“You’ve Been Trumped”

Few people would believe that a “multi-award-winning Scottish film” would bring humiliation to Scotland, but that’s what’s been suggested by Brian Wilson in an article on the “The Scotsman” newspaper website.

The documentary film in question, which has been named “You’ve Been Trumped”, is about American tycoon Donald Trump and his determination to create his multi-million pound golf course. Recently Trump boasted about building “The greatest golf course in the world.” This was despite protests by conservationists in Aberdeen trying to protect the environment and the angry locals who Trump was trying to force out of their homes with compulsory purchase orders.

The writer of the article says that the Scottish Government and Grampian Police should be ashamed of themselves. This also includes regular Scottish people who were aware of the issues but took little interest and didn’t take action against the golf course extravaganza. 

The director, Anthony Baxter, saw an opportunity to make the movie when he heard about the troubles, and had an inkling that the news wasn’t reporting the full story. Therefore Baxter took it upon himself to investigate, and speak to those involved: discovering that the local residents who campaigned against Trump’s golf plans were hounded by him.

Trailer:

Something to celebrate:

On a more positive note, the film, which was released in 2011, has been a massive success for the director, despite the Trump Organisation branding it as “a failure.” “You’ve Been Trumped” has won a magnitude of awards including “Best Documentary Award” at one of America’s largest film festivals and a “Social Justice Award” at Hamptons International Film Festival.

There is the possibility that a number of Scots are wondering why they were unaware of this achievement, and it is probably due to the fact that the “Scottish outlets [screening the film] to date have been minuscule.” Meaning that, ironically, very few people know about the documentary in Scotland.

Scottish Actor Shoots with Brad Pitt!

Raised in Edinburgh Ruari Cannon is a rising star and after appearing in Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” his future acting career looks promising. The movie, which was directed by Marc Forester, is about a U.N. employee racing around the world to save the population from a potentially deadly Zombie pandemic. The 20-year-old plays a zombie named Meth and has said this about the role:

“It was tough because my character is a zombie and is dead behind the eyes. He is supposed to have given up on life itself but he turns a corner.”

Shooting face-to-face with Brad Pitt himself the young actor learned a lot and received some specialist advice on his first ever film role. At just 17 it seems his talent was clear and Ruari won a Scholarship to study at the American Academy for Dramatic Arts in New York. Previously Cannon was heavily involved in stage productions such as “Oliver!”, “The Merchant of Venice” and “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

The city of Glasgow was lucky enough to play host to the film set of “World War Z” and last August part of the town was transformed into Philadelphia. Glasgow was home to around 1200 cast and crew and as a result of this the city has been said to have made around 2 million pounds in profit. Unfortunately the eagerly anticipated apocalyptic movie isn’t to be released in the UK until January 2013.

Here is a link to a newspaper article about the “World War Z” filming in Glasgow last year.