Why is it in films such as Band of brother and Saving private Ryan, that the British are shown to be incompetent or even left out altogether? With the recent events regarding the queen, it seems that America is slowly changing what actually happened: Making it that the British did nothing, whilst America was the one who "Did everything". Why is this happening?
Why is it in films such as Band of brother and Saving private Ryan, that the British are shown to be incompetent or even left out altogether? With the recent events regarding the queen, it seems that America is slowly changing what actually happened: Making it that the British did nothing, whilst America was the one who "Did everything". Why is this happening?
Why is it in films such as Band of brother and Saving private Ryan, that the British are shown to be incompetent or even left out altogether? With the recent events regarding the queen, it seems that America is slowly changing what actually happened: Making it that the British did nothing, whilst America was the one who "Did everything". Why is this happening?
I wasn't trying to be an idiot I didn't realize that Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan criticized the British... From what I can tell, the films are about the American involvement, so of course they are going to be all about the Americans. The film makers know who their target audience is, so they make a movie to appeal to that demographic, jeesh.
And there are plenty of movies that criticize America. I can't think of any that have to do with WW2, but surely you must be aware that America is criticized all the time.
Exactly. Nobody minds them patting themselves on the back for things they did do but films where they take the credit for somebody else's achievements are a "bridge too far". Like the one about the breaking the Enigma code, for example.
Okay, i shall revise my views. America also seems to ignore all the other countries contribution towards the war and the eventual victory of the Allies, not just the British. I apologise if i offended anyone by just stating that it was the British, whose contributions were left unrecognised.
I have no idea how this myth started, but it is the naive view of many Americans that we singlehandedly won the war. It was actually the Soviet Union who contributed the most if you want to go by the only metric that really makes much sense: The number of military personnel who died.
I have no idea how this myth started, but it is the naive view of many Americans that we singlehandedly won the war. It was actually the Soviet Union who contributed the most if you want to go by the only metric that really makes much sense: The number of military personnel who died.
Why is it in films such as Band of brother and Saving private Ryan, that the British are shown to be incompetent or even left out altogether? With the recent events regarding the queen, it seems that America is slowly changing what actually happened: Making it that the British did nothing, whilst America was the one who "Did everything". Why is this happening?
I don't think Band of Brothers criticized the British. The movie was supposed to be about just this one company. The one time in the series that they dealt with the British in Holland, I don't think there was anything negative about it.
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I didn't realize that Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan criticized the British...
Like the one about the breaking the Enigma code, for example.
