Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill Takes the Tube
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2022
- As traffic starts to build up due to downpouring rain, Churchill (Gary Oldman) decides to jump ship and head to The Underground (aka The Tube), a commonplace for everyday London folk commuting in and out of the city.
FILM SYNOPSIS:
Academy Award® winner Gary Oldman gives a "towering performance" (Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair) in acclaimed director Joe Wright's soaring drama Darkest Hour. As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill (Oldman) is elected the new Prime Minister. With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) skeptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen. Also starring Academy Award® nominee Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James, Darkest Hour is a powerful, inspirational drama.
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The most unrealistic thing about this scene is how long it took to go 1 stop on the District line
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not really in the UK
@@Jiskpirate nah, not a thing
or how they could hear each other, never that quiet
I love how we are all showing our “Britishness” by commenting on the facility’s and practicality of the London Underground.
Hehe
@@energo9430 They were among the working class, less so among the middle and upper classes.
The fact that Gary Oldman played Churchill so well and plays Harry S Truman in the upcoming Oppenheimer says volumes about his talent as an actor.
He only needs to play Stalin next and then he'd be playing the leaders of Allies.
@@thecrow618 Gotta be the most pathetic comment I've ever seen, if you're seriously this butthurt about dead guys from over 80 years ago then your parents clearly need to get your middle school priorities straight because there's no way you're a functioning adult.
Thank god he got to play proper roles when he got older and not cartoon villan bad guys like the old days.
Although his portrayal of Truman as a DICK was unfortunate, and not really fair. Truman cut people slack… look at how long he let MacArthur fulminate and bafflegab in Korea before firing him.
He sounded same in both movies.
This is a wonderful scene that absolutely never happened. Winston Churchill never rode on public transportation in his entire life. With few exceptions as a child and a very young man, he never dressed himself. On a trip to the continent, he once bragged that he was roughing it with only 17 pieces of luggage (a gentleman carried no less than 27 pieces of luggage). He had been known to drink in excess of three fifths of alcohol in a single day. He was also the savior of the Western World.
I'm stunned at this farce of a scene. Shmollywood should be ashamed of themselves.
@@CooManTunes I know, the fact that he appears sober is the most inaccurate part.
@@CooManTunes I am grateful for the inaccuracy of the scene. As an American, we sometimes need to be shown what mettle, courage and tenacity are are all about. How would you have done it?
with a little little very little help of the US, no?
@@robertoamenabar9970 the war would’ve been over long before America got involved had Britain not bravely stood alone. They had no assurances that America was going to come help and they knew that fighting by themselves was likely a death sentence, yet they still chose to do the right thing.
What a great and powerful scene. He asks the people what they want and when Churchill hears they reply of the young girl; the future of the nation is incredibly moved. Fine acting by Oldham.
This ENGLISHman is as evil as Hitler. Hitler did bad to Europe but that man and his associates did the same, tortured, murdered raped billions of people in Asia and Africa.!!! SHAME !!!!!!
Oldman.
To think this won Gary Oldman his FIRST Oscar... So well deserved
Should have won one for carrying off Dracula.
ZORG..
Proves that the Oscars don't mean shit
@@olsonbryce777 damn right.
Fantastic actor. He should've won a few times already.
As a Propman in the film industry, I would just like to commend the amazing props in this movie. From the match box, to the telegrams, medicine bottles and period correct typewriters. Some of my most favourite scenes are the quick cut montages of the breakfasts being prepared. Brilliant.
Cool story bruh
And the papers. Props in movies like this are always interesting.
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves.
After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War.
But there are people who deny all this and even slander Poland and blame Poland for this war!
By the way, @stormywindmill spreads below in his comment the lie that Poland was the aggressor in 1938 because Poland allegedly robbed Czechoslovakian territory. I have refuted this lie with this comment. Quote: ....Poland legally reunited these territories with Poland. When Czechoslovakia abandoned their sovereignty to the Germans the Polish government approached the Czechoslovaks with a strong request for them to abandon the territory. The Czechoslovaks readily agreed. The transfer was formal and done in a diplomatically correct manner. The majority Polish population showed their wild enthusiasm. The fact is that the Poles protected the most polish inhabitants of this small area from the Germans. The area was mostly populated by Poles. (200,000 Poles, 10,000 Czechoslovaks). These were several tiny areas with a total size of 906 km². By the way, the Germans occupied about 120,000 km² of Czechoslovakia..
The Czech people were not particularly angry with the Poles afterwards, because a lot of Czechs fought for Poland in 1939 against the Germans For example many Czechoslovak airmen fled to Poland. František was one of a them. Sergeant Josef František was a Czechoslovak fighter pilot and Second World War fighter ace who flew for the Polish air forces. Poland awarded František decoration of Virtuti Militari 5th class. He also flew for the Polish air forces in the Battle of Britain and not for the Czechoslovak air forces which was also involved in the fighting against the Germans. Poles and Czechs fought together with the allies against the Germans!
