"Fury" - Movie. Bollywood Boycott Time again

Dread Knot · 10-21-14, 10:10 AM

Frankly, it's always been my experience that Hollywood being the famous military experts that they are, and loving a good story as they do, would often exaggerate the immunity of German heavy tanks to make the historical American triumph seem that much more sweeter. Much the same way that Ceaser wrote kind things about the military prowess of Vercingetorix to make his own victory seem that much impressive among the masses. When you see the 1965 Battle of the Bulge movie (Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, et al in M-24s Chaffees fighting US M48s dressed up in German livery) you are seeing a myth enacted. The film creates the false impression that large numbers of inferior American tanks sacrificed themselves against the heavy German Konigstigers and in the process lured the enemy off course which caused them to run out of gas. In reality, most were already stranded due to lack of fuel or blown bridges.

But don't get me started on that movie's numerous historical inaccuracies. There's only a million of them.

10-21-14, 10:10 AM	#11
Dread Knot Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,288 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Frankly, it's always been my experience that Hollywood being the famous military experts that they are, and loving a good story as they do, would often exaggerate the immunity of German heavy tanks to make the historical American triumph seem that much more sweeter. Much the same way that Ceaser wrote kind things about the military prowess of Vercingetorix to make his own victory seem that much impressive among the masses. When you see the 1965 Battle of the Bulge movie (Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, et al in M-24s Chaffees fighting US M48s dressed up in German livery) you are seeing a myth enacted. The film creates the false impression that large numbers of inferior American tanks sacrificed themselves against the heavy German Konigstigers and in the process lured the enemy off course which caused them to run out of gas. In reality, most were already stranded due to lack of fuel or blown bridges. But don't get me started on that movie's numerous historical inaccuracies. There's only a million of them.