In 1930, the Great Depression finally began to spread to the film industry. There was still a boom in the first half of the year, but the audience began to be few in the second half. In order to save the decline of the film industry, Hollywood is trying to boost the American film industry with the Oscars. Against this background, "All Quiet on the Western Front", one of the "greatest anti-war films" in film history, won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay Nomination and other awards.
All Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war film, the highest ideological and artistic achievement among the early Oscar-winning films. Because of the film's condemnation of the war between imperialists, it caused dissatisfaction in Germany at the time. Nazis organized marches, and the film was banned in Germany for 20 years.
There are many scenes in the film that are considered to be classics in the history of film and have a meaningful meaning. Looking back at the history of film development, the film machine was only manufactured in 1895, the first sound film came out in 1928, and "All Quiet on the Western Front" produced in 1930. Perhaps compared with the current blockbusters, there are no more skills to show, no A luxurious lineup, but it's very infectious. The film uses the perspective of young soldiers to experience a war. War is no longer full of meanings, just facing death, parting, fear, starvation... The purgatory on earth makes people crazy. The teachers who incited the students, the postman with the feathers as arrows, the idlers in the tavern talking about strategy, the old Carter who was killed by the bomb, the hand that caught butterflies on the battlefield, and the students who returned home with their souls superimposed on the grave. This allegorical classic shot shows the other side of the real war. In 1930, such a complete, profound and powerful film against the war was made, which is truly amazing.
Outside the church window, busy soldiers rushed to the front line with enthusiasm. Under the statue of the Virgin, the wooden saints silently deal with the dead. In the huge contrast between heaven and hell, it accuses the cruelty of war and the destruction of human nature.
The boring war continued. One day, Paul saw a beautiful butterfly parked in front of the trench. Paul tried to catch it but failed to catch it. The hand of longing for peace that slowly stretches after being shot and the beautiful butterfly of peace have become an eternal moment in the history of film, and the sound of gunfire and the film also abruptly end here...
However, the report from the German front to the command that day wrote: There is no war on the western front. A week later, World War I ended...
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