d. spencer hines

_The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp_ [1943] is a film with complex,
overlapping, multiple layers of meaning. This cinematic Colonel Blimp is far
more interesting than David Low's.

One can't simply give _Blimp_ a simplex reading. Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger are not simplex people ---- neither are Roger Livesey, Deborah
Kerr [even at 21] and Anton Walbrook.

Consider Powell's and Pressburger's _The Red Shoes_ as another apposite
example.

_Battle Of Britain_ [1969] is another good example of what I'm talking
about ---- on a somewhat less exalted intellectual and artistic level.

Deus Vult.

"I don't care a twopenny damn what becomes of the ashes of Napoleon
Buonaparte." ---- Attributed to Arthur Wellesley, [1769-1852] Duke of
Wellington

Prosecutio stultitiae est gravis vexatio, executio stultitiae coronat opus.

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a.spencer3

I *don't* know what you're talking about.
Battle of Britain was one of the most trashy films ever produced.
If you feel it had any of the pretensions to artistry that you appear to be
trying to convince us that you have, you've failed miserably - again.

Surreyman

guig

Stop unrelated crossposting you stupid cunt.

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Oh for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen.

drew nicholson

Remember, Hinesy thought that Braveheart was a good historical film...

michael w cook

in article qdcXa.713$Ld1.470258@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net, a.spencer3 at

Best thing about the Battle of Britain was when Big Audio Dynamite sampled
some of it.

MWC

michael w cook

in article 1XfXa.56774$Ho3.8305@sccrnsc03, Drew Nicholson at


He was also related to everyone in it if I remember correctly.

martin reboul

There's one toe curling scene where Robert Shaw (Sqadron Leader) is talking
to Ian McShane (?Lovejoy) at the door of his twee home counties cottage for
about a minute... and my eyes are always drawn to the cheap, 1970's square
plastic doorbell which stands out like an organ stop!

It does look cheap and crude nowadays I'm afraid, some good scenes and
performances, but the flying sequencies are very phoney and the models
obvious. The action lacks brutality and horror - sanitised. This is a film
that could be nicely 'remade' I reckon, using digital technology to spice it
up and keeping Olivier and Richardson as they were.

Cheers
Martin

william black

I rather liked it, especially the bit where Michael Caine gets
incinerated...

The flying sequences are a bit derivative, especially if you've seen the
original 'Hell's Angels' but film of that many nice old aeroplanes flying
isn't to be sneezed at.

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William Black
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