Homage to catalonia the movie

[Wolf Larson]

George Orwell's Homage To Catalina the movie with Kevin Spacey:




http://www.empireonline.com/News/story.asp?nid=24844



I'm not big on dolling out 10 dollars to feed some Hollywood swines offshore bank account but this I'll go see. Perhaps I'll sneak in but I guess if it does great at the box office perhaps more films on revolutionary socialism will be made in the future so perhaps I'll pay for the ticket ;)

[Invincible Summer]

Kevin Spacey? Really?

[Jimmie Higgins]

So who wants to take bets on what the liberal take on this history will be?

[x359594]

...I'm not big on dolling out 10 dollars to feed some Hollywood swines offshore bank account but this I'll go see...

Wolf, the movie was canceled last year.

For everyone's curiosity, Spacey was going to play Georges Kopp and Colin Firth was going to play George Orwell. The movie was going to center around their friendship, a personal story with the revolution and war as background color, so we're lucky it wasn't made. In addition, Hugh Hudson is a mediocre director with no more than a liberal sensibility.

An authentic version of Homage to Catalonia could only be made by a dedicated leftist filmmaker, someone like Peter Watkins or Ken Loach (who already did his version with Land and Freedom in 1996.)

[RED DAVE]

Yeah, even in "Reds," which is a generally terrific film, they had to focus on the relationship between Reed and Bryant (and O'Neill). Compare this to the way Eisenstein handled the seizure of power in the movie "Ten Days That Shook the World."

By the way, though, if you haven't seen "Reds," get ahold of it.

RED DAVE

[RadioRaheem84]

Thank god it was canceled. It most assuredly would've been a liberal take on a great story.

[rednordman]

An authentic version of Homage to Catalonia could only be made by a dedicated leftist filmmaker, someone like Peter Watkins or Ken Loach (who already did his version with Land and Freedom in 1996.)What Ken Loach committed that attrocity to cinema (and the left)!? :lol:The worst thing was, that it had a good start, but ended up just as having a massive shot at the rest of the leftwing (inotherwords anybody other than trotskyists). Infact its so ardently done, you even end up forgetting who they all where supposed to be fighting against in the first place.

[x359594]

What Ken Loach committed that attrocity to cinema (and the left)!? :lol:The worst thing was, that it had a good start, but ended up just as having a massive shot at the rest of the leftwing (inotherwords anybody other than trotskyists)...

That's right, but Loach didn't bring a liberal sensibility to the story, and the politics were there to see and dispute.

You may not like Loach's tendency, but he does have a left view something that can't be said about Hudson.

Personally, I think Peter Watkins is the ideal director for Homage to Catalonia, especially if he could do it the way he filmed La Commune, with non-professional actors drawn from people who held similar political views in real life to those of the characters they were portraying.

[Angry Young Man]

Colin Firth was going to play George Orwell.

:scared::scared:
But at least it wasn't Kenneth Brannagh. Things can always be much, much worse.