On 2012-05-28 20:06:17 -0700, clairbear said:

J.J. O'Shea wrote in
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Le Snip

The film-makers Hollywooded it up something awesome. Frankly, I
thought that it was insulting.


in a two hour movie they cannot cover everything and when you make a
drama abou heroes sometimes you do gild the lily a bit But you wanna
talk a history movie that was an insult what about "peral Harbor" About
the only thing in that movie that was accurate was that is was the
japanese who did attack Peral Harbor

Yup If you are going to make a movie with a fictional story line
loosely based on history, then make it a good one. There have been
several great movies of the fictional variety based on historic events.
There have also been some great depictions of historic events, some
nothing more than glorifying stretches of the imagination, and some
which work on both the historic level and the story telling level.

David Lean has dealt with both types to produce "Bridge on The River
Kwai" a magnificently presented fictional tale based in history, and
"Lawrence of Arabia" a spectacular piece of history limited in its
scope by the medium. "Lawrence of Arabia" has issues due to embroidery
of the story, and omission of many details.

Kubrick's masterpiece on this genre is "Paths of Glory".

Then there are some of the post war movies which lacked in production
values told good stories and sometimes twisted facts to glorify the
victors. Of this group I give you the fiction on the fringe of historic
fact. "From Here to Eternity" and the two moral boosting British
efforts based purely on historic events and characters, "Reach for the
Sky" & "The Dambusters".

Then there is the historically factual tale of Frans Von Werra in "The
One Who Got Away" a great story regardless of loyalties which was well
presented by an English studio.

B&W does work for war movies, fiction & historic.

Both "Red Tails" and "Pearl Harbor" are failures of story telling and
historic documentary. What can be determined from both is, WWII took
place in color and CGI.


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Regards,

Savageduck