In Edinburgh there is a well known cinema called the Filmhouse. It’s a cinema that will show some of the big movies, and also go round the world for mini-festivals by country, events, directors, anything as long as it’s interesting, exciting and entertaining. They focus a lot on education as well by providing some film courses, etc. It’s a pretty good cinema.
However they are building a new one, very close to the original site. In the current Filmhouse they’ve set up a display to show the plans with a comments book next to it (you can also comment from the new site’s, site). The Scotsman are reporting that of the fourty comments collated to date, over half of them are complaining about the new name: The Sean Connery Filmhouse, asking that it is not named after him!
Some film fans feel that Edinburgh is more famous than Sir Sean and want to see the Edinburgh Filmhouse retain its current name.
And some believe that while Sir Sean’s work includes an impressive array of movies, performances in mediocre films such as Meteor and Zardoz – in which he stars alongside a giant flying stone head – showed he was not worthy of the honour.
Film fans insisted that Sir Sean wasn’t “that great” an actor and that if the cinema was to be named after him, he should contribute to the cost.
Oh dear, perhaps they made a mistake naming it after Connery. The architect (possibly not Scottish judging from his comments) says:
Richard Murphy…said: “I really don’t understand that reaction. He is one of the most famous film stars in the world and he is from Edinburgh, so it would seem a bit churlish not to name it after him.
I do. Here’s two reasons why I think Sean Connery is not a good advert for Scotland. He lives in Spain. He promotes Japanese Whiskey. There are more indepth political reasons, like he funds the Scottish National Party and won’t live here, but I shan’t go on. For me I think he’s a poor advert and considering the amount of talent we have from Scotland I think we have a number of better choices, if we even have to name it after an actor. What do you think? What should it be named?
