Post by Madhatter on Oct 18, 2006 3:09:04 GMT
Critics are already calling Clint Eastwood's new movie, Flags of Our Fathers, the most important film of the year.
It's a Second World War epic about the six soldiers who raised the US flag on the island of Iwo Jima, the six who live on through the now famous photograph that has become the most abiding image of the fight in the Pacific.
As made by one of Hollywood's best-known Republicans, you might expect a stirring slice of patriotism, yet this is anything but an ode to America.
Produced by Steven Spielberg, one of Hollywood's best-known Democrats, Flags of Our Fathers is based on the 2000 book by James Bradley, son of one of the soldiers pictured.
The result is an exposé of how the American military and government used the photograph to raise war bonds, trampling, as they did so, through the lives and families of those involved. It's a story that resonates loudly today, says the director.
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It's a Second World War epic about the six soldiers who raised the US flag on the island of Iwo Jima, the six who live on through the now famous photograph that has become the most abiding image of the fight in the Pacific.
As made by one of Hollywood's best-known Republicans, you might expect a stirring slice of patriotism, yet this is anything but an ode to America.
Produced by Steven Spielberg, one of Hollywood's best-known Democrats, Flags of Our Fathers is based on the 2000 book by James Bradley, son of one of the soldiers pictured.
The result is an exposé of how the American military and government used the photograph to raise war bonds, trampling, as they did so, through the lives and families of those involved. It's a story that resonates loudly today, says the director.
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