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Nice polish centered propaganda. Mr Joseph Göbbels would have been proud of you !
In your statement, you hold every nation responsible for the cruel fate of the polish nation. That is a brutal misrepresentation of historical facts. The nation that is responsible the most for Polands cruel fate is: Poland itself !
In 1939, there was a critical conference. Poland told other nations like England, France, etc. that they are anticipating a german attack. The major topic of this conference was how to save Poland. Several options were discussed. All partys except Poland agreed on this plan: The only way to get troops to Poland fast enough and in numbers is to ask Russia to station troops in Poland. So whenever Poland is attacked, its an attack on Russia, too. The government of Poland rejected this plan with these words (corresponding, not literally):
We rather prefer to die as to be defended by Russia.
So Poland got what they wanted and now they buzz off from their responsibility ! For a civilized nation doing this, there is only one appropriate term : Disgusting !
It's truly incredible. I love attention to detail
I doubt we will ever see his like again! Courage, fortitude and a mastery of the English language. As an oftentimes criticized and neglected little boy he developed strength of character. When he screwed the pooch on Gallipoli first thing he does is volunteer for the trenches in 1915!
What a brilliant man. Some people are born for a specific moment in history. We are blessed to have had such a man at such a crucial time in history.
we all must shudder to think,......the alternative?
This ENGLISHman is as evil as Hitler. Hitler did bad to Europe but that man and his associates did the same, tortured, murdered raped billions of people in Asia and Africa.!!! SHAME !!!!!!
we will have our own in those difficult times
@@guilhermeotelles AND THOSE PEOPLE MADE THE LIFE TOO DIFFICULT FOR ALL OTHER COUNTRIES FOR CENTURIES WHO THEY TORTURED AND MADE THEM SUFFER! DIFFICULT TIMES HUH!!!
yes
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this scene, but when the child says never and Churchill goes and speaks to her… gets me every time. True victory comes from the next generation being able to pick up the sword and carry on the fight.
@@peterswire331 Ukraine was nipping at Russia ankles since 2014. Shouldn't be surprised they got a bloody nose
@@tonyc9460 of course it had nothing to do with the Crimea being annexed illegally by the Russians, no sir ...
Gets me too. T_T
@@peterswire331 oh please 😂
Well they’re ready - to pick up their phones and text and tiktok through the fight knowing nothing of the outcome
Gary Oldman knocked this role out of the freaking park!
Short and well said PCB!
Like every one before this...
One of the best actors ever. Watch him in true romance. I did not even know it was him and I knew he was in the film. Incredible performance 👌👌👌👌
Lies again? Knock Door
@@guyincognito8440 not really
My eyes fill with tears to see the respect with which people treated each other.
its not real
It's NOT a documentary - and certainly wouldn't have happened back than.
it's all bullshit if you believe this scene! No blacks were around!
As a german. The more I learn about Winston Churchill, the more I like and respect this man.
same here. He was not perfect but so admirable.
His work as a historian and the author of many books is also underrated. He was a significant scholar.
The Genius of Gary Oldmans portrayal of Churchill is that it shows how his heart breaks to send his country back to war, but it was so necessary against such evil! 🇬🇧
im a 45 year old american but this seem and this movie touch my heart strings...odds were stacked and the poeple never gave up and churchill was such a brilliant man.
@@jameswilson6736 And promptly showed him the door as soon as the war was over. Hell of a way to pay the man back.
Notice he slurs the name to "mister shhitler."
Lmao, Churchill was a mass murdering scumbag himself like Hitler. Evil is just a matter of perspective
@@cougarhunter33 Well he lost to the Government that gave us the NHS plus other great social reforms and its also worth remembering that during the war it was a coalition Government so Attlee and Labour would have also been greatly recognised by the public for their efforts too. Churchill was the man for the war, but as his later re-election showed not necessarily the man for peace or rebuilding.
Some have commented this never happened in real life. However, Churchill was known to 'go missing' and chat with people in the street. I am sure this did not happen, but similar encounters did. We need leaders like him now.
That makes sense. In a film or play, you have to compress things that happened over several incidents into one, or it would be unwatchable.
Crazy? No, he was the only allied leader to have seen and taken part in front line action. He knew what to expect and with his hunger for life wanted to be there with the troops.
Churchill was a cowardly rat and he's receiving his just desserts in hell where he belongs
@karmasDiamond and then there are cowards like you
Young WC escaped a prison camp during the Boar War and fled a huge manhunt on foot and by train. Movie called 'Young Winston' shows the plucky ways he escaped.
Thumbs up if at any point you thought you were watching Winston Churchill, and forgot you were watching an actor.
Oldman is brilliant.
We Americans couldn’t have even joined the fight, if the Brits hadn’t held the line first…
Ahh, finally an American who doesn't take all the credit for his country winning the war by themselves. You have my respect.
