Homage To Catalonia The Movie
George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia is set to be made into a major motion picture. Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey are set to star in it.
I have little to no faith that the film will adhere to Orwell's revolutionary spirit. Variety already describes the film as "the real-life story of how he and his wife Eileen traveled to Barcelona to fight Stalinism." Which, of course, is completely untrue. While Orwell and his wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy were staunch anti-Stalinists, they went to Spain to fight Fascism and joined the POUM.
posted by shane at 11:03 PM
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Wow! Did you ever see Land and Freedom, Ken Loach's amazing movie about the Spanish civil war? Also to do with an Englishman who volunteered and fought with the POUM
Yes. Good movie. Sad.
The band Fucked Up sample the rousing speech from the beginning for their ode to the Spanish Republicans.
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