With the talk of a Dambusters remake I got thinking has a film about the Falklands War ever been made?
If not what specific battles and events do people think should be included in the film and who should play the main parts,obviously those that speak will have to be British!
By: dailee1 - 13th November 2009 at 10:50
Falklands Film
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Probably be extremely expensive to make a movie covering the whole war, but maybe a film about 2 Para’s battle at Darwin and Goose Green?[/QUOTE]
A reconstruction of the SAS attacks on the Pucaras at Pebble Island (?) would also provide additional excitement for Joe Public, and the film makers would be able to add a big dose of “fact”
“Ever thing you see is true, only the names have been changed to protect their privacy”
By: anneorac - 12th November 2009 at 10:21
i would like to see a film from the argentine point of view, with the same sort of production values as the recent che films, the story of a dagger pilot up against the royal navy, the frustration of tactics used and limitations and the aftermath, maybe the life story of a fresh faced pro junta pilot coming thru training, shoved off to war and what happened after the defeat
Iluminados Por El Fuego, the stoy of conscripts and how they deal or don’t deal with the aftermath. Some of this was actually filmed in the Falklands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iluminados_por_el_fuego
Anne
By: anneorac - 12th November 2009 at 08:44
The BBC did a good television drama called Tumbledown – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbledown – but it focussed on just one part of the war.
Probably be extremely expensive to make a movie covering the whole war, but maybe a film about 2 Para’s battle at Darwin and Goose Green?
The BBC also did another one off about the Argentine Invasion called ‘An Ungentlemanly Act’ which I personally thought was better than Tumbledown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Ungentlemanly_Act
It was the first time I’d seen a TV film reproduce tracer fire and during one scene when a chap walks across a court yard there’s hundreds of 7.62mm cases lying about…nice touch. One of the actors even has a very accurate 1982 issue tache.:D
Anne
By: Arabella-Cox - 11th November 2009 at 17:16
i would like to see a film from the argentine point of view, with the same sort of production values as the recent che films, the story of a dagger pilot up against the royal navy, the frustration of tactics used and limitations and the aftermath, maybe the life story of a fresh faced pro junta pilot coming thru training, shoved off to war and what happened after the defeat
By: Resmoroh - 11th November 2009 at 16:52
You could do a film of all the c*ck-ups that went on. There’d be plenty of people willing to re-enact their particular b*lls-up. The General Public would not believe it!! Pity, though, it wouldn’t sell much on the open market. But those involved would know who, where, and why, every event happened!! Might cause some of the survivors to shuffle off this mortal coil laughing (not a bad way to go!!).
Don’t get me going or I might end up in Court defending myself against someone who denied having said/done/ordered “X”. Then when I produce 27 matelots/pongos/crab-fats who all chorus – like pantomime villains – “Oh, yes he did” I get at least my lawyers fees paid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Resmoroh
By: Phantom Phil - 11th November 2009 at 15:16
It is funny this has been mentioned as I’m on the final chapter of a book called ‘Task Force Battalion’ set in the war of 82′
By: D1566 - 11th November 2009 at 14:45
Plus there have been several History channel offerings on the subject.
By: flanker30 - 11th November 2009 at 14:43
The BBC did a good television drama called Tumbledown – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbledown – but it focussed on just one part of the war.
Probably be extremely expensive to make a movie covering the whole war, but maybe a film about 2 Para’s battle at Darwin and Goose Green?
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