DMProductions
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I'm loving this, John! I seem to remember that the Japanese also executed a lot of the marines after they'd surrendered - or started to? Gotta hit the books!
War Films
- Thread starter J.R. Hudson
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J.R. Hudson
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I would be down with that. (Barry?)
Yas Kassana
Well-known member
Did anyone here like Cross of Iron?
DMProductions
Active member
I haven't seen that one, or if I did it was 'way back in the day. box art had a dead soldier gripping a medal of the Iron Cross, correct?
Yas Kassana
Well-known member
That's the one - Sam Peckinpah. I would also recommend Brotherhood, or Tae Guk wai, a korean war film, very good.
Hectorxd
Well-known member
I usually check the movies section but I guess I got behind and missed all this war movie talk. I think that is all I have in my DVD collection with a few exceptions. Some of my favorites obviously include SPR and BOB. My favorite old war movie is The Great Escape and is the reason why I got into making WWII movies and it is why I got into reenacting WWII.
I saw someones post about them wishing their were other movies that didnt feature the US and they wanted to see something about Stalingrad. There is a movie called Stalingrad which focuses on a squad of Germans and their hardships in Russia during the battle. I believe it is in German with English Subtitles. http://imdb.com/title/tt0108211/
Tae Guk Gi is an excellent movie. Be sure to watch it in its original language and with english subtitles. A friend of mine watched it with the english dubbed over and he thought the acting was terrible in the movie, but didnt take in account that what he was hearing was not the actors.
Another movie I really liked is To hell and back. Incredible that all the stuff in the movie happened. I really enjoyed the book more though.
One of my favorite classes in college was "History in Film: Hollywood and War". We got to watch wwii movies in school. After we watched a movie we watched a episode of BOB.
I like the Wake Island idea. Has anyone seen either of these:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0372021/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0035530/
If I were making a WWII movie it would be the story of the Bedford Boys.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306811677/002-7326653-1717665?v=glance
I have interviewed on camera several of the veterans from bedford and they just have fascinating stories to tell. It would be different than other D-Day type movies because you would actually care about the characters by time they hit the beach. I was thinking about focusing the movie on one of many sets of brothers in the company. Roy and Ray Stevens who were twins.
http://www.vahistory.org/WWII/image...urce=&subject=22&location=&page=image_archive
It would follow the two boys from growing up in Bedford, signing up for the national gaurd, training stateside, training in England for 2 years, and than the assualt and the first month in Normandy. I would also make the beaches look like they did on D-Day. The actual beach they landed on was around 300 yards from water to sea wall. They also landed at the most heavily defended part of Omaha Beach. Reading a few books about the 29th Division and D-Day really show you how things played out that morning. Its sad and terrible and hard to put on film what it was like. It would take too long to show what really happened that day because it took so long to get off the beach. Hours and Hours went by and some soldiers were just laying there or hiding and watched as their fellow soldiers were being torn to shreds by the machine gun fire. I would try to show as many things as I could about the beach landing. For instance, after firing a few rounds their rifles would jam and become useless. Many of them layed out their blanket once they got to a place where they couldnt be seen and they took apart their rifle and cleaned it. Some of them would fire a few rounds until their gun would jam and they would pick up another rifle and use that for a few rounds. I really dont want to get into a big discussion about SPR mistakes on this thread because there are whole websites and forums dedicated to that, I just want to make an awesome war movie about these soldiers and try to be as accurate as possible about the beach landing and not try to make it seem so action packed and quick.
Wow I think this might be my longest reply.
I would love to have War be the next contest on this Forum..
Brian Lyles
I saw someones post about them wishing their were other movies that didnt feature the US and they wanted to see something about Stalingrad. There is a movie called Stalingrad which focuses on a squad of Germans and their hardships in Russia during the battle. I believe it is in German with English Subtitles. http://imdb.com/title/tt0108211/
Tae Guk Gi is an excellent movie. Be sure to watch it in its original language and with english subtitles. A friend of mine watched it with the english dubbed over and he thought the acting was terrible in the movie, but didnt take in account that what he was hearing was not the actors.
Another movie I really liked is To hell and back. Incredible that all the stuff in the movie happened. I really enjoyed the book more though.
One of my favorite classes in college was "History in Film: Hollywood and War". We got to watch wwii movies in school. After we watched a movie we watched a episode of BOB.
I like the Wake Island idea. Has anyone seen either of these:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0372021/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0035530/
If I were making a WWII movie it would be the story of the Bedford Boys.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306811677/002-7326653-1717665?v=glance
I have interviewed on camera several of the veterans from bedford and they just have fascinating stories to tell. It would be different than other D-Day type movies because you would actually care about the characters by time they hit the beach. I was thinking about focusing the movie on one of many sets of brothers in the company. Roy and Ray Stevens who were twins.
http://www.vahistory.org/WWII/image...urce=&subject=22&location=&page=image_archive
It would follow the two boys from growing up in Bedford, signing up for the national gaurd, training stateside, training in England for 2 years, and than the assualt and the first month in Normandy. I would also make the beaches look like they did on D-Day. The actual beach they landed on was around 300 yards from water to sea wall. They also landed at the most heavily defended part of Omaha Beach. Reading a few books about the 29th Division and D-Day really show you how things played out that morning. Its sad and terrible and hard to put on film what it was like. It would take too long to show what really happened that day because it took so long to get off the beach. Hours and Hours went by and some soldiers were just laying there or hiding and watched as their fellow soldiers were being torn to shreds by the machine gun fire. I would try to show as many things as I could about the beach landing. For instance, after firing a few rounds their rifles would jam and become useless. Many of them layed out their blanket once they got to a place where they couldnt be seen and they took apart their rifle and cleaned it. Some of them would fire a few rounds until their gun would jam and they would pick up another rifle and use that for a few rounds. I really dont want to get into a big discussion about SPR mistakes on this thread because there are whole websites and forums dedicated to that, I just want to make an awesome war movie about these soldiers and try to be as accurate as possible about the beach landing and not try to make it seem so action packed and quick.
Wow I think this might be my longest reply.
I would love to have War be the next contest on this Forum..
Brian Lyles
Yas Kassana
Well-known member
If anyone is interested. 100 greatest war films as voted by channel 4 viewers.
http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_warfilms/results/100-96.html
http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_warfilms/results/100-96.html
kimko
Veteran
WELL I JUST WATCHED IT AGAIN.............MAN I JUST CRIED................THAT ENDING WHEN HE ASKED HIS WIFE IF HE WAS A GOOD MAN...........MY FATHER ASKED ME THAT BEFORE HE DIED............WHEN I VISITED THE GRAVESITE WITH MY BROTHERS (WHO WERE IN THE SERVICE) THEY SALUTE.................I JUST TOUCH HIS GRAVE STONE.............(i haven't earned that right).............................my father PFC JUDSON BAKER LUCKHURST 1ST BATTALLION DARBYS RANGERS captured in Cisterno italy, escaped with two others got captured again, P.O.W. 11 MONTHS in NAZI GERMANY.