History Forum / General / British History / March 2007

Wonder if she'll be appearing on Jerry Springer with Fergy?

Bollocks.
It's Helen Mirren who's popular, not Mrs. Windsor.
And if you like Brenda so much, f.cking keep her.

You Merkins have absolutely no sense of history, do you?
You fought a war (and won it, which must be notable for it's rarity value
for Merkins) to free yourself from the yoke of that bunch of inbred
tosspots.  And now look at you, sucking up like a greedy little piglet at
the old sow's teat.  How soon they forget.  Still, at least, if she's got to
meet the Bushes, it won't be all fun.  Serve her bloody well right too.

They must keep that stupid buuger Princ Phillip as far away  from the Red
Indian  and black man as nuch as possible.  He just can't be trusted to keep
his trap shut.

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_The Queen_ will be released on DVD in Region One on 24 April.

_Casino Royale_ was released on 13 March.

And _The Charge of the Light Brigade_* was released Tuesday, 27 March.

NICE TIMING...

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

*  The 1936 Errol Flynn/Olivia de Havilland/Michael Curtiz Version.

Balaklava

"As an inside joke, the Russian commander bears an uncanny resemblance to
Joseph Stalin."

"Under the direction of Michael Curtiz, the slam-bang action sequences of
this movie provide memorable thrills.  The fighting at Chokoti is both
exciting and unsettling as women and children fall before rebel bullets."

"The staging of the charge is impressive, if controversial.  Many of the
horses were destroyed because of injuries from the deliberate tripping.  As
the lancers charge into the face of roaring canon, to the right of them, to
the left of them, in front of them, quotes from Tennyson's poem appear on
screen."

"The shot of the fallen lancer still holding aloft the billowing Union Jack
in his lifeless hand is great imagery.  "When can their glory fade?""

The Tony Richardson 1968 version is much more Historically Accurate -- and a
Masterpiece too -- but perhaps not as much fun and Anti-Empire &
Anti-Military to a Great Extent.

Watch and Enjoy both versions -- before the Queen's visit.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

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Let's not exaggerate, 'God Save The Queen' is probably the world's most
boring national anthem. Listen to the Welsh boyo, or the Irish Soldier's
Song or the stirring (but bloodthirsty) La  Marseillaise (aux armes
citoyens, formez nos bataillons. Marchons, marchons, que sang impur
abreuve nos sillons). 'God save Brenda' wouldn't even make 999 in a
world hymn hit parade.

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ago by DSH himself (http://tinyurl.com/2o4yra), evidently before the
brain injury occurred.