they know that the road is not a solution. they know their flight could be sale going back. not an option. peace ma, i'm on and they are stuck in the spanish border area. alongside other young people there waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts june 18th on d w. the war films are really away for people to transmit a kind of history list almost every filmmaker. ultimately they want to make a war film. the

ah, the feel of the trenches at a safe distance war from the silver spring weather patriotic glorification or cautionary tale movies, shape or ideas about war. they tell stories of heroism and trauma wheelchair. but where are the black soldiers on the cinematic battlefield? and what rules do women play in war movies? we put the film genre in our cross hairs 75 years after the end of world war 2. the me, most of us have never and hopefully will never go to war. our experience of battle comes from the movie. the war has fascinated filmmakers from the start

battle themes push the technical limits of movie making the news. over a century of cinema, war movies have become more intense, more realistic, and more violent. the let up. but do they show us what war is really like? sam fuller, hollywood director, and we'll bore to veteran didn't think so. father, who was sometimes in a bad mood, would then say, if you really wanted to fill war, you would have to actually fire real. and you mission at the audience or over the head of the audience. one of the 1st great war films was the milestone plastic.

all quiet on the western front. it was the 1st popular movie to pick the 4th, a world war one all quiet on the western front, of course, a groundbreaking, what was worse than now? it shows the ugly sense of war upon my particular, on the mass that's on the western front. so you can see that and get psyched, the milestone was the declared path. but even his movie makes war seem excited. and so you speak the machine gun and then in a reverse shot, you see the people that are being bowed down as though it was the camera itself. moving the people down, he can 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 is a grand adventure. the in deer hunter sat half later in vietnam, or is not a fun adventure. the infamous game of russian roulette may or may not be historically accurate. for director of michael canino, russian roulette is a metaphor for how combat, really, the main element of combat is waiting. because a firefight usually is fierce unbelievably sane and is over in a very short time. and then you're either dead, you're a paraplegic, but you're alive. one of the 3 know in between when steven spielberg recreated the world war 2 d. t a landings in saving private ryan. he made it as visceral and violent as

anything in the or hunter spielberg wanted to try to put the viewer exactly in the position of one of the infantry soldiers who had by 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 is no other way that an audience would get that much of a strong impression of exactly what it would like to be in that battle. the, it's very uncomfortable for the viewer on students who said at the same time id in an almost perverse way. it's fascinating and maybe because it's like going on a ghost. right. and we experience something that we're not really experienced during the ghost, right? we know the masters are real and in the movie, you know the wars in real aces. this is the supreme moment of invasion. in the end

war cinema remains. entertainment for cinema is never war. are movie, memories of battle become more visceral and more violent, but we're still a long way from knowing what war is really like this. they're both fascinating and horrifying films that are critical of war. ah, come in the morning. me if one of the most close lines from a war film robot, devout clinical commentary,

will kill go in apocalypse now. the system shortly after he and his troops carry a helicopter, tackling his be amazed image, accompanied by wagner ride as our crews message of ruined madness. the country was on. you could say that ma'am, ty, work on a certain domes which war never be justified, because i can be of any contrast in war films. my doors may be justified, but they still do not say that war is beautiful or good cuts in the sand. they still show the horrors of war. he taught them off the 2nd side, the like the 2nd world war in the dirty dozen precision and loyalty determined victory and defeat the director. robert august. the ends justify the means. as long

as the nazis early emanated, the ran to learn to be to 3 american prisoners to feel much single handedly when it was in real life. the united states had lost the remo. what those people call hill, called the dividing line between propaganda and patriotism, between glorification and deterrence is very seen in many films. come out the full out for the american disaster and pools. more and more still makers in hollywood to take a clear stand against was they were successful. all of us stone,

