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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3168242, member: 2504"] The Americanization of Emily - A 1964 World War II D-Day satire starring James Garner and Julie Andrews. This film combines romance with the absurdity of war, or what might happen when you cross public relations with a huge military event such as the invasion of Europe. This is not a movie where you are going to find the traditional view of war heroics. Instead Garner plays a character who is very good at what he does, being a scrounger who supplies his superior officers with all sorts of creature comforts behind the lines in wartime London. This suits Garner very well, as his character is also an admitted out and out coward who wants no part with actually being in combat. Garner starts up a romance with Andrews while his bosses start cooking up a scheme on getting the Navy more noticed in their involvement in the invasion of Normandy in which he tries his best to get untangled from, as he has absolutely no desire to get a close up view of Omaha Beach. While getting a very intelligently stated coward view of war from Garner, there is also a lot of give and take between Garner and Andrews, in terms of the the view of the world coming from an American, and another view of the world coming from the British Andrews. This is simply a terrific movie with a dark comic trenchant script written by Paddy Chayefsky, who among other things would go on to write the movie "Network". Excellent work from Garner, Andrews, and James Coburn, who plays another officer on the staff that Garner services. [/QUOTE]

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