mrs. miniver -- he's a little preacher. pardon the pun.is a little preacher but in the best years of our lives he lets the story make the message. one of the things i am challenged by with our students and they say that in terms of the 20 to 30 age range, a lot of them are not taught to be critical viewers so they will just watch a movie and let it wash over them without really, really thinking about what the movie means. each of these little elements about why the b-17s and why that aspect straight from the factory to the junkyard and those sorts of things and how significant that is for making a message, like, like really great film directors, nothing is wasted. everything has a purpose and everything is that way. the best directors, everything there is there for a reason. wyler does that beautifully in the best years of our lives. john wayne got too driven by the message and he didn't just let the story do it but he is the duke. i don't know if i have grounds to criticize him but that would be my critique about the film. yes, sir? >> th

mrs. miniver is the last movie he directs before he goes off to war. best years our lives is the first movie he directs after he comes back from the war. and it's great you can watch them in close proximity to each other because you will get a sense of how his view of war changes between two because william wyler goes to war, he will film the memphis belle, my wife and i. we just had an opportunity two weeks ago, i think we were at the us force museum in dayton, ohio. highly recommended, fantastic museum. and there they have the memphis belle, the b-17 that he filmed, and he just jampacked that thing with cameras. and he flew on bombing missions with that aircraft. he loses his hearing flying in a b-24. i think it is during the war doing similar filming because it's just a much louder aircraft. he didn't the proper hearing protection he loses his hearing on one flight so he personally suffers as a result of his wartime service and and by the way the red font or the people who win the orange font to the people nominated and so this a very successful mov

mrs. miniver, he is a little preachy or. pardon the pun. a little more preachy than best years of our lives. he just lets the story make the message. one of the things that i am challenged by with our students and i say that in terms of the 20 to 30 age range, a lot of them are not taught to be critical viewers. they will watch a movie and let it wash over them without thinking about what the movie means. each of these little elements about why it's straight from the factory to the junkyard and those sorts of things and how significant that is as a message. a really great film director wastes nothing. everything has a purpose. the best movies are that way. everything they do there are for a reason. i think john wayne got driven by the message. i don't know where i have grounds to actually criticize him. but that would be my critique of that film. >> i suspect the makers of the movie supported world war ii. it still was an antiwar film. my question is how do you support a war but also make an antiwar? which to be honest, war sort of is. but