All Quiet On The Western Front: 21 Things You Missed
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Another year of movies means another season of Oscar bait, and what’s a better bait for Oscars than a war movie? Not just any war movie, but an adaptation of the seminal anti-war tale, All Quiet On The Western Front? Edward Berger brings us the most visceral adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel to date, with pulse-pounding action that makes you feel like you’re in the trenches yourself. But that doesn’t mean it’s constant carnage, the movie remembers that at the heart of war is the human factor. Time is taken to see how our characters develop over the course of the war, and we even get to see them stealing food from local farms on their off-hours, just like in real life! Not only do we go over the historical allusions made throughout the film, we even noticed some slight inaccuracies in the production. No offense to the production staff though, they all did an incredible job bringing the grit and grime of wartime to the silver screen! We go even further to discuss the changes made to the story for the sake of the adaptation, although it’s up to you as to whether or not those choices worked. And with any harrowing tale, symbolism abounds! Stick around until the end of the video to see how our comrades’ fates are linked from the moment they set off to war until the very end!
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - War never changes, even if the directors do
1:20 - It’s all in the title
1:56 - The not-so-fantastic Four
2:43 - The BRAAAAM of war tolls
3:19 - The Dog-tags of war
3:50 - Tank God I’m not in the trenches
4:34 - The Mask of War
5:14 - All Quiet on the Eastern Front
5:52 - One day before retirement
6:27 - From Rags to Ditches
7:10 - A not-so-wild-goose chase
8:05 - No Yolking Matter
8:46 - Hidden in plain sight
9:19 - No vacation in wartime
9:54 - Killed in Not-so-Cold Blood
10:29 - Two years too late?
11:02 - Cause of death?
11:45 - Borrowed time
12:27 - Don’t eat soup with a fork
13:03 - Two sides to every story
13:34 - Full Circle
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The "killing an enemy in cold blood" comment kinda annoys me. It's warfare, it wasn't cold blood. Even without the warfare, it was in self defence. Cold blood would suggest that he did it when it wasn't necessary. The scene in question was horrific and even had me in tears but to say cold blood suggests lazy writing
That line sent me to the comments. Extremely disrespectful
Agreed. You could make the case that all war killing is done in "cold blood," but the way they presented it sounded more like he murdered a civilian, rather than attacked an enemy troop.
People that never fought in war (like myself) have no place commenting on it.
@@richardmitchell8213 You would think. It doesn’t make anyone more or less of a person so typically commenting on it is and should feel weird
Get a narrator who isn’t so annoying
Incredible film. The scene in the crater with Paul and the French soldier brought me to tears. Profoundly moving.
I wept like I hadn’t in YEARS during the scene with Paul trying to undo what he’d done…
This scene also made me cry.
I didn't cry but it did really trouble me. I imagined myself in that position and I don't know what I would do
@@alexedwardson4319 i cried because Paul panicked and act the exact way I would, man..
@@alexedwardson4319 troubled is the right word. It was a disturbing scene. The best actually. This film has become probably my most "liked" war-film.
It just occurred to me that the barely-a-teen soldier who appears at the end to take the scarf from Paul's body was probably young enough to fight in the German military in WWII, once things got desperate enough (again). So the symbolism about him becoming the "new" Paul, it makes sense.
@@Riss_Quan123 😂
So that guy would have fought in two wars
Probably would have been considered too old for WWII even though he would probably only be in his mid 30's or 40's.
Just like Paul got the army suit from Heinrich at the start of the movie.
Considering many soldiers weren’t even 18… yeah
One thing I noticed that may or not be true is how the main character respected life. Thoughout the movie he is sobbing over the death of his fellow comrades and those he sadly has to kill too. However, towards the end, he seems to not care anymore and kills fearlessly without any remorse, inevitably ending his life. It's almost as if respecting life in war is what helped him survive so long in it. Once that was unfortunately gone, life took him away. Although he died, he did so in the light and rested as if he was sleeping, which was an amazing touch. This film left me feeling pensive, and sensitive about my life. I couldn't go on my day without thinking about the blessing of living where I'm at in time and in space and how life is so delicate.
Spot on. And that’s why I don’t enjoy a lot of war movies. In an average war action movie an enemy getting killed just adds to the action and the main character has no response, but in this movie you really feel it, every life Paul takes away adds onto him until he just doesn’t care anymore.
Generation war had a different take, where friedhelm's mindset for survival in war was to hope the guy beside you gets hit instead
The two other movies prior to this were much better . I suggest you read the book . It will give you much better insight .
