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Darkest Hour-Winston Churchill-
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 29, 2018, 12:09 pm
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Darkest Hour
I watched "The Darkest Hour", a film about Winston Churchill.
As I like history I had watched some films about the World War
Two before. Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful, Pianist, Enemy
at the Gates, Letters from Iwo Jima and so on. I saw some
documentaries, too.
One footage attracted me a long time ago. It was about Londoners
evacuated into the tube* station to avoid bombs from the sky.
They were listening to a speech from Churchill on the radio on
the platform. They were innocent people, men, women, elderly and
children. I will never forget such an impressive real story.
The real tube footage isn't used in Darkest Hour but a more
effective scene of the subway succeeds.
Churchill gets on the subway to listen to the citizens voices
while he hasn't yet decided to make an agreement with Germany.
He asks himself why he has to talk with the opponent without
trying to fight. He thinks it means that Great Britain** would
give in and lose their dignity.
Then Londoners say to Churchill that they will never give up.
They prefer fighting to following the enemy.
This film really doesn't cost much other than paying to big
movie stars. Most of the scenes are performed inside rooms. This
film method needs better skills from the actors and also
withdraws the talents of actors without their realizing.
Life is Beautiful used the same method. The main actor of the
film won the Academy award twenty years ago .
Gary Oldman of Darkest Hour won this year. How a film makes an
actor stand out is the secret of producing great movies.
***I posted this in italki's notebooks section yesterday and
Bluebottle corrected.
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Re: Darkest Hour-Winston Churchill-
By: the lost minion Date: April 29, 2018, 12:39 pm
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I haven't seen the Darkest Hour but I will because I like Gary
Oldman. (Like is not a good word I guess... I appreciate Gary
Oldman? Respect him? More like it)
And I normally try to avoid this topic (because as a child I had
some sort of an obsession with WWII). But one film I can
recommend is Kanał (the Sewers) by Andrzej Wajda. The plot
is simple but it's not about action. The important thing is that
it was made in Poland in the fifties and that the cast consisted
of people who actually survived the German occupation so, with
all due respect to Begnini, Polański or Streep, it's more
real, you can feel it's just real. So this particular film
struck a chord with this obsessive child in me and I happen to
think it is an accurate measure of a quality of a movie/book and
this is why I would recommend it (the quality might not be the
best, though, it's old).
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Re: Darkest Hour-Winston Churchill-
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 29, 2018, 12:50 pm
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OOOHHH
My post is a spoiler! Sorry! :'(
:P
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Re: Darkest Hour-Winston Churchill-
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 29, 2018, 8:33 pm
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Gryzbek
I checked Kanal. It was introduced in Japan in 60s. and it
played on TV in 70's with Japanese dub. I have not seen yet, but
I found it on YouTube. It is quite serious film, isn't it? Did
you see it when you were a child? It must have been shocking.
In the short version on YouTube, I heard Polish spoken for the
first time! And I noticed the scene of the piano. Even in the
war movie, people never forget music. This isn't seen in
Japanese war movie.It's very impressive for me.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za7r82hRXRA
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Re: Darkest Hour-Winston Churchill-
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 29, 2018, 8:35 pm
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Gryzbek
Thank you for telling me about Kanal. I'm going to find and
watch it.
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Re: Darkest Hour-Winston Churchill-
By: Sudeep Date: April 29, 2018, 10:42 pm
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I haven't watched that movie(The darkest hour). I will watch it
as it is about W. Churchill. Churchill has a very bad reputation
in India though. He is considered as the reason behind the
millions of death due to Famine in India(at the time of ww2). He
could have saved those lives but due to his racist mentality, he
couldn't. The British official wrote him a letter about what was
going on, but he replied nothing except a sarcastic comment,
"Why hasn't Gandhi died yet?"
So, for the British, he maybe a hero, but for Indians, he is
not. As the phrase put it clearly: someone's trash is someone's
treasure.
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Re: Darkest Hour-Winston Churchill-
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 30, 2018, 3:32 am
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Sudeep! Great comment! That's what I always want to know about
history. I didn't learn at school about the truth on the other
side. Japanese people are tend to look at America and Britain
as heros of the world but I have to know from the both side.
This is real learning! Oh, my friend, Sudeep! Thank you.
You gave nice phrase again, "Someone's trash is another's
treasure" I like it very much!
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