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London 1940s During WWII

I have to wonder why London got bombed? I thought they were the good guys?

-Made in 1997
-Revolves around the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany after the murder of a Nazi leader named Ernst Rohm on the Night of Long Knives
-The name Bent derives from British slang for gay or homosexual

Plot
-Max(Clive Owen) is a promiscuous gay man in 1930s Berlin. He is an odd man out because of his sexuality. One night, much to the hate of his boyfriend Rudy(Brian Webber II), Max brings home a handsome Sturmabteilung man(Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Unfortunately, he does so on the night of the long knives, with that, Hitler ordered to kill the upper levels of the Sturmabteilung corps. The man is killed by SS men in Max and Rudy's apartment and they flee to Berlin.

-Max's uncle Freddy(Ian McKellen) has organized papers for Max, but he refuses to leave Rudy behind. As a result, Max and Rudy are found and arrested by the Gestapo. They are put onto a train headed for Dachau, which has a sign at the front marked arbeit macht frei, which in German reads Work will set you free. On the train, Rudy is brutally beaten to death by the guards. As Rudy calls out to Max, Max lies to the guards, denying he is gay. He thinks his chances for survival in camp will be better if he is not assigned the pink triangle, so instead he accepts the yellow start, indicating he is Jewish.

-In the camp, Max falls in love with Horst(Lothaire Bluteau), who shows him that dignity lies in knowing one's beliefs. After Horst is killed when a guard orders him to the electric fence, Max is ordered to bury him. When the guards have left, Max puts on Horst's jacket with the pink triangle and kills himself by grabbing the electric fence.

Cast
Clive Owen as Max
Lothaire Bluteau as Horst
Ian McKellen as Uncle Freddie
Brian Webber II as Rudy
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Wolf
Mick Jagger as Greta
Jude Law as Stormtrooper
Paul Bettany as Captain
Rachel Weisz as Prostitute

The 1940s in Photos

Jackie Robinson

Anne Frank

Frank Lloyd Wright

"I'll be seeing you in every lovely summer's day
In everything that's light and gay
I'll always think of you that way
I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you" I'll Be Seeeing You: Bing Crosby

Juan Peron

Perry Como

Louis Armstrong

Billie Holiday

"This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me" This Land is Your Land: Woody Guthrie

Dean Martin

Arsenic and Old Lace

Pinocchio

The Keys to the Kingdom

"You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by" As Time Goes By: Dooley Wilson

Joan Fontaine

Ingrid Bergman

Lauren Bacall

Gene Kelly

Phylicia Rashad

Ronnie Wood

Jill St. John

Mick Jagger

Richard Pryor

Cilla Black

Alice Cooper

Steven Tyler

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

For some reason, I just really like this movie. It's actually amazing what my dad got me hooked on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Mr._Chips_(1969_film)

Goodbye Mr. Chips

Arthur Chipping (Peter O'Toole) is a strict Latin teacher at Brookfield, a prep school in London, England who is called Mr. Chips by his students, who dislike him. Then one night on the eve of his summer vacation, he is in the dining room of London's Savoy Hotel and that's where he meets Katherine Bridges (Petula Clark) a musician with a traveling music troupe who is sad about her romantic life and career. Her and Chips run into each other by chance in Pompeii, Italy. She sees that he is similar to her and she arranges for an evening together at a theatre in London and they slowly begin to fall in love.

When he returns to school for the autumn semester, everyone including the students and staff notice a massive change in him and that's when they find out he's in love. Unfortunately, her past makes a little trouble for the 2 of them, as Katherine's friend Ursula (Sian Philips) helps to thwart Lord Sutterwick's (George Baker) plan of depriving the school of a generous payment because of Katherine's past. But they eventually overcome all obstacles and remain in love, even though her past deprives Chips of being named Headmaster.

In the original version, Katherine died in childbirth, but in this version, she is killed by a German V-1 Flying bomb when it dropped on a local Army camp she and her music troupe were at. When he hears news of his wife's death, it devastates him, but to put him in better moods, he finally becomes Headmaster at Brookfield and lives out his life among the happiness of his students.

If you watch this movie, there's a quite a deal of singing in it, and it also takes place in the time of WWII, when England was getting the hell bombed out of them by the Germans. In the movie, you'll see scenes where they have to duck and cover because of bombs. So that may clear up anything.