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I thought the wedding scene and the immediate hunting episode just after it were crucial. It intorduced you to the characters and their culture. As a result, the war and its aftermath was even more horrifying.

Agreed. Without those scenes, it's just another war movie.

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Posted by constant cough

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Posted on 7/19/11 at 12:11 pm to Python

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Agreed. Without those scenes, it's just another war movie.

I think that's why some didn't like it as much. They wanted just another war movie not a drama.
I love dramas so it wasn't an issue for me.

I couldn't agree more that without the character development in the first half the war scenes wouldn't have near as much impact.

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Posted on 7/19/11 at 1:13 pm to constant cough

You can establish characters without having to make your audience suffer through the longest and most mundane wedding scene in the history of film.

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Posted on 7/19/11 at 1:16 pm to Salmon

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You can establish characters without having to make your audience suffer through the longest and most mundane wedding scene in the history of film.

Sure, only I didn't find it mundane. I thought it was one of the best wedding sequences outside of The Godfather.

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Posted by Python

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Posted on 7/19/11 at 1:38 pm to constant cough

Agreed. Just watch the characters and you start identifying certain traits in each of them that will set the stage for the rest of the movie. It's not just a wedding scene.

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