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* SeriousBusiness: Cartography is a matter of extremely serious import to everyone in the town.
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* SeriousBusiness: Cartography is a matter of extremely serious import to everyone in the town. Justified because they are otherwise just a little town in the middle of nowhere that saw many of their young ones die in World War One -- they need something to be proud of, and direly.
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* BadLiar: Williams the Petroleum (the local garage owner). Most of the townspeople aren't great deceivers either, with plenty of HesitationEqualsDishonesty, but Williams has to do the bulk the misleading, at Morgan's insistence. Doesn't help that he seems an honest man by nature, given to conscience pangs.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Morgan brings Betty to town in hopes of "distracting" Anson. It ends up working, but not in the way he'd planned.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Morgan brings Betty to town in hopes of "distracting" Garrad \ Anson. It ends up working, but not in the way he'd planned.
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* TheFantasticTropeOfWonderousTitles: One of the longest and most elaborate titles of any mainstream movie, fittingly for such a quirky historical tale.
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* SeriousBusiness: Cartography is a matter of extremely serious import to everyone in the town.
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''[[LongTitle The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain]]'' is a 1995 British historical comedy/drama directed by Christopher Monger, starring Creator/HughGrant, Tara Fitzgerald, and Creator/ColmMeaney.
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* LongTitle: A young boy asking his grandfather--the narrator--about "the longest name in Wales" serves as the FramingDevice for the story.
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* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow:
-->'''Morgan:''' She's just advising me on the refurbishing of my establishment!
-->'''Blod:''' Refurbishing your establishment? I've never heard it called that before!
-->'''Morgan:''' She's just advising me on the refurbishing of my establishment!
-->'''Blod:''' Refurbishing your establishment? I've never heard it called that before!
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I'm pretty sure that's what her dialogue was re: the sugar
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* BookEnds: Early on when the cartographers declare Flynnon Garw a hill, the pastor says a despondent "a hill?" and sighs. On the DistantFinale, when Flynnon Garw is declared a hill again, the pastor's voice says the same line ''from the grave''.
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* BookEnds: Early on when the cartographers declare Flynnon Fynnon Garw a hill, the pastor says a despondent "a hill?" and sighs. On the DistantFinale, when Flynnon Fynnon Garw is declared a hill again, the pastor's voice says the same line ''from the grave''.grave''.
* BrickJoke: Morgan arranges to have the cartographers' car sabotaged by pouring two pounds of sugar into the gas tank, a near-impossible amount under wartime rationing. Later, when Anson and Garrod go into the general store for a telegram, the clerk is arguing with a woman who is upset that there's no sugar to buy.
* TheCaretaker: Blod is in this position for her brother, Johnny Shellshocked. She is very protective of him when people talk to him, reassures him after he speaks up at the town meeting, and her conversation with Anson makes plain it isn't the first time she's had to help Johnny through a bad flashback.
* BrickJoke: Morgan arranges to have the cartographers' car sabotaged by pouring two pounds of sugar into the gas tank, a near-impossible amount under wartime rationing. Later, when Anson and Garrod go into the general store for a telegram, the clerk is arguing with a woman who is upset that there's no sugar to buy.
* TheCaretaker: Blod is in this position for her brother, Johnny Shellshocked. She is very protective of him when people talk to him, reassures him after he speaks up at the town meeting, and her conversation with Anson makes plain it isn't the first time she's had to help Johnny through a bad flashback.
* MaybeEverAfter: After Morgan unbends enough to go to church to save the mountain, Blod greets him from her doorway. It isn't certain whether she's actually ''forgiven'' him for Johnny's flashback, but she isn't giving him the silent treatment either.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anson is timid, easygoing, and unfailingly polite, but when Johnny Shellshocked is brought in catatonic, he quickly takes charge and starts snapping orders at Garrad.
--> "Bugger Sevastapol, George, give me your jacket!"
--> "Bugger Sevastapol, George, give me your jacket!"
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** Anson is timid, easygoing, and unfailingly polite, but when Johnny Shellshocked is brought in catatonic, he quickly takes charge and starts snapping orders at Garrad.
--> ---> "Bugger Sevastapol, George, give me your jacket!"jacket!"
** When Morgan tries to get Reverend Jones to allow work on Sunday, the Reverend snaps that he might try ''going'' to church. So he does. The sight of Morgan the Goat in Sunday best trying to find a pew is treated with astonishment by all.
** Anson is timid, easygoing, and unfailingly polite, but when Johnny Shellshocked is brought in catatonic, he quickly takes charge and starts snapping orders at Garrad.
