Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello, my friends, and welcome back to Movie Deputy Reviews, where we are talking about a special movie today. Not only is today special, because this is your show, but I am going to an exclusive screening tonight of a new movie that's coming out this weekend and that will be Friday's episode. So you are not going to want a miss, want to miss a moment of that. Am I going to tell you what it is? You're going to have to wait and find out.
But today we are talking about the movie Pressure. Now, Pressure is about D Day. Now, if you're not familiar with that, it's a major thing of World War II. It was the day that the soldiers stormed Normandy beach and Omaha beach and all of that. And it was a very much a turning point, a precipice, if you would, of the war. And it was, it all came down to something that many of us had very little knowledge of, of knowledge of. And that's one of the things that this movie shows us.
Now, I'm going to get into that a little bit more here, but I want to share with you this trailer. Now, I want you to prepare yourselves. There are no spoilers in the trailer. So you know me, no worries there. But this trailer is powerful. If you like history movies, if you like things, war movies of things that are actual, true stories, be prepared. This one is going to hit hard and this one is going to make an impact whether you want it to or not.
And if you have been curious about history and you wanted to learn more, this, I, I grew up in a very strong military family, and so I grew up hearing a lot of things like that. But I've never heard this story until now.
And with James Stagg, that's a name that I'm not going to easily forget. Now, who is that? Well, we're about to find out. So like I said, if you like history movies, if you like watching History Channel, Discovery Channel, all of those like, docu series that they have on the movies, this is not a documentary. This is a movie. But it plays out like a movie. But it feels like a documentary, if that makes any sense. I'm not usually a big fan of documentaries, but this one was good.
Now, because of this, the violent nature of some of the things in this movie, I am giving this a tentative guilty rating just because it might be a little bit much for the youngest of viewers. A lot of it is. It doesn't show a lot of the, like, super gory stuff or anything like that. No, nothing gory, but just the violence of war.
But if you are there watching it with your children and you want to teach them, like I watch stuff like this from a young age with my family. But I had people to explain questions if I had them. And so I think that's going to be an important point on this. So if you are supervising your children, I would say innocent rating.
If you are letting your children watch this unsupervised, I would say guilty.
So overall, like I said, I am giving this a tentative guilty rating. But that is where I'm at on that score wise. You're going to have to hang out a bit, but let's check out this trailer.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: The final decision on the timing of D Day will be mine and mine alone.
[00:03:02] Speaker A: Now, Brendan Fraser, we know him well. George of the Jungle, the Mummy, all these other roles. This is probably the most powerful role that he has ever done and the most poignant.
[00:03:18] Speaker C: Call. General Eisenhower.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: Tiger was a training op dress rehears for D Day.
They walked right into it.
One mistake, Just that, one mistake.
[00:03:34] Speaker C: Ike, you have to stop doing this to yourself. What's done is done,
[00:03:42] Speaker A: if you haven't already figured out. Brendan Fraser is playing General Eisenhower.
[00:03:47] Speaker C: Rope Captain Dr. James Stag here at the express request of General Eisenhower. Do we have a date yet for the invasion zone?
[00:03:54] Speaker B: D day is in 61 hours from now. This is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
Fate of the war. Thousands of lives hinge on this. I need a forecast.
Churchill tells me you're the best meteorologist in the country.
[00:04:11] Speaker C: Get me the latest readings from every single base within 2,000 miles of Normandy. The invasions confirmed for Monday. Monday. Monday.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: They won't like this.
[00:04:21] Speaker C: We are faced with a succession of two aggressive storms.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: Are you absolutely certain?
[00:04:27] Speaker C: D be calm and sunny. I couldn't disagree with that more.
If DDay is cancelled, we will lose this war.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: The final decision on the timing of D Day will be mine and mine alone.
[00:04:48] Speaker C: If you invade tomorrow, they're going to be washed away.
[00:04:52] Speaker B: 300,000 men with families that they may never see again.
Why should I trust you?
[00:05:01] Speaker C: We must face the facts. The facts, however frightening they may be.
If we delay, the enemy will be ready and waiting.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: They'll slaughter every single last one of us.
[00:05:24] Speaker C: The storms that I'm talking about are real.
And the wrath of nature is real.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: I don't know if you're watching our video side of this, but you can see how much the trailer affected me.
I am related to people and I know people who are related to people who stormed that beach that day.
Part of D Day. Hi, Bitero.
Kitty cat wants to join the podcast, I guess. Come here, baby. Come here.
There we go, guys. A Bittero. Say hi, bittero.
As he destroys my desk.
But so I can relate to this on an entirely different level now. Okay. In the back of my brain while I'm watching this, I. One of my biggest things of people that know me well know I like to make fun of meteorologists. It's the only job that you can be wrong. The vast majority of the time are that you big can basically guess at your work and you still get paid for it because it's like, it's.
I don't know, it's just sometimes just absolutely way off. It's like two days ago for like our local forecast here that was supposed to be just bright and sunny. Now we're expecting over an inch of rain tomorrow.
This. So they're just kind of updating it, but it's like, okay, as we get closer, it gets a little bit closer. But when you're trying to forecast a ways off into the future, it's harder to get it right. And so like in the back of my brain I'm like making fun of these guys. But again, these guys are doing this back when all they had were like maps and weather balloons. They didn't have radars, they didn't have or not to the level that we have today.
