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Band Of Brothers
- Thread starter Basil Fawlty
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Basil Fawlty
Don't Mention The War
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Motogull said:
The lucky thing, he wasn't shown all the time.
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Very good series made better by the actual involvement of those whose story is being told. Unlike Saving Private Ryan (Excellent first 20 minutes utter crap for the rest of the film) there is no cloying sentimentality.
Simon Pegg was in episode 1 playing the toadying sergeant to David Schwimmer. For those with the zoom function on their DVDs the episode in which a French soldier shoots three SS soldiers in the head may be worth investigating as said French soldier is played by Hanks himself.
There are some inconsistencies, some of the soldiers roles have been given to others but this is more down to logistics and having a cast size smaller than the actual real life battalion, and Ambrose himself got facts wrong. The episode about Albert Blithe states he died in 1947, he didn't and Liebgott the Jewish guy was actually Roman Catholic in real life. The Last Patrol (Episode 8) was in real life not lead by Martin but another guy who did not appear in the series and a number of men who went on it did not in reality.
Simon Pegg was in episode 1 playing the toadying sergeant to David Schwimmer. For those with the zoom function on their DVDs the episode in which a French soldier shoots three SS soldiers in the head may be worth investigating as said French soldier is played by Hanks himself.
There are some inconsistencies, some of the soldiers roles have been given to others but this is more down to logistics and having a cast size smaller than the actual real life battalion, and Ambrose himself got facts wrong. The episode about Albert Blithe states he died in 1947, he didn't and Liebgott the Jewish guy was actually Roman Catholic in real life. The Last Patrol (Episode 8) was in real life not lead by Martin but another guy who did not appear in the series and a number of men who went on it did not in reality.
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- Oct 4, 2003
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Shropshire Seagull said:
It's the shell landing on the foxhole of Muck and Penkala that is totally shocking. The fact that one moment they were screaming to a buddy to join them in the foxhole and the next split second all that remained of them could have fitted in a shoe box sums up the sheer barbarity of war in an amazing way.