Movies and Films
This is the forum for Movie and Film discussions. Again, our topic is naval warfare in WWII for the most part.
Re: What If...A Better U-571?
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cate
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Date: October 15, 2002 01:04AM
<HTML>It probably is a bit of a generalisation to characterise all postwar American war movies as so one dimensional. But I would agree that on the whole, up until Vietnam at least, they were not notable for the rounded and insightful way they dealt with war. The John Wayne mould of heroic self confidence pretty much predominated. A film as fine as the Enemy Below, or one like the movie mentioned by Hubertus some days ago, 'Time to Love and a Time to Die' was the exception rather than the rule.
After Vietnam the fashion changed and war movie came to pretty much mean 'anti-war' movie. Now it is swinging back slightly, with films like Saving Private Ryan, and war films, particularly those set in WWII, are once more becoming more assured in the justness of the enterprise and the worthwhile nature of the sacrifices involved.
What made U-571 slightly unnerving and anachronistic though, was that as Wachoffizier says, it simply re-embraced the worst and most banal of the anti german cliches and steryotypes. Unlike Ryan and others it seemed to have learned nothing from the intervening years and history.
I'm glad you think we Brits are so frank when it comes to making films Robert, and I'd be interested in which films it is you're thinking of specifically. Generally I prefer the often low key and restrained (well ok then, 'cheap') style of British and European films to US ones, but that's mostly just personal taste / blind prejudice on my part
Intrigued
Cate</HTML>
After Vietnam the fashion changed and war movie came to pretty much mean 'anti-war' movie. Now it is swinging back slightly, with films like Saving Private Ryan, and war films, particularly those set in WWII, are once more becoming more assured in the justness of the enterprise and the worthwhile nature of the sacrifices involved.
What made U-571 slightly unnerving and anachronistic though, was that as Wachoffizier says, it simply re-embraced the worst and most banal of the anti german cliches and steryotypes. Unlike Ryan and others it seemed to have learned nothing from the intervening years and history.
I'm glad you think we Brits are so frank when it comes to making films Robert, and I'd be interested in which films it is you're thinking of specifically. Generally I prefer the often low key and restrained (well ok then, 'cheap') style of British and European films to US ones, but that's mostly just personal taste / blind prejudice on my part
Intrigued
Cate</HTML>
