloodthirsty battles
0:08:19 > 0:08:22and dodgy history.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23Go!
0:08:23 > 0:08:26There's something about an uprising that fails.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28A noble cause that, you know,
0:08:28 > 0:08:31failed at the last hurdle.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34A failed rebellion becomes romantic.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35'They fought like Scotsmen...
0:08:37 > 0:08:39'..and won their freedom.'
0:08:39 > 0:08:42All of that mythology accrues around Scotland
0:08:42 > 0:08:46and I think that's why people get so attached to the Highlander myth.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49The prisoner wishes to say a word.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53For many, this was indeed Scotland forever!
0:08:53 > 0:08:55And ever
0:08:55 > 0:08:58- and ever...- Freedom!- ..and ever...
0:08:58 > 0:09:00and ever.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02ROARING
0:09:02 > 0:09:04GRUNTING
0:09:04 > 0:09:06HE ROARS
0:09:06 > 0:09:08HE ROARS AGAIN
0:09:11 > 0:09:14We're now arriving at Blackness Castle,
0:09:14 > 0:09:17the fortress of Black Jack Randall,
0:09:17 > 0:09:19where Jamie comes to rescue Claire.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23The international appeal of these historical epics
0:09:23 > 0:09:25means that film and TV tourism
0:09:25 > 0:09:28draws thousands of people to Scotland every year.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Oh, look, there's some there.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32Hiya!
0:09:32 > 0:09:33Looks great.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35HE CLEARS THROAT Tourist.
0:09:37 > 0:09:42BAGPIPES PLAY
0:09:48 > 0:09:52Hello, everyone, I am Sanjeev McKohli of the clan McKohli.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54Welcome to the seat of the clan McKohli.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Can I just ask you all - what youse doing here?
0:09:57 > 0:09:59We're here for the Outlander tour.
0:09:59 > 0:10:00Ah.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04What's an out...lander?
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- Jamie.- Jamie.- Jamie!
0:10:09 > 0:10:11I'll thank you to take your hands off my wife.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Outlander is, of course,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17the biggest drama in production in Scotland today.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19The series tells a story of Claire,
0:10:19 > 0:10:23who falls through a vortex in time to 1743
0:10:23 > 0:10:24and, very handily,
0:10:24 > 0:10:26takes us back to the most romantic,
0:10:26 > 0:10:29scenic and bloody time of Scottish history.
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Full of rousing battles...
0:10:33 > 0:10:35..arousing love scenes...
0:10:35 > 0:10:37and shinty.
0:10:37 > 0:10:44BAGPIPE MUSIC PLAYS
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Some of us even moved here.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48- For Outlander?- For Outlander.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51- And the love of Scotland. - And the love of Scotland.
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Wow.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54It's something about that knee porn.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Something catch your eye there, lass?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01What about Jamie?
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Outlander author, Diana Gabaldon,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07wrote the first book before she ever set foot in Scotland,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10having been inspired by an episode of Doctor Who,
0:11:10 > 0:11:12also starring a hero called Jamie. Hmm.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Try to murder a McCrimmon, would you?
0:11:15 > 0:11:17Well, I'll show you!
0:11:17 > 0:11:20Creag an tuire!
0:11:20 > 0:11:24THEY SCREAM
0:11:25 > 0:11:27My heart's in the Highlands!
0:11:27 > 0:11:30My heart is not here!
0:11:30 > 0:11:32My heart's in the Highlands,
0:11:32 > 0:11:34chasing the deer!
0:11:34 > 0:11:36In the film Mrs Brown,
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Billy Connolly plays a Highlander...
0:11:38 > 0:11:40Lift your foot, woman.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44..offering his own unique brand of bereavement counselling
0:11:44 > 0:11:46to Judi Dench's Queen Victoria.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51He really was playing on Queen Victoria's
0:11:51 > 0:11:54ludicrous sense of romanticising the Highlands,
0:11:54 > 0:11:57because he's just lording it over the rest of the servants.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01I'm Her Majesty's Highland servant!
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Indoors and out.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06There's no stopping me now.
0:12:11 > 0:12:12Yet even when taking orders,
0:12:12 > 0:12:15we still manage to show our rebellious streak.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18Charlie doesn't take cream in his coffee.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21That's very sophisticated, isn't it?
0:12:21 > 0:12:22Alec Guinness did his best
0:12:22 > 0:12:25to be both a rebel and a bully in Tunes Of Glory.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Is that no sophisticated?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Not especially, I shouldn't have thought.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- MIMICKING:- Not especially, I shouldn't have thought.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Actually, point of fact. You know what I mean, old boy.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37THE GREAT ESCAPE THEME PLAYS
0:12:37 > 0:12:39In The Great Escape,
0:12:39 > 0:12:43Ives uses his time locked up in the cooler with Steve McQueen
0:12:43 > 0:12:44to dispense girl advice.
0:12:46 > 0:12:47They were the days.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Some of these Saturday nights
0:12:49 > 0:12:51in towns like Musselburgh and Hamilton.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52HE CHUCKLES
0:12:52 > 0:12:53You'd to fight off the birds.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56You know, birds.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Girls, man, girls.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02You no' have them in the States?
0:13:02 > 0:13:04The first time I identified a Scottish person in film
0:13:04 > 0:13:06was Ives in The Great Escape.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08He kept, kind of, making life hard
0:13:08 > 0:13:10for the Nazis and trying to escape.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17At the end, after the Nazis discover the first tunnel,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20it's as if all hope is gone.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22He just cracks up...
0:13:23 > 0:13:27..and he goes towards the fence and gets shot to bits.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29And Steve McQueen tries to save him,
0:13:29 > 0:13:31but it's too late.
0:13:39 > 0:13:40D'oh!
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Who's running this army, you or me?
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Right, now get to work
0:13:45 > 0:13:48and don't let me see a speck when I get back!
0:13:48 > 0:13:49Leather post.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53The first Scot I saw
0:13:53 > 0:13:56was probably James Finlayson
0:13:56 > 0:13:59and he was a foil for Laurel and Hardy.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01BAGPIPES BLARE, HE WHISTLES
0:14:01 > 0:14:04He was a master of the double take
0:14:04 > 0:14:08and he was this frustrated, angry Scot.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20James Finlayson would inspire Homer Simpson's famous...
0:14:20 > 0:14:21D'oh!
0:14:21 > 0:14:22..catchphrase,
0:14:22 > 0:14:25but he's not the only Scottish presence in The Simpsons.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31In a possibly fictional poll,
0:14:31 > 0:14:33Americans were asked which Scottish character
0:14:33 > 0:14:35they most identified with Scottish traits.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38The winner - Groundskeeper Willie.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42It seems too often our passion is mistaken for aggression.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45I mean, maybe Willie just really...likes gardening!
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Grow!
0:14:48 > 0:14:49Bonjour,
0:14:49 > 0:14:52you cheese-eating surrender monkeys!
0:14:52 > 0:14:55You offset him against the sort of prim, proper Principal Skinner,
0:14:55 > 0:14:58it becomes this brilliant double act between the both of them.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01Brothers and sisters are natural enemies,
0:15:01 > 0:15:03like Englishmen and Scots!
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Or Welshmen and Scots.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Or Japanese and Scots.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Or Scots and other Scots.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Damn Scots!
0:15:11 > 0:15:12They ruined Scotland!
0:15:12 > 0:15:15You Scots sure are a contentious people.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17You just made an enemy for life!
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Not so fast, boy-o.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21If it was up to me, I'd let you go,
0:15:21 > 0:15:23but the lads have a temper
0:15:23 > 0:15:25and they've been drinking all day!
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Ow! Ow!
0:15:27 > 0:15:30'Some Scottish stereotypes are irresistible,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33'and the angry Scotsman - pure gold!'
0:15:33 > 0:15:35What are you doing in my swamp?!
