To think someone should make a WWII film

[FatCunt]

but set in the present day?

These glasses of Kate Winslet's (in Enigma) are really distracting.

I'm sure it could be done. There's plenty of precedent for drama featuring historical events but set in a different time period. I just can't think of any of them right now...

Has someone been at the sherry?

I'm right though; I'm sure of it.

Emmmm how would this work exactly?

Are you thinking of "brought up to date" Shakespeare eg 10 Things I Hate About You being a modern day Taming of Shrew and that kind of thing rather than actual proper historical events?

I think you're onto something there..

Maybe Alis

While we're on Shakespeare, though, didn't he write some history plays that felt awfully like 16th(?) century England?

You'd have to get rid of the internet, and mobile phones, for story purposes. Maybe say the Russians knocked out all the modern communications. You couldn't have it any other way. And Churchill would be a Candy Crush addict anyway.

If Kafka can imagine a man waking up as a beetle, then surely someone could write a suspend-your-disbelief exciting account of transposing this generation into a WWII scenario.

They'd be fucked

I'm thinking of a weird time-slip thing.

Aren't the majority of Shakespeare's plays presented as 'plays' though? You know, they often have a narrator and refer to the players, rather than modern films which require the suspension of belief.

But....

YES BOF. That would be awesome

Kafka ain't got nothing on me. I once had a dream in which I was a USB flash drive and having kinky USB sex with other USBs I wasn't supposed to be having sex with.

It would need to be a different war.

With different tech. And different codes etc.

So it wouldn't be set at Bletchley.

So you'd just be nicking the essence of the plot? Which is fictional anyway in Enigma

Like the way House is supposedly Sherlock Holmes ^transposed6 to a modern US hospital? That kind of thing?

I once had a dream in which I was a USB flash drive and having kinky USB sex with other USBs I wasn't supposed to be having sex with.

Gay USB sex?

Ooh, I've just been talking to DP about this idea, and he's remembered a film along these lines- look!

It certainly doesn't mean it couldn't be imagined in a different way though.

I'm quite intrigued...

That sort of thing, Arsenic. As accurate as possible given the constraints, though, if possible. But why couldn't it be set at Bletchley? If they can make GTAV In Edinburgh surely we can house all our skilled haxxors in Bletchley Park?

And yeah Enigma was... not good.

Is that a WWII film in disguise Bof?

Yes I'm getting it now sobering up

GTAV?

That film is intruging BOF

Oops. Sorry. Grand Theft Auto Five. The main studio in charge of making it is Scottish.

They certainly don't mind film crews at B park.

That one BOf linked to was adaprom a young adult novel. Really good way of making history relevant/digestable/immediate.

I read the IMDb listing but couldnt make much sense of it, as my comprehension is impaired at the moment for some reason. Ahem. Thanks for the help

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow,_When_the_War_Began