They didn't have all the fancy technological stuff to help with the forecasting like what we have now.
And Eisenhower was facing this because he. They had done Exercise Tiger as like a prequel to D Day. And Exercise Tiger was.
Feel free to Google it. It is just.
It was an absolute slaughterhouse and so many men died and it was just so tragic. It was catastrophic is probably one of the only words I could use for it. So ahead of D Day, he had this meteorologist that he had been working with for many of his battles. And then Churchill recommended James Stagg.
And so James Stagg came in to try to provide a second opinion and their opinions were drastically different.
The one gentleman, his opinion on what was going to happen was that June 5, 1944 was going to be a clear, sunny day. And that's the day that D Day should happen. Well, just a basic Google search will tell you that D Day did not end up happening on June 5, 1944.
It happened on June 6, 1944.
Now, what difference does a day make?
That I'm not going to tell you because that would be a major spoiler here.
But this movie is very powerful.
There Are definitely some noms for best actor in some of. Especially in this movie for a couple of the people involved, but especially for Frasier. I normally don't focus on that type of stuff, and I'm not going to put my focus there, but I had goosebumps, and I know people who left in tears.
And there were just other. I mean, this.
It was surprisingly nearly a full house when I went to see this in the theater. Some of these movies I go to see in the theater like everybody else, and this was one of them.
And just the power of this movie. And then when you see, like, what happens when they storm the beach, when they storm the beaches that day and you understand the cost, and if you.
If you have friends or family that are in the military or if you were in the military, you know the cost of freedom.
You know what this battle. What.
You know what hinged on this battle, the entire war hinged on this.
So it came down to a weather forecast.
A weather forecast.
And some of these people in that they are.
That are being portrayed in this movie.
One of them was like, you take on these. This exact same day, June 5, of all these different years up ahead of this, there was a similar storm approaching this, and it cleared up, and it was a perfectly clear day.
And then it came up that, hey, you're kind of forgetting a few things, that on June 5, on these other years, these storms didn't clear up and they became raging typhoons of sorts.
So it was a very thing of being selective of what they were sharing because they wanted their narrative to be right.
That sound familiar?
And it wasn't until that was exposed that things were able to be changed in time enough to ensure that we could at least have a chance at the upper hand on this battle. And it comes up, it's like, are you certain? Are you certain this is the case? Are you certain that this is right?
No, it's weather.
There's no way to be certain until it's actually happening above your head. There's no way to be certain.
See, I make fun of meteorologists just because it's like, it's the only job you can ever be wrong the majority of the time and still get paid for it.
But then there's the stories like this where one man's forecast could have completely changed the direction of the war.
And by. By correcting that. Hi, Quincy.
You want to come say hi, too?
But with James Stagg's correction of that forecast and his steadfastness in following what he was seeing and not just using the maps and the information to corroborate what the narrative that he wanted to portray.
He wanted all of the information out there and then let the decision be made off of that.
It's amazing what things can do when we are presented with the whole story and not just with what fits the narrative.
That's why I don't trust the media.
They give you just enough information, just enough to basically. So it sides with the narrative that they want to portray.
They don't want you to have the whole story. They don't want you to know the whole story because if you did, it could change everything.
So I want to share and you know me, I don't spoil it.
I mean, you know how D Day ended. Her quick Google search will tell you that. So that will tell you a lot. At the end of the movie, there's these things that are in the credits and I want to share these with you. And don't worry, this was not.
These won't spoil anything, but from d day. Within 10 weeks, France was liberated.
In less than a year, Eisenhower led the Allies to victory over Nazi Germany.
He would go on to become the 34th President of the United States.
For his pioneering work on D Day, James Stagg was awarded the US Legion of Merit.
He returned to a quiet life in England devoted to the study of meteorology.
At Eisenhower's inauguration in 1961, JFK asked Eisenhower what gave him the edge on D Day.
Eisenhower replied, we had better meteorologists than the Germans.
Yeah, to think it came down to that.
We had better meteorologists than the Germans.
Sorry for getting so emotional on that. I'm just. Like I said, I come from a very, very strong military family and this one hits close to home in a lot of different ways. So though I may make fun of meteorologists, this is a very powerful movie.
You may be wondering the score I gave this on the Deputy scale. I'm proud to say that I gave this a 7 out of 10 on the Deputy Scale.
You may be thinking, why didn't you give it a higher score?
When you watch it, you'll see. But this is if you like any type of history, if you are a fan of history, go see this, watch this on instant Video when it comes out.
Check it out, share it, watch it with your friends, with your family, with loved ones.
There's a lot to learn here that we didn't know about history, and there's a lot that we don't know that we don't know.
It's amazing what happens when we do when we learn the whole story, not just what fits the narrative.
So I challenge you to research things. Look beyond what you're being told.
Look beyond the narrative.
Find out what really happened.
You might be surprised.
As always, I promise this is an adventure. So I hope that you are enjoying this as much as I am, even when I get emotional about movies such as this.
But I will be back on Friday with a special movie review for you guys. Like I said, it's a special, exclusive screening I'm doing this evening.
But like I said, please check this out. You'll be glad you did.
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