0:15:37 > 0:15:40Some of the most famous Scottish on-screen characters
0:15:40 > 0:15:44tend to lose their heid in pretty spectacular fashion.
0:15:44 > 0:15:45Jamie!
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Ah, the crossest man in Scotland.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50'How do you make Malcolm Tucker even more scary
0:15:50 > 0:15:52'to the English civil servants he works with?'
0:15:52 > 0:15:54This is Toby.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56'Give him a sidekick who's equally angry
0:15:56 > 0:15:58'and equally Scottish.'
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Very pleased to meet you. Please, sit down.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Now, right, that's enough of all the Oxbridge pleasantries.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05I was just... What's Oxbridge about saying hello?
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Shut it, Love Actually!
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Do you want me to hole punch your face?!
0:16:09 > 0:16:10COW GROANS
0:16:10 > 0:16:12In The Last King Of Scotland,
0:16:12 > 0:16:14James McAvoy's impatience...
0:16:15 > 0:16:18..leads to a potentially ugly confrontation
0:16:18 > 0:16:20with Forrest Whitaker's Idi Amin.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22You are British.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Well, I'm Scottish.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27I'm Scottish.
0:16:27 > 0:16:28- Scottish?- Yeah.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Why didn't you say so?
0:16:31 > 0:16:33I fought with the Scots against the Mau Mau.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34Great soldiers.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36Would you let me have this T-shirt?
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Just as well as he'd packed his Scotland top, eh?
0:16:39 > 0:16:41Taps aff.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Thank you.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Scots on-screen were often depicted
0:16:46 > 0:16:47as living simple lives
0:16:47 > 0:16:49in far-flung corners,
0:16:49 > 0:16:51often battling against the intrusions of modern society
0:16:51 > 0:16:52as well as the elements.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55MIDGE BUZZES But never the midges for some reason.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01Year by year, the population's shrinking.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Look what happened to Mingulay and St Kilda.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Islands barren now that once were full of people.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08It's every man for himself.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11One of the great early Scottish films, which I really like,
0:17:11 > 0:17:14is Michael Powell's The Edge Of The World,
0:17:14 > 0:17:17which is set on a supposed St Kilda
0:17:17 > 0:17:20and it's about the clearance of St Kilda in the 1930s
0:17:20 > 0:17:22and the decisions they make to go.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29And it's a brilliant naturalistic portrait of Scotland.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Don't worry about me, I know where I'm going!
0:17:33 > 0:17:36# I know where I'm going
0:17:36 > 0:17:39# And I know who's going with me
0:17:39 > 0:17:41# I know who I love
0:17:41 > 0:17:44# But the dear know who I'll marry. #
0:17:46 > 0:17:48The Powell and Pressburger film
0:17:48 > 0:17:50I Know Where I'm Going
0:17:50 > 0:17:52stars Wendy Hiller on her way to the Hebrides
0:17:52 > 0:17:54to marry a rich industrialist.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55But quelle surprise...
0:17:57 > 0:17:59How long will the gale last?
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Just as long as the wind blows, my lady.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04..bad weather interrupts her travel plans...
0:18:04 > 0:18:10BAGPIPES BLARE
0:18:11 > 0:18:14..as do the charming locals on the Isle of Mull,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16forcing her to have second thoughts.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Do you think you could dance the Scottish?
0:18:18 > 0:18:19- I think so.- Good.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23- I suppose we ought to go back now. - Oh, no hurry.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26# Macaphee turn the cattle roon Loch Avornin
0:18:26 > 0:18:28# Macaphee turn the cattle roon Loch Avornin
0:18:28 > 0:18:30# Macaphee turn the cattle round Loch Avornin
0:18:30 > 0:18:32# Here and there and everywhere the cows are in the corn
0:18:32 > 0:18:34# Waitin at the sheilin Vhari Van mochree
0:18:34 > 0:18:36# Waitin at the sheilin Far awa tae sea
0:18:36 > 0:18:38# Home will come the bonny boats, Vhari Van mochree
0:18:38 > 0:18:42# And home will come the bonny boys, Vhari Van mochree. #
0:18:42 > 0:18:45There is no whisky.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49TENSE MUSIC PLAYS
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Perhaps the most famous portrayal of wily islanders is Whisky Galore.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Whisky.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Uisge-beatha.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03In Gaelic, they call it the water of life
0:19:03 > 0:19:06and to a true islander,
0:19:06 > 0:19:09life without it is not worth living.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11The film drew on real life events
0:19:11 > 0:19:13and tells of how the islanders of Todday
0:19:13 > 0:19:15are saved from a disastrous whisky drought
0:19:15 > 0:19:18when a Government supply ship is washed onto the rocks,
0:19:18 > 0:19:20laden with the mother lode.
0:19:20 > 0:19:2350,000 cases of whisky.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27The film portrays the canny islanders
0:19:27 > 0:19:30outwitting the English officers supposedly in charge.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35It remains one of the most loved Scottish films of all time
0:19:35 > 0:19:37and has just been re-made.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Quite a lot of the elements
0:19:39 > 0:19:42of early 20th century Scottish stereotype
0:19:42 > 0:19:44are present and correct.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Now who'd be saying a thing like that?
0:19:46 > 0:19:49The slightly drunk, slightly unruly local.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52The figures who are magically cut adrift
0:19:52 > 0:19:54or don't seem to respect, at all,
0:19:54 > 0:19:56the conventions of how we live in the modern world...
0:19:56 > 0:19:58I don't understand what you're saying.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00It's a pity I haven't the Gaelic.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02..but I think, as viewers,
0:20:02 > 0:20:03we're also very aware that they know
0:20:03 > 0:20:05that they're playing a stereotype.
0:20:07 > 0:20:08They're not the joke,
0:20:08 > 0:20:10they're in on the joke
0:20:10 > 0:20:12and the joke's being played on someone else.
0:20:12 > 0:20:16HE SINGS
0:20:16 > 0:20:19# Brochan tana, tana, tana, brochan lom na sughain
0:20:19 > 0:20:21# Brochan tana, tana, tana, brochan lom na sughain
0:20:21 > 0:20:24# Brochan tana, tana, tana, brochan lom na sughain
0:20:24 > 0:20:27# Brochan lom 's e tana lom 's e brochan lom na sughain
0:20:27 > 0:20:30# Brochan tana, tana, tana, brochan lom na sughain
0:20:30 > 0:20:32# Brochan tana, tana, tana, brochan lom na sughain
0:20:32 > 0:20:35# Brochan tana, tana, tana, brochan lom na sughain
0:20:35 > 0:20:38# Brochan lom 's e tana lom 's e brochan lom na sughain. #
0:20:38 > 0:20:40In America, the film Whisky Galore
0:20:40 > 0:20:42was released as Tight Little Island.
0:20:42 > 0:20:43Bit racist.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46But in France, it was called Whisky A Go Go.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50Proves that everything sounds cool in French, even the Scottish!
0:20:50 > 0:20:52Not that Orson Welles' laird in Trouble In The Glen
0:20:52 > 0:20:54would have agreed.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57This is Glen Easan.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00We're high in the Highlands, or Heelands,
0:21:00 > 0:21:03in an area infested with tribes of hostile savages,
0:21:03 > 0:21:05known as Scotsmen,
0:21:05 > 0:21:08and situated a good many degrees north of civilisation.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11The Scots are often portrayed as a parochial lot,
0:21:11 > 0:21:14fighting against the big bad world.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18Kailyard might sound like an overpriced hipster cafe,
0:21:18 > 0:21:20but it's become shorthand for how Scotland was represented
0:21:20 > 0:21:23to the rest of the world for many years.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Your young people have got no entertainment,
0:21:26 > 0:21:28not a cinema for miles.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30What sort of life is that, my friends,
0:21:30 > 0:21:32to be living in the present century?
0:21:32 > 0:21:33Oh-ho!
