I was so impressed with this film when it came out that I watched it repeatedly. I also thought that it didn’t show the US in necessarily a good light, even back then. I tried rewatching it some years ago and found it totally unwatchable and have to agree with Mitchell. I don’t think it’s aged well.
"Saving Private Ryan, aided by superb cinematographic technology, draws on our deep feeling for the GIs, in order to rescue not just Private Ryan but the good name of war.
I will not be surprised if Spielberg gets an Academy Award. Did not Kissinger get a noble Prize?"
"It enabled political leaders - whatever miserable adventure they would take us into, whatever mayhem they would wreak on other people and on our own - to invoke WW2 as a model. Vietnam caused large numbers of Americans to question the enterprise of war itself. "
Hollywood is already gearing up to make movies about how invading foreign countries and killing their people make U.S. soldiers feel sorry and suffer from PTSD
I was so impressed with this film when it came out that I watched it repeatedly. I also thought that it didn’t show the US in necessarily a good light, even back then. I tried rewatching it some years ago and found it totally unwatchable and have to agree with Mitchell. I don’t think it’s aged well.
"Saving Private Ryan, aided by superb cinematographic technology, draws on our deep feeling for the GIs, in order to rescue not just Private Ryan but the good name of war.
I will not be surprised if Spielberg gets an Academy Award. Did not Kissinger get a noble Prize?"
youtu.be/p6y_TUoOdfQ?t=1715
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"It enabled political leaders - whatever miserable adventure they would take us into, whatever mayhem they would wreak on other people and on our own - to invoke WW2 as a model. Vietnam caused large numbers of Americans to question the enterprise of war itself. "
-Howard Zinn, American historian and WW2 veteran
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Howard Zinn - War Solves Nothing:
substack.com/@thememoryhole/note/c-147094498
Hollywood is already gearing up to make movies about how invading foreign countries and killing their people make U.S. soldiers feel sorry and suffer from PTSD
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How CIA/MIC Took over Hollywood:
youtube.com/watch?v=8Xp9jTdJ4Ys
Are there any Adam Curtis films in this series? As a politico film addict, "The Power of Nightmares" is required viewing...
Considering that film as one of the last few in the series. It may be "bonus" article. Yes, I agree it's well done.