Posted on 07/22/2017 9:06:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Around 30,000 French troops held back Nazi divisions near the city of Lille to protect their allies during the evacuation code-named Operation Dynamo.
Renowned French film critic Jacques Mandelbaum called Nolan "witheringly impolite" and slammed the director's "deplorable indifference" towards his country's contribution to the epic evacuation.
"Where in the film are the 120,000 French soldiers who were also evacuated from Dunkirk? Where are the 40,000 who sacrificed themselves to defend the city against a superior enemy in weaponry and numbers?" he asked in his review in French newspaper Le Monde.
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Funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing.
OK, thannks France.
It almost makes us even for you not speaking German now.
I’m going to see it in a couple hours, I’ll like it even more now.
Well, this WAS the one and only time they weren’t acting like cheese-eating surrender monkeys. ;)
They’ve given up their country these days, that’s for sure! And for what? To be PC?
The French version ends with massive surrender.
Poland was attacked from both sides massively superior forces and didn't surrender until their whole country was overrun.
Germany kicks in the door to France and they couldn't throw up their hands fast enough.
You look at the old newsreels of the Men crying in the streets of Paris as the German Army marches in.
Why wasn't the "Great French Republic" defended to the bitter end and then some by it's citizens? >:(
Sorry Zzzach but if unless those French soldiers were of Northern African origin the PC elitist Hollyweirdo producers are just not interested.
And, TWICE!
“’We were at Dunkirk, too’ say French furious at being written out of film epic”
The producer could kill two birds with one stone. Remake the movie using woman and minorities to portray the French. That would mollify the French AND settle the recent complaint of not having any women or minorities in the movie.
France needs to worry more about their future than their past.
As it turns out, many of those French soldiers actually were of Northern African origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Lille_%281940%29#Siege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_North_African_Infantry_Division
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_North_African_Infantry_Division
Interesting, in the interest of accurate history, one might think they would be included, then again one might consider that the French lost big when preparation was entirely inadequate against a known threat. Fast forward seventy two years...
The French generals wasted the best,most courageous French men in STUPID charges in the face of multiple German machine guns in WW1.And the British generals did the same. Both nations threw away the best of their men because uncaring IDIOTS were in charge.
WSJ’s review asks why no reference was made to Winston Churchill in the movie.
The writer/director of the movie said he didn’t want “politics” in the show.
The Nazis ordered France to hand over their Jews and Vichy France quickly obeyed. France collaborated with the Nazis more than any other occupied country. Screw the french surrender monkeys!
They had hired french actors, but as soon as they heard the first shot they threw down their prop guns and ran away
Sorry, not that I like the French (sometimes I am downright disgusted with them), but they do have a point. 140,000 is 25 to 30% of the troops that were evacuated.
To completely ignore them does history an injustice. Let’s face it, this is a historical re-enactment. Until this article, I never imagined there 140,000 French troops on the beach being rescued with the British.
Now to more important things.
Why do French tanks have rear view mirrors? So they can see the battle.
Their new navy ships have glass bottoms, so they can see their old navy ships.
Why should you download the French version of a program? It will run faster.
How do you make a French flag? Cut a white sheet in a 2’ x 3’ rectangle.
While I agree that they can make their own movies, the historical record proves them out for having a beef if the French were given insufficient credit (I have NOT seen the movie yet). The evacuation was defended by about 38k French troops from their 2nd light mechanized and 68th infantry Divisions who held until they had to surrender.
A piece of ironic history is that most of the evacuated French military were quickly repatriated back to France only to be caught in the French Surrender on June 17th of 1940. One can imagine their feelings after having made that tremendous effort to survive the retreat and evacuation then to have that escape turned into ashes so soon after!
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