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DLD said:
Here's the best WWII battle scene. Filmed by Josef Vilsmaier for the 50th anniversary of the Stalingrad battle on location in Czechoslovakia.
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I saw this tank movie recently and really enjoyed it for entertainment and visual style. It's actually striking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_eRUErIlY

Is it any less realistic ?

I did look it up after and it was based on a true story.

Also caught this the other day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Gz7Bg07u8

I found a few reddit threads that seemed to rate it as one of the most realistic submarine films,

JB
 
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John Brawley said:
We went to shoot VFX plates and reference material of the water and plants and so on so they could use those elements.

BUT

What ended up happening is they cut a montage of about 2 mins of the CONTEMPORARY material I shot there as a kind of coda to the show, to show what it is today. Farmers doing the same thing they and their ancestors have been doing for thousands of years there. And old landscape that carries a lot of history is something that's familiar to Australians. This wasn't in the original script, but it's now the end of the series. So they did use the material and the real location as it is today.

JB
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Gotcha. I do think that generally (and if the other responses to this thread are any indication) some people demand more realism and educational value from war films than other period pieces. I think there's a seriousness to the topic for them that they don't bring to superhero movies.

Of course, that's only true for nationally significant conflicts.
 
John Brawley said:
I saw this tank movie recently and really enjoyed it for entertainment and visual style. It's actually striking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_eRUErIlY

Is it any less realistic ?

I did look it up after and it was based on a true story.

Also caught this the other day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Gz7Bg07u8

I found a few reddit threads that seemed to rate it as one of the most realistic submarine films,

JB
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"T-34" frames look very good but is, obviously, more of a superhero movie set in WWII than anything resembling actual combat or historical context. In reality, a lifespan of a T-34 crew on a battlefield was around three days.

Now, the French film seems very promising. Last year, Francois Civil also starred in a romcom "Love at Second Sight" (aka "Mon Inconnue", 7.0 on IMDB). That plot had many holes but his leading lady Josephine Japy was so charming and their chemistry was so good, it was a joy to watch.
 
Eric Coughlin said:
Inglourious Basterds.
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There was some backlash to Inglourious Basterds.

https://m.imdb.com/news/ni0552587
https://www.google.com/amp/s/ew.com...lourious-basterds-quentin-tarantino/?amp=true

And while it didn't maintain historical accuracy, the goal of honoring the dead was maintained - by fictionally avenging them.

There was also some controversy over the comical depiction of Hitler in Jojo Rabbit.

I'm not saying I agree with any of these concerns. But the original point was about how we relate to war (and therefore death) and if at least some audience members require solemnity and historical "accuracy". The answer is yes, but not all audience members.

And also - I think people demand more accuracy and attention to detail from serious dramas than from comedies or slapstick action films.
 
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ahalpert said:
There was some backlash to Inglourious Basterds.

https://m.imdb.com/news/ni0552587
https://www.google.com/amp/s/ew.com...lourious-basterds-quentin-tarantino/?amp=true

And while it didn't maintain historical accuracy, the goal of honoring the dead was maintained - by fictionally avenging them.

There was also some controversy over the comical depiction of Hitler in Jojo Rabbit.

I'm not saying I agree with any of these concerns. But the original point was about how we relate to war (and therefore death) and if at least some audience members require solemnity and historical "accuracy". The answer is yes, but not all audience members.

And also - I think people demand more accuracy and attention to detail from serious dramas than from comedies or slapstick action films.
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I think these films all affect us differently. I detested Inglorious Basterds, I just found the whole premise was too ridiculous. Tarantino has this violent revenge fetish thing that is obnoxious. I really, really dug Once Upon a Time in Hollywood until it turned into Inglorious Basterds Redux the last ten minutes.
It just strikes me as weird to make a film based upon carefully documented historical war but then to just re-write history with little logic or connective tissue between real history and a gratuitous revenge fantasy, that just strikes me as pointless and strange. None of the Jews who are friends particularly liked it either
so I don't buy that it played particularly well with the audience who most might want to revise that history, even as a fantasy.

Jojo Rabbit, I had no problem with the Hitler character because it wasn't supposed to anything more than a childs naive fantasy of what Hitler represented. I kind of liked the film as a quirky art film. I had more problems with the kids dancing to David Bowie at the end, another pet peeve, I prefer period films to not be
scored with modern pop music, that just bugs me.

That's just how storytelling works, one mans trash is another's Gold and vice versa. And that's fine, it's just how these films struck me.
 
I'm Jewish and I didn't have a problem with Inglourious Basterds being irreverent. I thought the movie somewhat lacked heart (kind of like Kill Bill, which I thought was better). It felt like Tarantino was perfecting certain genres and types of scenes (such as the Mexican stand-off) but he's such a master that he becomes too focused on craft.

Django Unchained felt like it had more heart to me and I thought it was his best movie in years. Even though that movie lacks historical accuracy, it contained enough semi-accurate or accurate depiction of slave torture and skull phrenology etc to root the revenge in a truly evil villainy.

Hateful Eight I thought he was back in his head and once again lacking heart. I don't know about the historical accuracy but it wouldn't bother me if it was wildly off. It was hard for me to watch the hanging scene at the end because my sister's boyfriend hanged himself when he was 20, but that just goes to show you that each audience member brings their own baggage and bias. None of the other killings in the film bothered me.
 
ahalpert said:
I'm Jewish ...
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Not to plug my own links but ... Leonid Bronevoy, who was Jewish, was the second choice to play a real historical character Gruppenführer Heinrich "Gestapo" Müller in the "17 Moments of Spring" because the first choice believed the role was beneath him. Bronevoy just said it was a great part.

And, yes, I linked to the "17 Moments" last night on the Soviet films thread. As a side note, the film was more "inside KGB" than "inside the 3rd Reich", as the premise was quite farfetched. But the characters were written so well and made so believable, they entered the Soviet/Russian folklore.
 
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