Talk:How I Won the War

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Famous Beatles hit "A Day in the Life" makes a reference to this film. The lyrics:

"I saw a film today, oh boy. The English army had just won the war. The crowd of people turned away. But I just had to look, having read the book".

Very very clever and witty. Commenting on how poor the film was received compared to the novel —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.128.223.67 (talk) 18:16, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

А вот интересно - кто заставил Джона в этом фильме раз и навсегда отказаться от контактных линз? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.198.140.215 (talk) 17:05, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Да, близоруких в мире навалом. Но возвести свою близорукость в культ, да еще и спихивать на нее все свои возможные и невозможные грехи - это мог делать только он один: ДЖОН УИНСТОН ОНО ЛЕННОН! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.198.140.215 (talk) 12:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

DVD Release
Considering, the DVD release is imminant (I cba with spellin' today), shouldn't there be a section, on about the DVD release - why, has it tooken, so long to get onto DVD etc. Yeepsi (Talk to me!) 16:48, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

"Ghost" soldiers
I recall the reason why some dead soldiers appear in bright colours is that their colour corresponds to the tint applied to the film of the battle in which they died (a tint was erroneously removed during a late stage of production). Can't remember where I saw that or if it was ever true: you think the director would see the film before signing it off... 192.76.7.188 (talk) 11:15, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

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PD image
File:How I Won the War (ad for film).jpg is PD for lack of notice. Not as good an illustration as we now have, but decent and in the public domain. I'll leave it to someone else to decide whether to substitute it. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 02:32, 6 February 2024 (UTC)