During the First World War, the German government used beautiful slogans to call on young and enthusiastic student volunteers to join the battlefield to defend their homeland. Paul and his classmates were instigated by the teacher’s chauvinistic ideas to devote themselves to the world with heroic ideals. During the war, these young people had idealized life and war. After training, these young "baby soldiers" were sent to participate in the war on the Western Front. However, the naive dream was shattered, and they soon found themselves involved in a protracted, cruel war. The earth became gloomy and terrifying, and many people were crying, struggling, calling, trying to be free from the threat of death, but they could only fall weakly. The protagonist Paul began to doubt the ideals of the past. The cruelty and destructiveness of war completely shattered his heroism. His heart changed and he began to doubt, hate and even hate war. Finally one day, Paul crawled out of the trenches to catch butterflies, but was shot and killed by a cold gun. However, compared with war, an individual’s life is insignificant. In the report of the Front Line Command that day, it was written: All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front movie plot
2022-01-03 08:01
Extended Reading
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Nannie 2022-01-03 08:01:12
9. The first sound military feature film, resolutely anti-war. No soundtrack, a serious attitude of monophonic mixing, 45min of trench offensive and defensive battles high camera overhead (50-foot boom), the visual effect of moving backwards is quite similar to the predecessor of the Steadicam long lens in "Road to Glory". One of the most shocking endings of the film: a close-up of Paul's dying hand twitching and hanging down. The meaning is timeless and great. 丨Comparing the two Western Front Wars, with regard to the performance of the war's impact on the characters, in 1918, at the end of the 1918, from the sidelines, an overview of some mentally typed expressions and the wailing group portraits of the hospital. This film designs the mental journey of the protagonist from the point of view of the protagonist and from the sidelines, a tone of sorrow that has gradually become popular, and by the way, it also satirizes the leisure class behind. 737
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Phyllis 2022-03-27 09:01:09
Six or seven years ago, I was wandering around Wenming Road and saw an old film seller. I thought about buying the 79 color version. After watching it on CCTV for many years, I couldn’t forget my love, so I bought it. I didn't know it was 30 years old at the time. I only took it out three years ago to see it in the county house. I was so surprised that it was black and white! Not mentally prepared to bite the bullet and read it, no matter the era, it is not as impressive as the new version. This is the earliest film I've seen, and I know that after reflection, there will be World War II. Four stars are a must for Remark.
All Quiet on the Western Front quotes
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Tjaden: There used to be some food in the sawdust. Now it's all sawdust.
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Professor Kantorek: Paul! How are you, Paul?
Paul Bäumer: [somber] Glad to see you, Professor.
Professor Kantorek: You've come at the right moment, Baumer! Just at the right moment!
[to students]
Professor Kantorek: And as if to prove all I have said, here is one of the first to go! A lad who sat before me on these very benches, who gave up all to serve in the first year of the war. One of the iron youth who have made Germany invincible in the field! Look at him. Sturdy and bronze and clear-eyed! The kind of soldier every one of you should envy! Paul, lad, you must speak to them. You must tell them what it means to serve your fatherland.
Paul Bäumer: No no, I can't tell them anything.
Paul Bäumer: You must, Paul. Just a word. Just tell them how much they're needed out there. Tell them why you went, and what it meant to you.
Paul Bäumer: I can't say anything.
Professor Kantorek: If you remember some deed of heroism, some touch of humility, tell about it.
[encouraging murmurs from the students]
Paul Bäumer: I can't tell you anything you don't know. We live in the trenches out there, we fight, we try not to be killed; and sometimes we are. That's all.
[students fidget, disappointed]
Professor Kantorek: No, no Paul!
Paul Bäumer: [angry] I've been there! I know what it's like!
Professor Kantorek: That's not what one dwells on, Paul!
Paul Bäumer: [bitterly] I heard you in here, reciting that same old stuff. Making more iron men, more young heroes. You still think it's beautiful and sweet to die for your country, don't you?
[Kantorek nods firmly]
Paul Bäumer: We used to think you knew. The first bombardment taught us better. It's dirty and painful to die for your country. When it comes to dying for your country it's better not to die at all! There are millions out there dying for their countries, and what good is it?
[muttering from students]
Professor Kantorek: [shocked] Paul!
Paul Bäumer: [angry] You asked me to tell them how much they're needed out there.
[to students]
Paul Bäumer: He tells you, "Go out and die!" Oh, but if you'll pardon me, it's easier to *say* go out and die than it is to do it!
Student: Coward!
Paul Bäumer: And it's easier to say it, than to watch it happen!
students: Coward! You're a coward! Coward!
Professor Kantorek: No! No, boys, boys! I'm sorry, Baumer, but I must say...
Paul Bäumer: We've no use talking like this. You won't know what I mean. Only, it's been a long while since we enlisted out of this classroom. So long, I thought maybe the whole world had learned by this time. Only now they're sending babies, and they won't last a week! I shouldn't have come on leave. Up at the front you're alive or you're dead and that's all. You can't fool anybody about that very long. And up there we know we're lost and done for whether we're dead or alive. Three years we've had of it, four years! And every day a year, and every night a century! And our bodies are earth, and our thoughts are clay, and we sleep and eat with death! And we're done for because you *can't* live that way and keep anything inside you! I shouldn't have come on leave. I'll go back tomorrow. I've got four days more, but I can't stand it here! I'll go back tomorrow! I'm sorry.
[exit]