Excerpts from "Darkest Time"

Ignatius 2022-04-23 07:01:39

[The Prime Minister's conversation with the public on the subway]

I expect we are closely related.

please everyone please sit down

Please, please. Sit.

everyone sit down

Sit, everyone.

thank you mr baker

Thank you, Mr. Baker.

How are you all doing? Can you still hold on?

So, how are you all, how are you all bearing up?

Have a positive spirit

Good spirits?

- yes - yes

- Yes. - Yes?

Me too

Just as well.

We need spiritual power

We shall need them.

I ask you one

Let me ask you something

things that have been bothering me

that's been weighing on my mind.

maybe you can give me the answer

Perhaps you can provide me with an answer.

you people of britain ♥

You, the British people.

how are you feeling now

What is your mood?

Are you confident?

Is it confident?

- yes - how much confidence if there is confidence

- Yeah. - If confident, how confident?

- very much - some say we are doomed

- Very. - Some people say it's a lost cause.

But doomed failure is worth fighting for

No, lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

exactly

Too right.

That's right, now I'm going to ask you

Yes. Now let me ask you this.

If the worst does happen

If the worst came to pass

The enemy starts to appear in

and the enemy were to appear on those...

what would you do on the street on the ground

those streets above, what would you do?

-Fighting-Fighting with Fascism

- Fight. - Fight the fascists.

fight them in every possible way

Fight them with anything we can lay our hands on.

- Sweep the handle if necessary - fight street by street

- Broom handles if we must. - Street by street.

They'll never take Piccadilly

They will never take Piccadilly.

Never take Piccadilly, of course

Never take Piccadilly, indeed.

what if i told you if we

And what if I put it to you all

If we might ask for a contract with Mr. Hitler

that we might, if we, if we ask nicely

If a contract is favorable to our situation

get very favorable terms from Mr. Hitler

What if we had peace talks with him now?

if we enter into a peace deal with him right now?

what do you think

What would you say to that?

never never never

Never! Never! Never!

never never

Never! Never!

no way

Never.

no way

Never.

will you never compromise

Will you never give up?

never will

No. Never.

"Then the gatekeeper

"Then out spake brave Horatius,

so says the heroic Horaceus

Captain of the Gate:

for the world

To every man upon this earth,

death comes sooner or later

death cometh soon or late.

But what death is better than

And how can man die better

face a strong enemy

than facing fearful odds

-To protect the bones of the ancestors-Guard the bones of the ancestors

- For the ashes... - For the ashes of his fathers

To die with the temple of faith is more noble"

and the temples of his Gods."

are you crying

Are you crying?

I

I...

yes yes me

Yes, yes. I...

i cry often

I blub a lot, you know.

you have to get used to it soon

You'll have to get used to it.

which stop is this

What stop is this?

Lord Westminster Station

It's Westminster, sir.

Westminster station here I am

Westminster. It's my stop.

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Extended Reading
  • Zoie 2021-11-25 08:01:26

    Daniel wears Lewis's shadow, and the age of Gary Oldman has arrived. masterpiece. #TIFF2017

  • Roel 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    The details are full, the performance is unique, the light and shadow are elegant, and the mirror movement is quite three-dimensional thinking. Just because I have read a lot of Churchill's documents and historical materials, I am familiar with Churchill, and Gary Oldman's interpretation of Churchill cannot convince me to regard this film as a "biographical" film. In addition, the play is mediocre, mainly because Churchill's speech itself is provocative, and it can climax only by reading the text in combination with the background of the times.

Darkest Hour quotes

  • Viscount Halifax: I will not stand by and watch another generation of young men die at the bloody altar of your hubris!

    Winston Churchill: No, you would have us die as lambs!

    Viscount Halifax: Was Gallipoli not enough for you?

    Winston Churchill: HOW DARE YOU! Our troops were chewing barbed wire in Flanders and I saw it! Opening a second front, outflanking the Turks was a serious military idea and it could have damn well worked if the Admirals and the First Sea Lord hadn't dithered away the element of surprise!

  • King George VI: [to Churchill] I confess I had some reservations about you at first. But while some in this country dreaded your appointment, none dreaded it like Adolf Hitler. Whoever can strike fear into that brute's heart is worthy of all our trust.