0:21:33 > 0:21:36It's a terrible picture he's painting.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39I'm afraid that, in your present mode of life,
0:21:39 > 0:21:42you're not an asset to Great Britain, you're a liability.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44THEY EXCLAIM
0:21:44 > 0:21:47Kailyard referred to images of Scotland
0:21:47 > 0:21:49that portrayed it as parochial.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52Now, don't forget to wear your Black Watch kilt.
0:21:52 > 0:21:53No, Mum.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56- And don't leave off your underwear until it's really hot.- No, Mum.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59Cut off from the modern world, small town.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01I've never left home before.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03I've never been further than Perth.
0:22:03 > 0:22:04And I didn't like Perth.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Hapless lads, winsome lassies.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09You know, you've got to go to the mainland
0:22:09 > 0:22:12to find out what's happening to us here on these islands.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Well, you know, I've been living in Begg all my life.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17I canny recollect anything happening here whatever.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19They certainly weren't something
0:22:19 > 0:22:22which you could recognise yourself in.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25She must know about cows, chickens and children.
0:22:26 > 0:22:27Yes.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30No English, Irish or Welsh girls...
0:22:30 > 0:22:33and no widows.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36BAGPIPER PLAYS "HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL"
0:22:36 > 0:22:37One film, above all,
0:22:37 > 0:22:40has become shorthand for images of a bonnie Scotland
0:22:40 > 0:22:41stuck in the past.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Blimey.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45What's that, Simon Callow?
0:22:45 > 0:22:46It's Brigadoon!
0:22:46 > 0:22:48It's bloody Brigadoon!
0:22:48 > 0:22:52# Brigadoon
0:22:52 > 0:22:55# Brigadoon... #
0:22:57 > 0:23:01Ha-ha! Now, there was a Scottish cliche from Hollywood, wasn't it?
0:23:01 > 0:23:02That was...
0:23:02 > 0:23:04But I remember just loving it.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06And not...
0:23:06 > 0:23:09Cos I was a kid, you know, so I didn't feel, "Don't patronise me."
0:23:09 > 0:23:11You know? That's it.
0:23:11 > 0:23:12Because it was a beautiful musical.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16# Salted meat I'm sellin' there at the square, laddie! #
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Brigadoon tells the story of a Highland village
0:23:23 > 0:23:26magically sent into collective slumber
0:23:26 > 0:23:28and awoken 200 years later
0:23:28 > 0:23:30with the arrival of two American tourists.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33- Look at that.- What do you know, it looks like a village!
0:23:33 > 0:23:36I don't think I've ever, in my life, seen Brigadoon.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38I think I was beginning to see it at one point in a hotel
0:23:38 > 0:23:40and it just made me feel slightly ill
0:23:40 > 0:23:43# Go home with Bonnie Jean
0:23:43 > 0:23:45# Go home, go home, go home with Bonnie Jean... #
0:23:45 > 0:23:47I will not have a word against it.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49It's the most perfect musical ever.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51# Go home with Bonnie Jean! #
0:23:55 > 0:23:58What is Local Hero if it isn't Brigadoon?
0:23:58 > 0:24:01It's the same thing, it's giving up the modern world
0:24:01 > 0:24:05to step back into this beautiful idea of a romantic Scotland...
0:24:05 > 0:24:08which I think is still there somewhere.
0:24:09 > 0:24:111983's Local Hero
0:24:11 > 0:24:13shows American oil executives
0:24:13 > 0:24:15meeting wiley Scottish locals
0:24:15 > 0:24:18and becoming slowly enlightened by their wisdom.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19..wanted to talk to you.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Would you give me a pound note
0:24:22 > 0:24:25for every grain of sand I hold in my hand?
0:24:25 > 0:24:27Now, you can have the beach for that.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30Saved you a pound or two there.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33When you had Fulton Mackay with the grains of sand,
0:24:33 > 0:24:36there was some kind of sense
0:24:36 > 0:24:37that maybe crazy old blokes...
0:24:39 > 0:24:41..who were Scottish might know something.
0:24:41 > 0:24:42Quiet, please, everyone.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Murdo wants to say a short prayer.
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Lord...- It's the Yank and the other one!
0:24:49 > 0:24:51They're coming across to the church!
0:24:51 > 0:24:52Quiet, please, everyone.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Murdo, can you deal with it?
0:24:54 > 0:24:56- Oh, God.- Just head them on.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58That film absolutely came out
0:24:58 > 0:25:02from those early '40s, '50s movies,
0:25:02 > 0:25:04but gave it a contemporary spin.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07What was it Gordon Urquhart offered you?
0:25:07 > 0:25:09£1.5 million in cash,
0:25:09 > 0:25:12plus 2% of relocation fund,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15and a share in the oil field revenue.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Strange times, strange times.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21CEILIDH MUSIC PLAYS
0:25:24 > 0:25:26THEY CHEER
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Ah, uisge-beatha,
0:25:30 > 0:25:32the water of life.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34You'll take a wee sensation before you go, Father.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Aye.
0:25:37 > 0:25:42# There stands the glass... #
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Right away.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46# That will ease all my pain... #
0:25:47 > 0:25:49I can die content...
0:25:51 > 0:25:52# It's my first one...
0:25:52 > 0:25:55..when I finish this whisky.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59# There stands the glass... #
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Whisky for the gentlemen that like it -
0:26:01 > 0:26:03and for the gentlemen that don't like it,
0:26:03 > 0:26:04whisky.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07You'll take a dram. It's from my own still.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09- What is it?- Whisky, you strayed lamb.
0:26:11 > 0:26:12How does it taste?
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Mother's milk.
0:26:14 > 0:26:15# You're in my eyes
0:26:15 > 0:26:17# You're in my dreams
0:26:17 > 0:26:19# You're Celtic, united
0:26:19 > 0:26:21# And, baby, I've decided
0:26:21 > 0:26:26# You're the best thing that's happened to me. #
0:26:26 > 0:26:28# Some of them had boots an' stockings
0:26:28 > 0:26:30# Some of them had nane ava... #
0:26:30 > 0:26:34# There stands the glass
0:26:34 > 0:26:36HE GROANS # Fill it up to the brim. #
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Quite often it seems that a wee dram
0:26:38 > 0:26:39is employed to sharpen the wits,
0:26:39 > 0:26:42despite all evidence to the contrary.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Breaking down boundaries,
0:26:44 > 0:26:46allowing us to access innate truths.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48I'm as good as you are,
0:26:48 > 0:26:49bad as I am.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54You could almost forget that binge-drinking has its downsides.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Oh, that's boggin'!
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Some of the most memorable scenes
0:26:59 > 0:27:01featuring Scottish characters,
0:27:01 > 0:27:02young and old,
0:27:02 > 0:27:05have inevitably involved a bevvy.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Or seven.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09When I think of Scotland, I think Buckfast,
0:27:09 > 0:27:10I think...
0:27:10 > 0:27:12out clubbing,
0:27:12 > 0:27:14people strewn across the streets
0:27:14 > 0:27:15unable to walk home
0:27:15 > 0:27:17cos they're completely incapacitated.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Casual sex.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23There probably is some...
0:27:25 > 0:27:27..basis for the drunken Scots.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29HE EXCLAIMS
0:27:29 > 0:27:32We love a party...
0:27:32 > 0:27:35and sometimes that party gets a little bit out of control.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41There's a movie called The Illusionist
0:27:41 > 0:27:45and the lord has put on this show for everyone....
0:27:45 > 0:27:46HE GROANS
0:27:46 > 0:27:48But he's really positive.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50HE EXCLAIMS AND LAUGHS
0:27:50 > 0:27:54And the minute he picks a drink up, he goes... "Oi!"
0:27:54 > 0:27:56He starts smiling, as if,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59"I've got another drink and I'm off."
