what secrets lie behind these walls. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. p.w. world heritage 360 get the apps now. or films are really a way for people to transmit a kind of history lesson. almost every filmmaker ultimately they want to make a war film. the

feel of the trenches at a safe distance war on the silver screen whether patriotic glorification or cautionary tale movies shaped our ideas about war they tell stories of heroism. and trauma. but where are the black soldiers on the cinematic battlefield and what roles do women play in war movies we put the film genre in our crosshairs 75 years after the end of world war 2. most of us have never and hopefully will never go to war. our experience of battle comes from the movies. war has fascinated filmmakers from the start of. battle scenes push the technical limits of movie making.

over a century of cinema war movies have become more intense more realistic and more violent . but they show us what war is really like sam fuller hollywood director and world war 2 veteran didn't think so other who was sometimes in a bad mood would then say if you really wanted to film war you would have to actually fire real and you nation out of the audience are over the heads of the audience. one of the 1st great war films was the list milestones classic. all quiet on the western front it was the 1st popular movie to depict the fours of world war one you know. that's why it's also quiet on the western front because of

course a groundbreaking work of course and this i think explains all it shows the ugly side of the war will fall on my particular on the mass deaths on the western front because the bad gets hyped. milestone was a declared pacifist but even his movie makes war seem exciting. and so you see the machine gun and then in a reverse shock you see the people that are being mowed down as though it was the camera itself moeen the people down he can't get out of this problem which is to say that he has to stage the very drama that he's also trying to criticize. the excitement of war cinemas taken to the extreme in 1917 director sam mendez depicts his grandfather's experience in world war one as a grand adventure. indeed hunter said half

a century later in vietnam war is not a fun adventure the infamous game of russian roulette may or may not be historically accurate for director michael chaney no russian roulette is a metaphor for how combat really feels. is weighted because of firefly usually is fierce. unbelievably. insane. over in a very short space of time. and then. you're paraplegic. one of the through there's no in between. when steven spielberg recreated the world war 2 d.-day landings in saving private ryan he made it as visceral and violent as anything deerhunter. spielberg wanted to try to put the viewer exactly in the position of one of the infantry soldiers

you know who had. his body was essentially you know a target the viewer can feel the fear the. the excitement the pressure the terror the nervousness everything there's no other way that an audience would get that much of a strong impression of exactly what it was like to be in that battle. because it's very uncomfortable for the viewer confidence who said at the same time in an almost perverse way it's fascinating and he said because it's like going on a ghost writer on the gusts that we experience something that we're not really experiencing the during you know the monsters are real and in the movie you know the war isn't real those. in the end war cinema remains entertainment war cinema is never war. our movie memories of battle have become more visceral and more violent but we're still

a long way from knowing what war is really like it is. there both fascinating and horrifying films that are critical of war. i love the spotlight pub of the morning. felt like the. victory. it's one of the most quoted lines from a war film robert duvall cynical commentry as will kill go in apocalypse now.

this comes shortly after he and his troops carry out a helicopter attack on a vietnamese finnish accompanied by fog ms ride as a valid trace transport toplessness huge if we want this country nightmares. leg. one come to. you i say that i am tired working on this farm domes in which war should never be justified. come they have them in the contrast for them in war films idea wars may be justified but they still do not say that war is beautiful or good thoughts in the end they still show the horrors of war he talks them off the shackles cletus tight. little like the 2nd world war in the dead he doesn't decision and loyalty determine victory and defeat the director robert i'll judge the ends justify the means as long as the nazis only minute. it is.

a man by see this alone he sent to vietnam to free american prisoners gilmer single handed you loser moved in in real life the united states had lost. sleep. forever. one of those people called him the teacher told all the good. news the dividing line between propaganda and patriotism between glorification and deterrence is very theme in many films. you know. they are probably. the fallout from the american disaster in vietnam caused more and more filmmakers in hollywood to take a clear stand against war and they were successful on the stone one for oscars with platoon but can a film really be anti war will have a pacifist message with all the slow some. believe the whole problem with

a pacifist war film is that this is a contradiction in terms. i think it's definitely possible to make war films in such a way that at the end of the film people are filled with what classic tragedy called pity and ah or shock and horror but i think that only works by virtue of the narrative if you tell a strong story like the bridge it shocked audiences 15 years after the end if it were to whisk him in society was then experiencing an economic miracle that it displaced the memories of killing and dying the book is something very bridges and that is especially suitable for young people here from the back because it's about young people go and they can identify incredibly well with all these characters but these are it is also an excellent film an incredibly well performed film you go through most. i don't even know young's ice jam going for good