** When Morgan tries to get Reverend Jones to allow work on Sunday, the Reverend snaps that he might try ''going'' to church. So he does. The sight of Morgan the Goat in Sunday best trying to find a pew is treated with astonishment by all.
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* PlanetOfSteves: Discussed. There are only a few last names in the village, so everyone is referred to as both name and occupation (Williams the Petroleum, Jones the Baker, etc). This is a RunningJoke about Wales in general.[[note]]Despite the film's claim that it's always been like that and nobody knows why, it was actually a deliberate act by the English in the 16th century--they abolished traditional Welsh patronyms and assigned names instead.[[/note]]
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* PlanetOfSteves: Discussed. There are only a few last names in the village, so everyone is referred to as both name and occupation (Williams the Petroleum, Jones the Baker, etc). This is a RunningJoke about Wales in general.[[note]]Despite the film's claim that it's always been like that and nobody knows why, it was actually a deliberate act by the English in the 16th century--they abolished traditional Welsh patronyms and assigned names instead.instead in order to suppress Welsh culture and anglicize them.[[/note]]
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: When the only way to finish the mountain is to work on the Sabbath, the pastor ends up deciding that it's more important to finish what they started, and gives the town his blessing to keep working.
** Notably, the pastor is praying to God to give him a sign whether he should break the rule about working on the Sabbath or not. Then his eyes fall on Psalm 99:9.... "Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy." He takes that to mean that God has given him permission to break the rules, and he gives his sermon with a passion.
** Notably, the pastor is praying to God to give him a sign whether he should break the rule about working on the Sabbath or not. Then his eyes fall on Psalm 99:9.... "Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy." He takes that to mean that God has given him permission to break the rules, and he gives his sermon with a passion.
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: When the only way to finish the mountain is to work on the Sabbath, the pastor ends up deciding that it's more important to finish what they started, and gives the town his blessing to keep working.
**working. Notably, the pastor is praying to God to give him a sign whether he should break the rule about working on the Sabbath or not. Then his eyes fall on Psalm 99:9.... "Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy." He takes that to mean that God has given him permission to break the rules, and he gives his sermon with a passion.
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* SitcomArchNemesis: Reverend Jones and Morgan the Goat. The reverend routinely preaches against Morgan (without ever mentioning his name) on the basis of immorality because Morgan sells alcohol and sleeps with any woman who is willing, regardless of whether or not she's married. Morgan isn't bothered by the antagonism and simply doesn't go to church until late in the film.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: Williams apologizes to Anson about the tarpaulin "blowing away" from the car during the rainstorm. Anson cheerfully asks him if it's the tarpaulin on the mound that he's kneeling on at the moment.
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* LongTitleLongTitle: A young boy asking his grandfather--the narrator--about "the longest name in Wales" serves as the FramingDevice for the story.
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* PlanetOfSteves: Discussed. There are only a few last names in the village, so everyone is referred to as both name and occupation (Williams the Petroleum, Jones the Baker, etc). This is a RunningJoke about Wales in general.
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* PlanetOfSteves: Discussed. There are only a few last names in the village, so everyone is referred to as both name and occupation (Williams the Petroleum, Jones the Baker, etc). This is a RunningJoke about Wales in general. [[note]]Despite the film's claim that it's always been like that and nobody knows why, it was actually a deliberate act by the English in the 16th century--they abolished traditional Welsh patronyms and assigned names instead.[[/note]]
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: Garrad was retired from the foreign cartography service and sent to update Welsh maps because his attitude had driven his subordinates to "despair and drink." He makes no secret of how little he likes Wales and the Welsh.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: The narrator mentions that somehow, there were a lot of red-haired babies in 1917 despite most of the young men being away at war, but that nobody really minded because it was such a terrible year for the town. (Except the Reverend Jones, who preached against Morgan once he was done preaching against the war.) This does raise the question of how, from the time the children born in 1917 reached their teens, they were kept away from dating and marrying their biological half-siblings.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: The narrator mentions that somehow, there were a lot of red-haired babies in 1917 despite most of the young men being away at war, but that nobody really minded because it was such a terrible year for the town. (Except the Reverend Jones, who preached against Morgan once he was done preaching against the war.) This does raise the question of how, how - and whether - from the time the children born in 1917 reached their teens, they were kept away from [[BrotherSisterIncest dating and marrying their biological half-siblings.half-siblings]].