I don't think I've ever been moved so much by a film as I was by The Darkest Hour.
When the world needed a hero, an immovable barrier between itself and evil, Churchill stepped forth.
Especially when the remnants of Neville Chamberlain's cabinet in Parliament were contemplating another appeasement to A Hitler. Never! Not as long as Winston Churchil lives.
Wonderfully said.
This ENGLISHman is as evil as Hitler. Hitler did bad to Europe but that man and his associates did the same, tortured, murdered raped billions of people in Asia and Africa.!!! SHAME !!!!!!
@@protapsen1910 Hi Protap. I do understand that Britain did damage in the Far East. I seriously doubt your using the number "billions" is accurate. Please provide evidence that will support your comment. If unwilling or unable to provide that proof...at least have the necessary integrity to delete your comment. I'll wait.
" immovable barrier between itself and evil": "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes." - Churchill's 1919 War Office Memorandum ;)
“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome
Thank you for this... I heard "Horatius", mistook it for "Horatio", and assumed he was quoting Hamlet.
In secondary school at Harrow, Churchill had committed to memory and recited 1,200 lines from Thomas Babbington Macaulay’s poem, “Lays of Ancient Rome.”
bollox
I had already looked it up but thank you for this. 👍
Why can't we have Prime Ministers like him now?
Because he'd institute mass deportations of violent 3rd world immigrants and the softies couldn't handle that.
too many self serving career politicians these days
Because now days leaders are not ready to kill millions by starving them like this guy did in India
Honestly, Gary Oldman is the best actor alive in my opinion. He's especially good at playing wildly different roles. I've seen him in Oppenheimer and didn't recognize him AT ALL. His voice was different, his appearance. Everything.
I love this scene. Yes, it took too long for the train to go one stop, but it is such a powerful scene. It gets me choked up every time. I do not know if it really happened, but it makes for great theater.
It never happened, I think I read somewheree that he never took the tube in his life
@@22espec I think he used it once, during the General Strike.
I love this scene also. It is true in its essence. The grit and determination of the British people undirgirded the courage and leadership of this great man, the greatest politcal leader and savior of democracy in the 20th century.
Well, very few if any person's life is fully written down. He might've actually taken the underground and this scene actually DID happen, maybe not exactly as in the film, but very closely, maybe, but we'll probably never know. Unless we manage to invent some form of time travel that let's us simply observe history exactly as it happened without changing the past, just be able to watch any moment, any person, at any time, and record it and add to our history books - or rather, make truly accurate history books.
But I doubt we'll ever get that kind of tech.
@Joe As far as WE KNOW! But we do not know EVERYTHING about his life or what he did during WW2. No-one knows everything about everyone from any part of history. NO, the internet doesn't count.
I really don't care that this scene is total fiction. It still rings true in my mind. As an Australian I feel a powerful connection with this time in history. There was an Australian pilot called Les Clisby who flew a Hurricane in the battle for France, who shot down at least sixteen German planes before being killed himself, in the space of a few short weeks. He personified the spirit shown in this scene. Australians who value their history will always feel that connection.
This scene is real. Churchill really did take the tube and question the citizens about their opinion on policy. Not on this one, but several others. You've been gaslit to think otherwise.
@@thuglifebear5256 no, he didn't. Its quite easily fact checked. Still a great scene though
@@jackkavanagh2487 these days, never trust a fact checker.
Australia was the first western country to defeat Japan on land during world war 2 at Milne Bay. Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi!
Exhibit A.
0:58 me in the taxi before payment
This is the part of the film that I feel most awkward, as I don’t believe Churchill, so proud of his high class heritage, would deign to ride the tube with the plebs to hear their voices.
They encapsulate, in a single movie scene, everything it takes to be a leader. I cannot watch this scene without breaking into tears.
If only the imperialist West could stop glorifying racist, genocidal war criminals like Churchill and stop trying to paint the British Empire as anything but absolute evil not in any way better than Nazi Germany... that would be nice. Churchill was pure evil. The British Empire has always been pure evil. The Five Eyes today are pure evil. Churchill murdered more innocents than Hitler. The British owe the world, particularly India, hundreds of trillions of pounds. India alone should receive 40+ trillion pounds in reparations for the crimes and theft committed against its people and country.
Me, too...!
@@lynth India was there for the taking, like a sheep in the wild, its the history of our kind, don't let yourself believe the circumstances would be any different if the shoes were worn in reverse
Nonsense. In 1914 Britian was a power of immense scale and wealth. since 1945 it has been an impoverished dry husk bereft of other than a dreadful reality, seen everywhere there. Bad fantastical leadership kills countries. Johnson now. Putin now. The Jokes of Trump and Biden in America. Halifax was correct. SO was the argument in cabinet in 1914 not to enter that war. Had the British army not been in the Marne valley, Germany would have been in Paris in weeks. Ten the century would have bees spared communism, Hitler, The slaughters without end, socialism, a ruined Europe now a strategic target for proxy wars. 39-45 was a Russo German war, as was the 14-18 war. France simply a problem to avoid the two frontal dilemma. Britian was mad to engage with it. Just as it is mad through delusions of strength now to continue the impoverishing horror of Brexit. War victory propaganda overlays lies in the minds of confused populations.
well you are a fool, this bloke was a buffoon and a war criminal of the highest order. Yu like so many bought the lies from Churchill's lie factory and Hollywood...
