Both of those Western (and, as it happens, Twentieth Century Fox) movies presented both sides of the conflict by hiring directors from the different countries concerned. Probably the best known are The Longest Day (Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernard Wicki, 1962) about the World War Two Allied invasion of Normandy and Tora! Tora! Tora! (Richard Fleischer, Toshio Matsuda, Kinji Fukasaku, 1970) about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. There is a history of war films with a cast of thousands being directed by several (usually three) directors in an attempt to portray campaigns with huge military logistics on the screen. 15 – 176mĬhinese war movie which has barnstormed the global box office does exactly what it says on the tin – out in cinemas on Friday, November 19th
Here is a fact to ponder: a large portion of Chinese POWs refused to go back to China and were sent to Taiwan.Directors – Chen Kaige, Dante Lam, Tsui Hark – 2021 – China – Cert. For the westerners who generally do not know what happened in Korean War, and what kind of soldiers were sent over to fight. This is the same old practices of the Chinese war movies, showing how brave and effective killing machine the Chinese army is. But the fighting scene predominately shows US soldiers got blown up into the sky, with very few scenes showing Chinese soldiers getting killed.
The movie showed the huge loss to the Chinese army only in numbers, when casualties were reported by the soldiers. I don't know if this is because they can't get good US actors, or because they don't want US soldiers look more humane than the Chinese. However the US officers and soldiers characters are just like movie props, with little personalities or emotions. The movie did not demonise the US troops. This just show the mindset of the Chinese elites nowadays. They presented the battles as glorious, heroic and patriotic acts. The problem is, unlike in Save Private Ryan, the Chinese directors and actors did not show the war as human tragedies, where countless young lives were lost. This is just an expensive imitation of the great war movies like Save Private Ryan.
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