Should Ireland make a martial arts celtic myth movie to express its mythology and ancient culture?
Posted on Dec 13th, 2009 in Celtic Art | 8 comments
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only if it takes place in a pub.
shouldn’t be ” martial arts ” as we think of martial arts today. the movie should accurately express the mythology and culture along with the fighting techniques, abilities and weapons which the Celtic People used. if accurate this movie could become a very informative semi – documentary one.
That’s exactly how Hitler started the national socialism… Hey let’s play to be pagan druids mixed with vikings or something…Then they stoped in creating the SS full of mages….
…Anyways, never is bad idea to make the tradiotions and myths alive, it awakens nationalism and makes a country famous.
This one is confusing me. Do marital arts and Celtic culture “go together”? I’m not sure I’ve every heard of martial arts being a part of Celtic culture… so, if a movie of this type were made, I’m not sure I’d be all that interested in it… Celts were (are?) a warrior society, to be sure, but I’m not familiar with any history of specific martial art disciplines within the Celtic culture. I was under the impression they used other forms of combat strategies…
Ignoring for the moment posters who don’t understand that swordfighting and rough-and-tumble *ARE* martial arts . . . I’d sure go see it. Chu Culain, Cu Chulain, something like that, isn’t it? The mythic warrior?
Gotta be at least as good as Braveheart, and hopefully they wouldn’t screw it up like they keep doing with “Beowulf.”
Phantastic idea!
The Americans would love a gory film about the Tain! With Mel Brooks as Cuchullain! ;-) Some beautiful actress would have to start eating again to make a credible Maeve though.
Or we could just make up a whole story from the many Finn McCool legends. Loads of all kinds of fighting! And at the very end Oisin could come back and bate up a few monks before crumbling to dust. And then his spirit goes back to Tir na n-og, to make it a happy ending.
Or the story of Balor and Lugh, lots of fighting there, too, and a very interesting romantic story about a man courting disguised as woman…
I really do wonder why it hasn’t been done yet. Perhaps we should collaborate and start on a script ?;-)
that would be inserting to see. I would watch it.
It would be rather good, IMO. The Celts had their own sword-style, to be sure, along with their own bare-handed fighting style. And Ireland’s well-known to have a style of fighting with cudgels and short staves. I think it’d be a nice change, and open the eyes of folks who think that “martial arts” is solely an Asian creation.
Cuchullain or Finn would probably make good movies – Cu’s still a big national hero in Ireland, and the Tain is straightforward enough to make a good action flick. The Lebor Gabala or Mabinogion might be a bit too intricate to make into a movie, unless they were severely gutted.