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To: Nateman
I've heard the Chinese Veterans of the Korean War are not happy with the way they have been treated. During the war they were poorly equipped and thrown away in massive human cannon fodder waves.

I hope Michael Caine is interviewed about this film. Caine is an interesting guy and, while I gather his politics are largely MovieWorld liberal, he is capable of being quite heterodox from time to time. As a young man, he was a working class yute with vaguely pro-communist views. Then he got called up for military service (1952-54), which is how he found himself sitting in a foxhole in Korea, behind a machine gun, watching Chinese human wave attacks roll up the hill towards him. Apparently he was in a couple of situations in which he gave himself up for dead. He altered his views somewhat, as he realized that there was something wrong with a system that had such complete contempt for human life.

38 posted on 11/11/2021 2:10:33 PM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx

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I hope Michael Caine is interviewed about this film. Caine is an interesting guy and, while I gather his politics are largely MovieWorld liberal, he is capable of being quite heterodox from time to time. As a young man, he was a working class yute with vaguely pro-communist views. Then he got called up for military service (1952-54), which is how he found himself sitting in a foxhole in Korea, behind a machine gun, watching Chinese human wave attacks roll up the hill towards him. Apparently he was in a couple of situations in which he gave himself up for dead. He altered his views somewhat, as he realized that there was something wrong with a system that had such complete contempt for human life.<<

I wonder if Caine’s experiences helped shape the final battle scene in Zulu:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1csr0dxalpI


99 posted on 11/14/2021 4:38:36 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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