0:27:59 > 0:28:02GLASS SMASHES
0:28:02 > 0:28:04It's all right. I'm all right.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Does any man here desire to be consumed by drunkenness?
0:28:10 > 0:28:13If you're referring to me, Minister,
0:28:13 > 0:28:15I'd rather consume the drink.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21I'll step down from the pulpit and run you out of the house of God!
0:28:21 > 0:28:23You hulking man of sin.
0:28:24 > 0:28:28This is Scotland. You can't have a good time without consequences.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30For every party, there's a hangover -
0:28:30 > 0:28:32or, as it's called in Scotland...
0:28:32 > 0:28:33Calvinism.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37The most straight-laced side of our national personality
0:28:37 > 0:28:39means that we're often shown as a slightly...
0:28:39 > 0:28:40dour bunch.
0:28:42 > 0:28:45Singing, dancing, drinking,
0:28:45 > 0:28:47and all the violent, evil uses of the flesh!
0:28:47 > 0:28:51And few Scottish actors nail that particular character trait
0:28:51 > 0:28:53quite like John Laurie.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55The wicked shall be destroyed!
0:28:55 > 0:28:58This daughter of a rich man and her devilry
0:28:58 > 0:29:02defy the most sacred laws of God and man!
0:29:02 > 0:29:05She dresses in purple and fine linen,
0:29:05 > 0:29:07but her heart is black,
0:29:07 > 0:29:09black with sin!
0:29:09 > 0:29:12"Vengeance is mine," said the Lord,
0:29:12 > 0:29:15"and the retribution will be just!"
0:29:15 > 0:29:16Whether in Dad's Army...
0:29:16 > 0:29:18We're doomed.
0:29:18 > 0:29:19Doomed.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22..or The 39 Steps.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24I ought not to say that.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26What ought you not to say?
0:29:26 > 0:29:28You've got a very well-spoken,
0:29:28 > 0:29:31soft-eyed English lady
0:29:31 > 0:29:32doing a very bizarre accent,
0:29:32 > 0:29:33pretending to be Scottish,
0:29:33 > 0:29:36but her husband, who's genuinely Scottish
0:29:36 > 0:29:38because he's nasty,
0:29:38 > 0:29:41is Bible-thumping, mean.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45Sanctify these bounteous mercies to us miserable sinners.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54Religion and repressed feelings in rural Scotland
0:29:54 > 0:29:56also feature in The Brothers.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00Telling the story of two families the McFarishes and the Macraes,
0:30:00 > 0:30:02who failed to share much brotherly love.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06I think there's a feeling that,
0:30:06 > 0:30:07even if you have a sunny day,
0:30:07 > 0:30:09you will pay for it later.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Let you be accursed
0:30:11 > 0:30:14and finally drowned in the stinking cesspool
0:30:14 > 0:30:16of your own degeneracy.
0:30:16 > 0:30:20But it has managed to create a strength of character in Scots,
0:30:20 > 0:30:22I think, that's probably taken us
0:30:22 > 0:30:25around the world and done some amazing things.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28Be you accursed before me
0:30:28 > 0:30:30from your first-born until your last-born.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32We can't competently diss it.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35There's merit in being dour sometimes.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38THEY EXCLAIM
0:30:38 > 0:30:42I tell you, she is evil and evil breeds evil in those who meet it.
0:30:42 > 0:30:45If there's one man who could out-dour John Laurie,
0:30:45 > 0:30:47it has to be...
0:30:47 > 0:30:48Duncan Macrae.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54You see Duncan Macrae in something like Whisky Galore
0:30:54 > 0:30:56where he is wonderfully funny.
0:30:56 > 0:30:57HE HICCUPS
0:30:57 > 0:31:00And then see a film like The Kidnappers...
0:31:00 > 0:31:02Don't eat it, Grandad.
0:31:02 > 0:31:03Please don't eat it.
0:31:03 > 0:31:05In The Kidnappers,
0:31:05 > 0:31:08he's this, sort of, dour Scot.
0:31:08 > 0:31:10Harry and me want a dog.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13What do you want a dog for?
0:31:13 > 0:31:14A dog is no use.
0:31:15 > 0:31:16You can't eat a dog.
0:31:19 > 0:31:23This stereotype of as being, frankly, a bunch of mean bastards,
0:31:23 > 0:31:25I mean, where does that even come from?
0:31:25 > 0:31:27You can take my freedom
0:31:27 > 0:31:29but you can't take my teacake!
0:31:31 > 0:31:34Seriously, don't you even think of unwrapping that.
0:31:34 > 0:31:37If you're done with that bit of porridge,
0:31:37 > 0:31:39I could just take a sup of it myself.
0:31:40 > 0:31:44I don't understand the mean Scottish thing, or not.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47I really don't because Scottish people are the most generous.
0:31:47 > 0:31:50What are you taking off your boots for, Grandaddy?
0:31:50 > 0:31:51For thrift.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55It's come from thriftiness, obviously.
0:31:55 > 0:31:57You know, of having to be thrifty.
0:31:57 > 0:31:59Good night to you, Davey.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01Will you leave me your candle?
0:32:01 > 0:32:03Did nobody ever tell you that a candle costs money?
0:32:05 > 0:32:10Working-class Scottish people are ludicrously generous
0:32:10 > 0:32:12but we've had that
0:32:12 > 0:32:15stereotype imposed on us.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18I don't know why.
0:32:18 > 0:32:19It's as if we all come from Aberdeen.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22All I want is someone to guide me to the mainland.
0:32:22 > 0:32:23Well, that will cost you two shillings.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29Altogether, it'll cost you five shillings.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31You said two shillings.
0:32:31 > 0:32:35Oh, well, find your own way then.
0:32:35 > 0:32:37When they're not being all dour and repressed,
0:32:37 > 0:32:39Scots like to mix it up
0:32:39 > 0:32:41by indulging in a bit of the old pagan celebration
0:32:41 > 0:32:43and ritual sacrifice.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46By the pricking of my thumbs,
0:32:46 > 0:32:48something wicked this way comes.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50THEY LAUGH
0:32:50 > 0:32:55As usual, we can partly blame an Englishman for this stereotype.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57Shakespeare's Macbeth portrayed Scotland
0:32:57 > 0:32:59as a placed stalked by witches,
0:32:59 > 0:33:00urging on murderous acts.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02Tell me, thou unknown power...
0:33:02 > 0:33:05The story has been filmed by Roman Polanski...
0:33:05 > 0:33:08Macbeth... Macbeth...
0:33:08 > 0:33:10..and most recently in a visually stunning version
0:33:10 > 0:33:12starring Michael Fassbender.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15Is this a dagger which I see before me?
0:33:20 > 0:33:23THEY CHANT: Hail Macbeth! Hail Macbeth!
0:33:23 > 0:33:24Hail Macbeth!
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Hail Macbeth!
0:33:28 > 0:33:31In the 1970s classic The Wicker Man,
0:33:31 > 0:33:33a policeman is sent to investigate a community
0:33:33 > 0:33:35on a remote Hebridean island...
0:33:36 > 0:33:40..only to find a strange free-loving cult led by Christopher Lee.
0:33:44 > 0:33:45The policeman's strict moral code
0:33:45 > 0:33:47is put to the test by Britt Ekland
0:33:47 > 0:33:49doing an erotic voodoo dance.
0:33:55 > 0:33:58It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00You are about to commit murder.
0:34:00 > 0:34:01No!
0:34:01 > 0:34:05I'm pretty sure this never happened to Taggart.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08Jesus!
0:34:08 > 0:34:10According to this image of the Scots,
0:34:10 > 0:34:13we're all living on the dark side of the toon.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19Have you never fought?
0:34:21 > 0:34:24You goddamned evil misty Jocks.
0:34:27 > 0:34:30But when it comes to a metaphor for the darkness
0:34:30 > 0:34:32that all of us Scots have lurking in the deep,
0:34:32 > 0:34:34well, it's hard to beat, perhaps,
0:34:34 > 0:34:38the most famous Scot of them all.
