And trauma wheelchairs. But where are the black soldiers on the cinematic battlefield and what roles do women play in war movies we put the film genre in our crosshairs 75 years after the end of world war 2. Most of us have never and hopefully will never go to war. Our experience of battle comes from the movies. War has fascinated filmmakers from the start. Battle scenes push the technical limits of movie making plays. Over a century of cinema war movies have become more intense more realistic and more violent. But they show us what war is really like. Sam fuller hollywood director and world war 2 veteran didnt think that caller who was sometimes in a bad mood would then say if you really wanted to film war you would have to actually fire real and you nation out of the audience are over the heads of the audience. One of the 1st great war films was the list milestones last like. All quiet on the western front it was the 1st popular movie to depict the fors of world war one you know. This one is also quiet on the western front because of course a groundbreaking work of course and this i think explains all it shows the start of the war on my particular on the mass deaths on the western front to get psyched up the. Most on was a declared pacifist but even his movie makes war seem exciting. And so you see the machine gun and then in a reverse shot you see the people that are being mowed down as though it was the camera itself moeen the people down he cant get out of this problem which is to say that he has to stage the very drama that hes also trying to criticize. The excitement of war cinemas taken to the extreme in 1917 director sam mendez depicts his grandfathers experience in world war one as a grand adventure. Indeed hunter said half a century later in vietnam war is not a fun adventure the infamous game of russian roulette may or may not be historically accurate for director Michael Chaney no russian roulette is a metaphor for how combat really feels. Is. Because of fire usually is fierce. Unbelievably. Over in a very short space of time. And then. Youre a paraplegic. One of those who. Would know when Steven Spielberg recreated the world war 2 d. Day landings in saving private ryan he made it as visceral and violent as anything deer hunter. Spielberg wanted to try to put the viewer exactly in the position of one of the infantry soldiers you know who had. You know bought his body was essentially you know a target the viewer can feel the fear the. The excitement the pressure the terror the nervousness everything theres no other way that an audience would get that much of a strong impression of exactly what it was like to be in that battle. Because its very uncomfortable for the viewer confidence which at the same time in an almost perverse way its fascinating and of these because its like going on a ghost writer on the guy we experience something that were not really experienced during the you know the monsters are real in the movie you know the war isnt real those. In the end war cinema remains entertainment war cinema is never a war. Our movie memories of battle have become more visceral and more violent but were still a long way from knowing what war is really like serious. Theyre both fascinating and horrifying films that are critical of war. I love the smell of the pub in the morning. The smell of like the. Victory. Its one of the most quoted lines from a war film Robert Duvall cynical commentry as will kill go in apocalypse now. This comes shortly after he and his troops carry out a helicopter attack on a vietnamese finnish accompanied by wagners bride as a valid trace francisco ca christmas which was totally madness. Played. On campuses are you i say that im tired working almost normal domes in which war can never be justified. Calm they havent any contrast from the war films idea wars may be justified but they still do not say that war is beautiful or good thoughts in the end they still show the horrors of war he talks them off the shackles cleanest side. The like the 2nd world war in the dirty dozen decision and loyalty determine victory and defeat for director robert ill judge the ends justify the means as long as the nazis only manage it. It aint nothing. Rambus a business to learn he sent to vietnam to free american prisoners gilmer single handed you loser knew that in real life the United States had lost its lease. Rambo what people call hell. To keep hold of it if. You believe the dividing line between propaganda and patriotism between glorification and deterrence is very theme in many films. You know. The darker way out. Of the fallout from the american disaster in vietnam caused more and more filmmakers in hollywood to take a clear stand against when. They was successful on the stone one for oscars with platoon but can a film really be anti will have a pacifist message with all the slow some. Believe the whole problem with a pacifist war film is that this is a contradiction in terms. I think its definitely possible to make war films in such a way that at the end of the film people are filled with what classic tragedy called pity and ah or shock and horror but i think that only works by virtue of the narrative you tell a strong story like the bridge it shocked audiences 15 years after the end of world war 2 was German Society was then experiencing an economic miracle that the displaced and the memories the killing and dying the book is something very courageous about that is especially suitable for young people here from the back because its about young people and they can identify incredibly well with all these characters youve got these are theres also an excellent film an incredibly well performed feel for most. Mistake. I dont even know youngs ice jam Going Forward official and you got to get out your kitchen god he cant just all the boys dont listen and come to regret it deeply then i think he not only wanted to remember the 2nd movement he also gave and then there. Was a hospice on film there was a film that spoke out against the media rearmament just a couple of years after the west german army had been found innocent women were indirectly it also asking questions about where the confrontation in the cold war was leading us in thought it should be forgotten and of the film was released in 196461 is it shortly before the cuban missile crisis for which the 3rd world war almost broke out at about 3. 