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 Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 2:54 pm
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I figured that if we could have a thread about world news, that this one would be okay too, you know? If it's not, I'm sorry!
MOVIES:
Okay, so about World War One there's that movie "Fly Boys", which I've never seen, and "All Quiet on the Western Front".
World War Two: "Boy in the Striped Pajamas", "Empire of the Sun", "Swing Boys", "Life Is Beautiful", "Pearl Harbor", "Jakob the Liar", "Valkyrie", "The Devil's Brigade", "Saving Private Ryan", "Number the Stars", "Grave of the Fireflies"...
Oh, and Inglorious Bastards, which hasn't come out yet... but I'm excited for it!! Tarantino and Brad Pitt? Yeah, I'm all about it.
BOOKS:
I just got finished reading City of Thieves which is about the siege of Leningrad, and the Russian perspective on things. It was AMAZING. Seriously, read it if you're literate. I also read a totally amazing book called The True Story Of Hansel and Gretel which was about these two little jewish kids hiding from the Germans in Poland. Really sad, but really, really good.
I'm planning on reading 900 days, which is also about the siege in Russia. OH, and I just found out about this book: Roosevelt and Stalin: The Failed Courtship Just the title kills me. I totally want to read it when I get the chance...
And then, of course, we've all read The Diary of Anne Frank, and I read Number the Stars in 5th grade.
I'm sure there's a ton more books and movies, but I can't think of them just now. Soooo, who else has some good recs they'd like to share?
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:49 pm
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 8:04 pm
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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 6:49 pm
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 6:25 pm
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 8:29 pm
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I've seen Flyboys, it's not bad.
Ah, I need to see Valkyrie. I have a MAJOR Stauffenberg obsession. And Tom Cruise looks good with an eye patch cool
So most of the World War books I've read are nonfictional ones about Stauffenberg. I think I've read some novels, but none come to mind.
There's a Pacific War museum a few hours drive from where I live. Not sure how that relates to anything, but it's where a lot of my WWII knowledge and love of history in general came from.
I've seen a lot more movies...OH WAIT. There's a French movie, Au Revoirs Les Enfants, that takes place during World War II. But I was watching it in French class, and I was really more interested in what the kid sitting next to me thought it was about than the REAL plot. I think the actual thing is about a Jewish kid who goes to a Catholic school in Nazi-occupied Paris to go undercover, and then there's this other kid who, I dunno, makes friends with him or something.
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 9:10 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:25 pm
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Oh man, so I just saw Action in the North Atantic, with good ol' Humphry Bogart <3 <3 Even though it's black and white (made in 1943) it's pretty much AWESOME...
It was soooo Alfred too... At the very beginning, the Nazis sink their boat and they all end up on a life boat, shouting at the Germans, and they see the Germans taking pictures of them, and they're like, "Hey! They're takin' pictures of us! We're gonna be on TV, boys! Hey, give 'em the thumbs up!" And every dude on the boat gave the Germans a big ol' sneering thumbs up, and the Germans were just like, "..... -_- "
There's also a super awesome part where they dock in Canada and like everybody and their mom (nation wise) shows up... and then I had a completely nerdy Hetalia moment because the British and the American flags were next to each other ._.
Anyway at the end they show up in Russia, and everybody's like, "It's a miracle!!" And this dude is like, "No... it's American Seamanship."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nt2FJMUqjI
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:33 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:33 pm
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So I just watched this movie, Admiral (Адмиралъ) which is set during the 1917 Russian Revolution, and tells the story of Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, leader of the liberal anti-Bolshevik White Army (as opposed to the soviet "red army").
I think it's set at the same time as Dr Zhivago, but I'm not entirely positive. Anyway, Kolchak is played by Konstantin Khabensky, who I kind of stalk... For those of you who haven't seen NightWatch or DayWatch, he was the Russian guy in Wanted... To be honest, he has always really, really reminded me of Ivan.
Anyway, Hetalia Ivan is more like Red!Ivan, but in my head, I've always wanted him to be White!Ivan (like when he talks to Lithuania about sunflowers...), and in that case, this movie is like, the perfect example to watch. But yeah, it totally made me cry for like the last 20 minutes. Russian movies are like always so sad. But yeah, just click on the link to watch it, with subs, on YouTube. It's not out in America.
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:10 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:24 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:20 pm
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