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		We enter that story as cartographers, on their rounds measuring the heights of mountains (and hills), come to the sleepy village that lies in the shadow of Ffynnon Garw (you are on your own for pronunciation), in the south of Wales.
		The residents are not at all pleased with the prospect of having their mountain disparaged by labelling it a (scoff, bewilderment, dander rising) 'hill'.
		In their discussions, it is brought up that there are many mountains around the world with burial mounds at their summit, and these manmade things are included as part of the total height.
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		To the Welsh folk of Ffynnon Garw, where the two mappers have come to measure their mountain (or hill) in 1917, this difference becomes a matter of towering urgency.
		To call this grand piece of ground a hill (and deny it a place on the official government map) is an underhanded, and obviously English, insult.
		Meaney (who lit up "The Commitments" and "The Snapper") is his usual, provocatively comic self as a red-faced, exasperated Welshman who will stop at nothing to get his mountain back.
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		The locals are aghast: Their "mountain" has been a mountain since time immemorial, and any suggestion that it is otherwise would be a calamity.
		The instant they walk into the local inn, run by Morgan the Goat (Colm Meaney) they are nailed as outsiders; their accents would give them away even if it were not for their clothing, which in Reginald's case seems to have been supplied by a theatrical costumer with fanciful ideas about the surveying trade.
		"The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain" is a movie with the same charms as "Local Hero" (in which Scottish townspeople conspired to outfox visiting Americans).
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		Hills were those formations under a thousand feet while mountains were anything larger.
		The problem was, though, that the Englishman determined the height of their "mountain" to be sixteen feet shy of a thousand and thus it was technically a hill.
		I have the feeling that "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain" was created as an "art house" film which was then slated for mainstream release when Hugh Grant became hugely popular.
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		The story revolves around two gentleman who after serving in Her Magesty's in the first world war are sent to Wales to survey as cartographers.
		According to the the first calculations it would seem that the mountain is not actually a mountain at all, but a hill.
		The story is simply about a pair of cartographers (map makers) who measure a "hill" in Wales and much to the displeasure of the locals, it isn't tall enough to be considered a mountain, which is what the townsfolk always considered it.
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		The story, which concerned Welsh villagers building up the local mountain to the required 1000 feet so that English surveyors who had previously measured it and called it a hill would record it as a mountain, purportedly was based upon a true incident.
		She gave me a copy of the book and a copy of the only large-scale map available, which was a 1921 edition of the Ordnance survey of the area.
		It says "Garth Hill - elevation 1000 feet." Although that is the 1921 edition, the small print says the leveling was revised in 1899 and partly revised in 1915.
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		The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 movie written by Ivor Monger, directed by Christopher Monger and starring Hugh Grant ("Reginald Anson"), Ian McNeice ("George Garrad"), Tara Fitzgerald ("Betty"), Colm Meaney ("Morgan the Goat") and Kenneth Griffith ("Reverend Robert Jones").
		The movie is based on a story heard by Christopher Monger from his grandfather about the real village of Taff's Well (Ffynnon Taf in Welsh), Cardiff, Wales, UK and its neighbouring Garth Mountain.
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		When the mountain is measured at less than the 1000 feet necessary for official recognition as more than a hill, the locals are up in arms.
		Horrified by the thought that the "first mountain in Wales" might be considered anything less than grand, they decide to build a twenty foot high dirt mound at the summit, then get the measurement repeated.
		The Englishman is framed as a true story told to a child and, as was the case with The Princess Bride, this is the best way to establish the somewhat fanciful narrative.
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		With that out of the way, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain refers to the title character, Hugh Grant, who is given this wacky Welsh nickname as the result of some wacky events surrounding the wacky title hill/mountain.
		Set in 1917, in the village at the foot of the mountain, Ffynnon Garw, a pair of surveyors from England come to the village to measure its height.
		In fact, Fitzgerald, who is normally the embodiment of the phrase "ingenue," looks downright goofy with her 1917 Shirley Temple curls and period dress.
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		When two surveyors for the British government stops for measurements in a small Welsh village, the villagers discover their prized mountain is about to be re-mapped to a hill.
		Their efforts to build the height of the hill to the minimum requirement for statistical mountain status is drudgery for the villagers and viewers alike.
		Hugh Grant mutters his way through the mountain morass with his best efforts at charm positively buried under the excess fallout from the mountain Tara Fitzgerald is okay as Betty of Cardiff, but her character is thinly scripted at best.
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		Their presence is initially met with great excitement by the locals who generally have nothing more to do than wait for the war (WWI) to end.
		The townspeople are thrilled their mountain is going to make it on the map.
		What ensues is a classic comedy of errors as the townspeople put aside their differences to ensure the future glory of their town and mountain.
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		"The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain" is a direct descendant of the classic Ealing comedies circa 1949.
		Hugh Grant is Reginald, the English twit who comes to survey Ffynnon Gaw's so-called mountain and winds up falling in love with the place.
		The linchpin of the community is Colm Meany as the bartender Morgan the Goat, who's responsible for so many ginger-haired babies born during the war years.
