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December 7th, 2003, 10:37 AM
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Ohm Krüger is correct, over to Kai.
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December 7th, 2003, 11:05 AM
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Actually a Tv series from the 1980´s, but anyway, the real name of the Führer?
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It was 'Inside The Third Reich' with Rutger Hauer as Speer and Derek Jacobi as Hitler. I quite enjoyed the programme and thought that Jacobi did a good job, and ( amazingly ) thought that Robert Wagner as Baldur von Schirach did an OK job too....
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December 7th, 2003, 11:47 AM
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Yes, Martin.That is correct! Over to you!
Derek Jacobi:
“When they called me about it and I met with the producer, E. Jack Neuman, and director Marvin Chomsky and they told me they wanted me to play Hitler, I said: ‘You must be fooling: you’re putting me on.’ “I look nothing like Hitler. There’s nothing in my work that even approaches Hitler. With all the actors in America and England they could pick, I said, ‘Why me?’ For the first time in my life, I tried to talk a producer out of giving me a part.
“When I was convinced they were serious, I asked what they saw in me that I couldn’t see in myself for this role. “Neuman said: ‘We want you because Hitler was a very good actor,’ Well, after that, what could I say?” Jacobi still had his doubts, particularly when on the day he agreed to play Hitler, Anthony Hopkins won an Emmy for his portrayal of Hitler in “The Bunker.”
“The paradox for the actor,” said Jacobi, “is that here Hitler is not simply a monster but a very human figure, sympathetic at times. How do you play him then? Do you play him as a monster, as you would play Dracula or Caligula? Or do you play him as Speer saw him—and as is implicit in the book and the script—as an ordinary man of extraordinary powers. “Of course, you play both. That’s the curious dichotomy. One moment Hitler’s full of fun, frolicking with Eva Braun in the snow, the next moment, he’s screaming at his generals. He was a chameleon. He adapted himself to the situation. If the film comes off, it should show him as if reflected in shards of broken glass, many images, many Hitlers. As Neuman says, he was a very good actor. He was always acting.”
http://www.sparrowsp.addr.com/articl..._as_Hitler.htm
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Sorry Kai - I only amswered 'cos I knew it !
I get blazed away at if my questions can't be found on the 'net - so back to you for another question !.... 
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December 7th, 2003, 02:04 PM
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I didn't blaze you away, I just stated the fact that obviously nobody could answer your question (about The Dam Busters), unless he owns the very same book as you do. Well, if this isn't the case for anyone, you can await your question to be answered until the cows come home.
This is why I take care that there are at least several sources to deliver the answers on my questions, or if not, I help out with hints...
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December 7th, 2003, 04:25 PM
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Ok, this might have been before but I´ll ask it anyway:
Which actor has played the part of Rommel twice?
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December 7th, 2003, 07:56 PM
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James Mason in 'The Desert Fox' and 'The Desert Rats'.....You'd better ask another question Kai - gotta go, I can hear those cowbells....
[ 07. December 2003, 02:08 PM: Message edited by: Martin Bull ]
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December 8th, 2003, 09:32 AM
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Eh, OK....
What´s wrong with 'Pointe du Hoc' in the movie
" The longest day"?
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Hint: post-war changes...
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I dimly remember this - isn't it facing the wrong way, or something ?
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December 9th, 2003, 01:03 PM
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No, actually you should be expert on this... remebering the threads lately...what could be there that was not on D-day....
Just building up some pressure here....
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December 9th, 2003, 01:58 PM
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Guns supposed to be there but they weren't! Germans put some telegraph poles as dummy guns [img]smile.gif[/img] To be precise, guns were located further inland and, if I can remember correctly, couple of Rangers disabled two guns with their charges which melted elevation and rotation mechanism and on third gun they smashed gunsights.
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Sorry, no!
Another hint: Post-war creation
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gotta go, I can hear those cowbells....
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That happens when user OX is about to post. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Quote:
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Heres a few,
Name the song sung at the start and end of Cross of Iron.
Where is James Ryan's middle name? The real one at the end.
In Saving Private Ryan they capture a Waffen SS man after they raided the rader station. What did he refer to Betty Boo as?
In Enemy at the Gates, what character did Bob Hoskins play, and how poorly did he play it?
Name the song the German tankmen sang in Battle of the Bulge, the one where they slam their boots were singing it.
Name the tank that ran over a German soldier during Band of Brothers: Carantan.
In Great escape, one POW also played a high-ranking SS officer in which other film? Hint, he went blind in Great Escape.
Well thats it, answer these all correctly then you watch films to often. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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1. a) Hanschen Klein b) no idea, sorry.
2. No idea again!
3. Sorry. (But he did go on about Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willy).
4. Well, I thought he reprised his role as Harry Shand quite well - pity that the commissars weren't hanging upside down in an abbatoir but you can't have everything. The answer you want is Nikita Khruschev, however.
5. They are singing the first verse only (repeated about 5 times) of Panzerlied #9, "Ob'st sturm't oder schneit". (wiseass!)
6. A T 55 done up (rather successfully) as a Jagdpanther. (Bratwurst DimSum has a picture of this very tank).
7. Donald Pleasance played Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle has Landed.
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What´s wrong with 'Pointe du Hoc' in the movie
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Half of it isn't there - a lot of the cliff collapsed during the bombardment?
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I saw this last Saturday (and PT-109 the following day - Cliff Robertson hasn't died or something, has he?). It's been years since I saw this film and to be honest, I never realised how awful it was. Every cliche imaginable! The book, on the other hand, is quite good.
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Cliff Robertson is alive and well. The last film I saw him in was Spiderman as Spideys Uncle Ben.
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Sorry not missing but planted there....
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