Operation Antropoid.

Antropoid.

Antropoid.

Just the name sounds dumb.

Man-like, I guess why that who knows what went through the minds of the military

planners back in London coming up with the code name for this operation to say

nothing of the film executive that chose to obscure

this perfectly good war film behind a name that sounds like a fake Marvel action figure

that you'd find in the bargain bin at the dollar store.

But it's a movie about a real operation, and that's the real name.

Even my wife suggested the title sounded like one of those trashy sci-fi novels I read.

And we could spend a whole episode debating the wisdom of

these decisions but who wants that? This film is another entry in a sub-genre of

W. W.2 films that we've begun to define on friendly fire that surround the resistance

movements in various countries that the Nazis occupied.

This can be a bit of a sticky wicket because many of these countries would like history to remember their resistance fighters and downplay the local collaborators.

This was certainly an issue with Black Book which, well, not an entirely uncomplicated portrayal of the Netherlands during the war, felt like it

verged into propaganda in representing the resistance as having been a bigger factor than it actually

was.

On the other hand, Army of Shadows focused on the French

resistance and excoriated the portions of French society that embraced the

Nazis while showing how isolated and small the resistance really was.

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