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Wednesday
31Aug2005

Tanks Rumble in "Richard III" Remake

The William Shakespeare's play "Richard III" was remade into a 1995 film featuring Ian McKellen as a fascist dictator of  an alternative  1930's England. The film is worth seeing just for the performance of Ian McKellen, but there are also some short but classic scenes involving armor.  The film begins with a T-55 tank smashing through the wall of the headquarters of the a doomed King Henry and movie ends with a climatic battle involving battles between T-34s and T-55s.

 My first impression was that the T-55 seen in the opening scene of the film was the "GoldenEye tank", the vehicle modified by Plus Film Services for the James Bond film "GoldenEye." This observation was based on the type of track seen on the "Richard III" T-55.  However, this first observation could be wrong because "GoldenEye" was released the same year as "Richard III."

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