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Posted on 11/30/08 at 12:45 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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We should be under ape rule by now. We're not.
We're getting there.
Posted on 11/30/08 at 1:40 pm to Kafka
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The Buccaneer (1938 -- bio of Jean Lafitte) Gunfight At The OK Corral Spartacus 1776 Nicholas and Alexandra Pat Garret and Billy The Kid A Night To Remember (preferable to Titanic) El Cid A Man For All Seasons The Buddy Holly Story
Wow, you and I have the same taste. Did you by any chance enjoy "The Lion in Winter" with Kate Hepburn and Peter O'Toole?
Speaking of Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia was one of my favorites.
Posted on 11/30/08 at 1:46 pm to Zach
I love Lion In Winter. Great movie.
Posted on 11/30/08 at 1:58 pm to Baloo
JFK will give you much to write about.
Troy and 300 also
Troy and 300 also
Posted on 11/30/08 at 2:03 pm to Michael T. Tiger
Pearl Harbor would be really easy. Lots of inaccuracies in that one.
Posted on 11/30/08 at 2:24 pm to Zach
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Wow, you and I have the same taste.
I like historical movies (easy way to start in a subject), but you can't trust them for history!
You'd probably enjoy the Flashman series of novels by George MacDonald Fraser:
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Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser, but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schooldays, a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes.
In Hughes' book, Flashman is the notorious bully of Rugby School who persecutes Tom Brown, and who is finally expelled for drunkenness. Twentieth century author George MacDonald Fraser had the idea of writing Flashman's memoirs, in which the school bully would be identified with an "illustrious Victorian soldier": experiencing many 19th century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in British army, acclaimed as a great soldier, while remaining by his unapologetic self-description "a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward—and oh yes, a toady." Fraser's Flashman is an antihero who runs from danger or hides cowering in fear, betrays or abandons acquaintances at at the slightest incentive, bullies and beats servants with gusto, beds every available woman, carries off any loot he can grab, gambles and boozes enthusiastically, and yet, through a combination of luck and cunning, ends each volume acclaimed as a hero.
My favorite in the series is Flash For Freedom (which takes place in pre-Civil War NO and Mississippi) but I'd start out with the first book, Flashman. After that you can really read them in any order. There are 13 books in the series; I reread them very 4 or 5 years.
Posted on 11/30/08 at 3:29 pm to Kafka
Remember the Titans would be a good one. Its interesting and you can find lots of information on internet about the real team.
Strong Side
Strong Side
Posted on 11/30/08 at 4:38 pm to Vood
Downfall. About the last days of Hitler in his bunker. Its a great movie.
Posted on 11/30/08 at 5:29 pm to Kafka
I've heard of those books but never read any. And, then there is the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou, based on Homer's Odyssey. Good pic with haunting musical score.
Posted on 11/30/08 at 5:47 pm to Zach
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I've heard of those books but never read any.
Hilariously entertaining and delightfully un-PC. You can get them from any public library.
If you're really busy you can try the books on tape versions -- I just DLed a bunch from Torrents. Haven't listened to them yet though.
Posted on 11/30/08 at 11:40 pm to ManBearTiger
Gangs of New York
Posted on 12/1/08 at 12:15 am to Archie Bengal Bunker
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Good Lord, I read this and thought they were doing another lame spoof movie.
me too
Posted on 12/1/08 at 12:43 am to ManBearTiger
alamo
Posted on 12/1/08 at 1:34 am to ManBearTiger
Is it for history class?
Do "Birth of a Nation" its long and its silent, but its the perfect movie for this kind of paper and it has so many aspects to write about.
trailer
Birth of a nation
It was the most popular movie of its time and the first what we now call "feature length" film.
It portrays the KKK as saviors to a ruined south during reconstruction. The portrayal is goofy and you don't need to watch the whole thing to get a good paper, and the movie itself is history so its a double bonus.
The inaccuracies are obvious, but it also lets you into the mind of the American people at the time, because of the fanfare the movie received.
Do "Birth of a Nation" its long and its silent, but its the perfect movie for this kind of paper and it has so many aspects to write about.
trailer
Birth of a nation
It was the most popular movie of its time and the first what we now call "feature length" film.
It portrays the KKK as saviors to a ruined south during reconstruction. The portrayal is goofy and you don't need to watch the whole thing to get a good paper, and the movie itself is history so its a double bonus.
The inaccuracies are obvious, but it also lets you into the mind of the American people at the time, because of the fanfare the movie received.
This post was edited on 12/1/08 at 1:40 am
Posted on 12/1/08 at 1:42 am to ManBearTiger
Posted on 12/1/08 at 2:37 am to Baloo
quote:All great movies that not enough people have seen.
Breaker Morant is a great movie. I like the idea of choosing a fairly obscure, yet great movie. Check out Gallipoli or Zulu.
quote:Really? That was the Battle of Rorke's Drift, right? Every account I've ever heard didn't include a Gatlin gun.
Though Zulu leaves out the rather important fact that the British had a Gatlin gun and just mowed down the Zulus.
Posted on 12/1/08 at 10:41 am to Macphisto
Rudy
Tons of facts/myths to compare/contrast...
Tons of facts/myths to compare/contrast...
Posted on 12/2/08 at 6:07 pm to Macphisto
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Really? That was the Battle of Rorke's Drift, right? Every account I've ever heard didn't include a Gatlin gun.
Baloo is mistaken. There were no Gatlin guns at the battle.
Posted on 12/2/08 at 11:14 pm to ManBearTiger
Rent "The Crossing" sometime, starring Jeff Daniels. It's about George Washington crossing the Delaware to defeat the Hessian troops at Trenton.
I'll get you started:
Weather during the movie battle doesn't match weather during the actual battle.
Hessians are shown getting blown up by percussion cannon balls when such cannon balls didn't exist yet.
etc. etc. Look it up on imdb.
I'll get you started:
Weather during the movie battle doesn't match weather during the actual battle.
Hessians are shown getting blown up by percussion cannon balls when such cannon balls didn't exist yet.
etc. etc. Look it up on imdb.
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