introductory talk about your kid just all the boys don't listen and come to regret it deeply the next week he not only wanted to remember the 2nd maybe he also gained then there. was this i'm feeling there was a film that spoke out against the media rearmament just a couple of years after the west german army had been found innocent women were indirectly it also asking questions about where the confrontation in the cold war was leading us not being followed it should be forgotten of the film was released in 196461 is it shortly before the cuban missile crisis for which the 3rd world war almost broke out of a debate because koppel. tenant's malik is not interested in politics but philosophy in the scene red line he depicts the battle in the pacific and 942 from the perspective of nature. beautiful and disturbing shots he seems to be asking us how can these things co-exist all the beauty and

all the horror of the film could hardly express its military that war has no place on this planet. long. many popular war movies were made in the usa but how close does the hollywood version come to the real thing. most images of american soldiers in war one thing in common all the soldiers are white. african-americans have fought in every american war but black faces in battle have been almost entirely whitewashed from america's visual history . especially at the movies. john wayne is the epitome of the american g.i.

from world war 2 vietnam hollywood has consistently shown the great white hero saving the world. but hollywood got its history wrong in not getting the true story . in fact the 1st american killed by the british at the boston massacre was a black man i was a black man and. yes. crispus attucks was the 1st in a long line of african-americans who served and died for their country. after the 2nd shot. in before you start a fire all hell breaks loose in 2008 director spike lee told the story of the real life the 92nd infantry division the so-called buffalo soldiers who fought in italy in world war 2. they. were using force. for them and lee's film wasn't the 1st to show black americans in combat in glory

going to washington plays a soldier in the 1st all black company in the civil war i don't want to provide you with the films with african-american soldiers front and center are still the exception stripes on their white peers furnivall. most studio and most filmmakers have been white males and they've been telling a white male story imo but with the black lives matter movement the calls to tell other stories have gotten louder. as of the calls for america to reckon with its barry history. i think that black lives matter and all of the conversation now around social justice and historic reckoning is a really productive one i think it's very very educational why were there not more stories about african-americans put in the forefront why would i or token representations ok this is something that i think is a reckoning that has to happen and it's a good moment to begin it on the show with you know telling the african-american

story changes the heroic image of america seen in most war movies black soldiers who fought fascism abroad came home to a very different country than their white counterparts. to. contest when to write down. what you boys want no problem so we're just looking for some good advice laughs go from bad to good should. try it. so they went back to. their group who are serve as my damn best it was a hit list to step is you feet over there want me to eat out of a trough in the backyard like i'm some damn pig only to shoot you with the oh yeah i was a guy down the americans. remembering that forgotten history can help white america understand where today's protests come from. i mean the last time your city had

a curfew was 1943 you know what the reason was black soldier coming back from war 2 is killed by a kind heart went crazy so these rights not speak the i'm gonna get to him once again as it were right these uprisings. i don't come out of nowhere. with the least new film shows african-americans fighting and dying in vietnam while back home civil rights protests rage. america has been here before one step to imagine a different future will be to put black faces back into america's war history.

the women are rarely in the foreground war movies wouldn't be complete without them . mainly interacting with men men fighting men and men dying with the calls of men can seem like an exclusively male affair and war movies especially so where all the women. they appear rarely often only in the form of a photo or a memory all the designs of those on the front lines like this scene from 1917 a male soldier longing for his wife. they are something worth fighting for what is the virtuous you know family member who's photo is in the pocket of the soldier who he looks at away from the front depictions of the mother figure like here in

spielberg's saving private ryan silently suffering she watches tragic news approaching. we see the fear in her eyes has another of her sons being taken from her. father and clips from. living in war films are spectral. counterpoint cements the. gentle by saw in human moments decision fugu on the i emphasize the hardness in humanity of male behavior this many regions hot and speak. with the with these things and then the swing sampled just to show people. the. women symbolize goodness that hospital nurses feelings they sympathize and give comfort they can

