Hacksaw Ridge

coluka said:
Yes I thought so too, I think it was nominated for some Academy Awards as well. Mel Gibson directed it i think.
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It was nominated for most of the top Oscar categories but in the end it won two for editing and sound. It lost out in Best Picture to Moonlight.
 
Wasn't the main character awarded a purple heart, the only pacifist to ever earn the award?

In other news, there is a donkey from the first world war that was used with it's handler to bring injured soldiers from the battlefield. When it's handler was killed the donkey carried on doing its job and it was awarded a medal, as I recall. The Donkey was called Duffy, although there were several and Duffy's medic, John Simpson (I think) and Duffy are memorialized somewhere in Durham in a statue, I believe, though I have never seen it.

All my information comes from a folk song written by Martin Simpson (just looked this up, Jackie and Murphy, so maybe parts of my recount are wrong).

In any event here is the song that I was remembering from:

 
Laughing said:
Wasn't the main character awarded a purple heart, the only pacifist to ever earn the award?

In other news, there is a donkey from the first world war that was used with it's handler to bring injured soldiers from the battlefield. When it's handler was killed the donkey carried on doing its job and it was awarded a medal, as I recall. The Donkey was called Duffy, although there were several and Duffy's medic, John Simpson (I think) and Duffy are memorialized somewhere in Durham in a statue, I believe, though I have never seen it.

All my information comes from a folk song written by Martin Simpson (just looked this up, Jackie and Murphy, so maybe parts of my recount are wrong).

In any event here is the song that I was remembering from:

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It was a song about a chancer from South Shields called John Kirkpatrick. Not a very accurate account of what went on, although the guy did exist and take part in the horror of Gallipoli. The song says he is depicted in a statue on South Shields sea front. Artistic licence - its in front of Morrisons in town. His exploits got mixed up with a New Zealand stretcher bearer who was responsible for the bulk of the 300 retrievals from the heights. The Aussie Government thought that the guys who operated on the open beaches were more deserving of medals. However you look at it, the campaign was a huge waste of life on both sides.
 
onenilawayfromhome said:
It was a song about a chancer from South Shields called John Kirkpatrick. Not a very accurate account of what went on, although the guy did exist and take part in the horror of Gallipoli. The song says he is depicted in a statue on South Shields sea front. Artistic licence - its in front of Morrisons in town. His exploits got mixed up with a New Zealand stretcher bearer who was responsible for the bulk of the 300 retrievals from the heights. The Aussie Government thought that the guys who operated on the open beaches were more deserving of medals. However you look at it, the campaign was a huge waste of life on both sides.
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My understanding, admittedly only from Martin Simpson, was that John Simpson and Kirkpatrick were the same guy. Kirkpatrick changed his name when he jumped ship in New Zealand to avoid being arrested.

He then joined the NZ navy, thinking to get back to the UK and jump ship again to get home. The ship was diverted to Gallipoli.

I have no idea of the truth of any of this as I was sat with Martin when he was writing the song and he gave me the details as he knew them, I never checked.
 
Its always on Paramount. I've watched it twice in the last few weeks. Brilliant film.

Fury is another that is on all of the time.

Midway has been on Sky Movies these last couple of weeks too, which I can highly recommend if you haven't seen it. Got some top actors in it too, including Woody Harrelson.
 
uncle_rico said:
Its always on Paramount. I've watched it twice in the last few weeks. Brilliant film.

Fury is another that is on all of the time.

Midway has been on Sky Movies these last couple of weeks too, which I can highly recommend if you haven't seen it. Got some top actors in it too, including Woody Harrelson.
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Only watched fury once, thats the ww2 tank movie, as I recall. Was very good
 
uncle_rico said:
Its always on Paramount. I've watched it twice in the last few weeks. Brilliant film.

Fury is another that is on all of the time.

Midway has been on Sky Movies these last couple of weeks too, which I can highly recommend if you haven't seen it. Got some top actors in it too, including Woody Harrelson.
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Saw Midway on the cinema, the action sequences were incredible.
 
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