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ridgeway kid
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An unstoppable tide built up for Gary Oldman to win the Oscar for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour and I'm slightly baffled.

Don't get me wrong: I rate Oldman very highly and thought he was brilliant as George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.  But I found his Churchill only so-so and the film itself was so full of inaccuracies it was quite an annoying watch.  The pivotal scene on the tube was entirely made up and can only have been put in for PC reasons.

As for Churchill portrayals I prefer Albert Finney in The Gathering Storm (2002), Brendan Gleeson in Into The Storm (2009) and Brian Cox in Churchill (2017).



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I also rate Oldman. Versatility is one measure of a good actor, and he is as comfortable and impressive in a Batman movie as he is in a biopic, a thriller, or doing a voice over for an animated film.

On this occasion, I thought he gave a seven out of ten performance in a pretty ordinary film.

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I thought it was OK, kinda missed the vibe though of a PM with the weight of a nation on his shoulders? - Dunkirk was a fleeting glance

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 I agree with both Smiler and Exeter.  The thread got me thinking about portrayals of historical figures on film.  The sheer number of recent Churchill films is quite staggering.  Of other historical figures I can only think of two British monarchs, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and perhaps Abraham Lincoln who come close.  Anybody else?



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I too found the tube scene a little absurd and unnecessary. I agree with Ridgeway, the whole scene seemed to have been written in as to be, inclusive, I think the word is these days, and probably just wouldn't have happened that way back in 1940









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