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re: Almost half of all WW1 American casualties died of the flu
Posted on 8/3/16 at 10:13 pm to blueboy
Posted on 8/3/16 at 10:13 pm to blueboy
quote:Are there any by the generation that lived through it? Even something as devastating as the stock market crash of '29 was shown in a few '30s movies, such as a little-known Warners programmer called The Crash, and the well-known Roaring Twenties has a sequence where gangster Jimmy Cagney loses all his money in the crash.
I think it's depicted as the source of Howard Hughes' germophobia in The Aviator.
Also, I'm told that Edward from Twilight was turned into a vampire by Dr. Cullen in 1918 as he was dying of the flu, though I cannot confirm this because I've totally never seen that movie.
There are also period films such as Lloyd's of London (Napoleonic Wars) and The Toast of New York (Jim Fisk and Black Friday 1869) with financial panic scenes which clearly are meant to suggest the recent crash.
The closest we get to depictions of the flu by the generation that lived through it are similarly symbolic things like Yellow Jack (1936), which concerns the fight against yellow fever in Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
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Posted on 8/3/16 at 10:13 pm to Kafka
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As I mentioned in the recent cemetery thread, the small family cemetery out in the country (where I'm scheduled to be planted) has a number of graves from November 1918 -- some of them babies. I presume most of them were flu victims.
Seems like I remember either reading or seeing a documentary on the Flu Pandemic that one of the odd peculiarities of it was it was mostly young adults who should be in their prime that died from this strain of flu.
Posted on 8/3/16 at 10:24 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:Promising film director John H. Collins died at the age of 29
one of the odd peculiarities of it was it was mostly young adults who should be in their prime that died from this strain of flu
I remember this b/c any reference to the flu epidemic is rare even in a documentary
Posted on 8/3/16 at 10:29 pm to PatDyesPants
Also, a huge percentage of US casualties were from battlefield cleanup.
That'd suck. The war is is over and you Snuff it by accidentally setting off a grenade.
That'd suck. The war is is over and you Snuff it by accidentally setting off a grenade.
Posted on 8/3/16 at 11:05 pm to Kafka
quote:All I know is that I have never seen Twilight.
Are there any by the generation that lived through it?
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