literature invites us to see people in particular. i like to find the grown up world. may only objective is to share with the same beautiful w book on youtube. ah, who, 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,

feel of the trenches at a safe distance. war from silverspring, 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 battle field? and what role do women play in war movies? we put the film genre in our crosshairs, 75 years after the end of world war 2. ah, most of us have never and hopefully will never go to war. our experience of battle comes from the movie. war has fascinated filmmakers from the start battle themes push the technical limits of movie making

the 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 world war to veteran didn't think so. father, 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 live at the audience or over the head of the audience. one of the 1st great war films was lose milestone classic. all quiet on the western front. it was the 1st popular movie to depict the fours of

world war one all quiet on the western front, of course, a groundbreaking, what's worse, and it shows the ugly sense of war upon my particular and amass. that's on the western front is the better good side, the milestone was the declared passage. but even his movie makes war seem exciting. and so you see the machine gun and then in the reverse charge, you see the people that are being bogged down as though it was the camera itself, mo, in 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, the in deer hunter said half 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 canino, russian roulette is a metaphor for combat. really, the main element of combat is waiting in terms of firefight usually is fierce unbelievably, saying, and is over in a very sure. and then you write a dead, you're a paraplegic where you're alive. one of the 3 know in between when steven spielberg recreated the world war 2 d de landings in saving private ryan, he made it as visceral and violent as anything in fear. hunter spielberg wanted to try to put the viewer exactly in the position of one of the

infantry soldiers, you know, who had bought 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 was like to be in that battle. the it's very uncomfortable for the viewer. i'm sitting at the same time id in an almost perverse way. it's fascinating and it is because it's like going on a ghost, right? i guess that we experience something that we're not really experienced during the ghost, right? we know the masters are real and then the movie, you know, the wars and real. this is a supreme moment of invasion 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. i was very fascinating and horrifying films that are critical of war. ah, i love this little good. come in the morning. me victory. it's one of the most close lines. mobile film really devolves cynical commentary and will kill go in apocalypse now.

the system shortly after he and his troops carry out helicopter attack. one of the village, accompanied by wagner, ride of our crews message of madness. the contact was on. you could say that anti work on the smart phones would work and never be justified, was because i should come, we have them in the contrast, in war films, doors may be justified, but they still do not say that war is beautiful or good. what's in the sand? they still show the horrors of war. he taught them on the 2nd side, the like the 2nd world war in the good. he doesn't precision and loyalty determined victory and defeat the director robert algebra. the ends justify the means, as long as the nazis are limited. the

rambo to this is to learn to send 2 to 3 american prison films, single hand in real life, the united states with loss rambo, or what most people call hill. he calls the dividing line between propaganda and patriotism between glorification, under turns is very seen in many films. come out the full out. the american pool is more and more still makers in hollywood to take a li, a stand against was fun. they were successful. all of the stone, one full oscars with platoon, that kind of film really be and to have a pass this message with all the closer. ah, the problem with the past us it's more fil, is that this is

a contradiction in terms 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 the story like the bridge it shut. audience is 15 years after the end of world war 2 was german society was an experience in economic miracle that it displays all the memories, the killing and dying. the book attention that originally, that is 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 so you just want to use the speak. you don't even know how young's last year i'm going forward because you're not going to sound kinda saw the boys don't

listen and come to regret it deeply. then not only wanted to remember the sick, and he also assumed it was a film that spoke out against the media rearmament just a couple of years after the west german army had founded indirectly. it also ask you questions about where the confrontation in the old war was reading nothing, but it should be forgotten and that the film was released in 196461. shortly before the cuban missile crisis, which the 3rd world war almost broke out. to beg, i'll skip off me. tenant malik is not interested in politics but lost in the thin red line. he depicts the battle in the pacific and 1942 from the perspective of nature. beautiful and disturbing shows. he seems to be asking, how can these things come exist all the beauty and all the horror. film could

hardly express in the war, had 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, 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 and battle have been almost entirely whitewashed for america's visual history . especially at the movies. john wayne is the epitome of the american g. from world war 2 to vietnam,

hollywood has consistently shown the great white hero, saving moore. but hollywood got its history wrong in 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 the attic. christmas attics was the 1st and long line of african americans who served and died for their country 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. faith would you bought them and the film was the 1st to show black americans in combat and glory,

