Your very own historical war movie!

You receive funding comparable to Gods&Generals and complete artistic freedom. What warmovie would you make?

Personally I'd do the Crimean war. Handsome British men with outrageous moustaches taking on dastardly Turks and creepy Russians in magnificent frozen landscapes.
The siege of Sebastopol, a love triangle featuring Florence Nightingale, the Alma and the battle of Balaclava.
Finally let's not forget the French General Canrobert, we need a comic relief character after all.
At the climax of the movie, the charge of the light brigade, Canrobert get's his famous line:"C'est magnifique, mais ce nes pas la guerre" after which he redeems himself by saving the light brigade with his Chasseurs D'afrique.

 

Kayla
My first post is in dire need of repair.

First of all it should have read:"Handsome British men with outrageous moustaches and decadent Turks taking on creepy Russians in magnificent frozen landscapes." The Turks (the Ottoman empire in serious decline) fought on the side of the British and the French. In rearranging that sentence a couple of times, they accidently ended up on the Russian side with an alternative adjective potentially intended for the Russians.

Afterwards I feared that my memory of that famous French phrase was faulty so I checked the internet saw it was different there and copied I suspect the wrong version. It's probably supposed to be :"C'est magnifique mais ce n'est pas la guerre.". I can read French, but with my dyslexia getting the spelling right of things that sound the same is murder.
Anyway it means:"That's brilliant, but it's not war.".
I probably got the general who said it wrong as well, in that case it was Bosquet instead of Canrobert.

The Chasseurs D'Afrique are a French cavalry unit, don't know much more about them.

I guess that's what happens when you let a woman fantasize about a war movie. I was much more interested in that historically non-existant lovetriangle with Florence Nightingale. It would have featured a dashing young British cavalry officer (a member of the Light Brigade ofcourse) and a fiery Turkish commander.

 

Kayla
"c'est magnifique mean it's magnificant!"
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Always be Carefull with terms that sound the same in different languages. Magnifique can have a cynical undertone in French that applies better to brilliant (or great) in English than to magnificent.