Ping for later viewing
Thanks, Vanders9, I am going to check it out!
Fascinating. I am at the part where the Argentines have secretly landed, and the governor is getting to get a couple of hours of sleep, not knowing there has been a landing.
The DJ at the island’s only radio station puts on “Yesterday” by the Beatles, and the scene switches back to the Governor getting into bed with the radio playing “Yesterday” in the background.
All hell was going to break loose, and everyone on those little islands is listening to the same thing, hearing things the same way, and when they all hear that song years later, they probably remember well that night when the song played.
Seems so much simpler and easier then. Now, you might have a thousand different people at random who literally found out about something went down by a thousand different ways.
One person might get it on twitter. Someone else might see it on the BBC website for the first time. A person might actually be playing a massive online game when the word spreads between players.
And someone will still see it over an air transmission on their television.
I just found the contrast just as interesting as all get out.
Excellent battle scenes. Very well done. The tracers from the heavy weapons really give the impression of the kinetics.
“Whaaaat...nobody here who speaks Spanish? F***ing marvelous.”
An absolutely superb move and as you say Ian Richardson is brilliant, but then so are all the characters, loved the scene with Nanny going off with a bottle of gin and a picture of the Queen, “Looks like you’ve got the priorities right, Nanny”, says the governor’s son. Or the scene were the old gardener sits with his shotgun pointing at the still-flying Union Jack, threatening to shoot the first Argie bastard that tries to take it down.
If I am not wrong in the scene were the Falkland Islands Defence Forces chaps stop to have a sandwich as the Marines make a run for Government House, the chap who mutters “bloody Marines” is played by the actual Marine colonel portrayed in the movie, he was there as a consultant.
In the scene where the victorious Argentines shout “Argentina! Argentina!” on the street, the Argies were played by members of the crew and some Uruguayan fishermen whose ship was in port, no locals would take those parts and apparently the director said it was the only time he felt a sense of animosity from the normally hospitable islanders during the shooting.
The best film about the Falklands War is ‘The Falklands Play’. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falklands_Play