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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: gorillacrab on 14 October 2021, 11:02:00 PM
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Hi,
I'm a longtime member and wargamer who recently started a youtube channel on Classic British movies and shows; these include 2 colonial-themed movie appreciations to date:
Zulu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC4zl4UB_Bg&t=1s
Breaker Morant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3Ntc1N3Hs&t=107s
I hope you find these of interest.
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Nice review of Zulu (sorry didn't watch the other). A movie I really enjoyed as a youngster. I must watch it again some time. Thank you!
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Your reviews are very well done.
They held my attention, as somebody who has seen the films by exploring not only the screenplay, but also the people behind the story.
You've found the right balance in keeping the viewer entertained.
I have seen Zulu probably 100 times.
Despite it's historical inaccuracies, you have touched on what it is that makes it so appealing.
I'll watch the bounty one later, great film and the reason I read so much on the subject.
Thanks for sharing
Ry
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Haven’t looked at the reviews yet but worried that Bruce Beresford’s Breaker Morant is included under the umbrella of ‘Classic British movies and shows’, surely it is an Australian Movie?
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You're right, Captain. It's an Aussie picture.
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If you watch the Breaker Morant review in the first minute the narrator notes in the very beginning that the film comes from “down under” and that the connection is that it has British lead actor playing a British born officer in the British Army.
Both videos are decent, if brief, reviews of the films. I generally agree with the observations of the narrator.
It was nice to get confirmation of the Zulu chant being mixed into the Germanic chant by Ridley Scott in Gladiator. I always thought that was the case.
While neither of these films (or Gladiator for that matter) are great research tools for historical accuracy they are well made, entertaining movies that are good to get people interested enough to further research the events in the films.
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Thanks for your gracious comments.
On the very valid question about Breaker Morant being an Aussie film - which it famously is - the goal of my channel is to explore and promote movies and TV programs with a "British connection". This allows me far more latitude in what I can eventually review.
So as others have stated, my video acknowledges that Morant is a landmark Australian film that featured a British star and portrayed the British, essentially, as the bad guys.
Also consider one of the two most popular reviews deals with Day of the Jackal (along with Sink the Bismarck) - a French story with a British star, mainly British cast, British writer and many scenes in London.
Sincerely, thanks for your interest.