dismal war

Lupe 2022-04-19 09:02:11

Much of the film is impressive, especially after reading the books. When I read the book, I saw all this and thought in my mind what a bleak situation it was! The shelling in the movie should not be a special effect, the endless charge is played by real people. The transformation of the owner of Franz's boots in the movie, it took only a few scenes to finish several pages of the book, which impressed me a lot, and it wasn't that procrastinating. When they first came to the front line for their first mission, the driver said, "If you are still alive, I will come and pick you up." Those recruits were looking back in confusion as they advanced, as if their death had become a foregone conclusion. . Rat fight in the trenches, one of the few enjoyable scenes I've seen in the book, the movie still made me laugh when it got to this scene. In the book, there are many detailed descriptions to illustrate the cruelty of the war, those soldiers who have broken hands or broken feet and are still attacking. The movie used one scene to describe it. After the grenade passed, a pair of hands hung on the barbed wire, which left a deep impression on me. In the end, Paul still did not look forward to the end of the war, but in the book Paul lived until the end of the war. The black-and-white film style is also very emotional, and there are no extra colors that make people believe that it's all disheartening.

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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • 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.

  • 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.