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Clint Eastwood Plans Dual Release of Iwo Jima Films, Time Says
Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) --Clint Eastwood, the movie actor and director, plans to simultaneously release two films in 2006 about the World War II battle of Iwo Jima -- one from the U.S. perspective and the other from the Japanese point of view, Time Magazine reported.
Eastwood, who's already begun making ``Flags of Our Fathers,'' written by Paul Haggis, from the American point of view, intends to start shooting the companion film, ``Lamps Before the Wind,'' written by Iris Yamashita, a Japanese- American, Time said.
jingai wrote:All the greatest generation crap seems pretty glowing towards the WWII vets, though I skipped a few of the recent films.
jingai wrote:"But I do agree that American movies, overall, should show more respect to the Allies."
What movies are you referring to?
Yeah.. A decent crap movie, too.. But if I were a UK vet, I'd be hot-tea steaming mad.Mulboyne wrote:I certainly wouldn't start a discussion of "U-571"with a group of UK veterans. This film credited US troops with a coup that was wholly the accomplishment of the Royal Navy.
GuyJean wrote:Yeah.. A decent crap movie, too.. But if I were a UK vet, I'd be hot-tea steaming mad.Mulboyne wrote:I certainly wouldn't start a discussion of "U-571"with a group of UK veterans. This film credited US troops with a coup that was wholly the accomplishment of the Royal Navy.
I thought Private Marvin was crap. Along with Black Hawk Down.. No doubt, the inevitable Jessica Lynch movie will be garbaaajh..
Thin Red Line was good.. Except for the cameos..
GJ
Taro Toporific wrote:Clint Eastwood Plans Dual Release of Iwo Jima Films, Time Says
Taro Toporific wrote:It tells the story from the Japanese side of the battle, while the other film, "Flags of Our Fathers," shows the U.S. point of view. Both are scheduled for simultaneous release in the fall
Ken Watanabe said he hopes a new Clint Eastwood film about the bloody World War II battle for Iwo Jima, in which he plays a main role, can help young Japanese face their country's wartime history.
"As we went through this film, we realized that until now, we haven't really looked at Japan's past. We kind of looked away from it," said Watanabe, who stars in Red Sun, Black Sand. "But we have to look at it and accept the fact that this is what our fathers and grandfathers have actually done."
. . . Watanabe plays the general who loses the battle, causing the death of many young Japanese soldiers who followed his orders.
. . . Eastwood has spent the past year working on Red Sun, Black Sand, in Japanese and with a predominantly Japanese cast, and a second film, Flags of Our Fathers, which follows the story of the U.S. troops famously photographed raising the flag at Iwo Jima.
Both movies are scheduled for release this year ... more
SAN FRANCISCO -- Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal picture of six World War II fighting men raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.
Rosenthal died of natural causes at a retirement home in the San Francisco suburb of Novato, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal.
"He was a good and honest man, he had real integrity," she said....more...
blackcat wrote:no doubt this will be watered down to passify the whining denialist japanese.
how many times have the germans had to bear the brunt as the 20th century evil in film and tv compared to the japanese considering they were every bit as evil?
Hiromasa Murakami went to see Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" to find out if an American could tell the Japanese side of a battle that became a symbol of U.S. patriotism, but for Japan was a bitter memory of defeat.
After viewing the film on Saturday when it opened it Tokyo, Murakami thinks Eastwood got it right.
"It was marvelous," the 50-year-old carpenter said as he emerged from the theater. "How should I express it? It was the same for both sides, for them and us. Everyone was a victim."
mr. sparkle wrote:Watanabe as Kurabayashi is great, but Private Saigo (J-popper Kazunari Ninomiya) steals the show.
And the recipient of Kurabayashi's letters?
"Taro".
kamome wrote: This movie definitely gets
Japan has never addressed its World War II history to the same degree as Germany. But now the Clint Eastwood epic "Letters From Iwo Jima" has caused Japan to re-examine its role in the war, as the film's stars explain to SPIEGEL ONLINE...The film has sparked a debate in Japan about the battle and Japan's role in the war. "In Japan, almost nobody knew about this tragedy before the film," Watanabe says. "Sixty years after the war, most people want to learn about the true history of the past. It's good timing." Tsuyoshi Ihara, who plays the role of the dapper cavalry officer Baron Takeichi Nishi in the film, agrees. "The film has become a trigger to raise interest in reassessing what the war is about,"...
...He says the film isn't just entertainment. "I hope it could be a means to change society," he says, pointing out that it has already been viewed by 4.5 million people, including several politicians, and has been touted as potential teaching material for schools. "Just the fact that we are looking at what happened 61 years ago is very important for Japan today." The work also highlights changing attitudes to war in Japan. In the film, tensions arise between traditionally minded soldiers who adhere to the warrior code of bushido and want to commit suicide when they fail, and those soldiers who are more concerned about just staying alive. The latter are personified by the character of Saigo, a homesick and mutinous young recruit in the best war movie tradition of the anti-hero such as Yossarian in "Catch 22" or Hawkeye in "M*A*S*H"...more...
Mulboyne wrote:Here's a forceful response to the film from the NBR Forums.
gboothe wrote:It is very hard for Vets who have been shot at (missed and/or hit) to listen to someone who was, or is, thousands of miles from the muzzle sounds, trying to convince everyone how this guy who is doing his utmost best to kill you, is such a nice guy and is really just like your neighborhood chum.
Charles wrote:It is even harder to listen to the vets whine for the next 60 years.
gboothe wrote:Define "whine" asshole!
Charles wrote:How much do you want to bet that the loudest, whiniest ex-POWs are the ones that got captured fresh off the boat, without ever firing a shot?
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