Hope & Glory (1987)

[AmateisGal]

I honestly don't know why I waited so long to watch this movie, but I finally did, and I simply loved it. Lots of great stuff here. I especially loved how the little boys dealt with the war in their own way - playing war, yet being destructive just like the adults were when they'd go and destroy bombed buildings.

Anyone else a fan of this film?

 

[Worf]

"God Bless you Adolph!!!"

It was a good if not great film. I leaned words like "googly" and how much fun rummaging around bombed out buildings can be. No actually I loved the flick.

Worf

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

One of my favorite films

 

[AmateisGal]

I love that scene at the school - "It was a stray bomb! Thank you, Adolph." Classic line.

And the grandfather is a hoot.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I haven't seen it since shortly after its release, but I recall thinking it was a great flick. And it's largely autobiographical - director John Boorman was a kid during the war.

Another excellent European-director-recalls-his-boyhood-during-the-war-torn-30s/40s flick is Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini.

 

[AmateisGal]

I haven't watched that one, Doctor Strange, but will check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[Warden]

If you love the 1940s period Hope and Glory should be in everyones DVD collection

 

[Capesofwrath]

Kids running wild in bomb sites in the war was a well documented social problem. They used to loot houses and cause a lot of damage too, and with schools often closed and children having been evacuated to the countryside early in the war and being lost to the system, no one really knew how to deal with it.

Particularly the older ones who were still too young to be conscripted and were running wild. Crime rates were high, and the roots of post war social problems with youth crime began then.

There is a very good Graham Green short story about it called The Destructors, where feral youths on a bomb site pull down an old man's house around him.

 

[AmateisGal]

Kids running wild in bomb sites in the war was a well documented social problem. They used to loot houses and cause a lot of damage too, and with schools often closed and children having been evacuated to the countryside early in the war and being lost to the system, no one really knew how to deal with it.

Particularly the older ones who were still too young to be conscripted and were running wild. Crime rates were high, and the roots of post war social problems with youth crime began then.

There is a very good Graham Green short story about it called The Destructors, where feral youths on a bomb site pull down an old man's house around him.

That is a fascinating correlation. Had no idea, though I can certainly see how it would have led to post-war problems.