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  1. #61
    Quote Originally Posted by Chief Arrowhead View Post
    Larry Olivier was the narrator.
    It's Michael Redgrave, Chief.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_(TV_series)

    The won about the war with Pershing, not Patton.

  2. #62
    Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
    It's Michael Redgrave, Chief.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_(TV_series)

    The won about the war with Pershing, not Patton.
    He?s talking about World at War, GG,

    And his narration is brilliant, to the extent that they can be.

  3. #63

    "Japanese peasants, armed only with sharpened bamboo sticks lined the

    Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
    He?s talking about World at War, GG,

    And his narration is brilliant, to the extent that they can be.
    beaches and waited for the end. But the end would come from the sky. Unimaginable, irresistible ....... mushroom shaped." It was Larry's excellent timing that made his narration so compelling and poignant.

  4. #64
    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman View Post
    beaches and waited for the end. But the end would come from the sky. Unimaginable, irresistible ....... mushroom shaped." It was Larry's excellent timing that made his narration so compelling and poignant.
    It feels like an odd thing to say, but these types of series are so reliant on the quality of narration. Almost as important as the script. The wrong voice can ruin the drama.

    The music in that series was perfect. Dramatic and slightly terrifying.

  5. #65
    Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
    It feels like an odd thing to say, but these types of series are so reliant on the quality of narration. Almost as important as the script. The wrong voice can ruin the drama.

    The music in that series was perfect. Dramatic and slightly terrifying.
    My favourite episode was the one on the defeat of France, the Maginot Line, the French reaction etc

    Also the first episode on the new Germany

    Magnificent stuff

  6. #66
    Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
    My favourite episode was the one on the defeat of France, the Maginot Line, the French reaction etc

    Also the first episode on the new Germany

    Magnificent stuff
    I like Alone and Barbarossa. The tipping point of the war in Europe.

  7. #67
    Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
    I like Alone and Barbarossa. The tipping point of the war in Europe.
    The tragedy of the thing is that it was filmed before the release of the Enigma files; without the story of Ultra and Bletchley Park the story was lacking one of its most important elements.

    Doesn't stop me watching it over and over again, of course.

  8. #68
    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    The tragedy of the thing is that it was filmed before the release of the Enigma files; without the story of Ultra and Bletchley Park the story was lacking one of its most important elements.

    Doesn't stop me watching it over and over again, of course.
    Shirley the cathartic moment of the series must be the episode on the fall of Berlin where the German woman un-emotionally tells of her and her mother being raped by Russian soldiers.

    For some reason I found that more disturbing than the Holocaust episode, which at the time just seemed unfathomable.

  9. #69
    Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
    Shirley the cathartic moment of the series must be the episode on the fall of Berlin where the German woman un-emotionally tells of her and her mother being raped by Russian soldiers.

    For some reason I found that more disturbing than the Holocaust episode, which at the time just seemed unfathomable.
    I think the scale and severity of the war on the Eastern front is almost unfathomable. There is a scene after Stalingrad that shows hundreds of thousands of German soldiers being taken captive before quietly informing you that fewer than 3% of those pictured returned home alive...... the difficulty in feeling sympathy for German soldiers shows that war can sometimes be as dehumanising as genocide.

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