The best war movies of all time

Arnulfo 2022-03-22 09:02:01

This is an anti-war film that I will show my children in the future. There are many things I want to say to him that are inappropriate, and I can feel them in the film. Released in the 1930s and filmed in the 1920s, this film not long after the end of the First World War proved that human beings in later generations. Human beings in any era simply cannot learn from the experience and lessons of history. Generations of people are born, grow and grow old, but history keeps repeating itself. The same hot-blooded youth, the same ambitious ruler. What amazes me is that the films from more than 80 years ago are of such a high standard, both technically and artistically, they amaze me, and let me watch them, and now I can watch them. There are very few movies. There is one thing I don't understand very much. In the end, the male protagonist Paul clearly painted a bird, was shot, and did not say that he was dead. This is also an open ending of an old version. But why did the film critics say that he was catching a butterfly and was shot to death by a cold gun? Is it written like this in the novel, is it a novel or a movie you have seen? Makes me wonder. In short, a classic is a classic, and it can be placed in any era.

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All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • Hair-peak soldier: And manufacturers. They get rich.

    [murmurs of agreement]

    Albert Kropp: I think it's more a kind of fever. Nobody wants it in particular, and then all at once, there it is. We didn't want it. The English didn't want it. And here we are fighting.

  • 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.