0:34:38 > 0:34:39Boys! Boys!
0:34:39 > 0:34:40I've seen it.
0:34:42 > 0:34:44This is Secret of the Loch.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47The first film based on the Nessie story,
0:34:47 > 0:34:49featuring steampunk technology
0:34:49 > 0:34:51and a, frankly, bored looking monster...
0:34:52 > 0:34:55..played by an iguana.
0:34:55 > 0:34:56Right, haud the bus.
0:34:56 > 0:34:58Surely, these stereotypes contradict each other.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01I mean, how can we be pagan and presbyterian?
0:35:01 > 0:35:03Glorious fighters who always seem to get beaten.
0:35:03 > 0:35:07It seems like we're a harmony of opposites, but without the harmony.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09And who are you, anyway?
0:35:09 > 0:35:12I'm your Scottish, disgusted subconscious.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14Obviously, a bit too high of a concept for your programme,
0:35:14 > 0:35:15but please carry on.
0:35:15 > 0:35:16Thanks.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23At least we're consistent in our inconsistency.
0:35:23 > 0:35:25In Sunset Song,
0:35:25 > 0:35:28Chris Guthrie struggles with her own split personality,
0:35:28 > 0:35:30torn between love of the land
0:35:30 > 0:35:32and her ambitions to become a teacher.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35Two Chrises there were...
0:35:35 > 0:35:36that fought for her heart.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40The story recently got a big-screen remake
0:35:40 > 0:35:43having previously been adapted as a television series.
0:35:43 > 0:35:47She represents Scotland insofar as there are two Chris Guthries,
0:35:47 > 0:35:49the English Chris and the Scottish Chris,
0:35:49 > 0:35:52and there's always a certain amount of...
0:35:53 > 0:35:55..struggle between the two.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58Long after all our little vexings are dead and gone,
0:35:58 > 0:36:01the wind'll come sailing over the Grampians
0:36:01 > 0:36:03and the land will still be here.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09One famous east coast icon
0:36:09 > 0:36:11did fulfil her ambitions to become a teacher -
0:36:11 > 0:36:14and in some style.
0:36:14 > 0:36:15Created by Muriel Sparke
0:36:15 > 0:36:18and brought to life onscreen by Maggie Smith...
0:36:19 > 0:36:21Well, it's hard to think of Edinburgh
0:36:21 > 0:36:24without thinking of Miss Jean Brodie.
0:36:24 > 0:36:26You girls are my vocation.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28If I am to receive a proposal of marriage tomorrow
0:36:28 > 0:36:31from the Lord Lionel, King of Arms,
0:36:31 > 0:36:32I would decline it.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36I'm dedicated to you in my prime.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39Such a strong, strong character
0:36:39 > 0:36:42that includes a lot of elements of Scottishness.
0:36:42 > 0:36:45Dour with a twinkle in the eye,
0:36:45 > 0:36:51very brisk and very in control, and no-nonsense.
0:36:51 > 0:36:52That would not be education
0:36:52 > 0:36:54but intrusion
0:36:54 > 0:36:56from the root prefix "in" meaning in
0:36:56 > 0:36:58and the stem "trudo", I thrust -
0:36:58 > 0:37:01ergo, to thrust a lot of information into a pupil's head.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04She was a force to be reckoned with
0:37:04 > 0:37:07and there is many women like that,
0:37:07 > 0:37:10in Scotland, who would terrify you and terrify men,
0:37:10 > 0:37:12and terrify anyone.
0:37:12 > 0:37:13You little girls must be on the alert
0:37:13 > 0:37:17to recognise your prime at whatever time it may occur,
0:37:17 > 0:37:19and live it to the full.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21Another stock stereotype of the Scots
0:37:21 > 0:37:23is our status as a nation of engineers -
0:37:23 > 0:37:26which, to be fair, is warranted as we did, after all,
0:37:26 > 0:37:29invent the entire modern world.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Including that wee magic box you're watching, by the way.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36GLASS CLINKS Set engines to opt.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38Doing just fine.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44The most important Scottish person on screen
0:37:44 > 0:37:47was Scotty from Star Trek.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50There is none more important, frankly,
0:37:50 > 0:37:53in history and never will be.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55You told me you could have the ship operational in two weeks,
0:37:55 > 0:37:57I gave you three, what happened?
0:37:57 > 0:37:59I think you gave me too much time, captain.
0:37:59 > 0:38:00Very well, Mr Scott, carry on.
0:38:00 > 0:38:04How many times do I have to tell you the right tools for the right job?
0:38:05 > 0:38:08It was this strange thing, which was other people's idea of us.
0:38:08 > 0:38:10Scotland was the land of engineers
0:38:10 > 0:38:12and, frankly, it was set in the future
0:38:12 > 0:38:15and maybe that will be a Scottish accent.
0:38:15 > 0:38:16I mean...
0:38:16 > 0:38:18Are you from the future?
0:38:18 > 0:38:20Yeah. Here and now.
0:38:20 > 0:38:24Well, that's brilliant. Do they still have sandwiches there?
0:38:25 > 0:38:28As well as sending a Scot into space,
0:38:28 > 0:38:29films have also given us the chance
0:38:29 > 0:38:32to extend our famously warm hospitality
0:38:32 > 0:38:35to extraterrestrials visitors.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37- Come on, professor. - I'll go, too, my dear.
0:38:37 > 0:38:39You best stay here.
0:38:39 > 0:38:411954's Devil Girl From Mars
0:38:41 > 0:38:44tells the story of an intimidating alien
0:38:44 > 0:38:47who arrived in Inverness-shire to bring back men to her planet...
0:38:51 > 0:38:52..because, obviously,
0:38:52 > 0:38:54if you are looking for prime physical specimens
0:38:54 > 0:38:56to replenish your population,
0:38:56 > 0:38:59there's no better place to look than Scotland.
0:38:59 > 0:39:01You fools!
0:39:01 > 0:39:03Do you think you can hurt me with this?
0:39:03 > 0:39:05Even your limited intelligence
0:39:05 > 0:39:07should convince you by now that you cannot harm me.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10We're just simple folk up against...a strange power.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17The 2013 film Under The Skin
0:39:17 > 0:39:20starred Scarlet Johansson on a similar mission,
0:39:20 > 0:39:23except her spaceship is cannily disguised
0:39:23 > 0:39:25as a Transit van driving around Govan
0:39:25 > 0:39:28as she tries to entice random Glaswegian men
0:39:28 > 0:39:31who, you suspect, couldn't quite believe their luck.
0:39:31 > 0:39:33Do you think I'm pretty?
0:39:33 > 0:39:34Aye, you're gorgeous.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36- Do you?- Aye, definitely.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40Scarlett Johannson's alien
0:39:40 > 0:39:42is without any sort of empathy at all.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45It is simply a predator.
0:39:45 > 0:39:46Until that starts to change
0:39:46 > 0:39:49and you like to think it's her encounters
0:39:49 > 0:39:51with the people in Scotland she's met
0:39:51 > 0:39:52that have changed that.
0:39:52 > 0:39:53Lost.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56- What are you looking for? - I'm looking for the M8.
0:39:56 > 0:39:57Up to the roundabout...
0:39:57 > 0:39:59Just go through the tunnel, it's the other side.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01How hard is it?
0:40:01 > 0:40:02Numpty.
0:40:05 > 0:40:06It wasn't just spaceships
0:40:06 > 0:40:09that the Scots were experts at building, of course.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11In films of the 1950s,
0:40:11 > 0:40:14Glasgow was portrayed as a modern, industrial city -
0:40:14 > 0:40:16the engine room of the British Empire.
0:40:18 > 0:40:22Or Sodom and Gomorrah, depending on your perspective.
