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Re: What If...A Better U-571?
Posted by:
cate
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Date: October 15, 2002 06:52AM
<HTML>Hi Robert
Yes, I reckon that was about the best of them, and my favourite. I've always thought that the greatest movies come from a strong novel - they often don't do the book full justice, and if there is a book I love that has been screen adapted I usually don't expect to come out of the cinema terribly impressed. You notice what's been sacrificed to the film process too much. But if you come at the film first, in a good adaptation it seems to lend it a depth and 'hinterland' to the story, which then reading the novel only adds to.
Other British sea movies I love include We Dive at Dawn, Above us the Waves, Western Approaches and In Which We Serve. All a bit dated and stiff upper lip for todays audiences I suspect, and as you say probably not that interested in being 'fair' to the german side of things, for obvious reasons. You still get shooting up the lifeboat scenes, but not rabidly unbalanced, given the circumstances, either. Generally the main enemy is the sea itself, for both sides, which seems about right to me.
All this brings back childhood memories from the late 60's, of wet Sunday afternoons spent snuggled into the sofa in front of the box where old classics and 'B' movies - war/ gangster/ westerns etc used to be shown every week. Smell of roast beef and boiled cabbage still hanging in the air. Any other Brits remember that? Bliss.
What are your other favourites?
Cate</HTML>
Yes, I reckon that was about the best of them, and my favourite. I've always thought that the greatest movies come from a strong novel - they often don't do the book full justice, and if there is a book I love that has been screen adapted I usually don't expect to come out of the cinema terribly impressed. You notice what's been sacrificed to the film process too much. But if you come at the film first, in a good adaptation it seems to lend it a depth and 'hinterland' to the story, which then reading the novel only adds to.
Other British sea movies I love include We Dive at Dawn, Above us the Waves, Western Approaches and In Which We Serve. All a bit dated and stiff upper lip for todays audiences I suspect, and as you say probably not that interested in being 'fair' to the german side of things, for obvious reasons. You still get shooting up the lifeboat scenes, but not rabidly unbalanced, given the circumstances, either. Generally the main enemy is the sea itself, for both sides, which seems about right to me.
All this brings back childhood memories from the late 60's, of wet Sunday afternoons spent snuggled into the sofa in front of the box where old classics and 'B' movies - war/ gangster/ westerns etc used to be shown every week. Smell of roast beef and boiled cabbage still hanging in the air. Any other Brits remember that? Bliss.
What are your other favourites?
Cate</HTML>
