The trailer for 'Dear Erin' sparked outrage among Irish audiences due to its heavy use of clichés, including symbols like Irish fiddles and Guinness. However, the trailer was intentionally created by Epic, the Irish emigration museum, to highlight the persistent stereotypes of Irish identity in Hollywood films. An extended version features actor Peter Coonan criticizing these harmful portrayals. The initiative sheds light on Hollywood's tendency to depict Irish people through a limited and often negative lens, aiming to challenge such representations by creating a faux trailer that exaggerates these clichés for effect.
As long as Hollywood has been making movies, they've been telling the same story about the Irish. At our best we're simple, hopeless romantics with a quiet, rural life. At our worst we're drunken, violent, dirty, law-breakers. Either way, we're almost always a joke or a punchline. You'd think by now, we'd be past this. But if you've seen some of Hollywood's recent depictions of Ireland, you'd understand why someone had to say something.
We thought it was time to call it out. We created a trailer for a film that we hope never gets made, and filled it with all of the tired, clichéd portrayals of Irish people often seen in films.
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