tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post112070734465294476..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: More liberty at the moviesPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1123242750203953802005-08-05T23:52:00.000+12:002005-08-05T23:52:00.000+12:00There's going to be a remake for the new decade.Ge...There's going to be a remake for the new decade.<BR/><BR/>George Bush Jr & John Howard, as Lord Kitchener<BR/><BR/>Australia, as Germany<BR/><BR/>David Hicks, as Morant<BR/><BR/>Book now at tickertecRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06315796390662297759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1121021299521743222005-07-11T06:48:00.000+12:002005-07-11T06:48:00.000+12:00Breaker Morant? Here's what I said about it a few ...Breaker Morant? <A HREF="http://solohq.com/Articles/Cresswell/Top_Five%28ish%29_Films.shtml" REL="nofollow">Here's what I said about it a few years back</A>.<BR/><BR/><B><I>Breaker Morant</I></B> (1980) sets Woodward in the Boer War, on court martial for killing prisoners of war.<BR/><BR/>On trial for their lives, he and his fellow defendants (Bryan Brown and Lewis Fitzgerald) face being put to death to ‘protect the honour of the British Empire’; an Empire dismayed at the conditions of war forced upon Woodward and his men by the tactics of Boer guerrillas (a theme many American directors would explore less expertly in a slightly different context some years later). It is the story of honourable men adjusting themselves to meet the imminent twentieth century collapse of values, only to find themselves buried by the stodgily conservative values of nineteenth century colonial <I>satraps</I>.<BR/><BR/>Woodward’s character shines, resolute in his certainty that the Boer prisoners were shot "<I>under rule 303!"</I> and deserved everything they got, but disturbed about what that decision has done to his own humanity.<BR/><BR/>A little known masterpiece.Peter Cresswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1121020484906005532005-07-11T06:34:00.000+12:002005-07-11T06:34:00.000+12:00More on Breaker Morant, please.More on Breaker Morant, please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com