Just listened to the bonus episode. My favorite anti-war films remain Johnny Got His Gun (1971) and Peter Weir's Gallipoli (1981). I would also toss in Band of Brothers (2001) but that is a TV miniseries.
The challenge of creating an effective anti-war film I believe was best summed up by fictious movie director Eli Cross (Peter O'Tool…
Just listened to the bonus episode. My favorite anti-war films remain Johnny Got His Gun (1971) and Peter Weir's Gallipoli (1981). I would also toss in Band of Brothers (2001) but that is a TV miniseries.
The challenge of creating an effective anti-war film I believe was best summed up by fictious movie director Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole) in The Stunt Man (1980): "I know a man who made an anti-war movie... a good one. When it was shown in his home town, army enlistment went up six hundred percent."
Kind of like how Martin Scorsese tried to make Wall Street look as horrible as possible in Wolf of Wall Street. Who ends up loving the movie? People who work on Wall Street!!!
Just listened to the bonus episode. My favorite anti-war films remain Johnny Got His Gun (1971) and Peter Weir's Gallipoli (1981). I would also toss in Band of Brothers (2001) but that is a TV miniseries.
The challenge of creating an effective anti-war film I believe was best summed up by fictious movie director Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole) in The Stunt Man (1980): "I know a man who made an anti-war movie... a good one. When it was shown in his home town, army enlistment went up six hundred percent."
Kind of like how Martin Scorsese tried to make Wall Street look as horrible as possible in Wolf of Wall Street. Who ends up loving the movie? People who work on Wall Street!!!
Thank you for the show.