Whiskey Galore!
Andrew Mackendrick's devices of choice....
| DEVICE | EXAMPLE | ANALYSIS |
| ASIDE | (not applicable) | Asides are a device more, easily utilized on stage than in film,and they are not found in Whiskey Galore! |
| MONOLOGUE | (not applicable) | The characters in Whiskey Galore! interact with each other, more often than not, and usually do not appear on stage alone, making monologues impossible. |
| EAVESDROPPING |
Peggy and Katriana's father listens to the conversation between Waggett and Odd.. |
The audience does not watch this occur, and so the link usually created by eavesdropping in not created in Whiskey Galore! |
| IMPROVISATION | The father's idea to forbid a marriage without whiskey, when he realizes that his future son-in-law could get whiskey for the island, is improvisation. | Since the action appears spontaneous, the audience is more interested in the plot as it unfolds. |
| PARABASIS / NARRATOR | A narrator holds the story together, tying all the loose ends into each other. The narrator begins and ends the movie. | The narrator speaks directly to the audience, establishing a relationship much like that which is created between the chorus leader and the audience in Aristophanes' Birds. |
| CHORUS | (not applicable) | Whiskey Galore! does not employ a chorus because to have one would be totally inconsistant with the medium. |
| ALLUSION |
This film is set during World War II. |
By placing the story in a time of which so many audience members had personal memories, Andrew Mackendrick quickly establishes in the audience empathy for the characters' hardships. |
| Aristophanes' Birds | Charlie Chaplin |
| Menander's Old Cantankerous | |
| Plautus' Pseudolus | Alexander Mackendrick's Whiskey Galore! |
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