Tom Cruise's Adolf Hitler film put back into Hollywood bunker

The Sunday Times ^ | May 11, 2008 | Richard Brooks

[CaptainK]

Destined to be on a double feature with "The Day the Clown Cried".

[Bald Eagle777]

Ummmm, I think Cruise is playing the part of von Stauffenberg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_20_Plot

Interesting, the Park Street Church pastor is talking about WW-II stuff right now as I write this.

[Kimmers]

I agree with you, he is a talented actor.

When I think of movies that I have enjoyed in the past a lot of them are his movies....

His weird behavior just gets in his way of many of us recognizing and admitting his talent

[dearolddad]

Of course Hitler was much taller.

And probably much more intelligent.

[Shellback Chuck]

Tom Cruze should be bagging groceries somewhere in Iowa.

[abb]

ping

[DoughtyOne]

They should have known. They Cruise and we snooze.

[BBell]

I'm glad you pointed out Napoleon was of average stature for his time. I wonder who's interest it has been in to portray Napoleon as short for the last 200 years.

[GATOR NAVY]

how is a movie that ends (or at least should end) with Tom Cruise’s character getting executed by firing squad not an automatic massive box-office hit?

I'd at least rent it after it came out on DVD. I could watch the end over and over-just like "Titanic".

[Temple Owl]

Springtime for Hitler! That’s been done.

[sinanju]

“After the famous general and emperor died in 1821, his body was autopsied in France, and his height was noted as 5 foot 2 inches. This measurement was in French feet (pieds de roi) and was never correctly converted to standard English measure. In English feet, Napoleon stood 5 foot 6.5 inches tall. So the poor guy was shorted a full 4.5 inches in height.

In his day, 5’6.5” was a perfectly respectable, nothing-to-be-ashamed-of height for a man. In fact, Napoleon was actually slightly taller than the average Frenchman of 1800.

So the diminutive size the emperor is so noted for was, in fact, a mere miscalculation. And as one observer points out, “It is also probable that the men of his Imperial Guard, with whom he ‘hung out,’ were very tall, creating the illusion that Napoleon was short.”

The man himself said it best — “History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon.”

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From AskYahoo.

[BBell]

So it was a miscalculation. And I always thought there was a conspiracy against him.