0:40:22 > 0:40:26The boy's folk have worked this farm honestly for 200 years
0:40:26 > 0:40:28and now you're at him to leave it?
0:40:28 > 0:40:29For what?
0:40:29 > 0:40:31A Sodom and Gomorrah?
0:40:31 > 0:40:33A lot of noise and temptation.
0:40:35 > 0:40:37There's a couple of smashers, eh?
0:40:37 > 0:40:39Where?
0:40:39 > 0:40:42In Flood Tide, Gordon Jackson's character leaves the farm
0:40:42 > 0:40:44and heads off to the city to make it as a shipbuilder.
0:40:46 > 0:40:47Fancy your chances with that lot?
0:40:50 > 0:40:52If you like.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54Through hard work, he quickly rises up the ranks
0:40:54 > 0:40:57and even snags the boss's daughter.
0:40:57 > 0:40:58But a dalliance with an old flame,
0:40:58 > 0:41:00bad girl Judy,
0:41:00 > 0:41:01threatens to ruin it all.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04- Mary.- David, you must come down to the yard at once.
0:41:04 > 0:41:06- Who says so?- Quiet. What is it, Mary?
0:41:06 > 0:41:09- Your ship's in danger... - Who in hell do you think you are?
0:41:09 > 0:41:11- Judy!- Blasted stuck-up snob!
0:41:11 > 0:41:14I'll mark your dial for you.
0:41:14 > 0:41:16Calvinism klaxon. KLAXON BLARES
0:41:16 > 0:41:18See what happens when you have fun, Davie?
0:41:18 > 0:41:20Bad things happen.
0:41:20 > 0:41:21By the 1970s,
0:41:21 > 0:41:23the pictures of urban life
0:41:23 > 0:41:24were changing with the times.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26Becoming much less sentimental
0:41:26 > 0:41:29and often brutally realistic.
0:41:29 > 0:41:30That's Duncan McCafferty.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34All right, then. Back the way we came.
0:41:34 > 0:41:36You don't go back.
0:41:36 > 0:41:40We started to see another character beginning to re-occur on screen.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42The Glasgow hard man.
0:41:43 > 0:41:44Yer maw.
0:41:46 > 0:41:47McCafferty...
0:41:49 > 0:41:51..you tea's out.
0:41:51 > 0:41:52Come ahead, McQuillan.
0:42:00 > 0:42:02March with the right!
0:42:02 > 0:42:04Quick march!
0:42:04 > 0:42:07FLUTE MUSIC PLAYS
0:42:07 > 0:42:09The pictures of Scots on-screen
0:42:09 > 0:42:12began to change when we started to tell our own stories.
0:42:13 > 0:42:15Writer Peter McDougall told the world
0:42:15 > 0:42:17about a working-class Glasgow
0:42:17 > 0:42:19that had never been seen before.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22Just Another Saturday
0:42:22 > 0:42:25takes a hard look at sectarianism and violence,
0:42:25 > 0:42:26and was shocking for its time.
0:42:28 > 0:42:32There was a breakthrough with these films, like Just Another Saturday,
0:42:32 > 0:42:35and being able to see life
0:42:35 > 0:42:38as it was lived for most Scots in the cities.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42I've been looking for you, kid.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44- Oh, aye?- My brother was arrested
0:42:44 > 0:42:47and got a hell of a hammering aff your pals this afternoon.
0:42:47 > 0:42:48Now I'm going to have you.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50Oh, bugger off!
0:42:50 > 0:42:52You couldn't have your wife if she was sedated.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54Haud on, you too.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57Forget it, pal. Us three's Catholics, the same as yourself.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59John's just daft boy and he's bevvied.
0:42:59 > 0:43:01He didn't have anything to do with your brother.
0:43:01 > 0:43:03I'm not joking, son.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05I'm going to damage you!
0:43:07 > 0:43:10The Big Man, based on the book by William McIlvanney,
0:43:10 > 0:43:12tells the story of a former miner
0:43:12 > 0:43:17lured into the world of illegal bare-knuckle boxing.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20INDISTINCT YELLING
0:43:20 > 0:43:23Having experienced perhaps the most degrading humiliation possible
0:43:23 > 0:43:26for any Scottish man,
0:43:26 > 0:43:28having your wife stolen...
0:43:28 > 0:43:30by Hugh Grant.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32In my own career, I've found, over the years,
0:43:32 > 0:43:35that I kept getting offered a lot of...
0:43:35 > 0:43:36Well, shall we say,
0:43:36 > 0:43:39hard men?
0:43:39 > 0:43:41Come on! Come on! Finish it up.
0:43:41 > 0:43:42Get your own.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45And finish your drink, I'm not going to tell you again.
0:43:45 > 0:43:48'And I really enjoyed playing hard men, to be honest with you,
0:43:48 > 0:43:50'because it also gave me a bit of a buzz
0:43:50 > 0:43:52'knowing that I was making a damn good living'
0:43:52 > 0:43:55out of all the guys who were, like, thugs and bullies
0:43:55 > 0:43:58and made my life a bloody misery when I was a boy.
0:43:58 > 0:44:00I was channelling them
0:44:00 > 0:44:02and using them.
0:44:02 > 0:44:03Thank you very much. Kerching!
0:44:03 > 0:44:05Are you going to give me trouble?
0:44:08 > 0:44:10You bastard!
0:44:10 > 0:44:12NOW! Finish your drinks, please!
0:44:12 > 0:44:14That's time!
0:44:14 > 0:44:16But few of these hard men were as intimidating
0:44:16 > 0:44:18as Emma Thompson's character
0:44:18 > 0:44:20in The Legend Of Barney Thompson.
0:44:20 > 0:44:23Seeing as you're here, you can give me a lift to the Barras.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25It's my bingo night.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27Naw, I'm sorry, Mum. I can't.
0:44:27 > 0:44:28I'm actually quite busy.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31You maybe didn't hear me.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34It's my bingo night at the Barras!
0:44:34 > 0:44:36She was grotesque.
0:44:36 > 0:44:37Absolutely fabulous.
0:44:37 > 0:44:39Fantastic.
0:44:39 > 0:44:40And, in a sense, you know,
0:44:40 > 0:44:44there's the sort of cliched Glasgow woman,
0:44:44 > 0:44:45in a way,
0:44:45 > 0:44:47but...
0:44:47 > 0:44:49when you play her to the hilt,
0:44:49 > 0:44:51like that, it was just hysterical.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53Get up!
0:44:53 > 0:44:56Look at you! Big bubbly bairn.
0:44:56 > 0:44:57You make me sick.
0:44:57 > 0:45:00Be a man for once, will you?
0:45:00 > 0:45:02"Oh! Mummy!"
0:45:02 > 0:45:04"Oh, Mummy! We want pudding!"
0:45:04 > 0:45:06- "Mummy!"- Shut up! - SHE MOCKINGLY SOBS
0:45:06 > 0:45:09- "What about me?"- Stop! - "Me want cuddles, Mummy!"
0:45:09 > 0:45:11# Heaven
0:45:11 > 0:45:13# I'm in Heaven... #
0:45:13 > 0:45:17It's not always easy being a Weegie in the movies,
0:45:17 > 0:45:18especially when you're a kid.
0:45:24 > 0:45:27Small Faces tells the story of Lex and his brothers...
0:45:29 > 0:45:32..as they try to negotiate being teenagers
0:45:32 > 0:45:35in the Glasgow ganglands of the 1960s.
0:45:36 > 0:45:38- How old are you, son?- 13.
0:45:38 > 0:45:40- You?- 16.
0:45:40 > 0:45:42You're awful wee for 16, Gorbals.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44I smoke a lot.
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Lynne Ramsay's film Ratcatcher
0:45:50 > 0:45:52also painted a harsh, but beautiful,
0:45:52 > 0:45:54depiction of a Glasgow childhood.
0:46:02 > 0:46:03Ratcatcher...