00 couple of tenants malik is not interested in politics but philosophy in the fin red line he depicts the battle in the pacific and 942. 00 through the perspective of nature. Beautiful and disturbing shots he seems to be asking us how can these things coexist all the beauty and all the horror the film could hardly explicitly the war has no place on this planet. Long. Many popular war movies were made in the usa but how close does the hollywood version come to the real thing. Most images of american soldiers in war one thing in common all the soldiers are white. Africanamericans have fought in every american war but black faces in battle have been almost entirely whitewashed from americas visual history. Especially at the movies. John wayne is the epitome of the american g. I. From world war 2 to vietnam hollywood has consistently shown the great white hero saving the world. But hollywood got its history wrong in not getting the true story. In fact the 1st american killed by the british at the boston massacre was a black man i was a black man in. This christmas addicks was the 1st in a long line of africanamericans who served and died for their country. After the 2nd shot. In before you start a fire all hell breaks loose in 2008 director spike lee told the story of the real life 92nd Infantry Division the socalled Buffalo Soldiers who fought in italy in world war 2 thank. You for. 4 and lees film wasnt the 1st to show black americans in combat in glory Denzel Washington plays a soldier in the 1st all black company in the civil war i dont want to provide you with the films with africanamerican soldiers front and center are still the exception. Stripes there are. Like pits in a vault. Most studio and most filmmakers have been white males and theyve been telling a white male story im right but with the black lives Matter Movement the calls to tell other stories have gotten louder. As have the calls for america to reckon with its barry history. I think that black lives matter and all of the conversation now around social justice and historic reckoning is a really productive one i think its very very educational why were there not more stories about africanamericans put in the forefront why would our token representation say ok this is something that i think is a reckoning that has to happen and its a good moment to begin it on the rolls but you know telling me africanamerican story changes the heroic image of america seen in most war movies black soldiers who fought fascism abroad came home to a very different country than their white counterparts. From the contest want to write to. You boys want no problem so were just looking for some good advice laughs go from bad to good show. True. They went back to. Their group who are service my damn business it was a hit list steppers you feeding over there want me to eat out of a trough in the backyard like im some damn pig going to shoot you with all over i was a guy down the limerick. Remembering that forgotten history can help White America understand where todays protests come from. I mean the last time your city had a curfew was 1943 you know what the reason was blacks still to come back from war to is killed by a kind heart went crazy so these rights nuts get the im going to get to live with the guys that were right these uprisings. Dont come out of nowhere. With the least new film shows African Americans fighting and dying in vietnam while back home civil rights protests rage. America has been here before one step to imagine a different future will be to put black faces back into americas war history. Though women are rarely in the foreground war movies wouldnt be complete without them. Interacting with men men fighting men and men dying because of men can seem like an exclusively male affair and war movies especially so when all the women. They appear really often only in the form of a photo or a memory all the desires of those on the front lines like this scene from 1917 a male soldier longing for his wife. They are something worth fighting for what is the virtuous you know a Family Member whos photo is in the pocket of the soldier who he looks at away from the front depictions of the mother figure like here in spielbergs saving private ryan silently suffering she watches tragic news approaching. We see the fear in her eyes has another of her sons been taken from her. Father and clips from. Living in war films are spectral. Counterpoints the mens thats on the outs the middle. In human minds the. The i emphasize the hardness and inhumanity of male behavior as many. He took up with the with beast. And landry swing shuffled. Into the show be the. Women symbolize goodness that hospital nurses he lives they sympathize and give comfort they can also play the role of restoring men for the next battle their full keeping the war going. The women have on some level. A very conservative function they are the loyal you know wife and mother who stay behind and wait for their husband to come back they are the ones who keep the country in the family going. In the spielberg film the mother is a