Re: Mad Mel and The Alamo
Reg
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"In Zulu is there a scene where a trap is laid with sharpened bamboo sticks and people fall in and are skewered?"No, the fighting all occurs (and basically takes up half of the film) at a small British outpost at Rorke's Drift. They receive word that British troops have been slaughtered by Zulus at Isandlwana and are on their way to the drift. They have no time to set traps really.
"What about the Great Escape or Catch 22?"Catch 22 is one of my favorite films. My grandfather gave me the book when I was about 7 years old and I remember trying to read it and thinking how odd the names were and the story was. I did not finish it then and it sat on a shelf in my bedroom for years until I read it as a teen. At that point the novel pretty much wiped me out. The Great Escape was one of those films they showed on tv all the time and my brother, father, and I would watch it every time it was on. Very nostalgic about that one.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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"In Zulu is there a scene where a trap is laid with sharpened bamboo sticks and people fall in and are skewered?"No, the fighting all occurs (and basically takes up half of the film) at a small British outpost at Rorke's Drift. They receive word that British troops have been slaughtered by Zulus at Isandlwana and are on their way to the drift. They have no time to set traps really.
"What about the Great Escape or Catch 22?"Catch 22 is one of my favorite films. My grandfather gave me the book when I was about 7 years old and I remember trying to read it and thinking how odd the names were and the story was. I did not finish it then and it sat on a shelf in my bedroom for years until I read it as a teen. At that point the novel pretty much wiped me out. The Great Escape was one of those films they showed on tv all the time and my brother, father, and I would watch it every time it was on. Very nostalgic about that one.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
