Posted on 01/08/2009 1:23:25 AM PST by GVnana
Valkyrie: They Dared To Stop It
by Assemblyman Chuck DeVore
Film is power. As with ideas and the words that convey them, film can inform, inspire, and move people to act - for better or for worse. Some films need to be made. Others are better left unmade for the harm they cause. Of course most films fall into neither category, being rather a general waste of time - amusement - as such, true to the Latin root meaning “to stare stupidly.”
Of the films that need to be made, some are made with more ease than others. Schindler’s List, for instance, needed to be made and, while the subject matter was difficult, the story’s focus on the heroic character of Oskar Schindler made director Steven Spielberg’s task agreeable enough. With a powerful and likable cast, Schindler won Spielberg seven Oscars.
Valkyrie is the other sort of film that needed to be made - the one that isn’t so clean and agreeable, depicting real people with real flaws working up enough courage to confront evil in spite of their shortcomings. It is instructive that the film’s tagline is, “Many saw evil. They dared to stop it” rather than the morally satisfying, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Valkyrie follows men, not necessarily good men, who take life as it is dealt to them right up on the screen, drawing in the audience, and inviting those watching to question whether they would have summoned the courage to do the right thing from deep inside the monstrous regime that was Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
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Nope - there is no such film....
That didn’t take long.
Valkyrie is a good movie. So many attempts were made to stop hitler - and tens of thousands lost lives. Cruise played his part well - the focused & dedicated leader willing to risk all for doing something right.
With Hitler gone, the German high command would of been some what more militarily rationalized and more efficient.
I don't think by the late date of the attempt, we would of made a deal with the Nazis.
Never going to be accepted, and they would not of accepted an unconditional surrender.
The die was cast.
Deserving subject matter. Hideous casting in the lead role. If Tom Cruise were any more one dimensional, he’d go *poof* and disappear into thin air.
“With Hitler gone, the German high command would of been some what more militarily rationalized and more efficient.”
At that late stage of the war, Germany was losing badly. Perhaps these men could have surrendered sooner and stopped the “scorched Earth” policy that Hitler had put into place and hundreds of thousands of more people did not have to die.
We’ll never know.
How’s Vir?
Ah, cmon “Ernest Saves Christmas” WAS needed.
I don’t know much about him and he may be a terrific man. But, he writes the way Hank Kimble, County Agent (from Green Acres) speaks. The man needs an editor.
he’s all that and a box of popcorn...duuuuh...
Huh?
there was an episode where Garibaldi was attempting to explain to Vir the meaning of some Earth slang...among the terms was “all that and a bag of chips” (think back to the deep dark 90’s...you’ll recall that fad) Vir kept getting it wrong in his attempts to use it in conversation, though...one example of which was “all that and a box of popcorn...”
This is a good movie. After discussing it with some people at work, we all were wondering why we weren’t taught in our History classes that there WERE people who tried to overthrow Hitler. Anyone?
Until the end of the war, Hitler kept the extermination camps open transporting Jews and other victims to them. Hitler was always the most fanatical Jew-hater of all the Nazis. With his death, even if the generals had fought on, most likely they would have ended the death camps as a needless waste of manpower and materiel. Hitler's assassination would have meant a better end to the war.
One of the reviews I read said, “Cruise was so bad it was distracting.”
The German MSM kept it under wraps. /sarc off
Don’t know about you, but my history class got everything from the Great Depression onward squeezed into the week before finals. We didn’t have time to learn that.
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