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: The narrator mentions that somehow, there were a lot of red-haired babies in 1917 despite most of the young men being away at war, but that nobody really minded because it was such a terrible year for the town. (Except the Reverend Jones, who preached against Morgan once he was done preaching against the war.)
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: The narrator mentions that somehow, there were a lot of red-haired babies in 1917 despite most of the young men being away at war, but that nobody really minded because it was such a terrible year for the town. (Except the Reverend Jones, who preached against Morgan once he was done preaching against the war.)) This does raise the question of how, from the time the children born in 1917 reached their teens, they were kept away from dating and marrying their biological half-siblings.
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the posts and markings are recognisably rugby ones - Wales' national sport
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The Thomas Twps are dead right about the rain, which washes away half the mound during the night. Their idea to protect the mound--by appropriating the sod from the school's football field--worked out pretty well.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The Thomas Twps are dead right about the rain, which washes away half the mound during the night. Their idea to protect the mound--by appropriating the sod from the school's football rugby field--worked out pretty well.
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* DistantFinale: The end shows the descendants of the villagers in modern times. They learn that the mound has settled back under 1000 feet, and the final scene shows them hauling dirt by hand to build it back up.
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* DistantFinale: The end shows the descendants of the villagers in modern times. They learn that the mound has settled back under 1000 feet, and the final scene shows them hauling dirt by hand to build it back up.[[note]] Funnily enough, in RealLife this wouldn't actually be necessary, as the Ordnance Survey actually dropped the 1,000ft minimum requirement only a few years after the film was set. Nowadays the usual standard is 610 metres (just over 2,000ft)... but they also defer to local tradition, meaning that if the townsfolk say Ffynnon Garw is a mountain, it's a mountain.[[/note]]
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Their idea to protect the mound from rain--by appropriating the sod from the school's football field--worked out pretty well.
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: The narrator mentions that somehow, there were a lot of red-haired babies in 1917 despite most of the young men being away at war, but that nobody really minded because it was such a terrible year for the town. (Except the Reverend Jones, who preached against Morgan once he was done preaching against the war.)
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* ChekhovsLecture: The proposal about making Flynnon Garw taller mentions that some hills have had structures built on the top added to its total measurement--including graves. [[spoiler: Guess where the pastor ended up being buried?]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Morgan the Goat, especially when dealing with the Pastor.
-->'''Pastor Jones:''' Have you no ''shame'' sir?
* DeadpanSnarker: Morgan the Goat, especially when dealing with the Pastor.
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* ChekhovsLecture: The proposal about making Flynnon Garw taller mentions that some hills have had structures built on the top added to its total measurement--including graves. [[spoiler: Guess where the pastor reverend ended up being buried?]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Morgan is a shifty, self-serving operator who quickly finds ways to make money out of the situation, not to mention the promiscuity that gave him his title of "the Goat". However, his sense of Welsh pride is as sincere as anyone's; he refuses to take any bets less than 1,000 feet and he proposes the idea of raising the mountain's height.
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* IronicEcho: The Englishmen are greeted in the apparently-deserted village with Morgan's "They're all in chapel on Sunday. What's yours?" At the end of the film, Morgan enters the pub the next Sunday morning to find ''Garrad'' behind his bar--who greets him with "They're all in chapel on Sunday. What's yours?"
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* IronicEcho: The Englishmen are greeted in the apparently-deserted village with Morgan's "They're all in chapel on Sunday. What's yours?" At the end of the film, Morgan enters the pub the next Sunday morning to find ''Garrad'' behind his bar--who greets him with "They're all in chapel on Sunday. What's yours?"the same line.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: He may not be willing to bet like everybody else in town is doing, but the pastor also hoped that Ffynon Garw would be declared a mountain from the get-go. He whispers a despondent "a hill?" when he hears this and sighs before walking back to the church.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: He may not be willing to bet like everybody else in town is doing, but the pastor reverend also hoped that Ffynon Garw would be declared a mountain from the get-go. He whispers a despondent "a hill?" when he hears this and sighs before walking back to the church.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anson is timid, easyingoing, and unfailingly polite, but when Johnny Shellshocked is brought in catatonic, he quickly takes charge and starts snapping orders at Garrad.
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* PatrioticFervor: Shown in a sympathetic light as being home of "the first mountain in Wales" is a point of pride for the town. Wales = mountains, mountains = Wales; otherwise they might as well redraw the border to put them in England. When Ffynnon Garw is reclassified as a hill without warning or ceremony, it takes away one of the few things they had left after three grueling years of loss to the trenches and the mines.
