THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE
All About History UK|Issue 146
Guy Ritchie's entertaining WWII thriller throws light on Operation Postmaster
THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE

Cert: TBC Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson Released: Out now

History is written by the victors, the saying goes, and that’s not incorrect. This is how historical narratives develop, and how myths (sometimes national ones) form in the cultural consciousness. In the realm of all things cinema, movies play a vital part in shaping and promoting national mythology. Screenwriters do tend to embellish, invent, condense and rewrite. As the famous quote, from John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) put it, they tend to “print the legend”.

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