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Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Aug 2, 2008 2:53 PM
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Just popping over from the WW 2 forum and thinking about a favorite scene from Battle of the Bulge; Robert Shaw is playing a German Tank Commander based on the real life Jochen Peiper. He has just been told of the Malmedy Massacre and says: "I have just spent 2 days reducing Ambleve to ashes to break the Americans' will to fight and now you tell me of this, this will turn them into avenging soldiers".
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Oct 24, 2008 12:01 AM
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So many many great scenes, but I'll never forget as a little girl seeing Slim Pickens riding down with that bomb to sacrificially save the day in Dr. Strangelove.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueuauKKjPZI
Yeehaw!
An updated version would be Randy Quaid's "I'm back" scene in Independence Day - which of course is not an historical war, but just as corny (sorry can't find a clip)
I think samples (youtube) should be provided in this forum when possible!
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Nov 6, 2008 3:49 PM
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An updated version would be Randy Quaid's "I'm back"
scene in Independence Day - which of course is not an historical war, but just as corny (sorry can't find a clip)
I'm just an historian wannabe
Don't minimize yourself; a historian is someone who wants to make sure those who made today possible are remembered, not just the lucky ones who get to make a living doing it. As to fictional wars; don't forget Duck Soup.
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Nov 6, 2008 10:33 PM
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Fictional wars:
Wag The Dog
The Mouse That Roared
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Nov 6, 2008 10:40 PM
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Thanx, Trackhead.I'm actually at University Of London for a couple weeks right now beefing up my "legitimacy" as a historian, taking courses at the Institute of Historical Research. I've changed my sign-off below in light of your comments...
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Nov 8, 2008 2:24 PM
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> Thanx, Trackhead.I'm actually at University Of London
> for a couple weeks right now beefing up my
> "legitimacy" as a historian, taking courses at the
> Institute of Historical Research. I've changed my
> sign-off below in light of your comments...
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Try checking out RobertsArmory.com; my reenactment group's website. There you can see what a historian you can be without being paid to do it.
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Nov 8, 2008 8:37 PM
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That's great stuff. I hope the whole board checks that out.
http://RobertsArmory.com
Thanx!
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Nov 12, 2008 10:47 AM
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Dear GM,
Which University of London? The ID by you screen name says FL; are you in England studying? Or is there another "London" here in the USA that you're at?
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Nov 12, 2008 2:38 PM
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hi TH:
I'm in Camden - London - UK. Next to the British Museum.
I live in Florida, & despite how the USA election turned out, I am still planning to return there soon, but only because I miss my dog. Enough said about that.
I'm taking a couple brief courses/seminars at the Institute of Historical Research. It's been very rewarding.
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Nov 12, 2008 4:15 PM
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Have you tried the Imperial War Museum? My daughter and Mother in Law loved it.
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Nov 12, 2008 4:30 PM
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I'll see if I can fit it in on Friday. I blew it yesterday. Had a chance to go on a special tour at the Maritime Museum, but I'm working while traveling & ran out of time. National Archives tomorrow. LOTS of time at the British Library. Amazing archives here.
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Dec 8, 2008 1:03 PM
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Favorite WW2 movie scene?
Wow, that's a tall order. There could be so many. I'll restrain myself and write 3...
Comedy;
How about the scene from, "A bridge Too Far", when the Son bridge blows up in Col. Bobby Sands face?
Pow!!...................."S**t!"
Drama;
Scene from, "Thin Red Line", when the detail led by John Cusack's character captures the machine gun position on top of the ridge.
And just for the heck of it;
The one single camera shot in the film, "The Longest Day", when the brits, (or is it canadians?), emerge from cover and fill the streets taking a town.
It's filmed from above,(presumeably from a crane), and is done in one long continuous shot. A credit to the teamwork of cast and crew for that one.
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Dec 8, 2008 1:54 PM
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Dear PM, the scene in the Longest Day is the French Commandoes taking the Quisteham Casino. Good read in the book too. The Longest Day is interesting on one point of Movie Trivia; Gert Frobe and Sean Connery are together for the first time in a movie in it; Goldfinger was a reunion of sorts.
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Jul 28, 2009 2:57 AM
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Trackity,
Looking once again at the website you put up. The Weasel is really something. I wonder if it wasn't the forerunner of todays snowcats. The track set up looks very similar.
It's a beauty, love to go for a ride in it.
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Re: Favorite WW 2 Movie Scenes
Jul 28, 2009 6:30 AM
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> Trackity,
> Looking once again at the website you put up. The
> e Weasel is really something. I wonder if it wasn't
> the forerunner of todays snowcats. The track set up
> looks very similar.
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> It's a beauty, love to go for a ride in it.
Dear AB,
If you can get to Rockford, IL on September 26th or or 27th I can arrange that. Welcome to Historeel.
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