tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post7016633395030019420..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Another Brilliant Opportunityzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-27351937877145240142011-09-01T01:57:57.885+02:002011-09-01T01:57:57.885+02:00Steerforth: 'The Heroes of Telemark is a rathe...Steerforth: 'The Heroes of Telemark is a rather disappointing film, but I suspect that any remake would be far worse, with Kate Winslett as a feisty SOE operative and a former member of A-ha as the local resistance leader' - has a horrible authenticity to it. <br />Re war timing, I suppose a better time altogether would have been not at all, but then you'd have to go back and prevent WWI, and I've never been able to work out how that could be done, even though it was all senselesszmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-72418919213125362742011-08-31T19:34:15.330+02:002011-08-31T19:34:15.330+02:00The Heroes of Telemark is a rather disappointing f...<i>The Heroes of Telemark</i> is a rather disappointing film, but I suspect that any remake would be far worse, with Kate Winslett as a feisty SOE operative and a former member of <i>A-ha</i> as the local resistance leader<br /><br />The more I read about this subject, the more I realise that the Second World War happened at exactly the right time. If it had started a few years earlier, Germany would have been easily defeated with little damage to its industrial infrastructure, enabling another arms build-up - this time with nuclear technlogy.<br /><br />I dread to think what might have happened if WW2 had started in the early 40s - imagine V2 rockets armed with atomic weapons.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-83991244560820584532011-08-31T12:51:33.617+02:002011-08-31T12:51:33.617+02:00It was remarked by a physicist that the Allies sho...It was remarked by a physicist that the Allies should have held a quiet celebration when they learned that Heisenberg was running the German effort. As a theoretician he was ahead of Oppenheimer; as an organizer he was not at all in the running.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-6952403678904891022011-08-31T12:36:21.146+02:002011-08-31T12:36:21.146+02:00And, yes, re the other, I'd thought something ...And, yes, re the other, I'd thought something Michael Fraynish, Copenhagenish, Peter J - although I was hoping I might actually understand this one.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-89158282596669998202011-08-31T12:35:21.660+02:002011-08-31T12:35:21.660+02:00I'm glad my instinct about what might make a g...I'm glad my instinct about what might make a great movie was right, although my lack of knowledge about the genre clearly let me down. I don't want to see it done with Kirk Douglas anyway but, sadly, a remake today would probably dwell on all the disasters beforehand, in grizzly detail - and mention the fact that all the good work of the ravine conquerors was quite quickly undone anyway.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-78653922907081026512011-08-31T12:03:49.297+02:002011-08-31T12:03:49.297+02:00And double snap Peter J and Worm: Kirk Douglas'...And double snap Peter J and Worm: Kirk Douglas's cleft chin in a Norwegian jumper is an abiding image.Recusanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11446741817585462393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-26981899101659254592011-08-31T09:32:17.622+02:002011-08-31T09:32:17.622+02:00snap peterJ - Heroes of Telemark is one of those m...snap peterJ - Heroes of Telemark is one of those movies that is ALWAYS on at christmaswormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-6070917309303822562011-08-31T09:28:29.305+02:002011-08-31T09:28:29.305+02:00I'm afraid the first film's already been d...I'm afraid the first film's already been done:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heroes_of_Telemark<br /><br />I remember my dad taking me to see it at the pictures.<br /><br />The second one might be good though. Maybe a sort of sequel to Michael Frayn's <i>Copenhagen</i>.PeterJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16395768714207313299noreply@blogger.com