I was just a child when Winston Churchill passed away. All I knew, for all the outpouring of respect and grief here in the U.S., was that he was the great leader of England during the War. Decades later, as I have come to study and understand history, my admiration and respect for his defiant and optimistic leadership has only grown with time. He was EXACTLY what England needed at the right moment. RIP.
Britain,not just England...Scotland,Wales,Northern Ireland..
And now Zelensky takes up the mantle as the free worlds most inspirational leader fighting impossible odds, and winning
@@markfrombriz Different century, same problem.
@@markfrombriz gross
@@andylanigan3752 The people of Northern Ireland hated him, the was a Judas Bastard to the people of Northern Ireland.
This is how leaders of free countries should interact with every day people
Gary Oldman is such of a good actor I expect to be walking down the street someday and hear someone shout cut, only to find out I was played by Gary Oldman all along.
The little girl would have been fully aware of the war around her, as school kids we all sat around the radio with the family listening to the news and never missed a Churchill speech.
There was no TV then but we had a coloured radio :-)
Coloured?
@NMA 55 NIDHIN JOBI I survived the war thanks to Sir Winston Churchill, respect is perhaps the one thing you will never earn, just keep taking your meds.
@@adrianwright8685 To match the Black and white TV?
@@adrianwright8685 Most radio model at that time were wood encased.
@@danyleon4870 painted in different colours? !
It's the people that makes a nation great. This scene shows that great politicians should understand this and draw strength and inspiration from the people.
Leaders , not politicians
And Ukraine is giving the world a refresher course.
@@drakesucks and they see us sit next to them and don't come to help. also a refresher course
England in the 21st century are lab rats that only still exist so Westminster and the elite gain more power and the avg person dies under a bridge.
@@TheScottishBOLSHEVIK there we go that's the comment i was looking for
Churchill had a great sense of humor 😂
And he was brutal dictator
@@a.b7797chengiz Khan, pol pot , aurangzeb , Omar al Bashir were
German people do respect him today
@@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kvok ? Lmao do you think that excludes him from being a dictator? You’re just naming the worst ones
@@Cartoonnetworkisamazing dictator to Germany
But respected after death
However Tony Blair ruined what he protected
@@Cartoonnetworkisamazing Britain has Alexander Fleming, Alan turing, Joseph lister, Ronald Ross, William Bentinck, saved millions
The emotional impact of this scene actually made my heart melt. We came so close to the end of Western civilization and it was redeemed my the will of a complex and imperfect man with the kind of courage we have no longer seen in this century
We are facing another end of a Western civilization through rampant migration.
I remember, I was 5 years old and sitting in front of my grandfathers old Stromberg Carlson Radio listening to Walter Winchell giving the news on the war. I remember hearing the two big names, Churchill and Roosevelt, Eisenhower leading the troops in Europe, my father working late nights at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in the war effort, Boy Scouts collecting tin cans and paper, gasoline and food rationing, my mother an Air Raid Warden, some nights the air raid sirens would sound and everyone would cut off their lights, my mom would make the rounds around the neighborhood making sure all lights were out, everyone working together as one, everyone a patriot, everyone having a loved one overseas, fighting for a cause. Wish we were together like today. We were a truly united nation then.
Fred, it might be hard to see right now, but when push comes to shove we're still united.
This is Ukraine today.
A united Kingdom you mean, clue's in the name.
Jokes aside, I like to think of this nation of ours like a family. All of us siblings. We bicker and squabble over nothing. No more bitter fighting than that between ourselves. But, should any one of us come under threat from outside, the poor bastard will have the rest of our siblings to deal with.
Don't look now but your wish might've just been granted.
@@christinab9202 that country is beyond saving
If you wanted a real version of something like this, it was Peter the Great of Russia. In order to improve Russia's ability to build warships, Peter disguised himself as an apprentice shipweight and worked for years in a number of European shipyards, which is especially amazing given that Peter was 6'9" tall. And like all other shipwrights, he would party after work, in one case, getting so howling drunk that he had to be taken back home in a wheelbarrow! lol
Oh... and you were there that night with him, right? And you have a video from that incident, you surely do.
Because otherwise how could we believe that 350 years ago something really happen, especially when it involves russian and big figure surrounded in mist of fairytales and propaganda?
