Having escaped twice before, he takes the lead and immediately begins working with other imprisoned British and American pilots, (made up of an all-star cast including James Garner, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and more), to construct three tunnels that will help 250 men escape.Įventually USAAF Captain Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) gets involved as well, despite his seeming indifference and habit of getting locked up in the cooler. “Big X” aka RAF Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett (Richard Attenborough) is introduced. Of course this does nothing to sour the determination of the captured men. It is designed specifically to prevent escape attempts. Sick of spending time and money on recapturing Allied POWs, the Nazis move the most troublesome to a new camp, Stalag Luft III. I will also be discussing the debate over whether historical accuracy in films is even that big of a deal.īased off of Paul Brickhill’s 1950 novel with the same name, The Great Escape (1963) is a fictionalized account of a real escape from a Nazi prisoner of war camp during World War II. If you haven’t seen The Great Escape, stop reading this article and go watch it right now. However I will be separating fact from fiction and therefore there will be spoilers. I love this movie and won’t be bashing it in this post. …I remembered another Hollywood action film that cut out the significant role that Canadians played in the historical event. When they posted this tweet…Īrgo: The Real Story #MakeAMovieMoreCanadian My personal favorite came from the twitter for This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
A lot of the tweets were along the lines of The Eh Team, The Great Gretzky, and Pacific Roll Up the Rim. I’ll show myself out after starting off a blog post with a title like that.īut #MakeAFilmMoreCanadian was trending not too long ago on Twitter.
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