Darkest Hour

Darkest Hour (2017)

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Winston Churchill: Nations which go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely are finished.

Winston Churchill: I'm getting the job only because the ship is sinking. It's not a gift, it's revenge.

Clemmie: You are strong because you are imperfect. You are wise because you have doubts.

Winston Churchill: There is no doubt that if we falter at all in the leading of the nation we should all be hurled out of office.

King George VI: One never knows what's going to come out of your mouth next. Something that'll flatter, something that'll wound.
Winston Churchill: My emotions are unbridled. A wildness. In the blood. I share with my father. And my mother also. We lack the gift of temperance.

Viscount Halifax: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Viscount Halifax: The deadly danger here is this romantic fantasy of fighting to the end. What is "the end" if not the destruction of all things? There's nothing heroic in going down fighting if it can be avoided. Nothing even remotely patriotic in death or glory if the odds are firmly on the former. Nothing inglorious in trying to shorten a war we are losing.

Factual error: The underground station shown is not St. James Park, which would be 1 stop east on the District line. St. James Park has green and yellow tiles on the wall indicating District and Circle lines. The platform in the film has black and brown tiles, indicating Northern and Bakerloo lines, neither of which serve St. James Park.

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Question: In the 'War Room' scene, there appeared to be a sheet of plastic or acetate covering the wall with the map of the enemy's movements. Was that premature for plastic to be available in that size for that time frame?

Myke

Answer: It was probably Perspex, an acrylic plastic commonly available at the time, used for, amongst other things, fighter plane cockpit canopies and windscreens.

stiiggy

Answer: It may be polyethylene, which was in wide use by the 1930s. Other plastics were also available at that time.

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