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January 10th, 2008, 02:06 AM
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Re: Enemy at the Gates
Does anyone know the original book's cover? Or was the "movie" cover the real one?
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January 10th, 2008, 03:25 AM
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My 1973 first-edition hardback copy has a b/w dust jacket photo showing a partly wrecked statue of a group of children in a "ring around the rosey" pose in the foreground, and some ruined (on fire?) buildings in the background.
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January 10th, 2008, 10:23 AM
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Re: Enemy at the Gates
need's a car chase!
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February 2nd, 2008, 10:30 AM
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You are certainly not alone there; I would donate at least one limb for the chance.
Film's like this are ruined by 'The formula' which dictates that there must be a romance with a rumpy pumpy scene at some point in order to attract women to the film and make money at the box office. That Pearl Harbour rubbish suffered from the same disease; both could and should have been great movies.
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February 2nd, 2008, 05:50 PM
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Hello All,
I like this movie, and the realisator is French I think 
Sebastian.
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February 13th, 2008, 01:22 AM
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February 13th, 2008, 01:24 AM
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You are certainly not alone there; I would donate at least one limb for the chance.
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lol
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February 13th, 2008, 01:46 AM
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If I'm not mistaken, even though the Craig book and the movie shared the same title, the movie was based on a war novel called "War of the Rats".
Amazon.com: War of the Rats: Books: David L. Robbins
And any movie with Rachel Weisz can't be all bad...mmmmm.
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February 13th, 2008, 03:32 AM
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I don't know, I like the movie, but any historian will say that Stalingrad battle sequence was inaccurate. Although on the plus side Ed Harris rules the movie and you get to see Rachel Weisz's butt.
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I agree with most. To me the movie was a disappointment......
The movie also included more then just a handfull of hisotircal inaccuracies which didnt sit to well with me or my other Russian buddies who saw the movie. The one instance that really stands out is the way the Soviet soldiers were unlocked from the Boxcar as if they were cattle and then blindly ordered to run into battle by a sound of a whistle.... Insulting.
Here is some more criticism
The Russian Battlefield - ENEMA AT THE DOOR: an Foreigner Will Not Notice, a Russian Will Not Forgive |
Great link, Sloniksp...I really enjoyed reading that. I actually laughed out loud at one point... 
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February 14th, 2008, 01:34 AM
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If I'm not mistaken, even though the Craig book and the movie shared the same title, the movie was based on a war novel called "War of the Rats".
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It might be, but I watched the special featues on how the movie was made and Jean-Jacques Annaud said that there was a paragraph in a "very thinck history book" about the duel between Bruno Koenig and Vassilij Zaitsev. He says it was his primary inspiration for the movie; I know it sounds odd, one paragraph out of a huge book, but watch the special features if you own the DVD and see.
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