All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
[2023-10-12 05:32:00]
All the quiet on the Western Front are the first wonderful silent anti-war movies, probably the most powerful movie ever. According to a novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque, it represents the transformation that young German soldiers suffered during the First World War. The promise of innocence before the war and the eternal glory, the influence on reality and his own death. Realization and hypocrisy of war, and finally return from the trenches to the world from the world awaiting him
Filled with iconic, violent and impressive camera works, the whole movie is a masterpiece of the movie. The audience was placed directly on the battlefield and could hardly grasp the bloody ground of the groove and smelled anyone's corpse.
There are two levels in this movie: In the first part I will explain the physical damage suffered in the war - hunger, dirt, explosion, cutting, illness, death - this movie shows the fact that the war is ugly and dirty I will not try to conceal it. This is a constant pain and pain. If the first layer is strong enough to give a strong impression to the audience, the second layer becomes even stronger. Psychological collapse experienced by soldiers is delicately delineated. The excitement becomes doubt, the suspicion becomes disgust, the hatred turns into anger, and the anger becomes completely numb. A young and promising student gradually becomes a murder machine without soul
This behavior is worth mentioning. All the actors performed standing performance. Especially Lewis Wolheim and Rou Ayers skillfully painted the war union for two generations.
The only drawback I can find is that Americans have a strong interpretation of some words in German. This may distract you especially at the beginning of the movie.
Sometimes movies are not what you expect, they are just shot in the opposite environment. Dr. Zhivago (1965) was not filmed in Stanley Hotel in Spain, not in Russia, in West California in 1930, in California instead of Germany, in Oregon, California and the United Kingdom (1980). I was inspired by Stephen King's original book. The fourth episode of "Star Wars" (1977) was not filmed in a distant galaxy, but almost completely shot in Tunisia. Regardless of whether they are shooting or not, it is very rare for movies to shoot 100% on the scene. This is due to various reasons such as budget, politics, shooting rights, usability etc. As a result, large-scale movies often jump frequently during the production process. For example, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) were filmed in five different countries.
Shary, until the 1930s, said in the total silence of the Western Front (1930), "American movies are drawn to young people (and rarely seen) in a very contradictory way" (Youth Movie 1). However, between 1910 and 1930, several important types of youth movies and a metaphor appeared in American movies. In the early story movies, the image center of independence and dependence, rebellion and integration, and conflict between maturity and immaturity is a young and innocent image. "ingénue" Here I would like to suggest that the innocent type of ingénue is very adolescent here. It is always on the verge of extinction. Regarding mature ambivalence about growth, focusing on ingénue is one of the most important features of youth movies as genres.