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
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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes
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Hair-peak soldier: And manufacturers. They get rich.
[murmurs of agreement]
Albert Kropp: I think it's more a kind of fever. Nobody wants it in particular, and then all at once, there it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we are fighting.
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Albert Kropp: Ah, the French certainly deserve to be punished for starting this war.
Detering: Everybody says it's somebody else.
Tjaden: Well. how do they start a war?
Albert Kropp: Well, one country offends another.
Tjaden: How could one country offend another?
Tjaden: You mean there's a mountain over in Germany gets mad at a field over in France?
[Everyone laughs]
Albert Kropp: Well, stupid, one people offends another.
Tjaden: Oh, well, if that's it, I shouldn't be here at all. I don't feel offended.
Katczinsky: It don't apply to tramps like you.
Tjaden: Good. Then I could be goin' home right away.
Paul Bäumer: Ah, you just try it.
Katczinsky: Yeah. You wanna get shot?
Tjaden: The kaiser and me...
[the others laugh]
Tjaden: Me and the kaiser felt just alike about this war. We didn't either of us want any war, so I'm going home. He's there already.
Hair-peak soldier: Somebody must have wanted it. Maybe it was the English. No, I don't want to shoot any Englishman. I never saw one 'til I came up here. And I suppose most of them never saw a German 'til *they* came up here. No, I'm sure *they* weren't asked about it.
Paul Bäumer: No.
Detering: Well, it must be doing somebody some good.
Detering: Not me and the kaiser.
Hair-peak soldier: I think maybe the kaiser wanted a war.
Tjaden: You leave us out of this!
Katczinsky: I don't see that. The kaiser's *got* everything he needs.
Hair-peak soldier: Well, he never had a war before. Every full-grown emperor needs one war to make him famous. Why, that's history.
Paul Bäumer: Yeah, generals, too. They need war.