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I totally forgot about Anzac Day being tomorrow (actually today already, over there), yet last night, I was in my local library, and I saw a DVD of the Mel Gibson career-launching movie ‘Gallipoli’ on the shelf, and I mused about watching it some time, but I didn’t remember what day tomorrow is, or I’d have borrowed it then. Have you seen it? Thus far, I’ve only really seen one Australian WWI movie, ‘Breaker Morant’, which was very good.
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It’s been years since I saw it and I’m definitely due for a re-watch, but it was excellent. The ANZAC Cove landing scene is eerily beautiful.
I know that frequent UR commenter Tex is a big fan of “Breaker Morant”.
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Gallipoli is excellent. Breaker Morant is not a WW1 movie. It is set in the Boer War in South Africa. Great film (though very iffy historically).
Another Aus WW1 movie is The LIghthorsemen which I’ve heard is pretty crap. There’s also this, which I haven’t seen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_Hill_60
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Oh yeah; d’oh, I did know that; brain fart…
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Gallipoli is very good. Tragic, but good.
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Yeah, “Breaker Morant” always struck me as “really” being about WWI, just like MASH was “really” about Vietman, not Korea. A great movie, in any case. And here’s to the Aussies and Kiwis. My Dad really respected these guys, he served alongside them in North Africa in WWII…
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WW1 is “the” war that really lives in the collective mind of this country, I’ve noticed, even more than WW2 where Australia actually was attacked. It’s also the reason that Winston Churchill is not revered here as much as he is in the rest of the Anglosphere, because when he was First Lord of the Admiralty he masterminded the whole Gallipoli campaign using ANZACs basically as cannon fodder.
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Canada is similar to Australia in that regard; WWI is a bigger deal, collective-memory-wise… Canadians remember our countrymen who fell at the Somme, Amiens, Ypres, Passchendaele, and of course Vimy Ridge, in a far greater way than those who fell at various WWII battle sites other than Juno Beach and a few other sites… Canadians felt that our country came of age as a nation through the sacrifices of our men in WWI, and so WWI will probably always loom larger in some ways…
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