Posted on 12/24/2017 1:12:14 PM PST by 3161J410
The Winston Churchill biopic Darkest Hour will feed into the debate around the nature of President Donald Trump’s abrasive, confrontational form of leadership, says Joe Wright, the film’s director. Wright suggests that Darkest Hour, which stars Gary Oldman as the British prime minister during arguably the UK’s most testing period of the second world war, is directly relevant to the US’s current political turmoil.
“There’s a big question in America at the moment: what does good leadership look like,” says Wright,
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“what does good leadership look like”
It doesn’t look Kenyan, I know that much.
The movie was bleh...kind of good at the end. I fell asleep in the middle LoL...
I don’t know...Obviously I feel it’s important for Brits to get their pride back especially post-Brexit (apparently “Dunkirk” is good? And nominated for Best Film?)
Trump is the greatest leader of our time. period. bar none. So grateful to be living in these times.
People who don’t like Trump generally don’t have any idea who Trump is.
I saw the movie. Personally, I think Trump is a great proxy for Churchill. Both were very flawed men, but they had spines.
Just like Germans Brits have given the world very little in the way of good government
so grateful to be living in these times...in AMERICA.
And while Britain deserves MUCH credit in WWII (leadership, monarchy, people and all) —> it’s AMERICA that really had the ultimate victory and seemed to absorb most internally what it really meant to win and what we really fought against.
Europeans were still traumatized from the First World War and didn’t think the much clearer after the Second One either...Though the Brits had their Margaret Thatcher moments...the rest of Western Europe declined so much on a moral and spiritual level.
It took us a lot longer to go into “decline” mode — and just when we were really about to head to a precipice, God gave us Trump so yeah.
What gets me is everyday I start my computer, msm has some anti-Trump comments, never anything nice to say. Who is writing this garbage? It is a pattern of negative rhetoric.
Is this negativity making someone enjoy reading it? Can’t they ever say something nice, even around the Holidays? Just one kind word or positive comment would be so refreshing. We are so tired of hearing the same old tired, worn out comments that Trump is bad. There will definitely continue to be backlash against these negative forces if they continue. People will quit listening or reading propaganda.
People who don’t like Trump generally don’t have any idea who Trump is.
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and I might add - - what great leadership looks like.
Churchill, who led quite an adventurous youth said, “ There is nothing so exhilarating as being shot at without result.”
Along these lines, there have been several movies lately about the assassination of WW II Nazi General Reinhard Heydrich, and I definitely detected that Hollywood was suddenly interested in killing Nazis because the snowflakes accept the lie that Trump is a Nazi.
It does to them. You can take that to the bank.
I’m sure that gets the old blood moving. ;)
The Brits had some of the worst Generals in the war. Montgomery was too cautious and political.
I saw this movie.
Thought it was really terrible.
So shallow it seemed to think drinking, cigars and unconstructive ego rages were the sum total of his character. At least he showed he cared about his people.
Reminds me of when the Made-For-TV about Hitler came out, the director explicitly wanted to make it a statement about then-President Bush.
Germany was never with us, so I don’t GaS about them.
But, I am disappointed that UK and France who we saved and rebuilt with our money Stabbed us in the back voting for the Turkish Anti USA UN resolution.
I would not be seeing Ms.May or Mr. Macron anytime in 2018.
An apology is owed to all Americans, by these ingrates.
“The Gathering Storm”, with Albert Finney as Churchill was much better.
Really showed what he had to deal with from his own Party, much like Trump with the GOP.
Germany was never with us, so I don’t GaS about them.
But, I am disappointed that UK and France who we saved and rebuilt with our money Stabbed us in the back voting for the Turkish Anti USA UN resolution.
I would not be seeing Ms.May or Mr. Macron anytime in 2018.
An apology is owed to all Americans, by these ingrates.
Seriously?
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