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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 real church. 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 to push the technical limits of movie making. over a century of cinema war movies have become more intense more realistic and more violent . but there they show us what war is really like sam fuller hollywood director and world war 2 veteran i didn't think it called or 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 act the audience are over the heads of the audience. one of the 1st great war films was the list milestones last like.

all quiet on the western front it was the 1st popular movie to depict the floors 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 we expense all it shows the ugly side of the war on my particular on the mass deaths on the western front. most on 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 cinema has taken to the extreme in 1917 director sam mendez

depicts his grandfather's experience in world war one as a grand adventure. india 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 fire fight usually is fierce. unbelievably. insane and is over in a very short space of time. and then you're either. you're a paraplegic or you're alive one of the through 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 deer hunter.

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 drinks you know the monsters are real in the movie you know the war isn't real this very moment i mean in the end war cinema remains entertainment

war cinema is never a war. our movie memories of battle of 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 smell of the top of the morning. the smell of like the. victory. it's one of the most quoted lines from

a war film rather devolves cynical commentry as will kill go in apocalypse now. this comes shortly after he and his troops carry out the helicopter attack on a vietnamese spinach accompanied by wagner's ride as a valid trace francisco culture his message was real as total nightmares. uncomfortable as are you i say that i am tired working almost normal domes in which war can never be justified. calm they have them in the contrast from the war films idea or is maybe justified but they still do not say that war is beautiful or good looks in the sand they still show the horrors of war he talks them off the shock nisqually this type. of people like the 2nd world war in the dirty dozen decision and loyalty determine victory in defeat for director robert i'll judge the ends

justify the means as long as the nazis early in the night it. it is. random see this alone is sent to viet nam to free american prisoners the almost singlehandedly winterhaven in real life the united states had lost. sleep. rambo what people call hell to keep hold of it is. the dividing line between propaganda and patriotism between glorification and deterrence is very theme in many films. you know. they are called they are. the fallout from the american disaster in vietnam caused more and more filmmakers in hollywood to take a clear stand against me and i was successful all of a stone one for oscars with platoon but can a film me be anti rule 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 of world war 2 was german society was then experiencing an economic miracle that you displaced and the memories came and on. the book is something very bridges and that is especially suitable for young people here from the back because it's about young people and they can identify incredibly well with all these characters but these are it is also an excellent film an incredibly well performed feel for the most

likable. you don't even know young's ice jam going forward official engine i got you got your kitchen garbage can just all the boys don't listen and come to regret it deeply the next week he not only wanted to remember the 2nd movie he also gave and then there. was this on film that 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 in directly it also asking questions about where the confrontation in the cold war was leading us up in fight it should be forgotten and 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 debate because koppel. tenant's malik is not interested in politics but philosophy in the fin medline he depicts the battle in the pacific in 1942 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 film could hardly expressiveness the 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 white washed 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 in. christmas addicks was the 1st in a long line of african-americans who served and died for their country. after the 2nd shot. him 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 leaves 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 like 15 of all over most studio and most filmmakers have been white males and they've been telling a white male story i'm but with a black lives matter movement the calls to tell other stories have gotten louder. as of the calls for america to reckon with its buried 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 were 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 level you know telling me 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. contest went right to. but it was long no problem so we're just looking for some good advice laughs around but it's. true. they were around back to. negra who are service my damn business those are his steppers you feet over the world with either love or trough in the backyard like i'm some they're picking on me to shoot you with all over i want to get them there 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 children coming back from war to is killed by a kind heart went crazy so these riots not the only one to get to it was the guys that were right these uprisings. don't come out of nowhere. at 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.

though women are rarely in the foreground war movies wouldn't be complete without them. main interacting with men men fighting men men dying because of men can seem like an exclusively male affair and war movies especially so when 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. a counterpoint to the manse that's on the road this month it's the middle gentle by soft inhuman to my mr sheen figure on the audience's eyes the hardness in humanity of male behavior monitors many asians cotton spiegel. is hooked up with the with these things and then the swing shuffle just to show people she's . a good.

women symbolize goodness they're hospital nurses she lives they sympathize and give comfort they can also play the role of restoring men for the next battle in the war going on. the women have on some level. a very conservative faction they are 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 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. are his or bring your back so i can leave them where they're supposed to tell your mother. and they

send her another folded american flag. color 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 cameron with his fellow soldiers trumps his mother's grief so it goes in times of war. sometimes a woman's role is symbolic like when scofield to meet some mother and child something like mary and jesus figures. his own. all walks of life and this is but as soon as the soldier leaves this apparently less insane the killing continues the problem for college women embody the costs of the war and even in war films without passages undertones sense and. women are

hardly present in the 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 battle but a young woman she dies in the arms of mrs min of a very much an exception in this genre and characters. damn. good that you. think. 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've found. i don't know. i am going to find that i don't know. what's led to the lack of women characters in the one dimensional state given to me 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 it's like i'm going to do. something may have begun to change in the last few years wonder woman signals a new direction for the woman who goes ahead into battle men follow it's directed by a woman i'm sure catching jenkins some have celebrated the film as a kind of feminist manifesto but can there be such a thing as a feminist fulfillment. we're still waiting for the war movies

that reaping battle from the position of women women as violently war hero doesn't seem like any kind of role model but it's likely hollywood would be giving us more in the 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 however to society lie to me if i did my brothers and i can't i can't find the words to express our leadership of this government sickens me. to veterans with the same missy the united states since its

peak. 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 1978 when children cruised in 1994 feeling on the 4th of july the victims 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 felons 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 feel st the issues differently one of the

stones will draw leaves room for the possibility that there might be something we're going to hear from you really shoulder to shoulder. with us on those because i think it's a bit different with a film like coming home primarily shows us that war is often associated with the experiences of people never get over the money mean that the war never really ends for the survivors and the burdens have it applies to happy for one person alone to carry sidearms and. one soldier chooses not to return home. in apocalypse now colonel walter played by marlon brando loses his sanity 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 director francis ford coppola's and t. ball message. these are films that have to really deal with a kind of national hangover and at the end those the asm is over the wreckage and carnage is visibly clear and how do you then deal with that everybody her own work robert altman uses cynicism to make his point in his film mash immobile army surgical hospital looks after the wounded during the korean war but the doctors hearts and minds a focus more on the attractive nurses are 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 seeing the movie a shot is heard in this anti war film but punch lines run thick and fast is the

best way to survive a war after all they are well. you know. busy yeah. yeah the world. 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. yeah.

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