dental washington. place a soldier in the 1st all black company in the civil war. films with african american soldiers, front and center, are still the exception stripe son, a nigger like pits unable most studio on. 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. i 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 it. telling the african american story changes the heroic

image of america seen in most war moving to black soldiers who fought patches, them abroad, came home to a very different country than their white counterparts. the contest winner. right. boys want to think no problem. so we just looking for little weiss, let us go back and turn around back to my nigger who i serve as my damn bit was a hit was stepped as you feed over there. you want me to eat? i love a trough in the backyard, like i'm some damping you want me to shoot you. the american me remembering that forgotten history can help white america understand where today's protests come from. me. the last time you had

a curfew was 943. you know what the reason was? a black dog to come back from war 2, gets killed by a cap. harlow went crazy. so, these right? not goofy, i don't, i'm not to get to it. was 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 future will be to put black faces back into america's war history. mm. the news though,

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 the cause of men. war can seem like an exclusively male affair and war movies essentially. 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 1917, 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 being taken from her phone and clicks for him. tell him war films are spectra, a counterpoint to the man's does another. this man is the middle gentle vice in human human institutions. he won the author emphasize the hardness and humanity of male behavior, mana men, listen size and speaker. and he shook, covered with his and then the swing chuckled. to show the women symbolized goodness, the 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 or bring you back, sir? i can't leave that where they're supposed to tell your mother when they send her another folded american fly. tell her that when you found me, i was here and i was with the only brothers that i have left and there is no way i

was going to desert the for the son rotary with his fellow soldiers, trump, his mother's grief, and somebody going in kinds of wool sometimes a woman's role is symbolic, like when you go fields meet some mother and child, something like mary and jesus figures. and i was wondering but as soon as the soldier leaves this apparently blessed the scene, feeling continues. the fallen for women embody the civil war and even more films without passages undertone states and women are hardly presence in film 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 bull. here it's not a man who's the victim of battle, but a young woman. she dies in the arms of mrs. manda. very much an exception in this shondra. what is the last person a man's, 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 in this. and they're saying that i don't belong to the lack of

women carrying the one dimensional perspective on war. 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 seated the table and a chance to make more films and to make more high budget films. so what i'm going to do something may have begun to change in the last few years. wonder woman signals unused direction. the woman goes ahead into baffled men follow. it's directed by kathy jenkins. some have celebrated the field of the kind of feminist manifesto. but can there be such a thing as a feminist? warfield, we're still waiting for her. so who are movies that rethink battle from the position of women? the woman is violent more hero. it doesn't seem like any kind of role model. but

it's likely hollywood giving us more than the future when the physical battle and the like a logical when begin. how hollywood depicts the hidden wounds that wars leave behind us. now on here to tell you that i have killed my country or whatever and i don't feel good about it or is it just society why to me like my brothers and no, i can't. i can't put in the words to express the leadership of this government with the same message the united states sentence people to expose returning as paraplegic. now in time,

soldiers 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 june, 4th in coming home from 197-8999. on the 4th of july, the victims are terms now confined to wheelchairs and found they got anything but a hero, as well called 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. it feels treat the issues differently, oliver stone's leaves room for the possibility that there might be something worth going to room shelter shoulder it was

a bit different with a film like coming home for i was primarily shows us that more is often associated with experiences that people never get over you, but the money that the war never really ends for the survivors of and the burden heavy pies 0 who have to have be for one person alone to carry. and i'm from the in cotton one soldier chooses not to return home. i saw an apocalypse now colonel walter played by molly brandon loses his sanity. you must make a friend of hora har and moral terror. who takes his unit deep into the jungle to service his private army. so he can rule free of any concept of morality. the character is used as a means to convey direct to frances ford couplers anti war message fever films that have to really deal with

a kind of national hang over the and through the as them is over the wreckage and carnage is visibly clear. and how do you then deal with that anyway? boom are lots of been used as cynicism to make his point in his fil mash a mobo surgical hospital looked after the wounded during the korean war. but the doctor's hearts and minds of focus more on the attractiveness on football. they away as keeping the pain and suffering of the house. reality is what they faced every day in the operating theatres. nothing is sacred to elements, not even the image of the last supper, which he recreate the 1st thing the movie shot is heard in his anti war film. but punch runs thick and maybe it is the best way to survive the war after all was there? well, you know, in the

war 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

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