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01-06-2008, 11:26 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | I think given Peter Jackson's a Kiwi, we've got a good chance of it being pretty "right", him being a colonial and all. I would be disappointed with the gay references unless they were proven (who knows?!) but one thing about Stephen Fry that I've always admired, he is very British (from an Aussie's point of view).
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01-06-2008, 11:46 PM
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02-06-2008, 02:51 AM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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02-06-2008, 06:03 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | The link I posted in #9 is for another thread on the same subject. On that thread there are a number of posts about Fry's intentions and his ability to deliver the "goods". Personally I think he is a good choice as a writer. He has an amzing knowledge of history, has already written a well receive WW2 novel, and most importantly, is fully aware of the esteem that 617, and the original film, are held. Maybe wait until the film is out before judging him?
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02-06-2008, 07:29 AM
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02-06-2008, 07:30 AM
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02-06-2008, 09:08 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | I think that this film is very close to all our hearts and we all want it to be made better (as a spectacle), with additions of previous info that was restricted at the time without poetic licence. Let us see what the end result is.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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02-06-2008, 05:57 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Trust Lord Stephen of QI
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02-06-2008, 10:24 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | I actually think Stephen Fry is a bloody good choice. As Kyt said, he knows what 617 is. My fervent hope, as always, is that it opens up this part of history to a new range of people.
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