The Pacific
By Pascale on Wednesday 24 June 2009, 09:06 - Permalink
After the awe-inspiring Band of Brothers, HBO is planning a brand new World War II mini-serie for 2010!!!
That piece of news just made my day! Hope The Pacific will prove as damn good as its big brother...
Actually, I'm a bit afraid of too much pro-americanism in this one after watching the trailer. Hopefully the real thing won't turn out that cheesy...
[via Smashed and Sinking]
-- kindly attributed by Profoundly Inarticulate
Comments
I'm in love with the first one. Bought the DVD's and everything.
I hope this one will be great two, even if I don't know a lot about the Pacific War, I just studied a little bit the end when I had to do a work about the fall of Hiro Hito during the 1st year in History at UCL (looooooong time ago, when we were still two anonymous people takin' the same train, seeing the same face every morning but sayin' nothing =P).
Anyway, you should watch some movies on these subjects but from other point of view. I watched some hungarian, romanian and italian movies about the wars and communism and it is really interresting. You see the same events with another perspective and you learn a lot.
Try to find "Szabadsag Szerelem" (or Children Of Glory in his english version). It's a cool hungarian movie about the '56 revolution. It is sometimes a little bit cheesy but it is OK in my opinion. the thing is that's really rare to find movies on these subjects with others points of view than ours.
This one tells the story of the fighting in Budapest against the Russians and also the story of the Olympic water polo team which was in Melbourne '56 during the events. And how they won the historical Blood-In-The-Water game against URSS to finally win the olympics.
Check it out
check these trailers out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REKv...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GA...
And if you want a little piece of the actual movie,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkAu...
It's strange how these movies always have difficulties to get distribution in our part of Europe. Even when a ricognized and wealthy producer as Andrew Vajna is behind the project.
I think that as Europe and the US sucked so much during these events that nobody wants to show a movie about it =P
... jesus I re-read myself and it's awful how many mistakes I'm able to make in english =((
(I don't care for your English mistakes, I'm also making many!)
Thanks for the recommandations! I didn't have the time to check the extracts out, but I definitely will! (I'm way too busy with my MA dissertation, as well as my full-time student job, I even can't manage to keep up with the great comments posted on my blog, can you imagine?! :p)
I've always been fascinated by WWII, and reading your comments, I realize that you'd have much to teach me. Remind me to remind you to tell me more about this on our next meeting (in one year, ugh!).