In almost every Hollywood movie, there's always a villain and hero, conflict and solution. Films are very much cliche or very similar. Especially, if it's a war movie involving the military. Hollywood and the Pentagon have different sides of the argument concerning assistance from the military in the development of films depicting war.
The film producers calls the Pentagon to read over the scripts of movies. Hollywood producers didn't like he idea of "Lassie" and the plane crash accident. They didn't want children believing that the military created crappy equipments. The military hated the movie, "Platoon" which had no cooperation. They disliked the fact the the soldiers had a mind of their own to disobey the leaders. Any film that the military assists says that war is good. Any film that isn't assisted says the war is bad. Hollywood try's to glamorize the military so that people would join, but by the time soldiers flew to Iraq and saw it wasn't too glamorous, it was too late to turn back.
"Pearl Harbor" was like a recruiting film for the military. The film would reawaken the audience to that time period. It kind of showed the audience a lot of unreliable events. Events that probably never happened, but Hollywood knew it would catch the audience's attention.
The media has savaged the military. "Top Gun" a military war movie. "The Longest Day" another military war movie. For almost three decades when people thought of a Great War movie it is likely that they immediately thought of Darryl F. Zanuck's, "The Longest Day". The film meticulously recreates the events preceding and during the invasion of Normandy. " 'The Longest Day' is more a film of tragedy, glory, and courage involving one very important day and the hundreds, even thousands of lives that were forever changed. And even though the filmmakers who produced the movie were mainly American and English, the movie portrays the Germans fairly. Without some of the stunning visuals that the five directors put in the film, it would have been impossible to comprehend the scale of the invasion.
"Pearl Harbor" was like a recruiting film for the military. The film would reawaken the audience to that time period. It kind of showed the audience a lot of unreliable events. Events that probably never happened, but Hollywood knew it would catch the audience's attention.
The media has savaged the military. "Top Gun" a military war movie. "The Longest Day" another military war movie. For almost three decades when people thought of a Great War movie it is likely that they immediately thought of Darryl F. Zanuck's, "The Longest Day". The film meticulously recreates the events preceding and during the invasion of Normandy. " 'The Longest Day' is more a film of tragedy, glory, and courage involving one very important day and the hundreds, even thousands of lives that were forever changed. And even though the filmmakers who produced the movie were mainly American and English, the movie portrays the Germans fairly. Without some of the stunning visuals that the five directors put in the film, it would have been impossible to comprehend the scale of the invasion.
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