@@Malisman77 Dude, I suggest you read one of his biographies. Assuming you can take some time off from your flat Earth research. lol
@@PointyTailofSatan Dude, I would not trust anything coming from ruSSia. All they do is tap their chest and say how glorious things were/are/will be, while in reality things are grim or straight-out shitty. Personality cults, either Peter, Katherine, Lenin, Stalin, or now Putin are strong there. So is their fascist tendencies.
All things considered, never trust ruSSian propaganda. And most of things coming from ruSSia is propaganda. Hats off to some exceptions like Tchaikovsky.
BTW, while Earth is not perfectly round, it is definitely not flat. I do not need to do any research, in our country, this is taught line elementary school :)
Normally I would say that the propaganda about monarch rulers hyper inflates their importance and contributions to society other than draining the populace of taxes and lives, but Peter the Great really was great.
Russia is the strongest when it actively interacts with Europe and takes fresh political and scientific ideas back home. We got Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and Alexander II.
I can’t help but also get emotional when Winston does, it is a rare thing these days to see so many people be ready to sacrifice for their country and their beliefs without a single hesitation.
A stunning masterclass in dialogue writing, an equally impressive example of direction and blocking of a scene in a confined space. This film is superb on so many levels.
"Madam, all babies look like me"
Priceless.
I still have to remind myself that Gary Oldman is playing Sir Winston Churchill
THATS how good his acting was
On a realistic note however this never happened in real life. Churchill wouldn't be mad enough to risk his safety by going alone on a train with a group of people he didn't know
"Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for". Well said.
May God bless the Prime Minister Winston Churchill and all the UK!!!!!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Winston Churchill was simply a force of nature, and an utterly fascinating man.
And under his rule millions of Indians starved to death similar to the starvation deaths of the Irish so long ago under this same British rule
The British basically enriched themselves by looting their colonies
Churchill was a Racist thru and thru
The perfect opposite of Hitler at the time! Thank god he found himself to be that man at that time. Thank god for human kind
@@josephgadoury1057 He let millions of Indians starve to death - did nothing to help - a hard-care Racist - but then the western media has hid that part of his personality pretty well
Not exactly. He was only good for the war he was useless after that and he was a racist to
@@sexydudeuk2172 Some of these people don't care about Racism - they are racist as well - what happens to dark-skinned people is none of their concern
The right man at the right time, in the right place. As a 60-year-old German, I can only say one thing: thank you for standing up.
When barbarism swept the world, coming from our country, England was rock solid!
The Nazis should have known that England would not capitulate to these criminals.
As Churchill rightly said: "Never Surrender"
🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🎷🎻
Your country was mercilessly bombed by this man killing millions of your countryman. The man was an alcoholic tyrant.
He wasn't blue collar but he also was a war veteran , a good mix in between an average vs an rich man, men and women like him are the reason that England isnt a part of the absolutely pathetic state of the Euro right now
@@ak4344 That's rich ! Knowing Scots, Northen Irish and Welsh probably gonna left you like an old sock after Queen's Death ! Your economy is a mess since the Brexit and with the Thatcher wannabe you have for a prime minister, soon your island gonna be paralysed by strike... congrats my Britton Rosbeef fella, your about to know hell ! :)
I can only hope a man like that stands up - somewhere, anywhere - when my own country devolves into barbarism. Because it certainly seems to be heading that direction now.
The answers are always found in poetry.
Yes, they are.
The casual "we've lost the prime minister" always gets me
There is no proof that he actually rode the Underground...but this was his style to get the pulse of the people. The scene wonderfully shows the mettle of the common Brit. NEVER! NEVER GIVE UP!
Well said Dave. A wise leader certainly does take the pulse of the people, not just to be popular, because the people are not always right, but Churchill needed to know the people (rather than the pragmatic and detached politicians) were ready and willing to fight against overwhelming odds. My uncle did (at 15) and was killed in WWII at the age of 15. Thank God for the patriots who saved us from the Nazis.
Well said Dave. A wise leader certainly does take the pulse of the people, not just to be popular, because the people are not always right, but Churchill needed to know the people (rather than the pragmatic and detached politicians) were ready and willing to fight against overwhelming odds. My uncle did (at 15) and was killed in WWII at the age of 15. Thank God for the patriots who saved us from the Nazis.
@@Robert_Lindsay The Greatest Generation, indeed.
I agree...its too inspiring a story, its churlish to question is veracity!
You already have given your Island up to the new conquerors.
A few years ago I was chatting to an old boy who lived in my village; his first job was working for a hatter in London and he made a few trips delivering hats to 10 Downing Street. He said that each time he made a delivery either the doorman or Clementine would come out and tell him to wait. Everytime Winston Churchill would then come out and talk to him. With hindsight, the chats were clearly to get an understanding of the current general feeling of ordinary working class people.
He said Churchill would also look over his horse and give it a lump of sugar too.
