Posts from Stumpy in thread „Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus Stauffenberg“

  • Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus Stauffenberg

    Quote from DukePilgrim

    Apparently the scene depicted is from his last day so I guess that explains why his decorations have been stripped from him.



    I don't think so, Mike. It shows him carrying a briefcase, probably the one Stauffenberg used to carry the bomb into the briefing room at Wolfschanze. So I imagine the scene shown is just after he had debarked from the plane at Wolfschanze and before he even went into the briefing room.

    He had already made it back to Berlin before he was arrested for the assassination attempt so I doubt he would have been carrying a briefcase. Not only that but they didn't waste any time shooting him once he was arrested so I doubt his decorations were removed before he was executed. Like I said though, probably not one person in a million will know, or care about, such details.

    I had forgotten about "The Firm". I liked it considerably more than "Taps". Many of the films that were named I have never seen though.

  • Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus Stauffenberg

    Quote from dukefan1

    I think Tom Cruise is out on a limb in many areas of his private life, but as far as his acting abilities go? I think he is a good actor. I have enjoyed many of his films. Like The Last Samurai, Far and Away, A Few Good Men, Interview With The Vampire, Jerry Maguire, Minority Report and War of the Worlds. I loved his early roll in the movies Taps and The Outsiders. I even liked All The Right Moves.

    There are a few that I didn't like, such as Days Of Thunder, Cocktail, and Eyes Wide Shut. But I would still go see him in a movie if the subject interested me. I like WWII era movies and if this one gets made, I would probably watch it. I think he looks the part in that uniform.

    Mark



    I wholeheartedly agree, Mark. Outside of Jane Fonda and Barbara Streisand, there are no players in Hollywood I detest so much that I'd never watch their movies. I think "Taps" was probably my favorite Cruise role.

    As for the nitpickin' some people do, there probably isn't one person in a million who will know whether or not the details in a movie are totally correct (which they hardly ever are).
    After all, we're talking about Hollyweird, which is known for its' "artistic license".

  • Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus Stauffenberg

    Quote from DukePilgrim

    Will this be Cruise's first screen death?



    Didn't he die in "The Last Samurai"?

    If Stauffenberg had stayed in the conference room at Wolfschanze and ensured his briefcase was next to Hitler when it exploded, the coup would more than likely have succeeded. But it inadvertently got moved behind a heavy oak table leg which absorbed most of the blast.

    Hitler was lucky almost from the time he assumed power in 1933.

  • Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus Stauffenberg

    [quote='DukePilgrim','http://dukewayne.com/bb/index.php?thread/&postID=49655#post49655']Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf[1] von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and one of the leading figures of the failed July 20 Plot of 1944 to kill Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany.[/quote]

    If the people in Berlin had carried out their assigned tasks in the plot, it might have succeeded. As it turned out, it was a comedy (though not funny to the plotters) of errors.