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Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 15, 2018, at 8:22 PM, Grimsdyke <lincoln.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have to admit that I hated this movie. It made Churchill look doddering and > indecisive, made him appear to be flustered by Halifax's challenges to his > authority, and even succeeded in making him look inarticulate and tentative > at meetings of the War Cabinet. It only takes a few viewings of a few YouTube > videos to see how sharply the truth differs from the caricature of him that > this motion picture perpetrates. Churchill's speech was taut, soaring and > full of vigour – enough to inspirit the most flaccid, mouse -like waverer, > and he was firm and decisive – to the point of often being domineering. > 'Darkest Hour' fails to depict any of this. > > And as for Halifax, he certainly was a villain – to the point of being almost > a 5th columnist. If one reads 'When Britain Saved the West' by Robin Prior, > one begins to see Halifax in a truer light. But he was not the only villain; > the Conservative party was stiff with them. > Grim > >> On Monday, March 5, 2018 at 6:18:23 PM UTC+13, Dave Turrell wrote: >> I have to admit to being something of a movephobe. I see about two a year. >> This year one of them was ‘Darkest Hour’, at the vehement urging of my wife. >> She knows about my interest in Churchill ever since the 1,500 related books >> in the basement became noticeable. >> >> >> >> In my opinion, the Oscar for Gary Oldman as best actor was absolutely >> appropriate. Like Richard Langworth, I have always taken the late Roberts >> Hardy’s performances as being the gold standard. But to see Oldman as he >> really is, in his acceptance speech, and to see him in character – superb! >> That to me is what the Oscar is for – the ability to convincingly be >> someone else. >> >> >> >> But to lose best picture – that was also appropriate. Darkest Hour was >> undoubtedly a good movie, but it was too obviously Hollywood. It needed a >> Hero and a Villain. Churchill was surely the hero, but was it really >> necessary to cast Halifax in such a satanic light? And while I understand >> that the underground scene was a dramatic contrivance to resolve Winston’s >> doubts, it jars far too much with anything that we know about the old boy. >> >> >> >> Wonderful casting and acting, but if we’re going to tell the story, let’s >> tell it right. Leave it to Marvel to inspire with myth and legend. >> >> >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> From: 'Marcus Frost' via ChurchillChat [mailto:church...@googlegroups.com] >> Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2018 7:47 PM >> To: church...@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] @Darkest Hour Reviews >> >> >> >> I’m pulling for Gary O. Saw it again for the second time yesterday. I still >> wept again at the force of the re- creation of the speeches. I think people >> around me thought me weird, but they don’t know the depth of our study of >> this great man and how he stood. People will never know or appreciate what >> he did for the world. >> >> Marcus >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> On Mar 2, 2018, at 9:57 AM, Richard Langworth <ric...@langworth.name> wrote: >> >> "And how can man die better >> Than facing fearful odds..." >> @DarkestHour reviewed by the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. >> >> >> >> Richard Langworth: >> https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.marketing/spake-brave-horatius-review-darkest-hour/ >> >> >> >> Dr. Larry Arnn: http://bit.ly/2GAgs3R >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ChurchillChat" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to churchillcha...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to church...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ChurchillChat" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to churchillcha...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to church...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. 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