one full oscars with platoon, that kind of film really be anti more or have a pass this message with all the closer. ah, the problem with a pacifist war, phil, is that this is a contradiction in terms of the 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 p t. and off or shock and horror, but i think that only works by virtue of the narrative. you tell. strange story like the bridge it shut. audience is 15 years after the end of world war 2. with jim and society with an experience in economic miracle that displaced all the memories with killing and dawning book, ascension, that originally especially suitable for young people. i mentioned that because it's about young people and they can identify incredibly well with all these character. i love you, but there's also an excellent film,

an incredibly well performed film. same as well. you just want to use the speak. you don't even know how young's last the i'm going for her because you're not going to officers and kinda saw the boys. don't listen and come to regret it. then you know, if you wanted to remember the 2nd mobile, he also had to find him. that was the film that spoke out against the media rearmament just a couple of years after the west german army had found it. when the indirectly, it also ask you questions about where the confrontation in the cold war was eating . nothing should be forgotten and that the film was released in 196461. shortly before the cuban missile crisis, for which the 3rd world war almost broke out. the debate click, i was call me, i can smell it is not interested in politics. but philosophy in the thin red line, he depicts the battle in the pacific in 1942, from the perspective of nature. beautiful,

undisturbed, and shows. he seems to be asking, how can these things come exist? all the beauty and all the horror. films could hardly express that the war has no place on this planet. ah, many popular war movies were made in the usa. but how close to the hollywood version come to the real thing? ah, most images of american soldiers and war have one thing in common. all the soldiers are white, african americans fought in every american war. but black faces in battle have been almost entirely whitewashed for america's visual history. especially

at the movie, john wayne is the epitome of the american g r. from world war 2 to vietnam, hollywood has consistently shown the great white hero saving lewis. 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 with a black man. i was a black man in the attic christmas attics was the 1st a long line of african americans who served and died for their country after the 2nd shot. before you saw the fire all hell breaks loose in 2008, director spike lee told the story of the real life 92nd infantry division. so called buffalo soldiers, who fought in italy in world war 2. fate. would you bought

them and these film was the 1st to show black americans in combat in glory, dental washington, place a soldier in the 1st all black company in the civil war. regular films with african american soldiers, front and center, are still the exception. stripes on like pits unable most studio. and most filmmakers have been white males and they've been telling a white male story. but with the black lives matter movement, the calls tell other stories have gotten louder as the calls for america to reckon with it's barry history. think that black lives matter and all of that conversation now around social justice and historic reckoning is 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 at telling the african american story changes the heroic image of america seen in most war. moving to black soldiers who fought fascism abroad, came home to a very different country than their white counterparts. the car test when boys want to think no problem. so we just looking for so was it a wife? let us go back to something. turning around back to my nigger who are service my damn business schools, a hitler's boost stepped as you feed over there. you want me to eat? i love a trough in the backyard, like, i'm some damping me to shoot you the gone down american. me remembering that forgotten history can help white america

understand where today's protests come from. me the last time your city had a curfew. was 943 north region was a black stove to come back from war to get killed by a cap. harlow went crazy. so these rights, not goofy. i don't, i don't want to get to the guys that were right. these uprisings don't come out of nowhere. the least new film shows african americans fighting and dying in vietnam while back home, civil rights protest, rage the america has been here before. one step to imagine a different teacher will be to put black faces back into america's war history. me the

news. the women are rarely in the foreground. war movies wouldn't be complete without them. ah, men interacting with men, men fighting men, men dying with and because of men. war can seem like an exclusively male affair and war movies, especially so where the women they appear rarely, often only in the form of a photo or a memory or the desires of those on the front lines like this scene from 917, a male soldier longings for his wife, they are something worth fighting for. what is the virtuous, you know,

a family member whose 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 been taken from her. hon and clicks for him. tell him. war films are spectra, a counterpoint to the man this another. this manners, the middle gentle by and human human, this dish and he won the emphasize the hardness and humanity of male behavior. man, i just mentioned speaker and he should cover the with his and then the swing shuttled to shall be

