Awwww, he sounds so abashed to have been given this award - but considering the amount of work that went into Paschendaele, he's certainly made the effort to earn it! And I do think that films like this foster an interest in history - certainly as much as a textbook does, for instance. Lovely piccie too: thanks for posting it up for us all :)
Awwww, he sounds so abashed to have been given this award
I know! :D I still don't understand where a whole section of fandom gets the idea that he's in love with himself. :/
And I do think that films like this foster an interest in history - certainly as much as a textbook does, for instance.
I'm a history geek in the first place, but yeah, I think that people who would ordinarily never pick up a book on WWI might actually do it after seeing this kind of film.
I still don't understand where a whole section of fandom gets the idea that he's in love with himself. :/
I'm sure he's a man of very decided opinion, and obviously he has no problem with being the one in charge :) But I don't think you can make fun of yourself the way he does and be full of it as well. Like the details from the thing where he's cameoing with Atom Egoyan: a man whose head is bloated doesn't mock himself that way.
Maybe it's because he says things tongue in cheek, and people take them at face value?
I'm a history geek in the first place, but yeah, I think that people who would ordinarily never pick up a book on WWI might actually do it after seeing this kind of film. Or even if they don't, they come away knowing a little bit more than they did before. I've been fascinated by that war ever since a teacher, way back when I was 15 (which was quite some time ago!!!) described her grandfather going in a unit, of whom only he and one other came back. The scale of the whole thing was just so extreme that I've come back to
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I know! :D I still don't understand where a whole section of fandom gets the idea that he's in love with himself. :/
And I do think that films like this foster an interest in history - certainly as much as a textbook does, for instance.
I'm a history geek in the first place, but yeah, I think that people who would ordinarily never pick up a book on WWI might actually do it after seeing this kind of film.
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I'm sure he's a man of very decided opinion, and obviously he has no problem with being the one in charge :) But I don't think you can make fun of yourself the way he does and be full of it as well. Like the details from the thing where he's cameoing with Atom Egoyan: a man whose head is bloated doesn't mock himself that way.
Maybe it's because he says things tongue in cheek, and people take them at face value?
I'm a history geek in the first place, but yeah, I think that people who would ordinarily never pick up a book on WWI might actually do it after seeing this kind of film. Or even if they don't, they come away knowing a little bit more than they did before. I've been fascinated by that war ever since a teacher, way back when I was 15 (which was quite some time ago!!!) described her grandfather going in a unit, of whom only he and one other came back. The scale of the whole thing was just so extreme that I've come back to ( ... )
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