Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "The History Chap" channel.

  1. Tangentially, my younger brother's grade four teacher was a Miss Vorbeck.
    4
  2. Thank you sir!
    3
  3. .
    2
  4. IMHO Modi has been relentlessly libeled in the international English-language press precisely because he is a nationalist embarked on a project of nation-building in a part of the world whose civic identities have yet completely to congeal into a unitary imagined community.
    2
  5. The idea I had for a Zulu War picture was to do companion piece to Zulu, in the manner of Letters from Iwo Jima to Flags of our Fathers, with Mel Gibson as the director, shot from the perspective of the Zulu regiment that attacked Rorke's Drift, roughly on the Apocalypto plot structure. so the first third is just a story about three groups of friends in Zululand, living in an agrarian society as peasants, realizing they aren't getting recognition or being allowed to marry, sitting on mats facing the rear during battle sequences, not required to be committed, entirely shot in the Zulu language, cast, Apocalypto-fashion, among amateur and first-time professional Zulu actors who speak Zulu as a first or second language, and subtitled in English. then the other two acts are the news of Isandlwana and the subsequent march on Rorke's drift, and then the battle itself and the aftermath
    1
  6. .
    1
  7. brilliant curation as usual
    1
  8. Regional idioms are interesting. It's flip flop in America, but it's U-turn in UK.
    1