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Post by dmether on Feb 27, 2013 9:04:35 GMT 8
Saw a preview for a new MacArthur movie coming out, staring Tommy Lee Jones as MacArthur, I think it deals with his relationship with Hirohito at the end of the war.
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Post by wwalker on Feb 27, 2013 12:03:09 GMT 8
Interesting, thanks for the tip. Its the first I've heard about the movie. Tommy Lee Jones is a good actor, in my opinion. I am surprised that he will play MacArthur though. It will definitely be interesting to see which light the movie shines on the US occupation of Japan. Maybe one of these days a movie will be made about Bataan and Corregidor. The Great Raid was a good movie, but did not tell much about the POW's themselves and hardly even touched on how they became prisoners. As one of the biggest tragedies in American history, the fall of Bataan and Corregidor and subsequent plight of those involved, would make a very touching movie if it was made well.
WW
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Post by Registrar on Feb 27, 2013 13:05:50 GMT 8
The preview looks good," evoking the period", and even with what little there is of it, Tommy Lee Jones is clearly doing a better job as MacArthur than Gregory Peck did. (Even a store dummy could have done a better MacArthur than Gregory Peck.)
The MacArthur-Hirohito angle does not seem to be anything more than a wrapper for a love story and a bit of historical revisionism. At the heart of it (no pun intended, at least by me) it is a love story - check out what its director Peter Webber is quoted as saying:
The film is based on His Majesty's Salvation by Shiro Okamoto, a book I have not been able to locate much about - except that it is not yet translated into English. Thus I can't expect anything other than that the movie is a partial fiction "based on fact. " I am cautious even with that description, for "fact" as served to the Japanese market, is not one and the same "fact" as we know it. I searched under author's name, and all I found was "The Man Who Saved Kabuki - Faubion Bowers and Theater Censorship in Occupied Japan" published by the University of Hawaii Press.
The film had its premiere in Toronto, in late 2012. I had a report it was "underwhelming" (That's what "mostly positive" means in Hollywood-speak, isn't it?)
I suspect what we'll get, though, is a retro-liberal chick flick, of dubious historical accuracy. But what the heck, I still love the jeeps!
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Post by dmether on Feb 27, 2013 22:52:28 GMT 8
Hope it's not like "Pearl Harbor" a movie I have still have never sat through more than 20 minutes of.
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Post by batteryboy on Feb 28, 2013 9:30:31 GMT 8
Ahhh... Pearl Harbor.. Please dont get me started.... (hahaha)
Hope the new Mac movie is better than the last one.
Cheers,
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