women symbolized goodness, hospital, menaces, healing they sympathize and give comfort. they can also play the role of restoring men for the next battle. therefore keeping the war going, the women have on some level, a very conservative function. they are the loyal 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. her grief is voiceless. at time on screen, less than 10 minutes. she's already lost 3 sons to war. now her last son james, is to be sent home to minimize her anguish. you're going to bring you back or i can't leave that where they're supposed to tell your mother

when they send her another folded american flag. tell her 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 the for the son, cameron curry with his fellow soldiers, trump, his mother's grief. and kinds of wool. sometimes a woman's role is symbolic, like when schofield meets a mother and child, something like marry in jesus figures wonderland. but as soon as the soldier leads his apparently blessing. killing continues, fallen for women embody the costs of war. and even in more films without passages undertone states and women are hardly present in films, sexuality,

and especially homosexuality. a completely absent bodily contact happens only for the purpose of annihilation. women characters only rarely, central. mrs. minerva shows the suffering of civilians living through war. here it's not a man who's the victim of baffled, but a young woman. she dies in the arms with mrs. men of a very much an exception in this shondra. during the last person demands these is usually a man, whether it's the 1st world war or vietnam 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 happened, what i'm saying. yeah, i do not belong to ms. hender saying that i don't belong to the lack of women carrying the one dimensional perspective on more. could it be the result of decades of male dominated only with directing? i think it's an interesting question about what women directors will do when they get a bigger seat at the table and a chance to make more films and to make more hi budget films. so i'm going to do something may have begun to change in the last few years. wonder woman signals a new direction. the woman goes ahead into baffled men follow. it's directed by a want to kathy jenkins. stuff have celebrated the film as a kind of feminist manifesto that can be such a thing as a feminist film. we're still waiting for her. so who are movies

that rethink battle from the position of women? the woman is violent, war hero doesn't seem like any kind of role model, but it's likely hollywood, the giving us more than the future when the physical battle and the like a logical when begins how hollywood depicts the hidden rules that wars leave behind . now on here to tell you that i have killed my country or whatever and i don't feel good about this one. just decide why to me like my brothers and no, i can't. i can't put into words to express the leadership of this government to that with the same message the united states,

since it's people to expose returning as paraplegic. now protest fine holders were allowed to talk about the war trauma. they were not allowed to do that after the 1st or 2nd and also not after the korean war, i shown foyce in coming home from 97999. on the 4th of july, the victims returned home now confined to wheelchairs and found they got anything but a hero as well. in the vietnam era, people who returned put their uniform in the closet and never wore it again in public because the 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 films have really helped to process the trauma for veterans for americans who were not involved in the conflict, but may be opposed to film street. the issues differently. one of the stones move

leaves room for the possibility that there might be something worth going to room show, show that it was on the leak. this is a bit different with a film like coming home, which primarily shows us that more is often associated with experiences that people never get over. but the money that the war never really ends for the survivors of and the burden heavy pies 0 who are apt to have be for one person alone to carry an answer in coggan come one soldier chooses not to return home at all in apocalypse. now colonel walter quotes played by mont, brandon loses his sanity. you must make a friend of horror, power and moral terror. he takes his unit deep into the jungle to service his private army, so he can roll free of any concept of morality. the character is he as

a means to convey director frances ford couplers, anti bully message fever films that have to really deal with a kind of national hang over to the as them is over the wreckage and carnage is visibly clear. and how do you deal with that? there are lots of been used as cynicism to make his point in his fil mash a mobile army surgical hospital, looked after the wounded during the korean war. but the doctor's hearts and minds of focus more on the attractiveness is on football. it's day away at keeping pain and suffering. the harsh reality is what they faced every day in the operation status. nothing is sacred to and not even the image of the last supper, which he recreate the 1st thing, the movie. a short is heard in his anti war film. but punch, run thick and fast. maybe it is the best places to buy the war. after all was,

well in this war and movies are gripping both visually and emotionally. that's all from this episode of arts 2175 years after the end of the 2nd world war. oh oh. the the who's who's

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