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Will this movie do Winston Churchill justice?

posted 8 years ago by VVolfySnackrib
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Will they include historically accurate details? Will it show Winston Churchill constantly drinking alcohol, and throwing a big fit in front of other politicians when there's no booze available? Will it show how he secretly hops into his car and drives to a cabin for his personal safety when there's intelligence that the Germans will be dropping bombs? And will it show that time when he's called back from doing so because it was a false alarm, upon which he drives back, informs his office that there will be German bombs dropped on London that night, and how he then asserted that he will stand with the people of London? Later on he got on top of a roof in front of his impressed peers and said "Go on, Germans! Do your worst! I can take it!"
Will it portray his hatred of the people of India and of Africans? Will there be scenes of him sabotaging communication between Germany and Britain so that none of the generous peace offerings of Germany could get through?

I'd love to see Winston Churchill finally done justice on the silver screen. He deserves to be portrayed for the hero he really was!

[–] Grenn78 8 years ago

I'm hoping Oldman plays him like an anti-hero at the very least.

[–] Lord Rake (4498) 7 years ago

"Will there be scenes of him sabotaging communication between Germany and Britain so that none of the generous peace offerings of Germany could get through?"

A peace offering from Hitler? Hmmmmm, for some reason I just don't trust it.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

Yes, some of that is shown, but not all. I think he probably captures Churchill better than any other performer ever has.

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[–] AndyK (69) 7 years ago

"Generous peace offerings of Germany"?

What do you mean, "of Germany?"
You mean, from Hitler?
Given how fair he played the Czechs, maybe you're right, maybe the Brits should have listened.

Of course the film is an oversimplification of history—personally I think a better hinge might have been Churchill's order to fire on the French fleet at Oran. Very controversial, even to this day, but it showed the US in particular that, a) Churchill was firmly in charge, & b) the British were willing to do whatever it took to pursue the war, because, as you know, opposition to Lend Lease stemmed largely from the belief that the equipment sent to Britain would fall into German hands soon enough.

Of course, as well, if you are some kind of revisionist Nazi symph, facts of any sort are irrelevant. That story about Churchill and the false alarm ... if true, so what? What people of significance don't have embarrassing stories in their biographies?

[–] Moderator5 (1471) 7 years ago

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