Movie that SHOULD be made.

[Bigkahuna]

OK, so who do we get to play Mad Jack???

[macwilkin]

OK, so who do we get to play Mad Jack???

Ideally, I would suggest the late Robert Shaw.

T.

[KiltPunk]

OK, so who do we get to play Mad Jack???

Mel Gibson, who else?

[slohairt]

If Hollywood gets a hold of it, he would surely be portrayed by Gerard Butler. It would then be set in some future post-apocalyptic setting where everyone wears leather kilts, sunglasses, and Mandarin trench coats. 'Mad' Gerard would then lead his crack team of cyber-commandos against some evil corporation's drone soldiers, disrupting their circuitry with sonic waves from his electro-bagpipes.

[MacAngus]

They are making a movie about a piper in war.
I think I saw the previews for it on bobdunsire.com
I think Canadians made it.
It's about 2 brothers in war and the main character is the piper and shows him playing in different areas it looked pretty good check it out.

[MacAngus]

The movie is called pipes of war go to the website www.pipesofwar.com

[Jack Daw]

I know this has been brought up before, but I just thought that it should be said again:

Why isn't there a film about Mad Jack Churchill?!? I mean, you don't even need a screenwriter, the history books have it all! He lead his commandos into battle playing the bagpipes. He captured 42 German prisoners using only his claymore. Yeah, that's right, he carried a sword into battle. He escaped a German POW camp. Twice. His preferred weapon in battle was a bow and arrow. He faced down Palestinian rebels wearing a full Scottish military parade uniform, armed only with a swagger stick. Then, at age 40, he became a paratrooper. When that didn't work out (not his fault, the war ended) he learned how to surf in Australia.

He's like Kilgore, but with a sword and bagpipes...and more awesome.

http://www.wwiihistorymagazine.com/2...-profiles.html

It's a long read, but definitely worth the time.

Does he drink Dos Equis?

[Jack Daw]

BTW, Gerard Butler is supposed to be preparing to portray Robert Burns in Burns. Look-see:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1531637/

Alan Sharp, the screenwriter, was also the same for Rob Roy (1995).

[xena]

I'd go see a movie about Mad Jack.

Have to say though, in my time in HMF, we never had a real war, but I knew some chaps who could easily been close to doing Mad Jack stuff. Maybe it's a Seaforth thing.

I remember hearing of a large Greek guy riding on top of an APC swinging a home-made club with barbed wire on the end over his head. All this in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. The locals were sure he was wacko. We just called him "the Cave Man".

Or the fellow who, upon return to the hotel that they were using to house Peackeepers in Sarajevo, went up to the roof for a smoke, and couldn't figure out why there were flies buzzing around up there. Only after he went back downstairs did he see the notice warning people not to go out on the roof due to sniper activity in the area.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Movies are meant to entertain. If they inform, well and good-- but that's not their intended purpose. In the more than 100 years Hollywood-- and everyone else-- has been making movies some of those films have been accurate down to the last button. Some haven't. Das Boot is an excellent example of accuracy. Well done, Germany. In The Charge of the Light Brigade about the only fact the British got right was the one about there actually being a Crimean War. As a history lesson it's right up there with the Erroll Flynn version made thirty years earlier in California which, by the way, is a lot more entertaining. Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers were both entertaining and historically accurate, as was Gettysburg-- even if Martin Sheen did look more like a talking moon-pie than Robert E. Lee.

In the motion picture industry there is a saying: "If you want history, learn to read". Otherwise, go to the movies.