Master & Commander link on BBC

[tamaranth]

"If we'd have followed the descriptions in the book, you would have ended up with Laurel and Hardy at sea." (Russell Crowe on gaining and losing weight to play Jack Aubrey: plus Weir saying that it "proved impossible to explain the 1812 war satisfactorily".)

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Re: Damn, it *is* harder than I thought....

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. That's why it's hard to explain to Americans, who tend to see it as another victory along the lines of the War of Independence. And also not to see it in the context of the Napoleonic Wars.

Re: Damn, it *is* harder than I thought....

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

And the average Brit has probably never heard of the War of 1812 at all.

Re: Damn, it *is* harder than I thought....

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

... but they can hum along with the overture.

Re: Damn, it *is* harder than I thought....

[reddragdiva]

"And the Whitehouse burned, burned, burned
But the Americans won't admit it"