Battle of the River Plate
Thursday, December 3rd, 2015 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manBrowsing through the DVDs in a charity shop, I came across a copy of The Battleship Potemkin. Aha, thought I; classic Eisenstein film I've never seen, let's get a copy.
The old lady at the till, only seeing the first two words of the title, says, "I was there at the Battle of the River Plate—you know about it?" "The only naval battle in South America during World War II, right?" I say, thus exhausting my knowledge of the subject. "The Graf Spee it was they fought," she said. I was about to ask her what her role in the battle was when she told me she saw it as a five-year-old from her father's roof. Probably just as well she got in before me, then!
(She then told me the film of it was on television recently; I must add this to my to-watch list now. I've already gone away and read up about it on Wikipedia.)
The old lady at the till, only seeing the first two words of the title, says, "I was there at the Battle of the River Plate—you know about it?" "The only naval battle in South America during World War II, right?" I say, thus exhausting my knowledge of the subject. "The Graf Spee it was they fought," she said. I was about to ask her what her role in the battle was when she told me she saw it as a five-year-old from her father's roof. Probably just as well she got in before me, then!
(She then told me the film of it was on television recently; I must add this to my to-watch list now. I've already gone away and read up about it on Wikipedia.)
