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Eastwood keeps it a little too real in ‘Flags’
Boston Herald ^ | 10/19/06

Posted on 10/19/2006 8:30:57 AM PDT by Valin

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To: weegee
The flag raising in the Rosenthal photo was, in a sense, staged. A different flag [smaller] had been raised earlier by a different group of Marines after Suribachi had been taken. But the group immortalized in the photo was sent by higher HQ with a larger flag [to be seen from the beach]and Rosenthal went along [as did a movie camera man] as well.
81 posted on 10/19/2006 10:52:19 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: dfwgator

Band of Brothers is probably as good as you're going to get.




You could be right, but I could not get through the first thirty minutes because that stupid "Friends" guy - David Schwimmer is in it and I can't stand that winny sissy. I loved Friends, but mostly because of the others who were on it.


82 posted on 10/19/2006 10:53:15 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Locomotive Breath

I had a cousin that was killed during the airdrop. He was shot repeatedly while coming down in his parachute.


83 posted on 10/19/2006 10:59:34 AM PDT by NY Attitude (You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
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To: carton253

I DIDN'T SAY THAT EITHER!


84 posted on 10/19/2006 11:06:27 AM PDT by OKSooner
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To: weegee

If you look at the trailers you'll see they share footage. Also note the voice of a Saving Private Ryan character and actors from Band of Brothers.
http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/iwojima-movies/trailer/flags_small.html

Red Sun Black Sand.
"http://youtube.com/watch?v=uYv1iTrBDxU


85 posted on 10/19/2006 11:08:18 AM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: You Dirty Rats

Agree to all you say. They could at least do Bloody Ridge. Or they could do this story...

http://www.medalofhonor.com/JohnBasilone.htm

After all that note where he was killed - Iwo.


86 posted on 10/19/2006 11:11:34 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: OKSooner

Sorry...automatic assumption. LOL!


87 posted on 10/19/2006 11:11:40 AM PDT by carton253 (Sadness is just another word for not enough chocolate.)
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To: anyone
Okay, what does this mean?

I’m not leaving because I know you - and you’ll shoot the day without me! I won’t be in the movie! He laughed and said, ‘Good, because it’s a long way from your heart.

88 posted on 10/19/2006 11:12:14 AM PDT by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
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To: GretchenM

Did a double take on that one too. He means that being shot through the lip is less damaging than being shot through the heart.


89 posted on 10/19/2006 11:13:26 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: napscoordinator
You could be right, but I could not get through the first thirty minutes because that stupid "Friends" guy - David Schwimmer is in it and I can't stand that winny sissy

If you read Ambrose's book, you'd realize that Schwimmer was perfectly cast as Sobel.

90 posted on 10/19/2006 11:16:45 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Locomotive Breath
I found this in a review at IMDB. They wimped out.

Stephen Spielberg and Clint Eastwood obviously had to tap dance around an "Elephant in the Room" when it came to showing what happened to John Bradley's friend on Iwo Jima. If you've read the book, you know what happened. The movie does a masterful job of bringing the subject up, but not bringing it up in a manner that would offend the squeamish, or, for that matter, bringing it up in a way that would make it impossible to show the movie to a Japanese audience.
91 posted on 10/19/2006 11:24:25 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: Locomotive Breath

Nick Berg's head just sort of "fell off" too!


92 posted on 10/19/2006 11:26:39 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Valin
KEWL. Clint Eastwood treats actors less humanely than the federal government treats enemy combatants in Guantanamo and Abu Ghirab.

Hollywood can the left can stick that in their pipes and smoke it.

93 posted on 10/19/2006 11:28:39 AM PDT by Centurion2000 ("Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.")
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To: OKSooner
Seriesly? I was hoping for something from the European Theater that no one's done an historically accurate movie about...

I'd like to see some more on World War I but from the perspective of the ground troops. Like Flyboys but how about with early model tanks?

94 posted on 10/19/2006 11:31:00 AM PDT by Centurion2000 ("Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.")
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To: carton253
But there was one episode devoted to Bastogne - told from the medic's point of view.

That episode had the best line, "How do I feel about being rescued by Patton? I'd feel real peachy about it, except for one thing. We didn't need to be f'ing rescued by Patton, you got that!"

95 posted on 10/19/2006 11:33:50 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rlmorel

I would think Tarawa would of made a great movie, everyone knows about Iwo Jima.

Once in a while on the Military Channel they talk about some action that has happen in Iraq or Afganistan. Shame that Hollywood will ignore the heroics happening today over there.


96 posted on 10/19/2006 11:41:47 AM PDT by Swiss
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To: dfwgator

I liked that line too...After Dick Winters saw the mini-series, he took Hanks and Spielberg to task over the excessive language. He was it was unnecessary and they didn't talk like that.


97 posted on 10/19/2006 11:43:21 AM PDT by carton253 (Sadness is just another word for not enough chocolate.)
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To: Valin

Looks like Barry Pepper has managed to expunge Battlefield Earth from his past. Good for him.


98 posted on 10/19/2006 11:54:32 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: carton253
. He was it was unnecessary and they didn't talk like that.

I'm sure "Wild Bill" Guarnere never swore over in Europe, LOL!

99 posted on 10/19/2006 11:56:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: weegee

that film is already done...the Trailer is better.


100 posted on 10/19/2006 11:56:45 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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