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if the world wars were not actual events, but blockbuster movie series, how would you critique/compare them?
people always compare and critique star wars, star trek, etc….but what if world war 1 and 2 were not real wars but epic movie trilogies?
how would you review them based on which has the best villians/heros/message/action sequence/emotional sequence/vehicle and costume design, etc etc
i personally think ww1 was more of a “message movie”. there was no clear villains, the whole point was that war was pointless and it isnt worth fighting over stupid things like dead archdukes. imo, the only great action sequences in ww1 were the aerial battles (especially when the red baron was onscreen)
ww2 was more of a classic “good vs evil” action-adventure with larger-than life characters, aside from the holocaust scenes.
Your analogy is Apt. World War One was more romantic & dreamy but for 21st Century Americans & most Westerners the Villains were harder to identify. The mass uprising of the Prolotariet is harder to digest then Good Versus Evil.
And for Central Casting Hitler was not only a great Villain but Stalin was a great Evil Ally while the heroric due of Churchill & FDR provided great examples of leadership and skill (no one was better than Eisenhower at organizing stuff – - – shuffling pieces on a chessboard).
Not to be too critical but you must reread World War One – - – aside from the idea that all wars are pointless (what was the point of World War Two) – - – there were important issues. Were you aware that if the Archduke had lived he may have been the architect of a United States of Central Europe and there would have been no World War Two or the brutal nature of life in The Balklans in the 1990′s?
And Battle Scenes // // go watch ‘The Great Parade’ from 1926 a silent film and you will swear you hear shells exploding. And Ship to SHip Duels – - – did you know that the ‘classic’ ship to ship fight was carried out by two passenger liners converted into cruisers? We are talking two ships stalking each each, each disguitised as the other (now that is weird when you have been sucking rum out of a bottle for twenty years). Each three funneled liner pummeling each other, each of them set afire, naturally the ‘good guys’ the English prevail (as in the age of sail), Englishmen gather at the rail to cheer not jeer their enemy as their enemy sinks into the sea.
World War Two had too many set pieces – - – almost surreal – - – much of the mythology of World War Two is so set that no one dare challenge ‘facts’ aside from the ever present but small click of holcaust deniers & neo-Nazis, which I lament since their are World War Two moments worth exploring on film.
World War One demands to be on the big screen a lot more. That recent dog fight movie was so cheesy, a good bio of the Red Baron is way over due and if you want ‘action’ with good guys versus bad guys then check out the fight (over issues) in the mountains between Austra-Hungary and Italy. Or the heroic lonely stance of Belgium’s King & Queen who fought to hold a scrap of turf against the Hun.
Peace…..
(dreamy – - – romantic see ‘A Farewell to Arms’ the 1930′s version – - – and for Manly Bravdo both the Bartllemess and Flynn versions of The Dawn Patrol)
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