strangely passive character her grief is voiceless time on screen less than 10 minutes shes already lost 3 sons to war now the last son james is to be sent home to minimize her anguish. You dont want. Our resident bring your back so i cant leave them when theyre supposed to tell your mother. And they send her another folded american flag. Color when you found me. I was here and i was with the only brothers that i had left and theres no way i was going to desert them. For the son came around to read with his fellow soldiers trumps his mothers grief so it goes in times of war. Sometimes a womans role is symbolic like when scofield to meet some mother and child Something Like mary and jesus figures. His own dignity. All my life and legacy but as soon as the soldier leaves his apparently blessing same feeling tinnies falling for College Women embody the costs of war and even in war films without pacifist undertones sense and. Women are hardly present in the films sexuality and especially homosexuality are completely absent bodily contact happens only for the purpose of annihilation. Women characters are only rarely central mrs min of a shows the suffering of civilians living through war here its not a man whos the victim of a battle but a young woman she dies in the arms of mrs min of a very much an exception in this genre and cant what is. Your. Girl you. Think. The last person a man sees is usually a man you know whether its the 1st world war or vietnam war will also destroys those men who make it home alive often they cant relate to their wives count understand what makes them tick a return to normality is unthinkable im not going to make excuses for what. What i found. I dont know if i and our family i dont know. What led to the lack of women characters in the one dimensional space people feel could it be the result of decades of male dominated bollywood directing. I think its an interesting question about what women directors will do when they get a bigger seat at the table and a chance to make more films and to make more high budget films. Now its like im going to do. Something many has begun to change in the last few years wonder woman signals a new direction the woman goes ahead into battle men fall and its directed by a woman to look at it jenkins some have celebrated the film as a kind of feminist manifesto that can there be such a thing as a feminist well you know. Were still waiting for the who are movies that really think battle from the position of women the womens final and war hero doesnt seem like any kind of role model but its likely would be giving us more of a future. Lead. When the physical battle and the psychological one begins how hollywood depicts the hidden wounds that wars leave behind. And now long here to tell you that i have killed for my country or whatever. And i dont feel good about. This corps wrong however to society lied to me it lied my brother didnt know i cant i cant find the words to express our leadership of this government sickens me. To veterans with the same. United states since its people. Soldiers. Returning as parents now protested. The 1st time soldiers were allowed to talk about their war trauma they were not allowed to do that after the 1st or 2nd and also not after the korean war. In coming home from 1978 until crews in 1994 feeling on the 4th of july the victims return time now confined to wheelchairs and found they got anything but a heros welcome higher than in the vietnam era people who returned put their uniform in the closet and never wore it again in public because the you know people who protested against the war would criticize them and they didnt want to put themselves in that position so i think that these kind of felons have really helped to process the trauma for veterans for americans who were not involved in the conflict but may be opposed to it to fields treat the issues differently all of the stones more drama leaves room for the possibility that there might be something worth going to be your favorite drink shoulder to shoulder. And he does that but its a bit different with a film like coming home for i wish primarily shows us that war is often associated with the experiences of people never get over the money mean that the war never really ends for the survivors and the burdens heavy applies to happy for one person alone to carry. One soldier chooses not to return home. In apocalypse now colonel walter played by Marlon Brando loses his senate. You must make a friend of horror. And. He takes his unit deep into the jungle to service his private army so he can roam free of any concept of morality the character is used as a means to convey directive Francis Ford Coppolas antiwar message. These are films that have to really deal with a kind of National Hangover and at the end those he has them is over the wreckage and carnage is visibly clear and how do you would then deal with that everyone her own work Robert Altman uses cynicism to make his point in his film mash a mobo Army Surgical hospital looks after the wounded during the korean war but the doctors hearts and minds of focus more on the attractive nurses are on football its their way of keeping the pain and suffering at bay the harsh reality of what they face every day in the operating theaters nothing is sacred to outman not even the image of the last supper which he recreates 1st seen the movie. A short is heard in this anti war film but punch lines run thick and fast maybe it is the best way to survive a war after all theyre well you know. With yeah. Yeah. War movies are gripping both visually and emotionally thats all from this episode of arts 2175 years after the end of the 2nd world war. The food. And. 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