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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 28, 2019 13:43:55 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 28, 2019 13:47:42 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 28, 2019 22:12:14 GMT
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Locations
Mar 29, 2019 20:45:17 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 29, 2019 20:45:17 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 29, 2019 23:18:30 GMT
Pure speculation but based in this and the year 1917, I think the story is about the Battle of Cambrai,
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Post by queenzod on Mar 29, 2019 23:43:25 GMT
This is going to be fascinating!
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 30, 2019 4:00:22 GMT
I was thinking that's very funny that this will be BC's third WW1 project after War Horse and Parade's End. WW1 movies aren't so popular or numerous as WW2 films! In comparison he did that Dunkirk docudrama and he played a soldier in Little Island but those were before he become famous and in the last one he isn't even seen in combat. Atonement was also about WW2 but his character wasn't in that part of the film!
Maybe it's because there were certain revisionism during the centenary and it was around the time BC was having his breakthrough in Hollywood that he was cast in both Parade's End and War Horse.
WW1 was such an awful and very cruel war. A lot of new technology to kill was used for first time ever there: tanks, machine guns and those sadistic chemical weapons. The true horror is rarely portrayed on screen. War Horse was a kid's movie so it would be interesting what Mendes and Spielberg do with, I hope, an adult story. Parade's End had a few bloody and cruel shots.
EDITED: I forget The Imitation Game! LOL That's kind of relevant in his career, doesn't? And it's a WW2 film!
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Post by queenzod on Mar 30, 2019 5:49:31 GMT
The Brits make so many world war movies (I think) b/c those wars were so devastating to the British. Such huge changes for the country that cut across class, gender, social structure, politics, economy, and that memory and the aftermath of it still runs through their culture.
And if it wasn’t enough to be fighting hard on the front lines in WWI, the Irish were taking their combat pay from the British govt and funneling it to the IRA out the back. Very clever of them, lol.
An amazing time, especially with those beautiful gowns the ladies wore!
Both my grandfathers served in WWI, after they immigrated to the US but before they became citizens. I remember my Dzadzi (grandfather, Polish) telling me stories about chasing the Kaiser around Europe and he’d laugh until the tears ran down his face. After the war ended, there weren’t enough ships to take all the soldiers back, so he went down to Marseille for six months and fell in love with a French girl. If he’d stayed with her, I wouldn’t be here talking with you all today. 😃. He lived with us at the end of his life and he could kill me at checkers. Nice memories.
My other grandfather (Greek), got separated from his unit during some battle and was declared dead. Six months later he came home to Illinois and found out everyone thought he’d died. He cut ties with his Greek relatives when they asked him to smuggle guns to them for a war with the Turks. He told them he was an American now and he wouldn’t betray his country, and never talked to them again. He also refused to speak Greek after that. He was only 17 when he immigrated, and so he took a piece of paper, wrote “18” on it, and put it in his shoe. When the immigration officials asked him if he was over 18, he could honestly answer “yes.”
Every time I watch PE I think about them. It seems like so long ago, the war, but isn’t it interesting that it’s kind of still alive?
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Post by mllemass on Mar 30, 2019 7:11:42 GMT
The My parents were little during WWII, in Italy. My mother lived on a farm, and remembers her family being forced to house and feed soldiers who arrived at their home. She also remembers finding brass shell casing in the fields, which they would take home, polish, and use as decorative vases. My father says that those casings would be worth a lot now if they had kept them!
My father lived in a small town, and remembers spending his days with other children hanging around the soldiers, hoping for a handout from them. He said that the British soldiers tended to ignore the little kids and would throw their food away rather than give it to them. But the American soldiers were kind and always shared their food with the kids. He said it was the memory of that kindness that helped him decide to move us to Canada. (Yes, I know that Canada and the US are not the same, but a little Italian boy in WWII wouldn’t have known the difference.)
Any time I see little kids running around in a war movie set in Italy (and there are lots!), I imagine what it must have been like for my father.
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Post by queenzod on Mar 30, 2019 8:36:25 GMT
Do you speak Italian, Mllemass?
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