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"They Shall Not Grow Old"
Just saw it... if you have a chance, watch it! Unbelievable. The Imperial War Museum gave the director unlimited use of its WWI footage, and a grant, and instructions that he must make a movie using only the real footage, and have it ready by the centennial of the Armistice last month... other than that, he could do whatever he wanted.
Unbelievable work. Imagine seeing the century old footage... jerky, black and white, grainy, silent .... now raised to something approaching modern resolution, colorized, and in 3-D (you're issued glasses). Lip readers hired to tell what the men were saying, and voices added to reflect that. (At one point a soldier waves and shouts "Hi, Mom!" At another a soldier tells his comrades, hey, we're gonna be in the movies!).
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The trailer brought tears to my eyes. I hope it will be shown again somewhere, it is certainly something which needs to be remembered. If in 1913 the public or the assorted governments of the world were told that the assassination of some minor bit of royalty in Sarajevo would lead to the slaughter millions, the destruction of empires, and set the stage for wars, terrorism, and political turmoil for the next 100 plus years, who would believe it? It should be a cautionary tale for the arrogant SOB's who run foreign policy today. Butterfly effect indeed.
It will be shown in general distribution in the spring, apparently.
It was the only movie I saw this year (I probably saw 5-6 last year, in theater). I'll probably see it again, when it is released.
What got me was during the explanations at the end, when Peter Jackson pointed out some footage of soldiers in a sunken road. The film was taken just before they went "Over The Top" on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The first wave suffered 100% casualties. Virtually every soldier in that clip would be dead within a half an hour. To put it in perspective, the US suffered 58,200+ KIA during the entire 20 years of the Vietnam war. At the Battle of the Somme, the British suffered 60,000 casualties THE FIRST DAY!!!
Agree. I saw it today as well...
Just...Awesome.
The documentary at the end about how it was made was terrific in it's own right, as well.
Highly recommended.