Someday, a memory like this one of yours will be equal to someone saying they talked to someone that met Napoleon or Washington. That's incredible
What marvellous memories ! I found myself imagining sitting next to Fatty Johnson on the Jubilee Line. Oh, the horror....
This man, more than any other single man, saved the world in the 1940's
Indeed but politicians feeling sorry for wrong people, ruin that by allowing wrong people in the same countries
He caused the death of millions and a world war - over a conflict between Germany and Poland over the city of Danzig. Not really something to celebrate...
The man of the Century. Period.
Yes indeed Jeffrey. It is not apparent enough to many.
The scene might not be real but him doing this certainly fits his character.
He did talk to random Londoners during his many wanders
Him being pleased about and patting the hand of a black man speaking up to finish his sentence was certainly NOT Churchill. He was considered too racist even for Tories of his day, his policies prior to the war starved 35 million Indians to deaths and prior to Hitler invading Czechoslovakia and Poland was quite a fan of him and his British counterpart Oswald Mosely.
I have no trouble with artistic license but when people allow that to overwrite actual bloody reality then I have a problem. Make no mistake, Churchill fighting Hitler was simply using one form of evil to combat another. As was necessary for the time.
@@Nine-Signs True, why show fictional events. Real events are more than enough. Churchill didn't care about ordinary folk. He was ready to vote for eugenics policies before WW1.
@@Nine-Signs Maybe you should be praising Churchill for standing against fascism? Instead of denigrating him and be grateful that you are free to speak your mind, because of people like him. Assuming you would be alive at all, if the Nazis had been victorious in WWII.
@@Nine-Signs I don't know anything about the Indian bit, but Churchill certainly was never a fan of Hitler. As early as '36, he was warning them about the danger posed by Hitler. It's part of what got him in the political doghouse for so long.
Can’t say enough about Gary Oldman his range of characters and the intensity of his performances now that Daniel Day Lewis is retired Gary is the best in the game
I love this movie. What a brave leader for those times.
This ENGLISHman named C is as evil as Hitler. Hitler did bad to Europe but that man and his associates did the same, tortured, murdered raped billions of people in Asia and Africa.!!! SHAME !!!!!!
This is so beautifully written, filmed and acted. Perfect.
Yes but they should have taken the deal. Britain would be much better today. The Royal family is German and Hitler considered the English cousins. England is named after the German tribe that settled it. There were blacks living in Nazi Germany too.
This is the first time I've seen this scene since I saw it in the theater. It was a very memorable scene then but it's even better the second time.
Outstanding in so many ways. May all free and peace loving countries keep that spirit alive and never lose it. Once it's gone, it's almost impossible to find it again and there's no more new worlds here to discover and start anew.
BUT, Fiction! - WE all owe the drunk old Bar Steward a LOT for being the right man in the right place at the right time. We don't need fictional scenes. I detest it in films, there are people who believe that what they see on screen is what happened, ie Braveheart! plus many many others.
It is a dreadful scene that has stopped the movie from being a truly great movie. Without that the movie is fantastic with the scene it takes away the shine of the movie.
@@bighands69 troll
@@jhurd4 Serf.
Well said James
It is so fascinating to think about these Great Men. Lincoln, Sir Winston, Titans in history, but also flawed and very human. Yet, despite all pressure to the opposite and their own demons, they are able to see the Right and lock on to it like a Laser until the final victory! Sir Winston is one of my personal Icons, one of the people in history I would most like to sit down and have a Cognac with! "He mobilized the English Language and sent It into Battle!"
And is responsible for the deaths of millions in Bengal. He is to Indians what Hitler is to Jews.
This ENGLISHman named C, is as evil as Hitler. Hitler did bad to Europe but that man and his associates did the same, tortured, murdered raped billions of people in Asia and Africa.!!! SHAME !!!!!!
@@protapsen1910 Get some help! You are obviously unwell!
The man who galvanized the world in WW2 and made sure we didn't lose our way of life! RIP 🙏 great sir 🇮🇳
Do you have any idea what he did in Bengal
@@kenkaneki4925 what he had to
@@teo2157 bad take
WW2 ? What a joke 😂 it was Europe's war not world war.
@@badlav120 are you discounting the african theatres, the middle east, the asian theatre, and the oceania wars?
When Mr Oliver Wilson shakes that match box, you know it's going to be a ride like no other ever taken on the underground.
Message from this: if smoking had already been banned on the underground this informal public poll might never have been taken and Churchill might have favoured the peace deal with Hitler.
a boost of positive emotion through these difficult times.
A history brief, how many people know that winston churchill instigated bengal famine of 1943 killing 3 million indians, more than entire ukraine conflict, by diverting indias supplies to war needed britain, writing in a corner of his notes.."WHEN WILL GANDHI DIE".
