The Resistance, 1941 style: the poster for Mister V

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/03/09/man-that-soliloquoy.html

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Not to mention the Pynchon novel.

So where does everyone weigh in on their favorite in the debate over V v. V v. V v. V?

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…then I went asking the interwebz, wondering why I knew “The Scarlet Pimpernel” without ever hearing about the film, the play, or the actor.

Well. I found out.

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I bet he has little Vs clipped in his fingernails.

What weird grammar!

Twice the dramatic punch of picture you’ll play this year!!

…what?

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He’s really signaling four times the dramatic punch now isn’t he?

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Another good one is Leslie Howard’s “The 49th Parallel” - shot almost entirely on location throughout Canada - where a German U-Boat gets stranded in the St. Lawrence river and the crew (with their total dick of a Captain) try to elude the authorities. What they didn’t count on was how good Canadians are at punching Nazi’s in the face.

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Substantially better.
Howard was a good actor, but not such a great director.

That must be why the fourth sequel got so much more critical acclaim than Mister I-IV.

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Niall MacGinnis is in this! Nice! I’ve never seen this.

With an assist from the Americans and their manifest destiny.

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More like bureaucrats and petty paperwork.

freakin’ customs manifest…

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