Perhaps we can look forward to seeing a movie about how hard it was on holocaust guards next.
Japan was the agressor nation. If we hadn't stepped in it would have ruled the Asian Pacific. It would have sooner or later turned it strength against our west coast.
I don't give a flying figg about the Japanese hardship on Iwo Jima and it is an embarassment that anyone does.
But we've already had plenty of films showing how "tough it was" on simple German soldiers...
"Perhaps we can look forward to seeing a movie about how hard it was on holocaust guards next."
LMAO
What you may be overlooking is that what the Japs went through on Iwo has the makings of a brilliant movie.
Many met their deaths trapped in caves that were a true hell on Earth. If I recall correctly, "Iwo Jima" translates to something like "Sulfer Island" - cause it stinks like sulfer. Think about it; Black Sand, Stinks of Sulfer, trapped to die in hot steamy caves. A major bloodbath.
It's an amazing story.
Read "Flyboys" which, despite the author's attempts to inject moral relativism, makes it abundantly clear that the Japanese were utter barbarians, who needed to be totally crushed.
It would have been nice for Clint to have remembered the conduct of the Japs in the rape of Nanking, the rape of Shanghai, the Bataan Death March, their "medical experiments" on helpless POWs, the building of the railroad that was involved in "The Bridge on the River Kai," and countless other atrocities. The sewed the wind and they justly reaped the whirlwind. Payback's a bitch.
.....I don't give a flying figg about the Japanese hardship on Iwo Jima and it is an embarassment that anyone does.......
I recognize the sentiment but there is a responsibility to history to record what happened. To not report on the Japaneese side of the battle would be doing history an injustice.
As a case directly to the point, I cite the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora". This movie is withoubt doubt the best of the many Pearl Harbor movies. The reason it is good is that it tells the whole story. It does not take a strong political stand.It clearly shows the events and weakness of both sides.It ends by quoting Admiral Yamamoto sagely predicting he had awakened a sleeping giant.
I am also mindful of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg who now get the credit for the best WWII movies in "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Band of Brothers". Neither Hanks nor Spielberg can be considered someone we conservatives would recognize as worthy of our personal association.
I am a serious Clint fan and admire his talents as both actor and director. Until I see the movie I will reserve judgement and trust that Clint will do for the Pacific Theater what Hanks and Speilberg did for Europe. We will see.....