Merlin decided to sacrifice himself to save both Eggsy's and Hart's lives whilst killing a few of Poppy's guards, by singing 'Take me Home, Country Roads' before stepping off the mine.
The film score of Whisper of the Heart was composed by Yuji Nomi. At times during the film, Shizuku translates John Denver's song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" to Japanese for her school's chorus club. She writes her own humorous Japanese version of the song, called "Concrete Road," about her hometown in western Tokyo.
Inspiration for the title line had come while Taffy Nivert and Bill Danoff, who were married, were driving along Clopper Road in Montgomery County, Maryland to a gathering of Nivert's family in Gaithersburg, with Nivert behind the wheel while Danoff played his guitar.
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What is the meaning behind Take Me Home, Country Roads?
The song is in the first person viewpoint, and the singer is a long-distance trucker. This profession takes him away from his home and family for extended periods of time. As he's singing he is on his way home to his beloved rural West Virginia, a state in the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern US.
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What does Mountain Mama mean in Country Roads?
The writers refer to West Virginia as “mountain mama.” This is an example of personification or the human representation of a non-living thing. The reference humanizes West Virginia and suggests that it is the mother of mountains. But, it uses the more childlike term, “mama” for mother.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads", (also called "Take Me Home" or "Country Roads") is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver about the state of West Virginia.
Right off the bat, we hear an awesome bagpipe rendition of John Denver's infamous tune “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” This is clever foreshadowing for Merlin's death as bagpipes are often played at funerals for servicemen and have Scottish tradition (Merlin's nationality).
They married in 1967 and wrote her the renowned ballad, 'Annie's Song,' which was composed within 10 minutes. However, after 15 years of marriage, they divorced in 1982. Denver later attributed separation to career demands that drove them apart.
According to legend, the inspiration for the song came from a road sign that Danoff saw for the town of “Westernport” in Maryland. He misread it as “West Virginia,” and the trio started riffing on the idea of a song about the state.
While the river and mountains do touch a small portion of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, Danoff said he wrote most of the song during a drive through rural Maryland.
Take Me Home Country Roads is the second song in the Studio Ghibli tribute album, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's Ghibli Set. It was remixed by ZAKI, the original song being Take Me Home, Country Roads from Whisper of the Heart. It only released in the one album, released by Kyary in 2011.
Is Country Roads not actually about West Virginia?
The John Denver song, “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is not really referring to West Virginia geography, but “western Virginia” geography. The second line of the song, “Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River” identifies two clear geographic features that are more relevant to western Virginia than West Virginia.
In fact, Danoff reportedly originally wanted to write the song about his home state Massachusetts, but couldn't get the cadence to work. When he, Nivert, and Denver sat down to work on the song, West Virginia, or perhaps west Virginia, simply worked best and a hit was made.
While other plot details remain few and far between, Vaughn confirmed Kingsman 4: The Blue Blood will be the last linear new Kingsman movie, hinting at a climactic and engrossing finale for the franchise's first film series.
Merlin accepted his own death so that Harry and Eggsy could continue on to stop Poppy Adams from killing millions with her tainted drugs, which brought his arc to a satisfying, heroic close. Merlin's sacrifice not only allowed them to stop that particular crisis, but all those to come that the Kingsmen would handle.
Several key actors in this film use an adopted accent; Mark Strong does Scottish, Michael Caine adopts a far posher English accent and Samuel L Jackson with a strong lisp (not technically an accent but why not.)
Hamish Mycroft, also known as Merlin, is the tritagonist in the Kingsman franchise. he serves as deuteragonist of second movie. He is portrayed by Mark Strong.
The final stretch of the Shenandoah flows through Jefferson County, West Virginia. The Shenandoah has a 3,000-square-mile drainage area, which includes a large portion of Virginia west of the Blue Ridge and much of Jefferson County.
The Blue Ridge, an Appalachian mountain range that stretches from eastern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia, crosses the easternmost tip of West Virginia. Its crest forms the boundary between Jefferson County, West Virginia, and Loudoun County, Virginia.
