...or maybe not!
Posted on 12/07/2006 12:48:25 PM PST by against_kerry
NEW YORK -- "Letters From Iwo Jima," the second of Clint Eastwood's two-part look at World War II, is the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures' pick as the best film of 2006.
Also on the list, announced Wednesday: "Flags of Our Fathers," in which Eastwood shows the aftermath of war through the eyes of the military men who raised the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
"This is his masterpiece," NBR President Annie Schulhof said of "Letters From Iwo Jima." "I was blown away by its delicacy, the poignancy of how he talks about war. I think it's also a searing condemnation of war. It was a unique view of the Japanese side of the battle. We don't always see that."
Hollywood REALLY needs to get over itself.
Not to mention the Rape of Nan King, wholesale slaughter of Chinese, Koreans, and the scores of Filipino girls 14-16 yrs old forced into service at the Jap Pleasure Camps to the turn of 40-60 men per day.
No, probably more like how our troops illegally invaded IJ and killed those poor, defenseless Japanese farmers who were peacefully working in their fields.
Eastwood has had this in the works for a while as a counterpart to his earlier film from the American point of view. It's been done before with Tora Tora Tora. I sincerely doubt anything produced by spielberg about WW2 would be a Hate America film.
National Board of Review is the media not Hollywood.
I sincerely doubt anything produced by spielberg about WW2 would be a Hate America film.
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Good point.
I think you guys are charging off half cocked.
Clint isn't into revisionism. This is the other side of an epic battle. He tells the first side in Flags of Our Fathers.
As a student of the war in the Pacific, I will really want to see this.
Japanese soldiers were ruthless. But that had more to do with how they got into the trenches in the first place. Not excusing their barbarity, but their society was still feudal thinking and barbarity in warfare was just another day at the beach for them. That notwithstanding, knowing what they were thinking is fascinating. From a historians point of view, I hope he is the same old Clint from yesteryear and just lets the pieces fall.
I've heard that he does just that and it isn't anti American at all.
We'll see.
So what's new? A lot of great war movies have scenes/speeches that condemn war, war-weary soldiers griping about war, grieving soldiers, traumatized soldiers: Guns of Navarone, Patton, We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc. to name a few.
I heard it wasn't very good. At least from the Freepers who saw it.
Yeah, I'm trying to think of that war movie where everyone is running around just LOVING the war. For some reason I'm drawing a blank. :)
Sounds like the Pacific version of "Das Boot."
...or maybe not!
Get "Stalingrad", it is by the same production company that did "Das Boot". Same treatment of the subject matter, only w/o the "happy" ending.
You heard right.
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