1. What movie is this picture from?
2. What movie is this quote from?
"Well, here I am,
anonymous, all right. With guys nobody really cares about. They come from the
end of the line, most of them, small towns you never heard of: Pulaski,
Tennessee; Brandon, Mississippi; Pork Bend, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two
years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them
back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothing. They're poor. They're the
unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird,
isn't it? They're the bottom of the barrel, and they know it. Maybe that's why
they call themselves grunts, 'cause a grunt can take it, can take anything.
They're the best I've ever seen, Grandma. The heart and soul.”
3. What movie is this?
The movie is based on the best-seller by
Nicholas Monsorrat. Monsorrat was a Lt. Commander in the Royal Navy in the
North Atlantic so the novel was semi-autobiographical. The HMS Compass Rose was played by the HMS Coreopsis which was on loan to the Hellenic Navy and was due to be disposed
of. The Royal Navy had already disposed
of all its WWII era corvettes. Scenes
were shot in the English Channel and the water tank at Denham Studios. The movie was the biggest hit of 1953 in
Great Britain and a surprise hit in America.
3 is The Cruel Sea
ReplyDelete#2 is probably Platoon. (The film's voice-over narration is a series of letters from Charlie Sheen's character to his grandmother.)
ReplyDeleteI'm clueless as to #1. The Cruel Sea sounds right for #3.
Interesting thoughtss
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