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"All Quiet on the Western Front"
Dasia 2022-04-22 07:01:32
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Aracely 2022-03-22 09:02:01
The film was shot in 1930. The smoke of World War I has not yet dissipated, and the cannons of World War II are already in front of us. On the battlefield, there will never be a shortage of young boys like flowers. /Compared with the novel, the movie has cut some content, and the chapter-based story in the book has also been reduced to a short scene of 5 to 10 minutes. It is inevitable that the rhythm is a bit rushed. In the Catholic hospital, the person who was sent to the hospice due to excessive blood loss and the person who survived and came back from the hospice are not the same person, but the film arranges these two scenes on Paul, perhaps to reflect Paul's strong Willpower, but the effect is mediocre. The book is more about borrowing what happened in the hospital to show the cruel panorama of the war: even in the hospital there is no escape from the shadow of death. The biggest contribution of the film is the protagonist Paul, a handsome boy from Osnabrück, intelligent and loves literature, melancholy and bright Paul. / Best Picture & Best Director at the Oscars that year. 032817/202108
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Van 2022-03-26 09:01:07
Reflections on the war turned out to be highly expressed in images as early as 80 years ago! The war is cruel and unusual. This is not a game of playing a family, and there is no so-called heroism. On the battlefield, survival is the only reason. All patriotism and fearlessness go to hell! This movie was made before World War II, but it is strikingly similar to what happened in World War II in the future. There is nothing new in this world, everything is just a repeat of what happened before.
All Quiet on the Western Front quotes
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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.
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Franz Kemmerich: [to Mueller] Why it's an honor to have those boots in your face. They're the best pair in the army.