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		I find this fascinating, even as a mere fantasy, that we can see that these kinds of innocent undertakings, even in our fictions, have the meaning of calling us out of the dreadful moments of reality that are too dark and sad to deal with.
		I would like to see a mountain built from a hill, built out of the sheer will to make a statement that it can be done because it makes us feel better to do it.
		There was no purpose in the mounding of the earth to make something arguably false, in terms of cartographic accuracy, except the purpose of communal will that had its own agenda.
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	The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill, But Came Down a Mountain Film Review - Time Out Film
		At 984 ft the summit is 15 ft short of a mountain.
		Led by the landlord, Morgan the Goat (Meaney), and his arch-rival, the Rev Jones (Griffith), the villagers determine that the surveyors will not leave until the hill has become a mountain.
		Well crafted as it is, and hard to dislike, it's harder still to shake the suspicion that Monger is making a mountain out of a molehill.
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		To the proud locals it is the first mountain in Wales, and without that designation they might as well redraw the maps and be part of England--God forbid.
		But in order to be designated a mountain Ffynnon Garw must be 1000 feet high, and she measures only 984.
		Grant stammers boyishly as the Englishman who is not only captivated by the village, but by spirited local lass Betty (Fitzgerald, with whom he starred in "Sirens").
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		Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) and George Garrard (Ian McNeice) are a pair of British cartographers with Her Majesty's Ordnance Survey Office, who arrive in the small Welsh town of Ffynnon Garw, where, thanks to a linguistic quirk...
		The town's greatest pride and most prominent landmark is a mountain (named, like the town, Ffynnon Garw), which they claim is the first mountain in Wales, and which helped protect the village from any number of Romans, Saxons, Norsemen, and other foreign invaders over the centuries.
		However, Reginald and George have some bad news for the townsfolk: under British law, a land mass must be at least 1,000 feet tall to qualify as a mountain, and according to their measurements, Ffynnon Garw comes in at only 930 feet, making it just a big hill.
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		The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
		There was just something about this, a charm that made me feel good as I watched it and had me smiling even more by the end.
		This is a "sleeper," a movie you might pass up.....
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		A charming film about two English surveyors who travel to Wales to confirm 'the first mountain in Wales' as the locals have it.
		Led by the landlord and the vicar, the villagers determine that the surveyors shall not leave until the hill has been upgraded to a mountain.
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		This is an amusing genial tale of a small community in Wales endeavouring to sustain the proud emblem of a mountain in their midst which they say is the first in their Welsh landscape.
		Unfortunately, to qualify as a mountain in the eyes of the British government, the peak must be 1000 feet high and, of course, this one falls just short, much to the outrage and sorrow of the townspeople.
		To have their mountain reclassified as a hill threatens their regional pride and identity.
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		On Sunday, 17 June 1917, cartographers/retired army officers Reginald Anson and George Garrad come to a Welsh village to measure Ffynnon Garw to determine whether it's a hill or a mountain.
		Their presence causes anxiety among the villagers, who are on pins and needles when they hear the British standard of a mountain defined as anything over 1,000 feet.
		This is a mountain, our mountain, and if it needs to be a thousand feet, then by God let's make it a thousand feet!Ã¯Â¿Â½E In other words, it's all relative.
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		Plot Outline: When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.
		Historians have determined that the mound at the summit of Garth Mountain (the inspiration for the movie) is a Bronze Age burial mound.
		Goofs: Crew or equipment visible: At the end of the scene where the Reverend slashes the front tire of the Englishman's car, a reflection of a crew member can be seen in the windshield of the car after the Reverend exits.
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		The residents of a small Welsh town are proud of their neighbouring mountain.
		In 1917, English surveyors Reginald (Grant) and George (McNiece) arrive in a small Welsh town to calculate the precise status of Ffynnon Garw, proudly described by the locals as "the first mountain in Wales".
		Much of the pleasure here is down to the performances.
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		Almost at the end of the film is an aerial shot, the camera speeding toward six descendants of the villagers standing on Ffynnon Garw, which is just like a shot at the end of Sirens (1994).
		The narrator begins by remarking that "For some odd reason, lost in the mists of time, there's an extraordinary shortage of last names in Wales."; Actually there is a known reason: as part of their increased domination of Wales in the 16th century, the English abolished the Welsh system of patronymics and introduced surnames arbitrarily.
		It took quite a long time to find a filming location that could pass for Taff's Well in 1910; the original location (where the true story came from), to the north of Cardiff, now has several large wind turbines and electricity pylons prominently placed, and the village is surrounded by a modern industrial estate.
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	The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
		Hugh Grant's bumbling Englishman act is comically apt in this Welsh Local Hero, an eccentric comedy drama sifted through dim memories of earlier Ealing comedies, but maintaining it's own individual charm.
		Set during the First World War, Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant), is an English cartographer with Her Majesty's Ordnance Survey Office, who has the duty of informing a proud Welsh community that their local peak, Ffynnon Garw, is, at 984ft in height, 16ft short of mountain status.
		Problems arise when the villagers have to work on Sunday, the Lord's day of rest, but after receiving the blessing of the local priest, continue to work building their hill into the requisite mountain.
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