Posted on 08/09/2015 6:03:15 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
This new amazon show called 'The Man in the High Castle' explores what would have happened if the Allies had lost World War II. It's based on a Philip K. Dick novel from 1962.
The hour-long drama stars Alexa Davalos (Mob City), Luke Kleintank (Pretty Little Liars), Rupert Evans (The Village), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Mortal Kombat Legacy), and Rufus Sewell (Eleventh Hour). Ridley Scott is Executive Producer.
It streams on Amazon prime this fall.
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The comments on youtube are just stupid, I cannot tell if they are just trolls are if they are being serious, if they are then god help us.
Yes. That’s the one. Thanks.
Do you have to have Amazon Prime to watch it? I did hear it was excellent.
Sorry, here’s another question, do you have to watch on your computer, or can it be watched on the TV?
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Last season Amazon Prime had a number of “pilots” that they showed and you could vote for which one you wanted to be developed into a series. I voted for “The Man in the High Castle”-—looks like I was on the winning side for a change.
You can watch Amazon Prime on your TV just as you can watch Netflix. It’s just another Streaming service and you can run it to your television using a Blu-ray player or similar hardware that supports internet streaming. Some televisions have that capability build in, although the premium for that is not worth the increased cost for such a television set. I’m gradually “cutting” the cords to cable service so this works out well.
I love Phillip Dick’s work and definitely liked the “pilot”, so I’m hoping that Ridley Scott does this work justice.
Hauer has always been one of my favorite actors.
He was in a great movie about the Dutch resistance during WWII called “Soldier of Orange.”
Fatherland with Rutger Hauer. Hitler won but so did the US. Coincidentally I met Rutger hauer years ago and he told me it was one of his best movies aside from Blade Runner.
Yes, basically there were supposed to be negotiations to bring about “Detente” between the US and Nazi Germany, until the US found out about the “dirty little secret”.
I streamed it from here.
You can download it as an mp4 file or stream it.
(use FireFox plugin “Video DownloadHelper to download”)
It’s amazing how many Dick stories are used for movies now.
Many don’t credit him for the idea and concept.
I don’t know if it was the same but there was a Brit mini-series about 20 years ago that had the same scenario of the Germans having won WW2 and it was now the 1960s - Hitler was an old man who kept out of the limelight, the regime had hidden the Holocaust by destroying the camps and records. The Germans installed the Duke of Windsor on the British throne ad the US President was Joseph P Kennedy, a Nazi sympathizer. A cop in Berlin starts investigating claims of past genocide by the regime, which is in trouble to begin with due to domestic unrest. He finds evidence of their dirty deeds which leads to his attempts to expose the mass murders.
Sounds a lot like “Fatherland”.
There was also a movie made in the 60s called “It Happened Here” about a Nazi occupation of Britain.
I forgot, what happened to Japan or did they reference it in the movie?
Screamers, The Minority Report, Total Recall, Blade Runner......
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Okay I got my HBO movie mix up okay that the one
I know, right? Crazy.
Knowing what Marxists they were, I’m shocked we didn’t join the axis Considering we had Woodrow Wilson as president during WWI and FDR for most of WWII.
I think I’ll give this movie a shot. Heck why not?
“I remember a book or movie that did this many moons ago. Can’t remember the name. Hitler won the war.”
-—I was going to post the same thing. There was a mini-series in the 90’s about Hitler having won the war and how thing would have been living under the Nazi Regime. I remember it being interesting for about 30 minutes but couldn’t get much further
I already saw the first episode.
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