A MAD LOOK at WW2 Movies
Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:48 pm
Gang, Here's an interesting MAD Magazine "Then & Now" Look at WW2 Movies. It's from 1962 & amazingly accurate!! 
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Digger
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Digger
Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:49 pm
"Ich Like Ike"... LMAO...
Fade to Black...
Fade to Black...
Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:15 pm
Once again, America's finest source of journalism nails it!
I wonder if any of those writers went on to work on the script for "Pearl Harbor"....
SN
I wonder if any of those writers went on to work on the script for "Pearl Harbor"....
SN
Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:38 pm
My Favorite line: "Healing is zo much better zen Heilling"
Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:39 pm
interesting post.... political sanitizing??? / ww2 historical revisionism??? or letting the scars heal worldwide??? while we as a world can't live in the past, it can't be forgotten, & it shouldn't. i wouldn't look at it as kissing & making up, but scars heal, but never go away.
Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:13 pm
Well, if you want to get all intellectual, I think any "history" says far more about the people writing it than the events or persons being written about. For instance Sci-Fi movies of the '50s and early '60s tended to be more optimistic, then in the late '60s and '70s they turned dark and and cynical..much like the cultures of the times (here in the States, anyway.)
When it comes to WWII, most of the flicks from the '70s were pretty downbeat and cynical as well (Catch 22, Kelly's Heroes,) reflecting the post-Vietnam / Watergate mindset.
I think recent efforts like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Flags of our Fathers" have probably been about the best at presenting a balanced view (I haven't seen "Letters From Iwo Jima" yet, so I can't comment on that one.)
SN
When it comes to WWII, most of the flicks from the '70s were pretty downbeat and cynical as well (Catch 22, Kelly's Heroes,) reflecting the post-Vietnam / Watergate mindset.
I think recent efforts like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Flags of our Fathers" have probably been about the best at presenting a balanced view (I haven't seen "Letters From Iwo Jima" yet, so I can't comment on that one.)
SN
Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:37 pm
Hey Digger,
I have not seen you posting on the new VLJ site. Hope to see you over there soon. I think all the bugs are worked out of this new site.....so check it out!!
P.S.--You may need to re-register.
Ted
I have not seen you posting on the new VLJ site. Hope to see you over there soon. I think all the bugs are worked out of this new site.....so check it out!!
P.S.--You may need to re-register.
Ted
Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:37 pm
I agree with Steve completely.
Makes you wonder what people living 500 years or more ago would think of our interpretation of history? It has taken scarcely a generation to to see significant changes in how an event as well-documented and recent as WWII are perceived.
We had a former POW of the Japanese speak at our Warbirds meeting recently. He had just returned from a visit to his former prison, which is now a museum. He said the "cell" on display bore almost no resemblance to his actual cell, which lacked many of the amenities the revisionist cell was equipped with (like a window and cot).
I think maybe it is good that people find it difficult to accept how savagely everyone treats eachother during wartime...so difficult that we prefer to spin the truth a little...but I think it is unfortunate how quickly we choose to forget that our fathers were capable of terrifying acts of brutality for political reasons (and so are we).
Those who forget history....
Makes you wonder what people living 500 years or more ago would think of our interpretation of history? It has taken scarcely a generation to to see significant changes in how an event as well-documented and recent as WWII are perceived.
We had a former POW of the Japanese speak at our Warbirds meeting recently. He had just returned from a visit to his former prison, which is now a museum. He said the "cell" on display bore almost no resemblance to his actual cell, which lacked many of the amenities the revisionist cell was equipped with (like a window and cot).
I think maybe it is good that people find it difficult to accept how savagely everyone treats eachother during wartime...so difficult that we prefer to spin the truth a little...but I think it is unfortunate how quickly we choose to forget that our fathers were capable of terrifying acts of brutality for political reasons (and so are we).
Those who forget history....