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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  • Caden 2022-04-23 07:02:32

    133 minute edition. As far as a 30-year-old sound film is concerned, the camera is very well used, with smooth moving shots (looking down on the trenches), slightly expressive backlit shots of soldiers charging, grayscale control, and the use of smoke, all at that time. It is a first-class battlefield performance method. The script as a whole seems to be procrastinating, and the anti-war stance is based on people's instinctive fear of pain and death, which is too in-depth. In the end, he died of catching the butterfly. Did the butterfly mess with you? The result of keeping you alive is that you can still kill butterflies? You deserve it, I can only say

  • Nakia 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    On July 10th, station B showed this movie. When I watched it on July 13th, one of the few barrages said, "This is how training is required to survive on the battlefield." When the first person, Bane, died At that time, the barrage said, "He alone can kill a group of people", "It's normal for people to die in war." At the end of the film, there are still many barrages saying: "Protect the family and the country, sacrifice oneself for others", um. . . . I think, here, I give the young people a sentence in the original text - "Two people were blown to pieces, and even Chadden thought they could be scraped off the wall of the trench with a spoon and buried in a lunch box. ."

All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • 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.

  • Franz Kemmerich: [to Mueller] Why it's an honor to have those boots in your face. They're the best pair in the army.