Considering the time, this was actually a wise choice lol
I think he wouldn’t feel challenged playing an Irishman. What do you have to do? Do the accent drunk and do a little jig? Everyone could do this.
Well, he did play Joe Vandeleur in A Bridge Too Far.
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IRA leaders reached out to the Nazi’s in WW2 so basically the same thing
An IRA member with a Cockney accent wouldn’t be really convincing anyway
His physique better suits the nazi I’m afraid especially that cold stare. And since the Irishman on that movie ends up actually a Nazi collaborator that would be double the shame
edit have no idea when he was proposed to play an IRA member, but on this movie there is an Irishman, played by Donald Sutherland
Something I would do too
Nicer uniforms
Der Adler ist gelandet
I’m pretty sure he goes on the suicide mission in that movie because he ISN’T a nazi, he is a soldier, and gets himself and his unit onto a punishment/death duty driving manned submarines and airdropping into Britain because he uses direct action against nazi actions inside Germany, that he hasn’t witnessed previously because he has always been at different military fronts, leading the wermachts advance since the start of the war.
So while deffo the bad guy in the film, in that same film he works closely with an Irish operative who assists Germany, who is also a bad dude, yet the film also manages to show that they are not 1 dimensional baddies but complicated people doing what they see as right, by their morals, their beliefs, their national alliances and their friendships with others.
Amen to that fuck the ira, fucking republican scum. Gud bevare konungen
I think it’s because the IRA was actively killing people at the time and nazi’s weren’t
Oh you lying member of a no good race.
IRA Caine seeing the Grand Hotel half-destroyed: You were only supposed to blow the bloody Thatcher up
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Cor, im starving. Could go a chicken dinner, tbh.
A Churchill man through and through.
Were IRA members portrayed as irredeemably evil back in the day, like the Nazis?
That’s from ‘The Eagle has Landed’. Caine played Col Steiner, who was NOT a Nazi, he wound up doing suicide missions because he’d saved a Jewish girl from the SS, which was regarded as treason. It’s the ‘Clean Wehrmacht’ myth, or clean Luftwaffe since they were Falschirjaegers; they all served the Third Reich.
ISTR Donald Sutherland played the IRA man serving the Nazis for the cause, which has some historical basis, a cause for national embarrassment almost as big as Dev offering condolences when Adolf topped himself.
Probably because it was easier him as a Brit to get into the mindset of an invading, relgious persecuting, civilian massacring , concentration camp runner, than a freedom fighter.
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Considering the time, this was actually a wise choice lol
I think he wouldn’t feel challenged playing an Irishman. What do you have to do? Do the accent drunk and do a little jig? Everyone could do this.
Well, he did play Joe Vandeleur in A Bridge Too Far.
Based
IRA leaders reached out to the Nazi’s in WW2 so basically the same thing
An IRA member with a Cockney accent wouldn’t be really convincing anyway
His physique better suits the nazi I’m afraid especially that cold stare. And since the Irishman on that movie ends up actually a Nazi collaborator that would be double the shame
edit have no idea when he was proposed to play an IRA member, but on this movie there is an Irishman, played by Donald Sutherland
Something I would do too
Nicer uniforms
Der Adler ist gelandet
I’m pretty sure he goes on the suicide mission in that movie because he ISN’T a nazi, he is a soldier, and gets himself and his unit onto a punishment/death duty driving manned submarines and airdropping into Britain because he uses direct action against nazi actions inside Germany, that he hasn’t witnessed previously because he has always been at different military fronts, leading the wermachts advance since the start of the war.
So while deffo the bad guy in the film, in that same film he works closely with an Irish operative who assists Germany, who is also a bad dude, yet the film also manages to show that they are not 1 dimensional baddies but complicated people doing what they see as right, by their morals, their beliefs, their national alliances and their friendships with others.
Amen to that fuck the ira, fucking republican scum. Gud bevare konungen
I think it’s because the IRA was actively killing people at the time and nazi’s weren’t
Oh you lying member of a no good race.
IRA Caine seeing the Grand Hotel half-destroyed: You were only supposed to blow the bloody Thatcher up
Based
Cor, im starving. Could go a chicken dinner, tbh.
A Churchill man through and through.
Were IRA members portrayed as irredeemably evil back in the day, like the Nazis?
That’s from ‘The Eagle has Landed’. Caine played Col Steiner, who was NOT a Nazi, he wound up doing suicide missions because he’d saved a Jewish girl from the SS, which was regarded as treason. It’s the ‘Clean Wehrmacht’ myth, or clean Luftwaffe since they were Falschirjaegers; they all served the Third Reich.
ISTR Donald Sutherland played the IRA man serving the Nazis for the cause, which has some historical basis, a cause for national embarrassment almost as big as Dev offering condolences when Adolf topped himself.
Probably because it was easier him as a Brit to get into the mindset of an invading, relgious persecuting, civilian massacring , concentration camp runner, than a freedom fighter.
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