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...Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ was a laugh because it was all about restraint,” said Brand. “For a supporting role I had to be kind of measured and gentle; the key thing for me was making a sympathetic villain, a character [whose] function was to antagonize the protagonist, to fuck him off because I’ve got his bird. But in this film the character’s back on drugs, the arc is built around his conduct and his behavior and it’s sort of a double-act with Jonah...
...whole thing just sort of fell our way,” Fish said. “It was a home match, an unbelievable crowd...just a great Harvard-Yale match...
...unhelmeted while their U.S. counterparts kept a wary distance from the Iraqis they had liberated in those heady early days of the Iraq war. And at first, it did seem that Britain, very much the junior partner in terms of numbers and resources, could teach the Americans a thing or two about how to deal with the manifold challenges of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. "Great Britain's relative success in Basra is due in no small measure to the self-assurance and comfort with foreign culture derived from centuries of practicing the art of soldier diplomacy and liaison," Vietnam veteran...
...British soldiers can certainly be overconfident. But John Nagl, president of the Center for a New American Security, believes the real roots of British humiliations in Iraq lie in London. "If the politicians back home are not completely committed to this thing, if they have not leveled with the people on the likely costs of the war, then you're putting an unsupportable burden on the army in the field in a counterinsurgency campaign," says Nagl. "And so as you look at explanations as to why the British army performed better in Malaya than Iraq, one of the questions...
...politicians find a way of reconciling the U.K.'s reflexive desire to take a leading role on the world stage with the nation's straitened circumstances, they risk letting down those brave and tough young men and women so eager to exchange the simulated battlefield for the real thing...