#4488211 - 09/02/19 04:32 PM
Re: Hollywood war movies from “the other side”
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kaa
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Waterloo 1970. One of my favourite movies. Lion of the Desert 1981. Another good one.
Waterloo ...I guess because the USA were at war against Great Britain in 1815 ;-) ?
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"Anyone can shoot you down if you don't see him coming but it takes a wonderfully good Hun to bag a Camel if you're expecting him." Tom Cundall.
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#4488557 - 09/05/19 09:23 PM
Re: Hollywood war movies from “the other side”
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Well, there is no incentive for Hollywood to produce those sorts of movies for reasons already stated. I doubt 'Letters from Iwo Jima' and the third movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy (that nobody can remember the name of) would have been made if it wasn't for 'Flags of our Fathers' and 'Platoon/Born on the 4th of July'. I suppose you have the category where the USA are the bad guys, but there's always a good American who is the focus of the movies, like 'Dances with Wolves' or 'Avatar'...OK, that's pushing it a bit, but the MBA types and Marines were obviously American and it's sort of a war movie.
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#4488609 - 09/06/19 08:07 AM
Re: Hollywood war movies from “the other side”
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Well, there is no incentive for Hollywood to produce those sorts of movies for reasons already stated. I doubt 'Letters from Iwo Jima' and the third movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy (that nobody can remember the name of) would have been made if it wasn't for 'Flags of our Fathers' and 'Platoon/Born on the 4th of July'. I suppose you have the category where the USA are the bad guys, but there's always a good American who is the focus of the movies, like 'Dances with Wolves' or 'Avatar'...OK, that's pushing it a bit, but the MBA types and Marines were obviously American and it's sort of a war movie. In 'Letters from IwoJima' The US soldiers are shown (in fact we don't see them a lot as they are hidden , under cover or shelling from distance) as ennemies,reckless soldiers from the other side, making more obvious to the audience the feeling of despair of the Japanese fighting hoplessly against a stronger and impersonal enemy .Along with 'Flags of our Fathers,' a good example of dialectic.
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"Anyone can shoot you down if you don't see him coming but it takes a wonderfully good Hun to bag a Camel if you're expecting him." Tom Cundall.
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CD WOFF
by Britisheh. 03/28/24 08:05 PM
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