Comments on: “Darkest Hour” Myth-Making? Don’t Mess with Marcus Peters

By: Mr O’Clay

Mr O’Clay — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 23:38:06 +0000

A dreadful toe-curlingly ill-judged scene in a badly written failure of a film. Oldman’s performance threatens to be good at times but is constantly dragged into histrionics by the poor script. There’s so much wrong. The part of the secretary is over-written and intrusive. The political machinations are reduced to ‘brave maverick versus the spineless grey men’ cliches. But the tube scene, what on earth were they thinking? It’s the absolute polar opposite of how Churchill the man would have behaved. It’s utter nonsense, an insult to the intelligence of anyone looking for an insight into the man through dramatisation of key events.
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That’s one way of looking at it, for sure. —RML

By: DAG

DAG — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 09:32:24 +0000

The appearance of Marcus Peters was simply a sad piece of wokery that made the scene even more preposterous than it already was.
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Wokery would have had Churchill not deigning to talk with Peters, let alone reciting poetry with him. There is so much vicious slander about WSC going around that we should welcome this bit of dramatic license, effectively portraying what Londoners of that time thought. RML

By: Paul Cruce

Paul Cruce — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 21:13:31 +0000

In watching the film at first I was not happy that poetic license had been taken with the facts, especially regarding the "Underground" sequence. Before the end of the film I realized the "Underground" sequence was a necessary metaphor. Altogether "Darkest Hour" was an extraordinary film. I wish more "Millennials" and others of the generations later than "Boomers" such as myself would see the film and learn something of the extraordinary Churchill. The "Underground" sequence was indeed "sheer artistry". • It is so tiresome that Leftists are compelled to try to reshape everything to fit their Western Civilization Bad narrative.

By: Richard Munro

Richard Munro — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 07:09:00 +0000

Don’t mess with Marcus Peters indeed. I am aware that the scene was fictional but it was a dramatic tour de force. On one level it was clear Churchill considered ALL BRITONS of ALL RACES to be British and equal citizens. And the educational level and educated speech of Marcus Peters proved that non-Whites could be equal. All of this is a direct contradiction to Nazism and everything Hitler believed. I met Jamaican and Indian veterans of WWII and without exception everyone was proud of his service and admired Churchill greatly. Of course, there would be exceptions (the odd Communist) but generally speaking, Churchill was universally admired in the 1940s by peoples of all backgrounds who favored the Allied cause. And of course, Churchill even TOUCHED the black man. Something Hitler would never have done. Churchill treated the non-white Briton the SAME as everyone else in the car. That was the point…the moral equality of all British citizens.

Aren’t left-wingers tiresome in their hatred of Churchill? What did DARKEST HOUR have to do with BREXIT???? I never thought about Brexit at all in the context of the film.

By: Richard M. Langworth

Richard M. Langworth — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 21:44:50 +0000

In reply to A. Capet. Thanks, Professor Capet. Professor Manfred Weidhorn (Google his excellent works in the literary Chruchill) writes: "I too found the scene a bit corny but realized that it functioned as a metaphor or dramatization of the British will to carry on at that juncture. Such liberties Shakespeare allowed himself as well."

By: A. Capet

A. Capet — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:53:49 +0000

Excellent reply – obviously Professor Robert Knight does not know much about Churchill apart from the usual hackneyed clichés (a common occurrence even among British academics – you would at least expect them to remain silent when they do not know a subject).