0:46:03 > 0:46:08That was, for me, a really major film.
0:46:08 > 0:46:10You just saw emerging a lot more
0:46:10 > 0:46:12really confident film-makers
0:46:12 > 0:46:15telling their stories.
0:46:16 > 0:46:20I suppose it's personal for me because of my background.
0:46:20 > 0:46:21My family came from Parkhead
0:46:21 > 0:46:23and moved to Easterhouse
0:46:23 > 0:46:25and the journey the wee guys goes, on the bus, out to the new scheme.
0:46:27 > 0:46:30When he looks out the window and he sees the field...
0:46:32 > 0:46:33It's sad. It's so beautiful.
0:46:36 > 0:46:39So, have these hard-bitten, kitchen sink dramas
0:46:39 > 0:46:41become a new sort of Scottish stereotype?
0:46:44 > 0:46:47HORN BLARES, SHE WHIMPERS
0:46:47 > 0:46:53I hear more people complaining about Scotland being depicted as rundown,
0:46:53 > 0:46:56another gritty drama from Scotland,
0:46:56 > 0:46:58and I find that sad.
0:46:58 > 0:46:59You all right?
0:46:59 > 0:47:01Just because things are real life
0:47:01 > 0:47:05doesn't necessarily make them bleak and depressing, and grim.
0:47:05 > 0:47:09Well, that's tough because that's the way a lot of people live.
0:47:09 > 0:47:12THEY CHEER
0:47:12 > 0:47:14The energy of Glasgow and its people
0:47:14 > 0:47:17has drawn director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty
0:47:17 > 0:47:20to make five films set in the area.
0:47:20 > 0:47:22- Sacrilege, man.- What?
0:47:22 > 0:47:23A Brazil strip?
0:47:23 > 0:47:25They were born to play in the strip.
0:47:25 > 0:47:26Sacrilege.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28The most successful Scottish films, for me,
0:47:28 > 0:47:31are when they get the balance right
0:47:31 > 0:47:33between the grittiness and the reality,
0:47:33 > 0:47:35and the fun and the energy
0:47:35 > 0:47:37of being working class.
0:47:37 > 0:47:40I am a Glaswegian,
0:47:40 > 0:47:42Pakistani,
0:47:42 > 0:47:44teenager, woman...
0:47:44 > 0:47:46woman of Muslim descent...
0:47:46 > 0:47:49who supports...
0:47:51 > 0:47:53..Glasgow Rangers in a Catholic school!
0:47:53 > 0:47:55Cos I'm a dazzling mixture
0:47:55 > 0:47:57and I'm proud of it.
0:47:57 > 0:47:59TRAIN HORN BLARES
0:47:59 > 0:48:00In 1996,
0:48:00 > 0:48:02one film would harness that working class energy
0:48:02 > 0:48:06and turn it into one of the most iconic Scottish films ever made.
0:48:07 > 0:48:11Imagined as an extreme version of an American teen movie,
0:48:11 > 0:48:12it nailed a needle-shaped stake
0:48:12 > 0:48:14through the perceptions of Scots
0:48:14 > 0:48:18being a bunch of tartan-wearing shortbread munchers.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish?
0:48:21 > 0:48:23It's shite being Scottish!
0:48:23 > 0:48:26We're the lowest of the low.
0:48:26 > 0:48:27The most wretched, miserable,
0:48:27 > 0:48:30servile, pathetic trash
0:48:30 > 0:48:32that was ever shat into civilisation.
0:48:32 > 0:48:33Some people hate the English.
0:48:33 > 0:48:36I don't. They're just wankers.
0:48:36 > 0:48:39We, on the other hand, are colonised by wankers.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42Can't even find a decent culture to be colonised by.
0:48:42 > 0:48:44I can't really overestimate
0:48:44 > 0:48:47the impact of Trainspotting on my generation
0:48:47 > 0:48:50and what was strange about that was it came a year after Braveheart,
0:48:50 > 0:48:51which was also massive.
0:48:51 > 0:48:55Alba gu brath!
0:48:55 > 0:48:57One was, sort of, stately
0:48:57 > 0:49:01and the other was this punk stoating about.
0:49:01 > 0:49:04And the language was ours.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06People get all hung up on details - like, which school did I go to?
0:49:06 > 0:49:08How many O-grades did I get?
0:49:08 > 0:49:10Could be six, could be none.
0:49:10 > 0:49:11It's not important.
0:49:11 > 0:49:13What is important is that I am,
0:49:13 > 0:49:15yes?
0:49:15 > 0:49:17The story of urban heroin addicts
0:49:17 > 0:49:19seems as far away as possible
0:49:19 > 0:49:21from whisky-soused country folk...
0:49:22 > 0:49:23..or is it?
0:49:24 > 0:49:26There's a lot of substance abuse
0:49:26 > 0:49:28in Scottish cinema.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30By Trainspotting,
0:49:30 > 0:49:33the whole country seems to have graduated onto heroin
0:49:33 > 0:49:35as very much an escape from reality.
0:49:35 > 0:49:37# Nightclubbing
0:49:37 > 0:49:40# We're nightclubbing. #
0:49:40 > 0:49:42I think there's definitely an argument that can be made
0:49:42 > 0:49:46to say that Trainspotting is Kailyard with club beats.
0:49:47 > 0:49:50Whisky Galore becomes heroin galore.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53And, again, we see incredibly unscrupulous,
0:49:53 > 0:49:55wild, wily,
0:49:55 > 0:49:57unruly locals
0:49:57 > 0:50:00who refuse to respect the rules
0:50:00 > 0:50:02by which the game of modern life is played.
0:50:02 > 0:50:06THEY SING
0:50:06 > 0:50:08A comparison that didn't go unnoticed
0:50:08 > 0:50:10by the writers of The Fast Show
0:50:10 > 0:50:12in their "heroin galore" sketch.
0:50:14 > 0:50:16BAGPIPES PLAY
0:50:23 > 0:50:27So, how have the Scots been depicted on screen when it comes to romance?
0:50:31 > 0:50:32Full of quirky humour,
0:50:32 > 0:50:35Gregory's Girl is a teenage coming-of-age story
0:50:35 > 0:50:39that portrays the girls as being vastly wiser than the hapless boys.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44- Well, I feel like a human being again.- Aargh!
0:50:47 > 0:50:49Look, I've got to go home. I really enjoyed the walk.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52You go that way, right? And I'll go this way. See you.
0:50:52 > 0:50:54It was like, "Oh, I could know these people.
0:50:54 > 0:50:56"These people could live on my street."
0:50:56 > 0:51:00Don't be stupid. Come on, you're worse than my dad and he's old.
0:51:00 > 0:51:03At least he's got an excuse for being a prick!
0:51:03 > 0:51:06Do you know that, when you sneeze,
0:51:06 > 0:51:08it comes out of your nose at 100 miles an hour?
0:51:10 > 0:51:12It's a well-known fact.
0:51:12 > 0:51:13100 miles an hour.
0:51:13 > 0:51:15HE MIMICS SNEEZING
0:51:15 > 0:51:16Just like that.
0:51:16 > 0:51:20I don't think there has been a single week in my
0:51:20 > 0:51:21life that has gone by
0:51:21 > 0:51:23without somebody quoting me a line
0:51:23 > 0:51:25from Gregory's Girl,
0:51:25 > 0:51:26talking to me about it.
0:51:26 > 0:51:29Bella! Bella!
0:51:29 > 0:51:33And I didn't actually see the film in its entirety
0:51:33 > 0:51:36till last year and I understood why people loved it.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38I loved it.
0:51:38 > 0:51:40I'll start it off, you just join in when you feel confident enough.
0:51:40 > 0:51:41OK?