also play the role of restoring men for the next battle they feel keeping the war going. the women have on some level. a very conservative function they are the loyal you know wife and mother who stay behind and wait for their husband to come back they are the ones who keep the country and the family going. in the spielberg film the mother is a strangely passive character the grief is voiceless a time on screen less than 10 minutes she's already lost 3 sons to war now the last son james is to be sent home to minimize her anguish. you don't want. our is your friend your back so i can't leave them when they're supposed to tell your mother. and they send her another folded american flag. color that when you found me. i was here and i was with the only brothers that i have left and there's

no way i was going to desert. for the son camerata reboot his fellow soldiers trumps his mother's grief or so it goes in times of war. sometimes a woman's role is symbolic like when scofield makes a mother and child something like mary and jesus figures. his own. i'll ask questions but as soon as the soldier leaves this apparently blessid scene killing to news the fallen for cop women embody the costs of war and even in war films without pacifist undertones threats and. women are hardly present in your films sexuality and especially homosexuality are completely absent bodily contact happens only for the purpose of annihilation. women characters are only rarely

central mrs min of a shows the suffering of civilians living through war here it's not a man who's the victim of a battle but a young woman she dies in the arms of mrs min of a very much an exception in this genre and characters. get you. something. the last person a man sees is usually a man you know that whether it's the 1st world war or vietnam war will also destroys those men who make it home alive often they can't relate to their wives can't understand what makes them tick a return to normality is unthinkable i'm not going to make excuses for what. what i found. i don't know if i and our family i don't know.

what's led to the lack of women characters in the one dimensional space people being could it be the result of decades of male dominated bollywood directing. i think it's an interesting question about what women directors will do you when they get a bigger seat at the table and a chance to make more films and to make more high budget films. now i thought i'm going to get. something may have begun to change in the last few years wonder woman signals a new direction the woman goes ahead into battle men follow it's directed by a woman to cash in jenkins some have celebrated the film as a kind of feminist manifesto but can there be such a thing as a feminist fulfilled. or still waiting for the who are movies that really think battle from the position of women women's violent war hero

doesn't seem like any kind of role model but it's likely hollywood be giving us more of a future. lead. when the physical battle and the psychological one begins how hollywood depicts the hidden wounds that wars leave behind. and now long here to tell you that i have killed for my country or whatever. and i don't feel good about. this war zone hell of a society lie to me applied to my brothers and i can't i can't find the words to express leadership of this government sickens me. to veterans with the same mysie the united states since its. soldiers. returning as parents now in vietnam the 1st time soldiers were allowed to talk about their war trauma

they were not allowed to do that after the 1st or 2nd and also not after the korean war. in coming home from the 1970 s. and trauma crews in 1990 were feeling on the 4th of july the veterans return time now confined to wheelchairs and found they got anything but a hero's welcome darkness harder than in the vietnam era people who returned put their uniform in the closet and never wore it again in public because the you know people who protested against the war would criticize them and they didn't want to put themselves in that position so i think that these kind of fellows have really helped to process the trauma for veterans for americans who were not involved in the conflict but may be opposed to it to films treat the issues differently one of the stones will leaves room for the possibility that there might be something we're going to hear from you. shoulder to shoulder. across on those he does

upon his a bit different with a film like coming home which primarily shows us that war is often associated with the experiences that people never get over the money money that the war never really ends for the survivors and that the burden is heavy applies. for one person alone to carry sidearms and. one soldier chooses not to return home. in apocalypse now colonel walter played by monem brando loses his senate. you must make a friend of hoarder. and. he takes his unit deep into the jungle to service his private army so he can roam free of any concept of morality the character is used as a means to convey direct to francis ford coppola's antiwar message. these are films that have to really deal with

a kind of national hangover and at the end those he has them is over the wreckage and carnage is visibly clear and how do you would then deal with that i regret oh mark robert altman uses cynicism to make his point in his film mash a mobile army surgical hospital looks after the wounded during the korean war but the doctors hearts and minds a focus more on the attractive nurses on football it's their way of keeping the pain and suffering at bay the harsh reality of what they face every day in the operating theaters. nothing is sacred to outman not even the image of the last supper which he recreates 1st seen the movie a short is heard in this anti war film but punching lines run thick and fast maybe it is the best way to survive a war after all they are well. you know. yeah. yeah verbal. war movies are gripping both visually

and emotionally that's all from this episode of art's 2175 years after the end of the 2nd world war.

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