Nelson at Coruscant
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- While rewatching the opening of "Revenge of the Sith," I mused about how George Lucas chose to show futuristic vessels battling like 19th century ships. I thought back to the Trafalgar scene from "That Hamilton Woman," and voila.
I shall have to watch "That Hamilton Woman"
+CBfrmcardiff It has, to my knowledge, one of the only film depictions of Trafalgar. Someone uploaded the entire Trafalgar scene to UA-cam.
+HenryvKeiper odd that thirties American cinema makes so much more of British history than British cinema ever has! So many fine films, which all combine a genuine love of history, the creative, cheeky, decent and swashbuckling old-time Hollywood hero, and the contemporary morality tale. Lloyd's of London has to be the most unexpected movie subject ever - a film about the history of insurance, with physically and morally heroic characters. And a Nelson sub-plot. The Rothschild's is much the same, which takes an antisemitic myth about the family as a fact and reinterprets it as a story of heroic self-sacrifice (in both that film and in Lloyd's of London, the heroes refuse to join a financial panic, sacrificing personal wealth to uphold public confidence - which is a very post Wall Street Crash fantasy.)
There's the Charge of the Light Brigade, Gunga Din, Robin Hood, and Elizabeth and Essex.
I suppose Hollywood was using novels as inspiration and a lot of those were British...
+CBfrmcardiff It's especially interesting given "That Hamilton Woman" was made during 1941, during the height of WWII. You can definitely see parallels and why depicting Trafalgar would be important: Britain standing alone against a European empire, while her allies on the mainland crumble and fall, and with that European empire threatening invasion of Britain, etc.
+HenryvKeiper I can see why those isolationist were so passed off. I suppose films like these played a small part in making the world a much better place.
Fire sah...damn your eyes!!