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re: Why no WW1 love from hollywood?
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:06 pm to Count Spatula
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:06 pm to Count Spatula
American involvement wasn't significant enough or long enough for it to be exposed enough. It's also why the Korean war doesn't have many movies for it. Whereas for WW2 and the Vietnam war there full attention on it from the public.
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Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:06 pm to GEAUXT
Very good movie,as is The lost Battalion,Sgt.York,Fly Boys,and The Blue Max, just to name a few.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:07 pm to DavidTheGnome
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The US became heavily invested in WW1 and it certainly touched all of American life. PBS made a great documentary on it recently LINK that's worth a watch.
One of the reasons we entered the war was because we had a vested interest in making sure the allied powers paid us back. During WWI, we became the world's banking/ economic power.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:08 pm to rmnldr
Given his success I bet Tom Hanks could work some Hollywood magic out of WW1
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:09 pm to IT_Dawg
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d the US was not nearly invested, comparably (we weren't attacked) as WWII. Hollywood was right not to make a huge deal about it such as WWII that changed ALL life in the US. Was this serious or were you just pointing out you liked some documentary you saw?
The 100,000 or so US soldiers including my grandfather who died fighting it would disagree with this statement.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:10 pm to Count Spatula
It's hard to believe after ww1 ended only 21 years later ww2 began.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:11 pm to rmnldr
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American involvement wasn't significant enough or long enough for it to be exposed enough. It's also why the Korean war doesn't have many movies for it. Whereas for WW2 and the Vietnam war there full attention on it from the public.
We were most definitely involved in it before we entered in any military might. We bankrolled GB and France's war effort for the most part. We were also in Korea from the start.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:11 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Wonder Woman was set in WWI
Only because Captain America was set in WW2 and his movie had already been made.
Wonder Woman in the comic books was set during WW2 when they were originally written.
This post was edited on 8/7/17 at 7:03 pm
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:13 pm to Count Spatula
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Given his success I bet Tyler Perry could work some Hollywood magic out of WW1
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:16 pm to Count Spatula
Ww1 was essentially trench warfare.
Not sure entirely why we were in it.
3rd ID rock of the Marne
Also during this time there was the Bolshevik/Russian revolution and the Armenian genocide imposed by the Turks
Not sure entirely why we were in it.
3rd ID rock of the Marne
Also during this time there was the Bolshevik/Russian revolution and the Armenian genocide imposed by the Turks
This post was edited on 8/6/17 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:22 pm to lsucoonass
"Viewed purely as drama, the war is somewhat disappointing" -- D.W. Griffith, 1917
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:23 pm to lsucoonass
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Ww1 was essentially trench warfare.
Not quite. The middle of the war was, but to say the whole war was essentially trench warfare is just wrong. Hell, really the only theater that saw widespread trench warfare was the western front after the Schlieffen plan ground to a hault.
Hell, the middle east, Africa etc saw very little trench warfare. And the eastern front saw very limited trench warfare.
The Schlieffen plan as well as the kaiserschlacht were fast acting attacks that didn't utilize trench warfare.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:24 pm to efrad
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WWI was not nearly as much of a "good vs. evil" type of war. It was an accidental war due to poor planning and communication amongst the world's powers. It was a disaster that could have been avoided. There's little glamour to be found in those tales. Just tales of brutal battles with little reason behind them.
Not to mention that the US was really only in the war for a few months and most Hollywood movies are based on Americans. The first US soldier to die in WWI was on May 24, 1918. The war ended on Nov 11, 1918. We weren't even involved with the fighting for 6 months.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:27 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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We were most definitely involved in it before we entered in any military might. We bankrolled GB and France's war effort for the most part.
And it's hard to sell any of that to a mainstream audience.
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We were also in Korea from the start.
Answer me this: Have you ever seen video from the Korean war? Unless you go looking for it, it's unlikely. The American public just wasn't very exposed to it. My point about the Korean War was that it wasn't long enough for anyone to really pay much attention to it.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:29 pm to Count Spatula
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:34 pm to RollTide1987
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And this is something that Hollywood could use to push a message. Nothing says "make peace, not war" more than hundreds of thousands of soldiers getting slaughtered just to capture a few miles of territory for very little strategic gain. World War I is a perfect metaphor for the futility of war. Honestly, filmmakers looking for an anti-war message can easily look to that conflict for hundreds of script ideas.
I agree. Kubrick's Paths of Glory is the best WWI movie with an anti-war message I can think of.
ETA: Peazey just beat me to it.
This post was edited on 8/6/17 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:37 pm to Count Spatula
Who runs Hollywood?
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:40 pm to Peazey
The Last Flight (1931) is a story of the "Lost Generation", concerning a group of American vets who stay in Europe, wander around and get drunk a lot. It closely resembles Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, but is based on a different source.
In my favorite scene the hero and heroine visit Pere Le Chaise cemetery, where Eloise and Abelard, Oscar Wilde, and Jim Morrison (among many others) are buried
In my favorite scene the hero and heroine visit Pere Le Chaise cemetery, where Eloise and Abelard, Oscar Wilde, and Jim Morrison (among many others) are buried
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:43 pm to OnTheLevel State Fan
Blue Max...an Oldie but a goodie...
Posted on 8/6/17 at 3:50 pm to Count Spatula
Besides most people not knowing too much about it (not that I do), like others said, it wasnt sexy. It was pure, relentless slaughter with no real "bad guys"
This post was edited on 8/6/17 at 3:58 pm
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