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Cleve 2022-04-22 07:01:32

Read Masefield's article on the Gallipoli landing again, and it's even more emotional: (young soldiers) All that they felt now was a gladness of exultation that their young courage was to be used. They were like kings in a pageant to the imminent death.

...As they passed from moorings to the man-of-war anchorage on their way to the sea, their feeling that they had done with life and were going out to something new, welled up in those battalions; they cheered and cheered till the harbor rang with cheering.

But these soldiers knew that in a few hours at most, perhaps a tenth of them would have looked their last on the sun, and be a part of foreign earth or dumb things that the tides push. A tenth of that may have been killed."

And perhaps a third of them would be mangled, blinded or broken, made imbecile or disfigured, with the color and the taste of life taken from them, so that they would never move with comrades nor exult in the sun. All are torn apart, or unhealthy, or demented, or bruised and ugly. The color and taste of life are deprived; so that they can no longer move with their companions, or rejoice in the sun. "

"After being injured, they can't be happy anymore, but they are full of joy now, and they are happy that their young courage is about to be put to good use."

But in the end?

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  • Kirstin 2022-01-03 08:01:12

    1930 classic anti-war film adaptation of the novel of the same name. The faithful original of the film describes the process of a group of young German soldiers participating in World War I to their death. The cruel battlefield and the social environment at that time deeply reveal the cruelty of the war and the destruction of humanity. It can be called a benchmark for anti-war films. After the Nazis came to power, Germany's ban on this film illustrates the excellence of the film from another angle.

  • Deangelo 2022-01-03 08:01:12

    8.5 Considering the era of this film, this work deserves to be the greatest anti-war film adaptation of Remark's novel of the same name. In addition to the repulsive acts of war and absurd patriotic education, what I remember is that The robes of Paul and Kaczynski are ironic that it worshipped the war and was ruthlessly taken away by it. In addition, the scene where Paul returned to his hometown in the bar surrounded by the Minke generals at the back reminds me of the forgotten soldier. People who have not experienced the baptism of war in World War II memoirs will talk about war as a trifle, and for those who have really experienced war, everything about them has been changed. Just as the original said-the times are burning. My soul has gone out. I hope to have a German version. After all, there is still some sense of violation when watching Americans play the German army.

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.