Just google it or watch shashi tharoors speech,....yeah now enjoy the video one more time on how these people feed lies to generations
And a mixed race couple to boot! In 1943 no less
@@09binani whatever
@@09binani So because the famine killed more than the Ukraine conflict (as though the conflict is the biggest in history or something) that alone makes him terrible? I'm not pleased with the 3M-dead in the famine, but show me a leader in such a position - and at such a TIME - that had absolutely no weight on their shoulders? And good old Gandhi is perhaps an example of another person we shouldn't think very highly of, the guy slept with his own relatives to "test" himself. He did plenty of terrible things too. Amazing to discover that famous people who have even MORE responsibility than you or me, in tough times, aren't angels.
@@SStupendous sleeping with ones relative is equivalent ...
Gandhi publicly admitted that
He denounced himself, punishing himself to extreme lengths, stayed in worst hit areas of communal hatred sown by britishers abandoning all the comforts, that is equivalent to boarding a f train, so europe justifies slow looting as if its the cost asia and africa bargained for what railways and later sanction india when india indigenous ly develop its nuclear arsenal, what they dint trust india as they felt indians are too dumb or were afraid that if indians went on to demand justice...lets forget for onceand agree that every powerful bullies weak then at least dont idolize ur leaders as if they were f angels, god if he is there gives u 1/10 of what u unleashed...i hope u shouldnt have a problem
I don't know how many times I watched these but it shows the respect to a leader of great caliber.
That man is the only non-royal englishman to get a royal funeral authorized by Queen Elizabeth. Incredibly well deserved.
This is a master class on how to ask a question in such a manner that you get the answer you were looking for anyway.
In reality however this scene never happened in real life
@@sexydudeuk2172 I think he meant about movie making and not real life accuracies. Everyome knows hollywood makes things up
The girl at the map did such a good job the recognition in her eyes. no need for the "are you winston churchill?"
Genius could slow the time. Great Man W. S. CHURCHILL. 🌍🌹🕊🍀
This scene makes me cry, the people and the whole country in the direct cruelty of war. The death toll unimaginable. We are blessed
I'm from Arkansas but watching that filled me with British patriotism.
Mug!
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YOU are the Mug.
You sad person.
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 unstoppable united
It didnt happen in real life though
@@sexydudeuk2172 You mean it was manufactured BS? I just can't believe Hollywood would play around with history like that.
Given what is going on these day's, We need this scene.
“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods”
Thomas Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome
If your not willing to die for something, then your living for nothing. . . .
This movie got Gary Oldman his very first Oscar, all I can say, not before time, extremely amazing actor
If Churchill rode the underground today, he'd probably get mugged or shamed for being evil.
If he rode the underground today he'd be arrested for smoking. Goodness. They'd probably throw him on the tracks.
@@mikeincalifornia Not if he was smoking dope.
Tears in my eyes...everytime I rewatch this clip... briliant performance...
Yew: Oh my God - the scene was rubbish. He would never have gone on a tube train, and had he done so he would only have seen white people.
Unrealistic however as this never happened in real life
This ENGLISHman is as evil as Hitler. Hitler did bad to Europe but that man and his associates did the same, tortured, murdered raped billions of people in Asia and Africa.!!! SHAME !!!!!!
Winston was the greatest and most important Politician of the whole 20. century.
greatest maybe but most important no probable Hitler or Stalin
This scene might never have happen, But, It show how close he was with the British people during the war. You see him during the war talking to the people during the bombing of London walking around in the rubble and encouraging them and asking them what they wanted. One of the greatest person in the 20th century.
Its not that it never actually happened that is the falsification, it is that it COULD NOT have happened. Neither his security detail (and as a wartime PM he had one) nor his Cabinet colleagues would ever allow it, for a start. And it certainly wasn't Churchill's style of decision making.
This is a moving scene from a wonderful film. Makes one proud to be British. Some criticise Churchill. The fools do not know what they are talking about. Without Churchill's leadership this world could have been much less free. The freedoms we have today are thanks to those who gave their lives for us. We must be grateful.
dont get carrid away churchil was no better than hitler he had millions of bengoli people blod in his hand.
Chruchill is genocider he is similar to Hitler.
@@MrAshuxp It wasn't his fault and you know it. A typhoon hit and knocked out important rail lines, and Japanese submarines controlled the Bay of Bengal so ships couldn't get through to deliver food. There was a war going on. Churchill didn't start it.
@@tm3008 the historical doc say something else.
@@MrAshuxp I got my information from an historian.
The man gave everything and then some. Just to hang on until we got it together and joined. This man deserves all the praise and respect.
this movie is one of the best produced ever, and mr. Oldman is just beyond belive as the main character… huge respect to you sir in the UK
Its simply pure exellence…
"but how can man die better than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his father's and the temple of his gods."
If that scene doesn't swell you up with pride and frightful spirit nothing will.
Such a brilliant scene - Gary Oldman mesmerizing as always.
Unrealistic however
This Gary Oldman proving what we kind of already knew, "I can play ANYONE and make it look easy."
Him and Daniel Day Lewis are both amazing.
