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Operation Mincemeat arrives January
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SeeSaw Films is finally ready to release their new historical movie
OPERATION MINCEMEAT in cinemas around Europe this month (April 15th in UK, Russia, India), after a long delay, and after that it should also arrive to
Netflix, from May 11th but only for the audiences from the rest of the world.
Colin Firth and
Matthew MacFadyen play two intelligence officers who, during WWII, use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops. Directed by
John Madden, the film also stars Kelly Macdonald,
Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs, Johnny Flynn, Mark Bonnar, and Matthew's nephew
Lorne MacFadyen, Simon Russell Beale,
Alex Jennings, Hattie Morahan, Mark Gatiss and
Paul Ritter whose final role
this was before he died last year.
The film is based on a book by
Ben Macintyre. He is a well know historian who also helped write the script for the film. It is believed that James Bond's
Ian Fleming was the original author of this operation during the Second World War. He is played in the film by
Johnny Flynn.
when the Allies were determined to break Hitler’s grip on
occupied Europe, the remarkable true story follows intelligence officers
Ewen Montagu (Firth)
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Matthew MacFadyen, Colin Firth, Johnny Flynn
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and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen) who conjure
an inspired and improbable disinformation strategy centered on the most
unlikely of secret
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January release was delayed when Netflix bought streaming rights
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agents: a dead man. They would trick the Nazis into
thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by
way of Greece rather than Sicily.
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The film is based on an extraordinary true story!
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Their plan was to get a corpse, equip
it with misleading papers, then drop it off the coast of Spain where
Nazi spies would take the bait. It was a plan that helped turn the tide
of the whole war.
this was before he died last year. The film is based on a book by Ben Macintyre. He is a well know historian who also helped write the script for the film. It is believed that James Bond's Ian Fleming was the original author of this operation during the Second World War. He is played in the film by Johnny Flynn.
Love Colin Firth and the story sounds intriguing!
ReplyDeleteI hear the first part of the film, the introduction, is overly long but that the end is good.
DeleteThis is coming to Netflix May 11th, for those who can't go to the theater.
ReplyDeleteYes, I said it in the post itself LOL
DeleteGoes to show you that my myopia increases by te day, becaue I scanned it for the date and didn't find it (it was on the first paragraph.)
DeleteIt is interesting that another lady at Facebook also said the date in her comments, so you are not the only one LOL
DeleteJust so you don’t think it was a personal slight. I know, it hurts when we are misread or not read at all. Last week, a kid that had been missing from my blog for a while, wrote me a very long and convoluted letter that began with almost a dozen question, four of which were answered by the article itself (it was one of those I wrote about The Club.) Then, somewhere in the middle of the missive, he said his farewells and wrote me a quite long PS in which he stated that he didn’t like period pieces anymore, he wasn’t interested in The Club, nor did he wish to read my article at all! Then, why bother responding him at all?
DeleteI think neither the FB lady nor I meant disrespect to you, to your article, or to your blog. I’m grateful for every entry and know the effort you put in them. it’s just that we all read too fast, no glasses on, we are too quick to answer, etc., etc.
I wasn't hurt at all, gatofila. As you said a lot of us, me included, like to skim read, that is how I read books as well, and 11 does look like something an eye would miss as it looks like letters not numbers.
DeleteI often make spelling and grammar mistakes when I type comments, even though you know I know my grammar LOL It is just that we type and read quickly and live fast too. Such are the days.
Good to know about the ending being worthwhile because a long introduction might have made me give up too soon. I’ll be adding this to our watchlist.
ReplyDeleteSo many of today's movies have overly long intros.
DeleteI agree with you and Theresa on the long winded intro. It's not necessary!
ReplyDeleteNever! I'm currently finishing Inventing Anna and it is hard to watch exactly for having too long intro and unnecessary details.
DeleteNo doubt this remake of Operation Mincemeat will be great entertainment but as with many war and espionage thrillers it's a shame the film industry is producing yet another remake of a classic.. If success is to breed success the film industry must not polish old gems but mine for new ones. In these genres, an example of such a new gem is Beyond Enkription, the first fact based spy thriller in The Burlington Files series. I only mention that because, coincidentally, some critics have likened its protagonist to a "posh Harry Palmer", the subject of yet another recent remake. Anyway, the first novel in the series is indisputably anti-Bond, sophisticated and worth checking out. Not being a remake this enigmatic and elusive thriller may have eluded you.
ReplyDeleteAnd even when they do produce a remake they never make a memorable one.
DeleteAgreed
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