Are you sure. Seeing as the title of the film was taken from an Irish ballad written in 1836 and as such is featured in the film.
‘The Wind That Shakes the Barley’
I sat within a valley green,
I sat me with my true love,
My sad heart strove the two between,
The old love and the new love, –
The old for her, the new that made
Me think on Ireland dearly,
While soft the wind blew down the glade
And shook the golden barley.
And while I’m on the subject, I never thought I’d find myself agreeing with James D but for God’s sake, get over the name of the dog. As long as the makers of the film treat the whole subject with respect, who cares. I’d be more upset if I saw a film where smoking cigarettes and pipes was expunged from history and everybody was having group hugs.
As for this thread generally, there’s another thread where a team of restorers, engineers and craftsmen have built a full size replica of a Great War bomber and flown it and that gets two responses (one of them was me) and a thread about an unmade film–one that’s now I would say unlikely to be made gets six pages of supposition. You all need to get out more–in my ‘onest.
And strangely James D–I really liked ‘Saving Private Ryan’–not perfect but a good effort I thought. I thought Band of Brothers was good too, but a shade self indulgent at times. At least they were both scripted for an adult audience, which Red tails wasn’t and was indeed the point we clashed at before.
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