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At the beginning of the filming of the film, when director Clint Eastwood announced that he was going to put the "Battle of Iwo Jima" on the big screen, it really caused a panic among the Japanese authorities. By the end of the year, the film was about to start, and Japan not only did not stop it. Even actively participate in the promotion of the film. It turned out that Eastwood made two versions to describe the battle that had a major impact in World War II.
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Joe Rosenthal, who took the photo, worked for the "San Francisco Chronicles" for 35 years after the war until he retired in 1981. On August 20, 2006, Rosenthal passed away in a nursing home in San Francisco at the age of 94. He was an honest and moral person until his death.
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The role of Paul Walker originally belonged to Jared Leto, but he quit filming because he wanted to concentrate on his band.
Flags of Our Fathers behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Bud Gerber: People on the street corners, they looked at this picture and they took hope. Don't ask me why, I think it's a crappy picture, myself. You can't even see your faces! But it said we can win this war, are winning this war, we just need you to dig a little deeper. They want to give us that money. No, they want to give it to *you*.
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Dave Severance: Nobody even noticed that second flag going up. Everybody saw that damn picture and made up their own story about it. But your dad and the others knew what they had done, and what they had not done. All your friends dying, it's hard enough to be called a hero for saving somebody's life. But for putting up a pole?