All Quiet on the Western Front and Billy Lynn

Isom 2022-04-20 09:01:47

"All Quiet on the Western Front" was a bit hard to watch, it was a pure war movie, and it was filmed very early (1930), the kind of very positive preaching and satire, maybe in that era of war frenzy (two wars) between) will have a very good effect, but it may not resonate with people today, and there may even be some resistance.

It has a strong sense of paragraphs, and a play probably has a central idea that educates you. Interestingly, "Billy Lynn's Intermission" by Ang Lee, like "All Quiet on the Western Front", cannot be understood by people who have been on the battlefield after returning to their normal lives, and at the same time they can't stand those The hypocritical ignorance and lies of the war fanatics, and finally chose to return to the battlefield.

The end result is still quite powerful. The protagonist carried his wounded comrade-in-arms behind his back, chatted with him while walking, and said that he would exchange addresses with him, so that they could play together again after the war. At that time he didn't know that the man on his shoulder was dead.

In the end, he was also shot to death for catching a butterfly.

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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.