Posted on 01/06/2020 9:00:43 AM PST by C19fan
The bleakly beautiful and intensely nerve-rattling “1917” (opening Friday) ostensibly is a war film set amid the brutal realities of trench warfare between England and Germany on the fields of rural France in World War I. And it is that, so much so that you can almost feel the mud and viscera ooze between your fingers when a soldier, who has landed in a pool of muck, mistakes a fallen fighter’s corpse for something sturdy and his hand plunges deep into a body cavity.
But “1917,” the latest film from director Sam Mendes (who made the James Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre” as well as the drama “American Beauty”), is also a horror movie of sorts, a very personal one in which the monsters aren’t supernatural creatures but merely other human beings fighting under a different flag. It just so happens that they are Germans, but they might as well be zombies, since that’s about as much character development they get.
As such, it’s a very simple story — will our heroes be able to survive the next few hours? — but it’s crafted with such filmmaking bravura and sense of hold-your-breath suspense that it’s one of the season’s most rewarding movie-going pleasures.
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I gathered from the previews it’s a WWI Saving Private Ryan.
Two soldiers sent to warn a group of soldiers containing one of their brothers of an imminent attack, or something like that.
“Why are we supposed to give a sh*t about the motivations and feelings of the enemy? It’s not like they give a damn about our men when they’re trying to kill them!”
There was a couple of interesting articles this year (one in American Thinker) about the Christmas Truce of 1914 with new information regarding how the common soldiers felt versus the military and political establishments. Also how the establishments at that time tried to suppress the truces in the future. It was a reminder that one should not be whipped up into a frenzy regarding enemies (or causes such as global warming) by our “betters”. Way too many men were killed during 1914-1918.
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Cavalry and/or mounted infantry also had a prominent role in the fighting in the Middle East...
In the Second World War, the Germans used horses to pull artillery and logistics for their non-motorized/mechanized divisions.
For later
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A ditto and another plug for The Great War channel. Jesse's pronunciations are superb.
Golden Globe. Isn’t that where the unproductive anti-Americans are celebrated by their peers. Wonder what crap they are circulating amongst themselves today. I.m sure that they still believe they are the superior ones.
WWI?
Hell, the Poles used a Horse Cavalry charge against German tanks in WWII!
Too many men - averaging roughly 10,000 PER DAY, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for over four years.
Dead.
Europe never recovered.
Germans used horses for 80% of their equipment transport during WWII.
I have seen very good videos on YouTube of the logistics of the Wehrmacht especially on the Ostfront; a guy who goes by TIK is great. The logistical situation went down fast just a few weeks in Barbarossa.
Recently saw some documentary on the D-Day invasion. In this film some German, looking down at the forces storming the beaches supposedly asked, “But where are their horses?”
Well done!
YouTube - The Lighthorsemen - Charge at Beersheba
Video run time = 00:09:46 minutes
If you don’t like too much gruesome, you might consider the alternative of the anime “The Saga of Tanya the Evil”.
Same time period on a different world, plus magic.
“..the Christmas Truce of 1914 with new information regarding how the common soldiers felt versus the military and political establishments. Also how the establishments at that time tried to suppress the truces in the future.”
The troops did NOT want to climb back into the trenches. The common soldier on both sides was fed up with killing each other. Couldn’t even get the artillery to start a barrage.
IIRC it was either a French or English officer who brought up fresh troops and fired indiscriminately into gatherings of soldiers from both sides to get the war started again.
I second that plug. If you can see it in 3D, do so.
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