0:51:41 > 0:51:44I think it's a universal story
0:51:44 > 0:51:47of what it's like to be young
0:51:47 > 0:51:49and not quite know what the rules are.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54When it comes to on-screen romance,
0:51:54 > 0:51:56it's clear that Scottish women
0:51:56 > 0:51:58often don't have it easy.
0:52:03 > 0:52:06Another Time, Another Place tells the story of a young woman
0:52:06 > 0:52:08on the Black Isle in the 1940s.
0:52:10 > 0:52:13She falls in love with an Italian prisoner of war
0:52:13 > 0:52:15who makes her farmer husband look very...
0:52:15 > 0:52:18well, Scottish, in comparison.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21What sort of time of night is this to be coming back anyway?
0:52:23 > 0:52:24I'm sorry, Dougall.
0:52:24 > 0:52:25I'm sorry.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28Och!
0:52:28 > 0:52:31Scottish men do kind of get a bit of a rap
0:52:31 > 0:52:35as not being as in touch with their feelings,
0:52:35 > 0:52:38as opposed to Italian men, French men, Spanish men -
0:52:38 > 0:52:41they've got this language of love
0:52:41 > 0:52:44that some Scottish men seem to not have.
0:52:45 > 0:52:46Bella!
0:52:49 > 0:52:51There was one role model who suggested
0:52:51 > 0:52:52that this was...
0:52:52 > 0:52:54AS SEAN CONNERY: "..surely some kind of mistake.
0:52:54 > 0:52:56"Single sausage supper.
0:52:56 > 0:52:58"Sorry, Sean."
0:52:58 > 0:53:00I must be dreaming.
0:53:00 > 0:53:02- Sean.- I'm delighted to be here.
0:53:02 > 0:53:05To discover, as well, that his real name was Tam.
0:53:05 > 0:53:07What's your name?
0:53:07 > 0:53:08James.
0:53:08 > 0:53:09What a hero he became
0:53:09 > 0:53:12and everybody started to do that accent, but...
0:53:12 > 0:53:14which then Irvine then picked up on
0:53:14 > 0:53:18and really used strongly for Sick Boy,
0:53:18 > 0:53:22thinking in a Sean Connery accent.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25- AS SEAN CONNERY: - Do you see the beast?
0:53:25 > 0:53:27Have you got it in your sights?
0:53:27 > 0:53:29Greetings!
0:53:29 > 0:53:32I am Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez.
0:53:32 > 0:53:35Some people talk about Connery's Bond -
0:53:35 > 0:53:38and that doesn't mean very much to me, to be quite honest -
0:53:38 > 0:53:41but Connery in Highlander, cool as, man.
0:53:41 > 0:53:43Cool as. There can be only one.
0:53:43 > 0:53:45Let yourself feel the stag.
0:53:49 > 0:53:51Its heart...
0:53:51 > 0:53:52beating.
0:53:52 > 0:53:57HEART BEATS
0:54:00 > 0:54:03It's blood coursing, feel?
0:54:03 > 0:54:06Feel?
0:54:06 > 0:54:09Come on, then! MacLeod, come on!
0:54:11 > 0:54:13And as for the Scots not being emotional,
0:54:13 > 0:54:15ladies and gentlemen,
0:54:15 > 0:54:17I give you a Scottish man crying.
0:54:20 > 0:54:21I'm all right.
0:54:21 > 0:54:25I'm no crying like a bairn, I'm bawling like a hero!
0:54:25 > 0:54:27HE SOBS
0:54:27 > 0:54:30# My heart was broken
0:54:32 > 0:54:36# My heart was broken
0:54:37 > 0:54:39# Sorrow
0:54:39 > 0:54:41# Sorrow
0:54:41 > 0:54:43# Sorrow
0:54:43 > 0:54:46# Sorrow... #
0:54:48 > 0:54:49I cannae take this.
0:54:57 > 0:55:00- I'm no' going to do it! - For Christ's sake, shut up!
0:55:00 > 0:55:02THEY SCREAM WITH LAUGHTER
0:55:02 > 0:55:04There's one thing that cannot be denied.
0:55:04 > 0:55:07When it comes to humour with an edge,
0:55:07 > 0:55:09nobody does it better than us.
0:55:09 > 0:55:10There is an extreme darkness
0:55:10 > 0:55:13to the Scottish sense of humour.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15Heid! Paper! Now!
0:55:15 > 0:55:18Move that melon yours and get the paper, if you can.
0:55:18 > 0:55:21Hauling that gargantuan cranium about.
0:55:21 > 0:55:24I'm not kidding, that boy's head's like Sputnik.
0:55:24 > 0:55:28It's not bleak. As long as you're making fun, it's not an insult.
0:55:28 > 0:55:30That was offside, wasn't it?
0:55:30 > 0:55:33He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight,
0:55:33 > 0:55:36on his huge pillow!
0:55:36 > 0:55:38What can you say about Orphans?
0:55:38 > 0:55:40I think you'll find she's too heavy.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42She ain't heavy, she's my mother.
0:55:46 > 0:55:47When we were filming,
0:55:47 > 0:55:49it wasn't funny -
0:55:49 > 0:55:53but when I saw it, Jesus Christ!
0:55:53 > 0:55:55It so darkly hilarious.
0:55:56 > 0:55:58PEOPLE GASP
0:56:00 > 0:56:03Of course, there is one Scottish film stereotype
0:56:03 > 0:56:08that is guaranteed to get us doing a song and a dance.
0:56:08 > 0:56:09Orders, please!
0:56:09 > 0:56:11Ah, yes. The ceilidh.
0:56:12 > 0:56:14There always has to be a ceilidh.
0:56:14 > 0:56:16Other forms of dance are available.
0:56:16 > 0:56:18I'm quite partial to the slosh, myself.
0:56:18 > 0:56:20According to film, well,
0:56:20 > 0:56:23us Scots like nothing more than a bit of swinging.
0:56:26 > 0:56:27Come on, lassie, wee and sober.
0:56:29 > 0:56:30Come on!
0:56:30 > 0:56:34CHEERING
0:56:34 > 0:56:36It has this ability
0:56:36 > 0:56:41to completely destroy any inhibitions that you have.
0:56:41 > 0:56:43If a man doesn't wear a kilt, I don't call it dancing.
0:56:43 > 0:56:46Give us hard men and ceilidhs, that's what I say.
0:56:46 > 0:56:50- Are you dancing?- Aye! I'm dancing all right. Come on.
0:56:50 > 0:56:53That is the stereotype of us
0:56:53 > 0:56:55but it's the one that we should be most proud of.
0:56:55 > 0:56:58THEY SHOUT
0:56:58 > 0:57:03New Year really does personify everything that's great about us.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08I have no doubt, Duncan,
0:57:08 > 0:57:10you have composed a suitable verse
0:57:10 > 0:57:11in honour of this great occasion.
0:57:11 > 0:57:13Och, no.
0:57:13 > 0:57:15Come on, Duncan-boy, let them have it.
0:57:15 > 0:57:17- Here, Duncan.- Ah, man, man.
0:57:22 > 0:57:27A nation can only survive as an idea through culture.
0:57:27 > 0:57:30All of these films that we've been talking about
0:57:30 > 0:57:32and the sum of that is Scotland.
0:57:34 > 0:57:37# Kind friends and companions
0:57:37 > 0:57:40# Come join me in rhyme
0:57:40 > 0:57:43# And lift up your voices
0:57:43 > 0:57:46# In chorus with mine
0:57:46 > 0:57:50# Let's drink and be merry
0:57:50 > 0:57:53# All grief to refrain
0:57:53 > 0:57:58# For we may or might never all meet here again... #
0:58:01 > 0:58:03Who's like us? We're complex,
0:58:03 > 0:58:05a beautiful mess of contradictions.
0:58:05 > 0:58:06Stereotypes?
0:58:06 > 0:58:08Best enjoyed when we're laughing at them.
0:58:08 > 0:58:10But, hey, if the kilt fits, why not wear it?