I finally watched All Quiet in the Western Front. Took a while to get my wife to agree to watch. It was long and she hid her eyes from the violence. While the movie was very will photographed, it is an example of how a movie may not be the best place to recreate a work of literature. I read a translation of Remarque's book in the la…
I finally watched All Quiet in the Western Front. Took a while to get my wife to agree to watch. It was long and she hid her eyes from the violence. While the movie was very will photographed, it is an example of how a movie may not be the best place to recreate a work of literature. I read a translation of Remarque's book in the late 60s when the Vietnam War was raging - the book's lesson seemed compelling then. But the recreation of a series of scenes in ones minds is different from passively watching scenes in a movie. So an honorable effort but a failure in the end. Just too long and there was no narrative to speak of. That was the point of the book - but a movie needs something else -at least if that long.
I finally watched All Quiet in the Western Front. Took a while to get my wife to agree to watch. It was long and she hid her eyes from the violence. While the movie was very will photographed, it is an example of how a movie may not be the best place to recreate a work of literature. I read a translation of Remarque's book in the late 60s when the Vietnam War was raging - the book's lesson seemed compelling then. But the recreation of a series of scenes in ones minds is different from passively watching scenes in a movie. So an honorable effort but a failure in the end. Just too long and there was no narrative to speak of. That was the point of the book - but a movie needs something else -at least if that long.