Classical war movies to watch

1. Classical war movies to watch Simply asking these questions in the right way can produce an engaging but often painful film. For this list, we have compiled films that span the historical and fictional fields, from the two world wars to Vietnam to Iraq and then to the fictional interplanetary conflict. The Thin Red Line (1998) Terrence Malik returned to the war movie industry after 20 years of silence, and the response was warm - this war movie deserves it. You can't see the wonderful action scenes of most war movies. On the contrary, here are soldiers in the Pacific theater of World War II. They were shocked by their brutal behavior, thinking about the natural world, and wondering when they could go home. Casualties of War (1989) Brian De Palma has been struggling for his reputation. Sometimes he behaved particularly lewdly in films such as "Double", "Beauty of the Snake and Scorpion" and "Scarface", which made things worse. But in this terrible Vietnam War drama - about an American team that becomes rogue and falls into sexual slavery - he is swaying about the key fence. Michael J. Fox is very good at dealing with situational ethics. Men in War (1957) Director Anthony Mann is famous for his westerns, which fix heroes in uncomfortable and rugged environments. When he tried to make a battle movie (this was his first movie), he set his action in a no man's land in South Korea. The American platoon led by Robert Ryan found himself in trouble. The result was a war movie that was extremely difficult for the Ike era.

3. Apocalypse Now (1979) The battle behind Francis Ford Coppola's surreal war movie is well documented: nightmarish years of filming; Star Martin Xin's heart attack and recovery; A giggling press corps sharpening knives for an epic turkey. Coppola will laugh to the end. Most of the words of modern war pictures come from this great war movie. This is an opera tragedy with Vietnam as the background, which is shaped by the roaring helicopter blades, Wagner explosion, purple smoke and Joseph Conrad's colonialist fantasy Heart of Darkness. Fans of such an important Godfather director in the 1970s know that this is his last fully realized work; The connoisseur of the war movie regarded it (rightly) as his second all-out masterpiece. Full Metal Jacket (1987) With the glorious road in 1957, Stanley Kubrick issued one of the most incisive anti war statements in the war movie. Obviously, the world has not received the news. So thirty years later, he decided to speak out for the imperialists behind him. Moving from World War I to Vietnam, Kubrick not only described the terror on the battlefield - he condemned the whole war machine itself. It is no accident that the first half of the war movie is set in basic training, which is more terrible than the subsequent explosion and firefight. Like the soldiers themselves, desensitization is the key. Once you gaze into the eyes of Vincent D'Onofrio's tortured Private Pyle, who has reached the time and space hole at the end, the more brutal atrocities in the militarized conflict seem like walking in tulips. Of course, until you are forced to see "enemies" in their eyes. Army of Shadows (1969) In 2006, the cold blue portrait painted by Jean Pierre Melville for the French resistance fighters was rediscovered in 2006. It was usually used to dig out the lost classics, which provided a good case of honor for the wanted criminals. The secret room beating and driving gun shooting triggered a film about the sacrifice of spies, which is mainly about dialogue. Melville's reputation before has always stayed on the cold and remote gangster photos, such as Le Sa moura ï (1967), but it is a revelation to see his canvas expand to the national political field. What was the reason why the film was

4. initially ignored? The fashionable French critics thought it was too pro Gaulle to ignore. What happened around Fires on the Plain (1959) This straightforward description of the collapse of the Japanese imperial army in 1945 was initially given the green light by the great Darong Film Studio because people mistakenly thought it would be a war movie. And, to be fair, if you observe carefully, there is at least one actual combat scene. However, in general, director Kon Ichikawa faithfully put the former soldier Sh ō hei Ō Oka's novel portrays a broken soldier suffering from tuberculosis who trudges wearily in a hellish landscape. Critics at that time believed that it was a vision too dim to digest, but it later evolved into an anti war classic, full of bright humanity and dull wit. The Charlie Chaplin style lens of a pair of worn military boots sliding from one foot to the other, like any lens on the screen, is an amazing metaphor for the influence of war degradation. MASH (1970) Robert Altman's classic comedy is sugar coated: it appears with TV programs, boring laughter and Alan Alda. But to consider the real subversion of this war movie, you just need to compare it with another elephant war drama that was staged in the city in the same week of 1970: Barton tells about a misunderstood genius of slaughter, and the gloomy defense of bastards - charging. MASH has no battle scenes. It really ended with a climax and funny football match. Surprisingly, both films come from the same studio, 20th Century Fox. But by abandoning the traditional script of Kobayashi Radner and inspiring his ensemble performance, Altman designed a new on-site process, which will change American satire forever. This was the first real movie in the 1970s.