Posted on 07/19/2017 11:59:40 AM PDT by rdl6989
A USA Today review of “Dunkirk” is under increased scrutiny from industry peers for warning viewers that it lacks women and minorities.
Social media ridicule followed the publishing of writer Brian Truitt’s reaction to director Christopher Nolan’s latest film, a World War II tale about Allied soldiers attempting to survive while pinned down by German adversaries. The columnist gave the film a glowing review while saying its lack of diversity “may rub some the wrong way.”
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Well, what about voices?
Sieg Heil, Motha#@$$^%!
Hogan’s Heroes was chock full of ...Jewish actors...POWs and Germans................................... VOT? der vas only vun Goy in der show? Oy Vey.
There was no motorcycle.
As you said, McQueen’s character didn’t even exist.
They were all fictional characters in the movie.
Maybe confused with Kesselring, aka Smiling Albert. He was German Air Force before he became a ground pounder. He turned out to be a good general in spite of not really having that much of a back ground.
I really loved that movie as a kid too.
I was disappointed to see how factionalized it really was.
Still a great fun film, just not real (although based on something real).
What was this publication’s review of the play, Hamilton?
I knew that... :-)
#9 Isn’t that the new captain of the Star Trek show?....... : )
I knew Leon Askin (Gen. Burkhalter) was Jewish but I didn’t know John Banner was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banner
If you read the book, you will see that most of the movie was true to the book except for Steve McQueen’s motorcycle scenes and the early removal of the americans before the escape.
According to the book the British attempted to accelerate the date of the escape buy shutting down two of the three tunnels and working round the clock on tunnel “tom”.
Unfortunately, the Americans were moved to another camp in spite of great efforts to finish tom before the Germans moved the Americans.
I provided links to several youtube documentary about the escape and the movie earlier in this thread.
The rest of the movie was true to Paul Brickhill’s book.
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Thanks.
I’m just saying it was highly hollywoodized.
That’s ok.
That is what Hollywood does. Otherwise it would be just another documentary like
The World at War, or
Victory at Sea, or
The Colour of War, etc ........
Unfortunately, you have to have a hook or your average Joe isn’t going be interested in History and pay from his/her own pocket to see it.
I live on the American Hero’s Channel, the Military History Channel and the History Channel when it plays History and Discovery etc.
I haven’t seen a movie in a theater since the last Hobbit movie, and even that had black extras (in Laketown) that were absent in The Lord of the Rings and the early Hobbit movies. The LOTR movies accurately represented darker (not really black) men as bad guys riding up from the south to attack Gondor...
Kesselring’s defense of Italy was brilliant; while Americans today learn the D-Day invasion was to get a “foothold in Europe”, we had landed in Italy in 1943 and were getting hammered by the Germans (Anzio, etc.). When the war ended areas in northern Italy still hadn’t been retaken.
“Like most modern films, they are meant to throw in a black guy. They could have written him in as a French colonial soldier from Mali or somewhere, fighting for France, whose unit was destroyed by the Germans, etc...”
That’s exactly how it is done. I thought the same thing watching the Wonder Woman movie, it is set in WWI and many of the scenes are in London in 1918. And of course by a remarkable coincidence about half the troops seen on the streets just happened to be Indian and colonial troops.
Now of course the British did have a lot of such troops but it was amazing just how many of them seemed to appear on every street in London at that time.
I think it’s a bit of a myth that somehow Hitler “spared” the BEF, he didn’t, it’s just that he thought they were already beaten and not worthy of too much attention.
The main enemy was the French army and they were at that time still fighting, Hitler was afraid that he might have already pushed his luck so he eased up the advance a bit to let his infantry catch up with his Panzers before striking the final blow against the French.
Goering promised him that his Luftwaffe could finish off what was left of the Brits on the beaches so he left Fat Herman to get on with it, a relatively cost-free option.
Unfortunately like every task the Luftwaffe was given; knock out the BEF, blitz England into defeat, supply the troops at Stalingrad, defend the homeland, they failed miserably.
Is this reviewer clown “some,” or does he claim to speak for “some?”
You want a love story angle watch Mrs. Miniver. While Dunkirk is only a small part of the movie her husband played by Walter Pigeon goes off with a small boat to save some of those at Dunkirk.
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