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‘Dunkirk’ review in USA Today warns ‘no lead actors of color’ in WWII-inspired film
Washington Times ^
| July 19, 2017
| Douglas Ernst
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 Truitts reaction to director Christopher Nolans 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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: diversity; dunkirk; hollywood; militaryhistory; moviereview; multiculturalism; race; racism
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To: Political Junkie Too
they must have missed all the guns to complain about. Holy carp! They had guns in this movie? I'm headed for my safe space.
To: Bringbackthedraft
There were no Americans involved at all.
McQueen’s role was a composite. The main person serving as inspiration for the character was British.
The movie was a highly factionalized account of a true event.
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:23:35 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: yarddog
heh heh
Cleopatra wasn’t Egyptian at all, as I recall. She was Greek/Macedonian.
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:24:25 PM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Kriggerel
“After a while, I start to feel like Im trapped in a never-ending Monty Python skit.”
+1. for me it is the same wrapped in the movie “Groundhog Day”.
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:25:55 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
To: rdl6989
What? no Denzel Washington to be the big hero and save the day for all all the whities?
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:27:24 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
To: CaptainAmiigaf
Zulu Dawn depicted the battle you refer to, Islandawana. Zulu was a much earlier film about the nearby engagement at Rourke's Drift, a heroic stand by a company of Welshmen against thousands of Zulus (first film Michael Caine ever appeared in). In both cases the British productions accurately portrayed the events, the worst defeat of British forces by a native army in the former, and a successful defense by a hugely outnumbered force of Brits using firearms against spears and shields in the latter. Unlike the ignorant degenerates running Hollywood, their British equivalents tend to take their history seriously.
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:27:40 PM PDT
by
katana
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hogan’s Heroes did not even pretend to be historical. Indeed, the first concept for the show was for them to be inmates in a US prison who escaped during the night to do good deeds. They abandoned that clunker for the really funny show they later invented.
To: Flash Bazbeaux
Nope. A mixed oriental, dwarf, transvestite, blind, paraplegic with aadhd and crooked teeth in homage to its distant British connection. It is a depiction of the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force after all.
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:28:03 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: Kriggerel
No, Monty Python skits made more sense.
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:28:43 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
To: Architect of Paradise
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:28:57 PM PDT
by
WhirlwindAttack
(We need to start drinking out of the skulls of our enemies again. Dims, Slimes, Rinos, F em all)
To: Bob434
Now that you mention it, I don’t remember seeing any transgender Marines in “Sands of Iwo Jima.” I guess it is time for Hollwyood to make a sequel.
To: rdl6989
It never stopped Hogan’s Heroes.
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:34:56 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: rdl6989
and no Gay Love interest ?
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:35:10 PM PDT
by
butlerweave
(it's the children are)
To: rdl6989
Yes. The comment says a lot more about the writer than about the heroic escape of the British soldiers across the Channel.
On the other hand, the comment is apt to this extent. We have seen the deliberate fancification (the phony diversification) of historic events as a Hollywood mainstay for over half a century. It is part of a conditioning process, which led to the nightmare of Obama.
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:35:53 PM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: CaptainAmiigaf
You’re thinking of Zulu Dawn. Zulu was about the successful defense of Roarke’s Drift by British forces after the events that happened elsewhere earlier that day.
To: colorado tanker
Thanks I never knew that. I always loved that show.
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:37:56 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
But, but but... wasn't Dwight Eisenhower a black man? And even though Doolittle Raiders weren't at Dunkirk they WERE a bunch of women - mixed minority and white - straight and transgender, right?
The movie producers could have just 'moved them over' for the sake of diversity.
And the Germans? Gerd von Rundstedt and Günther von Kluge were migrant refugees from Africa, right? Hollywood never gets it right... Field Marshals Gerd von Rundstedt and Günther von Kluge suggested
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:40:12 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
( MSM Snowflakes: if you don't like President Trump's tweets don't read 'em.)
To: rdl6989
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:40:56 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Reset Underway!)
To: Blue Jays
In 2017 we would also likely see Frank Bullitt's green 1968 Ford GT portrayed by a Toyota Prius. Who wouldn't want to see a movie where the cops and robbers are chasing in Chevy Volts, and then they stop for a 30-minute recharge to shoot it out before getting back in their Volts to chase some more?
-PJ
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posted on
07/19/2017 12:42:57 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: rdl6989
Well it sounds historically accurate then.
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