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14-03-2010, 13:11 #1Senior Member
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The Pacific War 1941-5
http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle7057124.ece
I've put this here because there is far more to it than just a film being made. Not mentioned but a first class book of personal experience in that war is 'Goodbye Darkness' by William Manchester (ex USMC).
My grandfather once told his son 'Never look into the eyes of the man you are about to kill.' What horrors of WW1 lay behind that remark we'll never know now.Dr Johnson: 'Any man thinks less of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been to sea.'
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone: 'Moderation in war is imbecility!'
Douglas MacArthur: 'There is no substitute for Victory!'
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14-03-2010, 13:32 #2Senior Member
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I still don't think it's really current affairs, do you?
Excerpt from The Four Slappers of the Apocalypse.
And when I had opened the fourth beer, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and her that sat on him was the wife, and Hell followed with her......
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14-03-2010, 13:41 #3Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Tartan_Terrier
Very current and very relevant points I would suggest…
"…“The war in Europe is a recognisable version of the terror of war, because it’s about armies fighting on a front line,” he explains. “When an enemy soldier threw his hands up in the air, then, largely, the war was over for him. That is not the case with The Pacific. It was fighting that was based on racism, and a war waged through terror. Horrible things were done on both sides to human beings both dead and alive. It was a case of ‘We hate these people’ — not ‘We’re going to liberate this island’. Most of the time on those islands, there was nothing or nobody to liberate. It was like a large industrial version of what all future wars were going to be like — between different-coloured peoples with different theologies they thought were the absolute truth. The best thing you can say is that the wars have gotten smaller. But then, if it’s so small — we live in a society that’s making a bigger deal about where Jay Leno is going to have a TV show than about a war that’s taking lives.” He shakes his head in frustration.…"
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Good interview of Hanks and his comments are right on target. Wonder what made him into such a pro-veteran chap? He used to be a fairly lightweight actor before moving into weightier material such as "Forrest Gump" and "Ryan."
Britain's bloodiest post-WWII battle - the full story is told at last:
http://tothelastround.wordpress.com/
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Tom Hanks said once that when he was making Pvt Ryan he found it very moving when they were filming in the Military Cemetarys and thought that war films should portray the truth and not the normal hollywood BS Originally Posted by Andy_S
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