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Darkest Hour
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| 6 Jan 2018
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 01/07/2018 7:01:09 AM PST by Rummyfan
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:01:09 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
The Darkest Hour is just before the first Scotch of the morning
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:04:21 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
To: Rummyfan
England only had to deal with their “darkest hour” for 5 years...we had 8! And they were actually able to shoot back and fight whereas we had to just sit down and suck it up.
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:06:48 AM PST
by
Bonemaker
To: Rummyfan
Bessie Braddock: "Sir, you are drunk."
Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober."
Winston Churchill
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:08:19 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: Rummyfan
Just saw this yesterday morning.
I thought it was well done. In many, many ways it made me think of what President Trump faces on a daily basis.
Best scene was when Churchill jumped out of his car and road the underground for one stop. If that scene is true, those people were heroic and epic in their own time.
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:14:28 AM PST
by
EBH
( May God Save the Republic)
Why is a movie on Churchill getting all this buzz & likely awards??? Hmmm... Is the movie Pro Churchill?
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:14:52 AM PST
by
KavMan
To: Rummyfan
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
Poster hangs in my law office.
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:15:25 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: central_va
Lady Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband I believe I would put poison in your coffee."
Churchill: "Madame, if you were my wife I would drink it!"
To: Rummyfan
I’ve always enjoyed Gary Oldman’s craft. I am not a regular movie-goer at all (it’s been over 20 years since I darkened the door of any movie theatre), but this one is on my “must see” list, both for the acting and the partial story of one of the 20th century’s greatest leaders.
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:16:47 AM PST
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: Rummyfan
I saw this over the weekend. Much better in my opinion than Dunkirk. Dunkirk was all action, Churchill was the central figure of the story of Dunkirk yet was barely mentioned. This movie was all about Churchill. There was no action at all really. But it told the real story in my opinion.
To: Rummyfan
The scene toward the end with Winnie on the tube was brilliant !
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:34:54 AM PST
by
tomkat
To: KavMan
Is the movie Pro Churchill? Absolutely, sans the Olympian halos that are wont to surround him .. because even portrayed as a regular human like most of us, it still manages to convey that a number of said halos are well-deserved.
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:42:50 AM PST
by
tomkat
To: Rummyfan
That year in which the moth-eaten Britiish lion and its distant cubs stood alone is, more than any other single factor, the reason why the world as ordered these last seventy years exists at all. Their latter day foibles notwithstanding, that statement nails it precisely.
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posted on
01/07/2018 7:49:12 AM PST
by
tomkat
To: central_va
And Churchill was understating his case. 8>)
To: tomkat
Well he did get some help. He didn’t have the resources to do it alone in fact.
To: Rummyfan
Chartwell books in NYC has an interesting website all about Churchill.
To: Robert DeLong
Well he did get some help. True enough, but with few exceptions, the spineless appeasers surrounding WC would have rolled over without even asking for said help, or having the will to use it if it was proferred.
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posted on
01/07/2018 8:06:26 AM PST
by
tomkat
To: EBH
The “tube” scene was an invention of the filmmakers.
But essential to the story as told.
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posted on
01/07/2018 8:14:50 AM PST
by
karnage
To: EBH
That’s the scene that Steyn says never happened.
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posted on
01/07/2018 8:20:44 AM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: Robert DeLong
Well he did get some help.
Not when it came to leadership he didn't, at the time he was virtually alone there (as shown in the film), which is why his steadfastness is all the more remembered and appreciated.
Leadership makes all the difference.
Look at the War against ISIS - the US has had virtually the same military strength over the last 10 years, but couldn't do anything under Obama, yet under Trump they kicked ISIS out of the ME in less than 1 year .... leadership made the difference.
Obama was afraid to make decisions and take chances, so he restricted his commanders, Trump - by investing total confidence in his - wasn't afraid to lead.
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