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Band of Brothers | Carentan

#band of brothers #dick winters #lewis nixon #these facial expressions live in my head rent free

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“Don’t get hurt.”

#band of brothers #lewis nixon #please

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A new Lewis Nixon & Dick Winters photo posted by The Gettysburg Museum Of History

#band of brothers #lewis nixon #dick winters #always thinking abt them

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SPEIRS & LIP from 1x07: the breaking point

Hell, it was you.

#band of brothers #ron speirs #carwood lipton

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Slightly hijacking this very accurate post (sorry!) but I have been having Thoughts about this:

Some of the MOTA cast have appeared on various podcasts (esp We Happy Few, which yes I know Matt Leitch can be very Matt Leitchy, but they can talk more candidly than on the official podcast) and basically said that they were given / sought out very little information on the guys they were playing - some people didn’t even know the first names or rank of their own character, where they were from or who they were friends with. So pretty much nothing to base any characterisation on. And that’s fine, obviously. The vets aren’t around, families might choose not to be involved, and not everyone is going to (or should) do a Frank John Hughes and do endless research and stay in character for a full year.

But I think between that + COVID regulations meaning a boot camp that didn’t actually involve living together and generally very little interaction between the cast outside of actually filming scenes + the scattered storyline in general, you were inevitably going to end up with a real lack of the fleshed-out background characters Band has in spades before you even got to a script. Skip Muck is a great example - okay, he’s probably not going to stand out to casual viewers before the Bastogne episodes but Speight/Grimes/Matthew glued themselves together for a year because they knew their characters were and they were on set pretty much every day so you see the cute little background moments of them messing around together (MOTA used extras as body doubles for some scenes, to limit the number of people on set). And of course not all the Band cast were this proactive, and a lot will know way more about their characters now than they did 24 years ago, but it was Speight himself who suggested the references to Faye Tanner and the Niagara swim be added to the script, based on his own research and conversations with the vets.

(And I think it was Laird MacIntosh, a military advisor, who fairly openly said on We Happy Few that MOTA ran out of budget and the number of episodes was changed a few times, which probably explains some of the weird decisions like Quinn and Bailey’s storyline just… ending.)

yeah it’s insane that band of brothers managed to give 20+ guys so much personality and depth of character but mota only managed to do that for like 4 guys if you’re stretching it and even then that might be generous

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Christmas 1942 at Fort Benning with Easy Company, Second Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry (well, almost)

#band of brothers #truly nothing makes me laugh as much as the misspellings in this #lewis mixon #denver rondleman #frank percont #warren muek #donald hobbler #joseph romirez #tag urself

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Band of Brothers 1x05 "Crossroads"

↳"Holy Christ."

#band of brothers #bill guarnere #babe heffron

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blue skies ahead

#band of brothers #dick winters #lewis nixon #harry welsh

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- good to see you.

#band of brothers #the first gif is the ultimate quartet of underrated boys #insane how dexter fletcher went from 80s twink to being this handsome to whatever he has going on now #johnny martin #bull randleman #william dukeman #joseph ramirez #skinny sisk

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#masters of the air #currently rewatching mota because i - did not like it the first time #or was just very disappointed #but this #this i can be into

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Band of Brothers – 1x10 “Points”

#band of brothers #donald malarkey #not tagging everyone but i feel like malarkey deserves this one

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On the night of October 15, a man swam across the river and came ashore directly opposite one of the listening posts in the 3 Ptn sector. “A couple of my people near the brick factory challenged the guy, only to be told that he was a British paratroop officer with an important message for Second Army,” recalled Ed Shames. “Initially I found it hard to believe because the river at this point was much wider, extremely fast-flowing and bitterly cold. I explained who we were and after a short ‘interrogation’ the British officer requested a meeting with Colonel Sink.” The swimmer was Lieutenant Colonel David Dobie, commanding officer of 1st Bn, The Parachute Regiment.

Deliver Us From Darkness: The Untold Story of Third Battalion 506 Infantry Regiment during Market Garden  - Ian Gardner -

#band of brothers #david dobie #obsessed with the fact that this fandom looked at dobie and said yes this man is a whore

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Sergeant Martin's reputation was that he seldom raised his voice and never gave orders in a harsh tone.

#band of brothers #john martin

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#band of brothers #the pacific #generation kill #oooh

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#band of brothers #alton more #walter gordon #lovely boys

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i wanna believe dick winters was pleased as punch seeing the bathtub scene given how much rizz we know he had and how proud he was of that

#hahaha yes #dick ‘here is another shirtless picture of me’ winters #very funny that he hated the scene with the young boy on the train though #‘it looked like I was trying to pick him up’ #well no one was thinking that until you said it dick

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Lew and his little coffee cup, as per anonymous request.. ❤️

#band of brothers #lewis nixon #dick winters #ron speirs