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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Extended Reading
  • Nola 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    you are looking for something beautiful, and what does the world gives you? a bullet in the head.

  • Dorthy 2022-01-03 08:01:12

    The scene scheduling at the beginning of the film, the deep focus and long lens, the movement direction and line sense of the characters and the photography, and the changes in sound intensity are very subtle. The multi-layered space in the painting on the battlefield is reminiscent of Tarkovsky's "Ivan's Childhood." It was shot on two cameras, one of which was a silent version for international release. It was banned in Germany in the 1930s, and the Nazis put rats in movie theaters to interfere with screenings. Was banned in Australia, Italy, Austria, France. Looking back on the wrong soul, a cross

All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • Ginger - the Cook: [looking at soldiers lined up to eat] What do you want?

    Katczinsky: Beans, you homely-looking son of a frog's leg! What do you think I want?

    Ginger - the Cook: [the men shout that they're hungry] Shut up! I'll feed you when you're all here.

    Tjaden: We're all here now!

    Ginger - the Cook: Only half the company's here. Get the rest! Wake 'em up!

    Katczinsky: [the men laugh] I wish I could wake 'em up. There's 80 of us left. The rest is in dressin' stations or pushin' up daisies!

    Ginger - the Cook: [shocked] 80? And I cooked for 150!

    Westhus: All right, we'll have enough for once. Come on, dish out!

    Tjaden: You mean you've cooked beans for 150?

    [the cook nods]

    Tjaden: And you've got bread for 150 and sausage for 150 and tobacco for 150?

    Ginger - the Cook: Everything. It's all wrong. I should have been notified!

    Katczinsky: What a feast! Everyone gets two issues!

    [the waiting men shout]

    Katczinsky: [trying to keep order in the ranks] Get back in line! Get back in line!

    Ginger - the Cook: Oh, no, that woun't do. I can't give 80 men what's meant for 150.

    Katczinsky: [he starts to punch the cook but thinks better of it and tries to be persuasive] Listen, you drew rations for the Second Company, didn't yuh?

    Ginger - the Cook: Yes.

    Katczinsky: All right, we're the Second Company!

    [the men shout]

    Ginger - the Cook: I got my orders.

    Albert Kropp: [agreeing with Kat] That's right.

    Paul Bäumer: We're the Second Company and if only half of us get back, that's our good luck. Come on, dish it out!

    Ginger - the Cook: [the men shout] No!

    Katczinsky: [grabbing the cook by the throat] You're the yellowest baboon that ever drew a cook wagon, and you're scared, and it shows! All we want to hear out of you is one more little yip, and we'll cut yuh up and eat you raw! Why, you keep your kitchen so far back of the lines, we never get anything to eat until it's cold and we're asleep. Now, you low doen rat, get out, or we wreck the joint, so help me!

    [the men shout]

    Katczinsky: Come on, give us some food!

  • Tjaden: There used to be some food in the sawdust. Now it's all sawdust.