Band of Brothers

[dotfic]

I've seen all ten episodes. It's heartbreaking and traumatic and beautifully filmed and the actors are all so good, including the people in the background, and I'm not sure yet what to do with it.

So, if you want, babble at me about it in the comments, and give me recs, anything you think I should see, including fic, self recs are fine.

Comments

[vee_fic]

The best part of the whole series is going back through and picking out the (mostly British) people who are now famous but were not at the time. James MacAvoy gets about a milisecond in episode #3, and Apollo from BSG shows up in the middle somewhere (I think he survives to the end). The dude who played the John Simm character in the (shitty) American Life on Mars remake was in the 2nd episode.

Various "Americans" turning up with their real accents in Beeb projects a year or so later was hilarious to me. (Soames Forsyte not least, but I think the shy freckly South Side Philadelphia kid turning out Glaswegian was the best.)

I think you should see The Big Red One, a WWII picture made in 1980 by the singular Sammy Fuller. For one thing, he actually fought in that regiment, enlisting in the infantry at age 31 and storming Normandy 3 years later; for another, it's recently been restored and had a good run at a couple of art houses in Your Fair City. (Fuller's a sentimenal filmmaker, but he's got a direct, queasy way of putting one in the middle of horror. As Quentin Tarantino once said, about Mark Hamill who plays Private Griff, "You think Darth Vader's evil? Come here, let me show you what real evil looks like.")

[dotfic]

Ah, so that was Apollo! I thought so.

Thank you for the movie rec, I'll check that out (it's on Netflix).