Premise of the scene is Churchill gives his security detail the slip and goes to take an underground train to get a feel for what the "common people" think about the war and whether he should entertain surrender offers.

So all of the English proles he meets are like chimney sweeps and housewives except for the obvious plant black guy in a suit and fedora who is a hideous dark sambo-looking motherfucker. So suspend our disbelief that this guy is even on the train and is going to shuffle over and offer his advice to Churchill, but it gets worse when a few minutes later Churchill is talking to a little (white) girl on the train and breaks into a poetic verse. This was actually something he was known to do, recite parts of "The Lays of Ancient Rome" by Macaulay which was a staple of his schoolboy days. It is the famous "And out spake brave Horatius, the captain of the gate..." line. So he starts saying that while everyone watched in an awed hush and then blackie breaks in and finishes the stanza for him and Churchill gets all teary-eyed. Fraud on so many levels.

Almost as bad as the opening part of Lincoln where the sassy black tramp soldiers interrupt Lincoln and start reciting poetry and the Gettysburg address to him while the "dumb" white soldiers look on in awe and stupidity.

Who actually buys this shit?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055225&forum_id=2#36645295)

what moron watches this movie and was like "damn that was a touching moment." is the moviegoing public this stupid?

at least the youtube commenters get it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055225&forum_id=2#36645372)

That look on your face, when you realize you have been lied to about the Holocaust.....

2 months ago

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055225&forum_id=2#36645381)

shamantrainer

So glad that interracial couple was on the train in order to inspire him to fight on for the London we see today. We really dodged a bullet. Could you imagine what London would look like in 2018 had Hitler won????

2 months ago

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055225&forum_id=2#36645391)

https://youtu.be/NRIgUTis_tI

jfc jews

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055225&forum_id=2#36645419)

"Fo dee ashes of hees fodders, and de temples of hees gods."

Fuck you, gc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055225&forum_id=2#36804052)

....there’s one showpiece sequence in it that you watch with your mouth agape. You know in your gut that it didn’t happen, yet it’s one of the most captivating scenes in the movie. At it unfolds, your mind says “No, no, no” but your heart says “Yes, yes, yes.”

Churchill, stymied by a Parliament that has balked at his refusal to sign a deal with Hitler, decides to pay a visit to the people who matter — that is, the working people of England. But where will he find them? He’s a man who lunches with the king (and treats him like an underling) and is driven to work in a Rolls Royce. He has never, in his entire life, taken a London Underground train. So where will he go?

He goes into the Underground, getting directions from a girl standing by the train map, and winds up in a subway car being gawked at by everyone there. He decides to talk to them — all of them. But, for once, Churchill hasn’t shown up to make a speech; he’s there to listen. He introduces himself to the citizens, communing deeply with each one of their names, and asks them whether Britain should stand tall against tyranny. The answer comes roaring back, from citizen after shining-eyed citizen: Yes! Stand against tyranny! The scene culminates with Churchill offering words of Macaulay that are completed, in a flawless quotation, by a vibrant black Londoner. It’s all so rosy and multiculti and inspiring that you feel like you’re seeing a remake of “My Beautiful Laundrette” directed by the ghost of David Lean.

Of course, that’s what’s utterly fabricated and even eye-rolling about it. It’s a scene that’s — transparently — too good to be true. Yet it plays as Oldman’s Oscar-clinching moment: the clip that was made to be shown, in triumph, on the telecast. It’s the best scene in the movie, or the worst. Or maybe both. But what it does is to out “Darkest Hour” as an Old Hollywood movie in 21st-century clothing. Churchill, in the end, did stand up to Hitler, but in the case of a scene like this one resistance is futile.

https://variety.com/2017/film/columns/darkest-hour-underground-scene-gary-oldman-1202622763

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055225&forum_id=2#38050893)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055225&forum_id=2#42832439)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055225&forum_id=2#42832569)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055225&forum_id=2#42832617)