A Hill's Journey Toward Mountain-hood (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain)

6/13/14 THE ENGLISHMAN WHO WENT UP A HILL AND CAME DOWN A MOUNTAIN

The very idea that you can just add a few feet to a hill to make it a mountain is so simple it's almost genius. I respect this town's determination; the ability to go after what they wanted. I was quite pleased to see Pastor Jones slash the surveyors' tire in order to delay their journey. Even for the Pastor, it was vital that he see his hill turned into a mountain (little did he know that his own casket would provide a couple extra feet) In fact, the Pastor himself dumped the first bucket of dirt. Thus beginning the hill's journey toward mountain-hood.

The face that the teacher made after having nearly all of his students excused to help with the mountain was priceless, quite frankly. I guess he couldn't believe that so many people could care about something so trivial. I did feel bad when the town started tearing up the school's sports field to provide grass for the new edition to the hill...erm...mountain. I guess a village has got to do what a village has got to do.

Does anyone else think that the pleasantly plump surveyor looks like Uncle Vernon? It's not, but still.

I appreciated that his film had some romance, but that the romance by far was NOT the main focus of the movie. Just a little something on the side. The movie was about a prideful town coming together to make their hill all that they knew it could be, a mountain. I was very inspired by the shots in the movie that showed long lines of people going up and down the hill. It made me realize how large of a hill (and later mountain) it really was, and how many people were involved.

I thought it was cute when the Hugh Grant (!!!) character stated "I don't think that the word 'just' would apply to you about anything" when referring to the girls personality. He is basically saying that she is largely her own person and every aspect about her is very bold and not like another.

Even though the marvelous Hugh Grant was in this film, I do think that the guy at the train station stole the show...what, with his ridiculous excuses and incapability to find the surveyor's a train north.