The Era when Patriotism was hold in high regard...the reverence and Aweness to be in presence of a prime Minister...you could literally feel it in your bones........
Churchill's driver: I'm gonna lose my job for this one
One of the finest scenes in a movie. A truly great man and leader of the nation
And a Racist - under his rule Millions of Indians starved to death similar to the starvation deaths of the Irish so long ago under this same British rule
The British enriched themselves by basically looting their colonies
But because they are white and their victims are dark-skinned everyone ignores their brutality just as this film does
Yes. But probably you are a victim of British propaganda.
don’t mind me, just waiting for some Indian bloke to come and bitch about the famine.
Seriously? Churchill is overrated as a prime minister. He was only good for the war he was useless after that
You must be kidding right? A hideous monster and a tyrant he was.
WONDERFUL CHURCHILL SCENE!!!!
YES
5:27 "Thank you, Mr. Baker." He remembered the gent's name...and in doing so, won him over for life!
He was crying because one little girl had more courage than all of parliament.
Darkest Hour is a 2017 war drama film directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten.
The film is an account of Winston Churchill's early days as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and the May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis, depicting his refusal to make a peace treaty with Nazi Germany amid their advance into Western Europe.
It stars Gary Oldman as Churchill, alongside Kristin Scott Thomas as Clementine Churchill, Lily James as Elizabeth Layton, Stephen Dillane as Viscount Halifax, Ronald Pickup as Neville Chamberlain, and Ben Mendelsohn as King George VI.
The title of the film refers to a phrase describing the early days of the war, which has been widely attributed to Churchill.
This scene was so powerful. I very much enjoyed watching this movie and Gary O. is my new favorite actor.
Gary Oldman! Such a treasure of an actor! ❤️
I appreciate this is fiction but cannot help thinking how pleasant it would be if we had, in today's world, this sort of confidence and respect in our current crop of politicians.
That would imply that they cared or acted in the interests of the people they were elected to represent instead of acting at every junction towards their own self interest.
@@mark4tesla
You are talking crap.
@@bighands69 at least Winston was English
Ah, but you have to be prepared to have real people with real faults and failings in order to get leaders like Churchill. People who have flaws. He was a womanising alcoholic with political views mired in the last century - but he was perfect for THAT time, and the people recognised it and forgave him his faults.
Then they voted him out when the times changed.
Our current politicians didn’t put themselves into power. Everyone gets the politicians and government they deserve.
THE Greatest Briton admirably portrayed by the exceptionally talented Gary Oldman. BTW the rest of the cast weren’t bad either, brilliant film!
In the days before television, most ordinary British citizens would not have known Churchill on sight, but pretending that they would made this scene more fun.
Even if it never happened... It still was very beautiful and touching
There,there.Never shall be another Winston Ever.Respect.
Good, he starved millions
@@callummiller5886 War calls for tough choices. While the Bengal famine is indeed a tragedy, Sir Winston Churchill led the British Empire to ultimate victory at a time when most thought it impossible.
A history brief, how many people know that winston churchill instigated bengal famine of 1943 killing 3 million indians, more than entire ukraine conflict, by diverting indias supplies to war needed britain, writing in a corner of his notes.."WHEN WILL GANDHI DIE".
Just google it or watch shashi tharoors speech,....yeah now enjoy the video one more time on how these people feed lies to generations
@@prabir1182 A history brief, how many people know that winston churchill instigated bengal famine of 1943 killing 3 million indians, more than entire ukraine conflict, by diverting indias supplies to war needed britain, writing in a corner of his notes.."WHEN WILL GANDHI DIE".
He must be under lot of pressure
Just google it or watch shashi tharoors speech,....yeah now enjoy the video one more time on how these people feed lies to generations
@@09binani the Japanese would have treated India a lot better i suppose? Get a grip
Brilliant writing, direction and performances. I've seen this a half dozen times and it still brings me to tears. I'm shaking again.
Devlin: If this brings you to tears, how the devil do you think you would have managed in the actual Blitz?
For King and County...the man did his duty and saw his people through the worst moments of history and darkness...he kept the ship afloat and gave them heart when they feared ❤❤❤...definitely a man of true power and resolution 🫡
It was never about the politics, this scene showed that is was always for the people, today we live in a society of pride, power & lies, I pray to God that we have another character like Mr Churchill.
What do you know! A channel that has enough class and respect for its viewers to wait until the scene is finished before posting ads
Probably the best acting you will ever see! Wow. Gary Oldman is just so good.
he brings tears to my eyes
Churchill wasn't a politician, he was a leader, a fighter, he fought for freedom, the freedom of his people. He care so much for them that he did this to know their opinion about the decisions that he was gonna make... the decision that saved his country and thousands of French men and women
The girl at the subway map does a great job....the look of surprise, the nervousness, the smile & bow at the end.....
Politicians today are forgetting that lesson.