But you see, I don’t like war movies!
That is awful that Dench beat Redgrave for best supporting (that was the award, right?)
Btw, Lynn Redgrave’s fantastic in “Georgie Girl” a big hit movie that seems to have fallen out of memory. Although the song was a huge hit, maybe it won an award. That is also an excellent pro-life movie.
Thats not the point - its history ...
I've been in combat, but NOTHING like that - my Uncle has, cuz he was there on Omaha Beach. I never asked him about it - until I saw the movie [SPR] ...
He said that as soon as the ramp of the landing craft came down - his best buddy's head was shot clean off by a burst of machine gun fire. He got his buddy's brains all over him - but he just had to move forward. Move or die ...
My Uncle compared it to Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, when Pickett's Division advanced on the fortified wall [with Union Soldiers behind it] at Cemetery Ridge.
He said that he agreed with Gen. James Longstreet [CSA Civil War General under Robert E. Lee] when he said [after the Civil War] that with the advent of mechanized weapons, assaults on fortified positions are insanity.
He said that Longstreet's views were validated during WWI, but that during WWII, there was no choice. No matter where they landed, the Allies were forced to invade "Fortress Europe" ...