Churchill and The Darkest Hour

FR ^ | Jan 21 | RandFan

[NWFree]

Meatball is just being dramatic for attention

[Fiji Hill]

I saw the movie “The Darkest Hour” and was amazed. There were no sex scenes or nude scenes nor even any profanity—and the movie even featured a cat!

[RandFan]

I have yet to see it but must have been a testing period when the Nazis looked unstoppable.

They had plans for the UK: “Operation Sea Lion”

[NWFree]

Meatball uses FAKE Churchill quote
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12989819/Ron-DeSantis-fake-Winston-Churchill-quote.html

What a surprise 😏

[NWFree]

“ Ron DeSantis ended his campaign to become the GOP’s presidential candidate by using a fake statement attributed to British wartime leader Winston Churchill.

The Florida Governor signed off his campaign with the quote: ‘Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts,’ underneath the video where he announced he was removing himself from the running.

But the motivational words, which he attributed to Churchill, where never actually used by the statesman and former UK Prime Minister, according to history experts”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12989819/Ron-DeSantis-fake-Winston-Churchill-quote.html

[RandFan]

I knew it. Seemed a new one on me which is why I asked

[MikelTackNailer]

Gary Oldman portrayed Churchill as a weak vacillating cuck who couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. For an actor I usually admire that was an inexcusable low blow to a truly great man of history.

[RandFan]

Turns out the quote he used was made up!

[RandFan]

I posted the article to PWIN

Please vote it up maybe the mods will highlight it

https://patriots.win/p/17s5tfNsfx/

[Fiji Hill]

Gary Oldman portrayed Churchill as a weak vacillating cuck who couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. For an actor I usually admire that was an inexcusable low blow to a truly great man of history.

Indeed, that didn't quite seem to be the real Churchill. I haven't seen the latest Napoleon movie, but I read that he is portrayed similarly, as weak-willed and hen-pecked.

[MikelTackNailer]

Perhaps Hollywood’s vile culture, with the revelations from Epstein and such coming out, feels it needs to tear down REAL men who stood up to REAL dangers in perilous times with that quaint concept of PATRIOTISM.

[MikelTackNailer]

I can’t stand up for Bonaparte but I’ve read that director/producer Ridley Scott cherry-picked and altered Napoleon’s story too far as to render the movie a wasted three hours - except for the battle scenes so great as to rescue the whole project.

Another shame of great talents and a fortune mishandled on a grand scale. Like Gary Oldman in "Darkest Hour" we have a great actor in Joaquin Phoenix suspending disbelief as a failure at home while conquering the known world around him.

If I were paranoid and prone to wear aluminum foil hats I'd think Hollywood is purposely trying to tear down all the greatness of anyone who happened to be born white and male.

Nah...it's fine. Go away now.

(Thumbs up for Critical Drinker)

[MinorityRepublican]

but I’ve read that director/producer Ridley Scott cherry-picked and altered Napoleon’s story too far as to render the movie a wasted three hours - except for the battle scenes

I heard the same thing. Which is why I passed on it. Maybe I'll watch a clip of the battle scenes on YouTube later. Should be 10-20 minutes of good material.

I'm skeptical of movies in general, especially in this woke/me too era we're in.

[rxh4n1]

“Indeed, that didn’t quite seem to be the real Churchill. I haven’t seen the latest Napoleon movie, but I read that he is portrayed similarly, as weak-willed and hen-pecked.”

Turned the movie off when Churchill saw the picture of his secretary’s dead fiancé or whatever and that decided him to fight on. The whole reason that Parliament made Churchill PM was to fight harder.

[ro_dreaming]

“The Darkest Hour”

I bought it on DVD/BluRay, and it was simply amazing.

They took a bit of creative license (Churchill taking the Tube, for example), but Gary Oldham did a phenomenal job of portraying one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century.

MikelTackNailer - I disagree with your view on how Churchill was portrayed. I didn’t see him as a “weak vacillating cuck” as you did, but will have to re-watch it to see why you think that.

I do agree with you on this, though “I’d think Hollywood is purposely trying to tear down all the greatness of anyone who happened to be born white and male.”. How many movies have replaced the “white male” hero with women, or black women, or even black men? Almost all of them. I have no problem with Denzel Washington becoming “The Equalizer”, because he’s a great actor - in almost any movie I’ve ever seen of his he’s fantastic. But, Queen Latifah as “The Equalizer”? Just doesn’t cut it for me. There are way too many to list, of course, so that was just one example.