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re: Why no WW1 love from hollywood?
Posted on 8/6/17 at 5:06 pm to Count Spatula
Posted on 8/6/17 at 5:06 pm to Count Spatula
I didn't read all the comments, however I thought this movie explained WW1 to me.
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The Lost Battalion
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Posted on 8/6/17 at 5:11 pm to Godfather1
Well yeah.
Obviously.
Obviously.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 5:12 pm to Kafka
Yes, I know about Dawn Patrol but that was released in 1934!
We need something new with more historical detail and realism.
But imagine an evening with young Ursula Andress and a bottle of Champagne.
We need something new with more historical detail and realism.
But imagine an evening with young Ursula Andress and a bottle of Champagne.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 5:17 pm to Count Spatula
The OP answered his own question I think:
Why make a film about the Great War (which hardly anyone knows much about in the US) when they can make movies about wars people know about?
It's too bad though, agreed. Hardly anyone knows about the second Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (WW2), let alone the first (WW1).
Or all the valves and wheels it took to operate a submarine back then. LINK
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I've never really paid much attention to WW1
Why make a film about the Great War (which hardly anyone knows much about in the US) when they can make movies about wars people know about?
It's too bad though, agreed. Hardly anyone knows about the second Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (WW2), let alone the first (WW1).
Or all the valves and wheels it took to operate a submarine back then. LINK
Posted on 8/6/17 at 5:58 pm to Aubie Spr96
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I'll add All's Quiet on the Western Front
Yes, be sure to get the original with Lew Ayres, not the remake with Richard Thomas
Posted on 8/6/17 at 6:42 pm to Count Spatula
Because all we are taught in school is
Slavery
Civil War
Trail of tears
Holocaust
Martin Luther King
Liberal agenda put into our class curriculum. So basically, if it's history and it doesn't make your heart bleed, they don't focus on it.
How would Hollywood make someone the poor victim of the white devil on ww1?
Slavery
Civil War
Trail of tears
Holocaust
Martin Luther King
Liberal agenda put into our class curriculum. So basically, if it's history and it doesn't make your heart bleed, they don't focus on it.
How would Hollywood make someone the poor victim of the white devil on ww1?
Posted on 8/6/17 at 6:45 pm to The Levee
You went to crappy schools then 
This post was edited on 8/6/17 at 6:46 pm
Posted on 8/6/17 at 6:46 pm to IT_Dawg
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It was trench warfare with very long wait periods for battle,
This was the same place where "residual" KIA numbered in the tens of thousands per week without major battles.
During battles there were hundreds of thousands KIA per day.
It was the first mechanical meat grinder war, where human flesh was the collateral.
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Hollywood was right not to make a huge deal about it such as WWII that changed ALL life in the US
This is just ignorant. WWI ended imperial Europe as a whole. The Ottoman empire collapsing is arguably the greatest single calamity of the 20th century. Without that happening you dont see Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq or Egypt as separate entities, and you still have a peaceful middle east. In addition the US never enters Iraq, or the middle east. Arguably 9/11 never happens either.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 6:49 pm to DavidTheGnome
Just talked to a Newman parent about it. So if Newman is shitty.
I know we spent about 3 minutes on ww1at my High school.
Where did you go?
I know we spent about 3 minutes on ww1at my High school.
Where did you go?
Posted on 8/6/17 at 6:49 pm to TrueTiger
There's a great movie to be made about Frank Luke, the famous 'balloon buster' of WW1.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 7:01 pm to The Levee
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I know we spent about 3 minutes on ww1at my High school.
I remember that every history class I took in jr high/high school was the same. The teacher would move too slow throughout the year, then frantically try to cover the 20th century in the last 2 weeks.
This post was edited on 8/6/17 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 8/6/17 at 7:10 pm to Count Spatula
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I'm currently watching the docu-series "the first world war" on Amazon. I've never really paid much attention to WW1, probably because I've been bombarded with WW2 stuff my whole life. Why do you think Hollywood doesn't pay much attention to WW1? The stuff that went on during this war was absolutely nuts.
It was the first time that Country's who had been winning wars against lesser warriors, First met the enemy who was equal and their charges became nothing but huge blood baths with no quick way to end the misery.
Shell Shock (PTSD) was at 21%
I do not know how they did it
This post was edited on 8/6/17 at 7:13 pm
Posted on 8/6/17 at 7:12 pm to Count Spatula
Because the trenches suck and the Nazis and Japanese are far more compelling villains than the ones in WWI. I mean, were there villains in WWI?
Posted on 8/6/17 at 7:14 pm to Count Spatula
Biggest movie of the year was set in ww1.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 7:15 pm to Count Spatula
Because trench warfare is boring.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 7:15 pm to beerJeep
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Hell, the middle east, Africa etc saw very little trench warfare. And the eastern front saw very limited trench warfare.
Well, if you make it from this front then you have to compete with debatably the greatest movie of all time Lawrence of Arabia, so it has that going against it.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 7:22 pm to Draconian Sanctions
the NAZIs were right out of central casting.
The Nazi uniform director deserves an Oscar. They had legit uniforms that screamed villain.
Take away the killings and the Halocaust, it was life imitating art.
The Nazi uniform director deserves an Oscar. They had legit uniforms that screamed villain.
Take away the killings and the Halocaust, it was life imitating art.
Posted on 8/6/17 at 7:25 pm to cjared036
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The Nazi uniform director deserves an Oscar.
Hugo Boss?
Posted on 8/6/17 at 8:34 pm to Count Spatula
Posted on 8/6/17 at 9:16 pm to The Levee
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Just talked to a Newman parent about it. So if Newman is shitty.
Not sure who you talked to but that's entirely inaccurate.
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