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Watched "Pirates of the Carribean - Dead Man's Chest" for the first time since its release in the cinema last year. Better than I remembered actually, much better, although the ending was obviously a bit of a let-down given it sets you up for the next episode and leaves everyone in the proverbial lurch...
Regards,
Frank.
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I watched the first ten minutes of "The Wooden Horse" earlier. In fairness I was not in the mood, and reverted to music...
There is a personal story attached to this for me. Eric Williams wrote a short book about this, which appeared very soon after he got back to England having escaped from a POW camp, but naturally there were sensitive issues regarding security and the necessary secrecy. This film was based on that book, and subsequently Williams re-wrote the book calling it the "Wooden Horse." By then it could be a fully realised telling of a true story of three men escaping via a tunnel from a POW camp.
The man called Phil in the tale was actually Oliver Philpot who was taught English at Prep school by the father of the man who taught me English at the same school forty years later. I was acquainted with the story from Philpot’s angle as a ten year old. I bought a copy of Philpot’s reporting of "his version" called, "Stolen Journey," which in my view is the more gripping tale. I gave the book to my grandfather [resistance leader in Norway] who thought it one of the best books he had read in the line. Sadly it would take some finding today, or be expensive. Philpot was a loner and made a convincing plan [successful as it happened] to pass himself off as a Margarine supplies man working in Germany as he made his way north to Stetin and Sweden...
The other DVD I bought today will now not be seen by me. "Enigma." I was aware of the great significance of the Polish contribution to the code breaking at Bletchley Park. This film falsely depicts one of them as a German spy [as unlikely as that sounds given the real historical events]. Too bad. This kind of false popularising revisionism in filmmaking is to be deplored as beneath contempt. I am very cross that such nonsense can still go on. As the film, "The Heroes of Telemark" should, this film should start with a warning about its false representation of the historical facts...
ATB from Fredrik
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| Posts: 10263 | Location: Worcester, UK | Registered: Sat 09 July 2005 | |
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quote: I borrowed a projector from a friend to see what the 'home cinema' experience was like and........
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| Posts: 7291 | Location: Crawley West Sussex | Registered: Thu 26 September 2002 | |
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quote: Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
I watched the first ten minutes of "The Wooden Horse" earlier. In fairness I was not in the mood, and reverted to music...
There is a personal story attached to this for me. Eric Williams wrote a short book about this, which appeared very soon after he got back to England having escaped from a POW camp, but naturally there were sensitive issues regarding security and the necessary secrecy. This film was based on that book, and subsequently Williams re-wrote the book calling it the "Wooden Horse." By then it could be a fully realised telling of a true story of three men escaping via a tunnel from a POW camp.
The man called Phil in the tale was actually Oliver Philpot who was taught English at Prep school by the father of the man who taught me English at the same school forty years later. I was acquainted with the story from Philpot’s angle as a ten year old. I bought a copy of Philpot’s reporting of "his version" called, "Stolen Journey," which in my view is the more gripping tale. I gave the book to my grandfather [resistance leader in Norway] who thought it one of the best books he had read in the line. Sadly it would take some finding today, or be expensive. Philpot was a loner and made a convincing plan [successful as it happened] to pass himself off as a Margarine supplies man working in Germany as he made his way north to Stetin and Sweden...
The other DVD I bought today will now not be seen by me. "Enigma." I was aware of the great significance of the Polish contribution to the code breaking at Bletchley Park. This film falsely depicts one of them as a German spy [as unlikely as that sounds given the real historical events]. Too bad. This kind of false popularising revisionism in filmmaking is to be deplored as beneath contempt. I am very cross that such nonsense can still go on. As the film, "The Heroes of Telemark" should, this film should start with a warning about its false representation of the historical facts...
ATB from Fredrik
Fredrik, There appear to be some for sale here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stolen-journey-Oliver-Philpot/d...id=1181049103&sr=1-1Regards, Phil |
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| Posts: 714 | Location: Malvern, UK | Registered: Mon 31 October 2005 | |
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