Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[FSTO]

LCdr John Stubbs and PO1 Max Bernays of HMCS Assiniboine fame .

Master tactician John Stubbs rammed German submarine with HMCS Assiniboine - Canada.ca

The destroyer’s bridge was “deluged with bullets”, but Stubbs “never took his eye off the U-boat and gave his orders as though he were talking to a friend at a garden party...” said G. N. Tucker, who witnessed the action.

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Ryan Gosling Ryan Reynolds could play Stubbs


Any ideas who would play Bernays?

Stubbs was a rising star in the RCN but was killed during night actions prior to D-Day when Athabaskan was either torpedoed or struck a mine.

There could have been a hell of a yarn told about these two and their ships but sadly our nation is incapable of getting stories to the big screen

 

[Underway]

Legend has it that if you stare at your TV and say "Paul Gross" three times he'll hand deliver a DVD copy of Passchendaele within the hour.

I didn't hate the movie. Good streaming weekend one.

 

[KevinB]

I didn't hate the movie. Good streaming weekend one.

I read that initially as Steaming...

 

[Cloud Cover]

A Leo Major movie is criminally overdue.

.. a CBC production where the main character and all those around him identify as everything that they actually were not.

 

[PrairieFella]

.. a CBC production where the main character and all those around him identify as everything that they actually were not.

The one war project I actually liked that they did was X Company. Overdramatic and underbudgeted, but still a fun spy series.

 

[FSTO]

I didn't hate the movie. Good streaming weekend one.

The opening scene was good. The rest? Not so much. IMO

 

[Cloud Cover]

I didn't hate the movie. Good streaming weekend one.

Nobody is going to make a movie that really depicts Canadian soldiering. It would have to be a foul smelling, vulgar language movie flick full of griping, masturbating, diarrhea, dirty jokes, sweat, boredom, broken kit, blisters, line ups, jack ups, return fire, jams, heavy stuff like that. Maybe a journo chic looking to write a book.

 

[Edward Campbell]

Johnny Stubbs was a hellluva sailor - much admired by his colleagues for his leadership and his seamanship. It's a pity that Canada has pushed aside heroes and leaders like Murray and Stubbs.

 

[JLB50]

I think we should look on Australia’s film productions as a role model for us. The Aussies did quite well domestically and internationally for promoting their war-time accomplishments although sometimes not always seeing the “bad guy” necessarily as the only bad guy. Gallipoli and Breaker Morant, for example, did a lot to show Australian soldiers’ resolve despite their treatment by their British colonial masters.

Imagine, if you will, a film production about Canada’s role in the defence of Hong Kong. It’s a tremendous story about mostly untrained soldiers being used as possible cannon fodder should Japan invade Hong Kong. The Brits knew the city was indefensible and so did Mackenzie King. Yet the Canadians who were sent there fought heroically despite being insufficiently trained, poorly armed and facing overwhelming odds. I think of them as our equivalent of the 300 Spartans. If done right, a production of it could gain huge international acclaim and large viewing audiences.

And then there’s Dieppe as well many other examples of what Canada and the world should see about what we have endured to become the country that we are. Just keep Hollywood out of it. They would try to Americanize it the same way they did The Great Escape. Hollywood is as much our foe in film productions as Donald Trump is on a political scale.

 

[MilEME09]

How about turning this into a movie?

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/canadian-paratroopers-soviet-advance.html

 

[FSTO]

In this climate any depiction of a battle from the War of 1812 would be celebrated here in Canada.

 

[shiska]

In this climate any depiction of a battle from the War of 1812 would be celebrated here in Canada.

I'd love a gritty Master and Commander style movie about the seven year's war that follows somebody through the North American campaign. Wolfe maybe?

 

[lenaitch]

I think we should look on Australia’s film productions as a role model for us. The Aussies did quite well domestically and internationally for promoting their war-time accomplishments although sometimes not always seeing the “bad guy” necessarily as the only bad guy. Gallipoli and Breaker Morant, for example, did a lot to show Australian soldiers’ resolve despite their treatment by their British colonial masters.

Imagine, if you will, a film production about Canada’s role in the defence of Hong Kong. It’s a tremendous story about mostly untrained soldiers being used as possible cannon fodder should Japan invade Hong Kong. The Brits knew the city was indefensible and so did Mackenzie King. Yet the Canadians who were sent there fought heroically despite being insufficiently trained, poorly armed and facing overwhelming odds. I think of them as our equivalent of the 300 Spartans. If done right, a production of it could gain huge international acclaim and large viewing audiences.

And then there’s Dieppe as well many other examples of what Canada and the world should see about what we have endured to become the country that we are. Just keep Hollywood out of it. They would try to Americanize it the same way they did The Great Escape. Hollywood is as much our foe in film productions as Donald Trump is on a political scale.

I don't know how internationally competitive the Australian movie industry is now. It seems they had a decent run for a while; maybe it has something to do with government support. Regarding Gallipoli, this from Wiki:

Gallipoli proved to be a domestic success, grossing A$11.7 million at the Australian box office. Although the film was widely acclaimed by critics internationally, its box-office success outside Australia was modest. It earned US$5.7 million in the United States, where it was distributed in arthouse cinemas. In France, the film only attracted 39,227 spectators.

The problem with avoiding or not appealing to the large US market is you are abandoning significant potential revenue. High-quality production costs money.

 

[PrairieFella]

A War of 1812 movie would be slick. Depicting Lundy's Lane and kicking those Yank bastards out or the Battle of Queenston Heights would probably go over well domestically haha.

 

[lenaitch]

In this climate any depiction of a battle from the War of 1812 would be celebrated here in Canada.

And would probably be decried as 'fake news' by this Administration.

I'd love a gritty Master and Commander style movie about the seven year's war that follows somebody through the North American campaign. Wolfe maybe?

Even that movie, the producers had to deviate from the book (actually, books - it was a bit of an amalgam) because in the book, the adversary ship was American.

 

[MacNav63]

Was reading George Blackburn's Where The Hell Are The Guns last winter and remember thinking that trilogy would make a great Band of Brothers type TV series about a Canadian soldier from training through to victory. I was also struck by the story of George Browne being captured at Dieppe and escaping not once but twice. That story would make a great movie.

 

[OldSolduer]

Please folks - Lets do Kapyong and

Hong Kong. You know where the government actually abdicated its responsibility?

 

[Maxman1]

Even that movie, the producers had to deviate from the book (actually, books - it was a bit of an amalgam) because in the book, the adversary ship was American.

Not exactly. They changed it because they felt Napoleon was the true villain of the series, whereas the Americans are only antagonists in any capacity in three books.

As well, in the book The Far Side of the World, the American frigate is the same size as the Surprise, and is discovered shipwrecked halfway through. The ship battle in the climax is taken from the midpoint of the first book, where Aubrey uses deception to defeat a larger Spanish frigate, while his orders to take a significantly larger ship are lifted from the first Hornblower novel.

 

[dapaterson]

You want adventure? How about a miniseries telling the story of aircrew training, working together, being shot down and escaping from Nazi occupied Denmark?

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[JLB50]

I’d love to see a TV series on Canadian heroes, both those in the military and those in the private sector. Much of the “glamour” of the U.S. comes from myths that were based on reality…e.g. Davey Crockett at the Alamo, George Custer, etc. Canada has done little to create heroes and those that were historical heroes have now largely been demoted in stature due to wokeism. Unlike America’s heroes, ours tend to be victims of our own self righteousnes.