Americanisms

dotsf93

What I can't stand most in American-made U.K. films is the lack of knowledge of our true identities and those god-awful Americanisms. For example, in the U.K. we rarely call ourselves 'British', we normally say we are 'English', 'Welsh', 'Scottish' and 'Irish'. Calling ourselves 'British' is in fact, an Americanism itself. 1. WE DO NOT CALL UNIVERSITY 'COLLEGE'. This is one of the well- known errors in American-made U.K. films. In terms of how our schooling works, we start Nursery (ages 3/4-5), Primary School (ages 5-11), Secondary School (ages 11-16), College/Sixth Form -not compulsory- (ages 16-18) and then UNIVERSITY -also not compulsory- (ages 18 ). WE GO TO COLLEGE BEFORE UNIVERSITY AND DO NOT CALL UNIVERSITY 'COLLEGE'!! Oh and we also do do refer to college/sixth form or university as 'school'. 2. In this film, everyone tends to have the exact American-style, posh English accent. Like any other country, we are a country of MANY different regional accents! People who have attended private schools up and down the country normally have a posh twist on the local accent, but NEVER the style of accent you hear in this film. Also, considering St. Andrews is in Scotland, in the early parts of the film I don't think I heard one single Scottish accent. 3. Even the snack names annoyed me. In one of the scenes of the film, one of the girls walks around a house party offering people 'chips'. For god's sake, WE DO NOT CALL THEM 'CHIPS', WE CALL THEM 'CRISPS'. 'Chips' are the sort of thing you get when you get Fish & Chips.

Anyway, along with all that, the filming was awful and film did not stick to the facts. Very poor research done in the entirety of the film.

score 1/10

dotsf93 15 March 2015

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3202040/