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Post by wallaby on Nov 10, 2022 0:46:56 GMT
Regarding Daniel Brühl: Did you know that he was invited to Benedict‘s wedding? (He didn‘t attend, because he had to work.) I read this in an article about their friendship. It was in the press here. I had no idea that they are this close.
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Post by mllemass on Nov 10, 2022 1:06:24 GMT
I watched it last night, and I agree that it’s excellent and also very hard to watch.
I watched it dubbed into English, and as Roverpup said, I could hardly notice the dubbing after a while.
I read some reviews today, and I guess I can understand the mixed - but positive - reactions to it. Is there really anything more to say about WWI that hasn’t already been told in other movies? What this movie does is show us that war is much, much more horrible than we could ever have imagined - in case you ever thought that war would be an exciting adventure, like those doomed young soldiers thought in this movie.
One review I glanced at said that 1917 and The War Horse did a better job telling the same story. They’re both Benedict movies!
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Post by queenzod on Nov 10, 2022 2:06:57 GMT
I think Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old added something to that genre that hadn’t been seen before - the actual voices of those in the trenches! Immediate, vivid, authentic recollections. It reminded me of listening to my own Grandfather talking about chasing the Kaiser around Europe.
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 10, 2022 3:21:49 GMT
Peter Jackson documentary was brutal! It’s incredible what old digitally colorized images can do!
First World War movies tend to be less romantic than Second World War ones because the ideology behind it was pretty rotten: the last breath of European colonialism. In the Second World, the Allied were at least fighting Nazis so, specially, in American, films are always about how it worth it!
But also, First World War was the clash between the old 19th Century way of fighting with new revolutionary technology and that was brutal for the foot soldiers: the tanks, machine guns and the chemical weapons were all new and devastating. I think Spielberg did a good job with the scene in which Tom Hiddleston’s character dies in War Horse: the innocence of the gentlemanly elegant posh soldier fighting with a sword against a machine gun and there’s also BC in Parade’s End doing that beautiful monologue by Tom Stoppard about the different new and terrible weapons made with the sole purpose of killing small insignificant human animals.
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Post by queenzod on Nov 10, 2022 4:56:43 GMT
Good points, sgev! Also, The US came late into WWI so we couldn’t exactly claim as much good doing as in WWII where (according to Hollywood), we were the only ones fighting in France, lol. That reminds me of that old Python skit where the Americans are standing around a war zone talking about how great they are and a British soldier pipes up from the background saying “there’s English, Scottish, Irish soldiers been here for years, Dutch, Poles, freeFrench, etc.” The Americans ignore him, lol. (I’m sure I have that wrong but it was something like that.)
I’m not watching this movie. I’m so sensitive to violence now that I can’t tolerate it anymore. I’m sure it’s good and important and all, but I just can’t. Maybe if BC was in it I might try, lol.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 19, 2023 12:21:23 GMT
I just randomly watched the BAFTAs nominations, seriously they were being live-streaming on a tweet I passed(!), and this film did very well. It was the most nominated! Edward Berger was nominated as best director. It seems they totally ignored Spielberg and his movie which it’s crazy because supposedly he is this year favorite for the Oscar.
Also, they are still very in love with Eddie Redmayne and the “quotas” are in some cases very obvious!
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 19, 2023 15:00:14 GMT
I'm very grad for Edward Berger. He shoud have been nominated for Patrick Melrose. Bafta nominated almost everybody for it and not the director. I know it was Bafta TV but...
I'd like to know what happened to the 39 Steps.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 19, 2023 23:27:03 GMT
Hopefully Netflix will campaign for him now!
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 20, 2023 2:27:54 GMT
Hopefully Netflix will campaign for him now! The voting for Oscar nominations already closed. So perhaps it isn't getting in picture. I didn't watch the movie yet. I'm gathering courage. For best foreign language movie I have the problem that I'd like Argentina 1985 to win (because, neighbours!) but I'd love to see Berger winning too.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 20, 2023 2:43:23 GMT
I haven’t watched it yet, too! I really want to! I liked Argentina 1985 but I don’t think it’s a great film. It’s good and TBH the kind of films that usually win the Oscar. I haven’t watched them but I can imagine that Decision to Leave, EO or Saint Omer are much complex films. Just because the people behind them.
It’s a very strong year for non-English speaking films and ironically, a very weak one for the ones in English. Based on reviews and acclaim! I have watched very little!
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