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| KGNU Radio, "Hotshots," April 4, 2012
"SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN"
("Making the Impossible Possible")
"Hotshots" looks at a movie!
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN is a love story, and I don't mean the love that
fishermen have for fishing, although there is also that.
On the other hand, Steven Wright says in his act, "There is a fine line
between fishing and just standing on the shore looking like an idiot."
In this movie, the comment is made that the only thing that fishermen care
about is fish, and that they are patient and virtuous.
The fishermen, of course, are patient and virtuous, not the fish.
No, we should remember that fish are so dumb that they can't tell the
difference between a real fly and an artificial fly with a hook in it at the end
of a fishing line.
Emily Blunt plays Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, and she has a client who is an
avid fisherman, Sheik Muhammed from Yemen, who wants to introduce salmon fishing
in his desert country.
So, Harriet contacts the salmon expert in the British Fisheries, Dr. Alfred
Jones, played by Ewan McGregor, to ask for his help in fulfilling the dream of
the sheik, who naturally has enough money to make it happen.
Dr. Jones turns down Harriet's request, telling her that the project is
fundamentally infeasible.
In the meantime, however, Patricia Maxwell, who is the press secretary for
the Prime Minister and who is played by Kristin Scott Thomas, tells her people,
"We need a good news story from the Middle East and a big one. We need it now."
So, with pressure from the top of the government, Dr. Jones is practically
blackmailed into working with Harriet to make Sheik Muhammed's dream come true.
And with two attractive people working closely together, romantic sparks
are bound to fly, right?
Not so fast, Dear Audience, because Dr. Jones is married, and Harriet has a
serious boyfriend.
Dr. Jones changes his assessment of the project's success from fundamentally
infeasible to theoretically possible, the sheik is willing to pay 50 million
pounds, and so the problem now is to make it all happen.
Did I mention that there are dissidents in Yemen who believe that the
sheik's dream of building a river in the desert and stocking it with fish is
insulting to Allah?
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN makes the impossible possible in so many
different ways, and not just in fishing.
I'm Dan Culberson and this is "Hotshots."
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