Posted on 11/03/2022 5:07:55 AM PDT by C19fan
Critics and viewers alike have heaped praise on Netflix's new World War One movie All Quiet on the Western Front and called for it to be nominated for an Oscar.
The film follows the life of German soldier Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), who, after enlisting in the Army with his friends, finds himself confronting the harrowing realities of war, shattering their hopes of becoming heroes.
Since its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the drama has earned critical acclaim, and is Germany's submission for Best International Feature Film for the 2023 Academy Awards.
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I just started reading Rites of Spring…a great recommendation, thank you!
And then, worst of all, they make Paul’s death a part of a “final battle”, completely subverting his death in the book which came quietly and on such an uneventful day that the military report for the day only read “All quiet on the Western front”.
Garbage.
I watched the first 40 minutes and turned it off. They spent so much time on the horrors of war that they forgot character development and a plot. They missed the whole point of the book.
Spoiler alert! The kraut gets it at the end!
I know it’s an old thread but I just saw the movie.
I agree with those FReepers saying it deviated quite a bit from the book.
The scenes in the end with men shot for cowardice on the German side, as well as that final attack, were bizarre. It was the French who executed soldiers to deal with the 1917 trench mutinies, and it was the western allies who bombarded the Germans on the last day of the war, if for no other reason than to deplete stockpiles of shells.
Kat’s death didn’t need the revision, either.
They seemed to replace a couple of military things with civilian ones (the scarf replacing the boots, and Kat’s death). They also omitted civilian parts (the visit home, group interaction with French females).
Definitely not a good adaptation.
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