Vid: Enemy at the Door Trailer

[thisbluespirit]

The commentfest continues! And talking of obscure and British things...

As threatened, a 'trailer' of sorts for ITV's 1978-80 WWII drama, Enemy at the Door. I made this as an experiment, because I thought I'd solved my issues with sound-editing on my vidding software. Guess what? I haven't, so this is not entirely a success - there are some sound issues, especially at the start, and it was getting worse with every edit. You may take it as read that I'm not doing anything else like this in a hurry. Still, that's what experiments are for, yes?

However, that said, it is still better than anything Network or Acorn have bothered to do for it and maybe it will explain something of why I like it so much. Or just bore everybody, I'm not sure at this point. Inevitably, there are some spoilers (especially for 1.13), but hopefully not too bad out of context (& not beyond 2.1 because Network wouldn't let me rip 2.2-2.13).


Enemy at the Door Trailer
(3.48 mins. Warning for general war themes, some non-graphic death/violence. Music: Nimrod by Elgar.) "War must be fought, even if it's only in the mind. You cannot win if you do not fight... but you cannot fight if you do not survive."

(Main cast: Bernard Horsfall, Alfred Burke, Antonia Pemberton, Simon Cadell, Emily Richard, John Malcolm, Simon Lack, Richard Heffer, Helen Shingler. Also featuring guest stars Richard Hurndall, Anthony Stewart Head, Thelma Whiteley, Joss Ackland, James Maxwell, Norma Streader. LWT 1978-80. Producer Michael Chapman.)

EatD Trailer from lostspook1 on Vimeo.

(Password: enemy)

Also here at YouTube

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Srsly, you captured that it's a show about very real moral issues that don't have a simple answers.

Oh, thank you!! Because that was exactly what I wanted to do. I don't know if it'll persuade anyone else, because the sound went a bit up the creek, but still... I try!

And, LOL, old British TV is just full of people failing and mostly being stoic about it. I find it oddly reassuring somehow. Yes, everything is terrible and we failed again, but that's just life. Have a cup of tea. ;-)

And Henry VII as a Nazi, I forgot him!

Ahaha. Sorry. It's just that this was my last vid. I am a strange person and, though I find this hard to remember now, I actually only watched EatD in the first place because I was trying (and mostly failing) to get my hands on some more James Maxwell after really liking him in Shadow of the Tower and somebody sent that to me. I nearly turned it down because it sounded too depressing, but changed my mind, thankfully. (Also, I asked the internet if he was alive or dead and it answered back: he's a ghost. It's very random; it actually seems to have grown up because the people at the theatre wanted him still to be there, which is odd but very sweet.)

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Lovely vid! I hadn't seen it because I seem to not have you friended--OK if I remedy the omission? After I saw Shadow of the Tower I put Portrait of a Lady on my Netflix queue, it took ages to get there so I still haven't seen it yet.

I think, on balance, the VERY worst resistance movement must be Wish Me Luck, they constituted an entire Third Front for the Axis by getting the entire French resistance killed. The true British touch was the episode where the retreating Germans wiped out the SOE and their French allies just before the Americans arrived.

[thisbluespirit]

Lovely vid! I hadn't seen it because I seem to not have you friended--OK if I remedy the omission?

Thank you, on both counts, & of course. I'll go friend you now. :-)

I have mixed feelings about Portrait of a Lady, but James Maxwell does pull off even more epic hand-holding than in SotT, so that was quite something. Also there was Richard Chamberlain, obviously. (I just prefer actors I like not to be playing awful characters who are way too interested in choosing their 17 year old daughter's dresses, really.) In the unlikely event you ever want a list of things to watch (or not watch) with James Maxwell, I am right there, heh.


I think, on balance, the VERY worst resistance movement must be Wish Me Luck,

The thing with Wish Me Luck is that it is supposed to be based on the memoirs of one real agent (S1 & 2) and on a particular real operation (S3, hence the condemnatory speech at the end), so presumably the real Resistance was that useless, or at least the parts where they had help from the British! (It's life, see. Failure is just the general state of being! Have a cup of tea, and never mind.)

Yorkshire-Pudding Eating Defeat Monkeys

[executrix.livejournal.com]

One of my first-ever fannish activities was meta about how if the US made B7 it probably would have had lots of glorious victories and the Federation would eventually have been defeated. After all, a tremendous number of things have *happened*, the question is which ones are selected for fictionalization and how they're treated.