I agree heartily with all your points--didn't know about the dialogue accuracy fetish, but yeah, that fits.
I found at least one exactly reproduced passage and several lines that had been altered for conversation from letters; I imagine there are more. I like that sort of thing. It implies that even if no one notices, someone cares.
Overall, I think this is one which will be appreciated most in retrospect, stumbled over and discovered haphazardly by people to whom "the couch incident" is (hopefully) a distant, stupid pop-cultural memory.
I was surprised it got so little notice at the end of the year: all historical awesomeness aside, there is some terrific acting in Valkyrie. It's not news that I love Bill Nighy, but I hadn't seen Kenneth Branagh in quite some time; and by now I would probably listen to a phonebook by Terence Stamp, although he might try to kill me with it afterward. Maybe ensemble movies are easier to discount than solitary best actors? Or just most people have to taste?
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I found at least one exactly reproduced passage and several lines that had been altered for conversation from letters; I imagine there are more. I like that sort of thing. It implies that even if no one notices, someone cares.
Overall, I think this is one which will be appreciated most in retrospect, stumbled over and discovered haphazardly by people to whom "the couch incident" is (hopefully) a distant, stupid pop-cultural memory.
I was surprised it got so little notice at the end of the year: all historical awesomeness aside, there is some terrific acting in Valkyrie. It's not news that I love Bill Nighy, but I hadn't seen Kenneth Branagh in quite some time; and by now I would probably listen to a phonebook by Terence Stamp, although he might try to kill me with it afterward. Maybe ensemble movies are easier to discount than solitary best actors? Or just most people have to taste?