Thus with D-Day, Enigma and Colditz. What a brave army needs nowadays is not a victory, just a well-financed film industry and no respect for the truth. This may help us to understand yesterday's announcement of a the new British Film Council. If you want serious subsidy in Britain these days, you make films, not cars. Motor cars are boring 20th-century products, which can easily be imported from Germany.
Movies are different.
British film-making is in excellent shape. British actors, directors, writers and technicians are in demand worldwide. British studios are crowded. The sequel to Saving Private Ryan is being shot in Britain. The only unhappy people are British producers, who keep losing their money because they back dud films.