hem* MET Michael Caine, he wasn't being specially cool - he was throwing a little tantrum at a handmaiden because the battery in his little dv camera hadn't been charged.
This was at the main Cao Dai temple in southern Vietnam. I lent him my camera's battery (same model.) A few days later we went to watch them filming exploding hotels in Saigon.
Yes, a memorable quote. I watched GC again recently, and was absolutely chilled by the coolness.
And I like this, from Zulu:
Lt. Chard: Well, you've fought your first action. Lt. Bromhead (Caine): Does everyone feel like this afterward? Chard: How do you feel? Bromhead: I feel... sick. Chard: Well, you have to be alive to feel sick. Bromhead: You asked me, I told you. There's... something else. I feel ...ashamed.
Zulu's a great movie, but glosses over some inconvenient facts, such as Caine's character, Bromhead, being (up to that point) a mediocre middle-aged officer handicapped by profound deafness.
Of course, the heroism of Rorke's Drift is played up relative to the tragic incompetence displayed earlier that same day at Isandlwana, where a British army was annihilated by Zulus armed with spears. The thing to do is to watch Zulu and Zulu Dawn back to back. It makes that scene in The Meaning of Life funnier, for a start.
Zulu Dawn you say, Fyodor? I don't know that one - but I'm in.
But yes, quite - Isandlwana makes all the texts on military incompetence (eg The Hinge of Battle) - an area of not inconsiderable historical interest to me; especially when the British army are involved.
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Yes. He is.
Quite.
Real party-starter this thread!
Still, it needed to be said.
hem* MET Michael Caine, he wasn't being specially cool - he was throwing a little tantrum at a handmaiden because the battery in his little dv camera hadn't been charged.
This was at the main Cao Dai temple in southern Vietnam. I lent him my camera's battery (same model.) A few days later we went to watch them filming exploding hotels in Saigon.
I'll say that again.
"When I *ahem* MET Michael Caine" etc.
Impressed, Lucy! What film was that for, do you think? was it The Quiet American by any chance?
I'm thinking more yer Get Carter/ Zulu era of course, when I say "cool".
Heh. Get Carter, one of the coolest movies ever made. Certainly the coolest ever shot in Newcassel.
"Yer a big man, but yer outta condition. For me, it's a full-time job."
Yes, a memorable quote. I watched GC again recently, and was absolutely chilled by the coolness.
And I like this, from Zulu:
Lt. Chard: Well, you've fought your first action.
Lt. Bromhead (Caine): Does everyone feel like this afterward?
Chard: How do you feel?
Bromhead: I feel... sick.
Chard: Well, you have to be alive to feel sick.
Bromhead: You asked me, I told you. There's... something else. I feel ...ashamed.
Yes, it was The Quiet American.
I do concede that in general, Michael Caine is cool.
Excellent.... All commentators in agreement with the essential thesis of this post!
How could we argue with fact?
Zulu's a great movie, but glosses over some inconvenient facts, such as Caine's character, Bromhead, being (up to that point) a mediocre middle-aged officer handicapped by profound deafness.
Of course, the heroism of Rorke's Drift is played up relative to the tragic incompetence displayed earlier that same day at Isandlwana, where a British army was annihilated by Zulus armed with spears. The thing to do is to watch Zulu and Zulu Dawn back to back. It makes that scene in The Meaning of Life funnier, for a start.
Zulu Dawn you say, Fyodor?
I don't know that one - but I'm in.
But yes, quite - Isandlwana makes all the texts on military incompetence (eg The Hinge of Battle) - an area of not inconsiderable historical interest to me; especially when the British army are involved.
For about three years, up until I had my computer upgraded, that picture was my screen saver.
You'll be happy to know that the first time I ever saw it was on Tim Blair's blog.
I can understand that Tony - its a cool pic.
And yes, I accept the Caine is cross-ideologically cool, too!
Incidentally, I love that 'the cricketers' painting - who dunnit agin?
Russell Drysdale. This site has the info.
You might be surprised to know that the "Private collection, Melbourne" is mine. Really. My Demon phone is all the provenance you need.
I am rather surprised to erm, learn this, Tony.
Funnily enough, Ive got Picasso's The Musicians in my private stash!
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