I\nhave no idea how the cinemas choose what they show and in which size of cinema\nroom. One presumes it has something to do with film budget and distributors\nenticement, not to mention ability to put bums on seats and intake in ticket\nmoney and over priced eats and drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore\nI was puzzled at so many cinemas initially refusing to show it. If we want to\nsee small interest films like ‘Wind that shakes the barley’ or ‘Black 47’, we\ntend to take a trip into the Belmont cinema in Aberdeen. They do lots of films\nthe bigger companies don’t touch. Nowhere this far north was touching Robert\nthe Bruce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This\nenraged me, particularly when I read a review by a friend who had been to an\ninitial screening. According to her, it was not overtly political. It was the\nstory of the period from 1306 to just before the Battle of Bannockburn, what\nhappened in Scotland and to Bruce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thanks\nto social media we found out that the Vue in Inverness was doing 3 showings\nthis week, all at 7.45pm. I’ve since learned that Cineworld were showing at\ndifferent times but only one showing per day. Given that we had signed the\nonline petition ( that perhaps swayed Vue’s opinion) we reckoned we better do\nthe 3 hour round trip to see it. We were in the lucky position we could do\nthat. Many would not have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ian\npurchased the tickets mid morning on Monday. He reported that not many tickets\nhad been purchased at that point. Later, on social media, I saw the post from\nthe article in the National saying that Vue were having a trial run of the film\nin some cinemas. Perhaps this boosted the urgency for folk to go see it. When\nwe got to the cinema it was pleasantly half full. It was not the largest\nviewing room but it was not the smallest one either. By the time the lights\nwent down there could have been very few seats, if any, left in the bigger\ntheatre style seating. In the front section the two front rows (which break\nyour neck to watch a film) were empty, the remaining rows were 75% filled. I\nhave heard that more accessible cinemas to bigger populations were sold out at\nthe weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\nwas no cheering or shouting like in a Braveheart showing. The audience were\nvery quiet and attentive. The story was told in the old folklore style, all\ncoming together in the final lines. I doubt there was a dry eye in the house at\nthe end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was\nit a unionist plot to keep it off the screen? It may well have been. In the\nbeginning I was annoyed. Typical Scot, fighting among themselves. If they\ncouldn’t pick the winning side, they would go after the prize money. Aimlessly\nliving, drinking and falling out. Eventually the other side were shown,\norderly, practising waiting faithfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A nationalist friend (do I have any other kind?) left a comment on my post after seeing the film – <\/em><\/strong>I saw a lot of parallels with the current phase of the current political campaign. Prepare and practice while giving the leader space to strengthen for the battle ahead<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As did I. I hope we are right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the cinemas pull this film, we need to\nfind a way of getting people to see it. This may be the next wee campaign. I am\nsure Angus Macfadyen will lead this again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have no idea how the cinemas choose what they show and in which size of cinema room. One presumes it has something to do with film budget and distributors enticement, not to mention ability to put bums on seats and intake in ticket money and over priced eats and drinks. Therefore I was puzzled at so many cinemas initially refusing to show it. If we want to see small interest films like ‘Wind that shakes the barley’ or ‘Black 47’, we tend to take a trip into the Belmont cinema in Aberdeen. They do lots of films the bigger companies don’t touch. Nowhere thisRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-triciafw","post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-margaret-hamilton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}