Yes, it’s like since he already lost everyone, it’s like he’s already dead
Another fact on the soldiers uniforms, you can see that older soldiers such as Kat are wearing the Model 1907/10 uniforms, while newer recruits such as Paul wear the newer Model 1915’s. This shows that men like Kat have likely been here since the beginning.
That’s cool 😎
One small feature I liked was how yellow the soldiers teeth were after months in the trenches. So many times do we see Hollywood war films with hardened war veterans having pristine white teeth! A little thing but it always bugs me.
no time to brush in the trenches, you're right
Yesss I loved this detail!!
Yes! Those perfect white teeth on characters, which are not possible to have such teeth considering the situation they are in always freaks me out.
Agree, the mustard gas probably also helped to make their teeth yellow in real life, very realistic.
They wore colored invisilines over their teeth for that effect
The “Paul” character did not “murder an enemy in cold blood”, he killed him in hand to hand combat with his knife after the French soldier was about to shoot him but got blown into the crater, before he could reach his rifle again. The purpose of the scene was to demonstrate the extremely personal nature of killing an enemy at such close quarters rather than the abstract method of shooting an enemy at distance.
This film was like a diamond in the utter tsunami of crap churned out by Hollywoke today.
You are correct.
Thanks for pointing out a glaring error. War very rarely involves.murder.
Because it wasn't from Hollywood haha
Some good movies on Netflix recently - the good nurse, the wonder and this. Made my subscription feel worth it this month for a change
All good, except the "Hollywoke" comment. You aren't a fascist by chance, are ya?
This movie IS SO GOOOOOOOOD. Watched it at work and nearly broke down crying lmao. So much emotion stuffed into this masterpiece
What kind of job do you have that allows you to watch movies while getting paid?
@@Dabocado i work at a dispensary haha, it’s not exactly the busiest place and my boss is super chill so if I’m not watching movies or CZcams I’m making music.
The soldier screaming as the tank rolls over the trench: One can impossibly imagine what it must have been like to witness such a thing barring in mind this is the first time (maybe not this battle but era) tanks have ever been used. These soldiers have never seen anything like a tank before and no matter how many bullets they shoot it just doesn’t stop.
I liked how it accurately portrayed the age of the soldiers as well. Many other war films and movies don’t show how young some of these men were.
Apparently the youngest American soldier enlisted when 10 - he had precocious puberty, a condition running in his male family line. He served as a driver just behind the front lines and had many runins with the military law. His great grandson, also with the condition gave an interview to the BBC a few years back. See BBC podcasts.
"How old are you son?"
"12 sir!"
"Come back tomorrow, when you're 18"
"Ok sir!"
The „Im Westen nichts neues“ -Title actually refers to what „media“ at that time was telling the German citizens. I myself read many newspapers from around that time for a history project. There were always war news on the front page. And while you had much movement and „action“ on the eastern front described, the western one was pretty stationary with people dying over a few feet of land. Therefore there was „not much happening“ in means of fronts moving etc. This movie sort of shows how people were being slaughtered, while newspapers said week for week „Nothing new at the western front“ and how all of this was just „Nothing“.
It was a remark made in the war reports, not the media. If nothing special was happend the text was (Im Westen nichts neues, Nothing changed on the western front)
exactly. the meaning of the title should become apparent (even in the slightly different English translation) if one reads the whole book and reaches the end. hell, I got the original meaning just by watching the 1979 tv show
@@Rob2000 yup, and it's still used today. I was an Intelligence analyst in Iraq and Afghanistan and we had days we labeled as DONSA or Day Of No Significant Activity.
Wow thank you
Apparently that was a thing in French newspapers too. The paper would say Verdun was held. It didn't mention that holding it meant thousands of people dying day after day. People in cities had no concept of how brutal the war was. The numbers were so large that you probably wouldn't believe them even if you were told.
I don't think it was too violent. If anything, it was a very accurate portrayal of how bloody and brutal war can be. Does that make it hard to watch at times? Definitely! But, this is the harsh lesson of history and why we must work not to repeat it.
i think screen rant missed the purpose of the film/ book. glad he got his cheeky lil jokes in though :)
Exactly my opinion. Every war movie witch is based on another war in the past should have no heroes and should be violent.
My grandfather served in WWI, came home catatonic and was hospitalized for several years afterwards. After reading this is college and watching 1917 movie I understood why he lost his mental health . I can't imagine all he saw.
Kids watch this movies and then want to go into a war and think it’s cool 😢😢😢that happened to my friend who now thinks war is cool and wants ww3 it’s scary, and I love the movies but I am so glad I’m not in a war
They should NOT have removed the part where Pau went home for 8 days. That was a crucial part of the story.
Did he really - is that in the book?
@@rebeccahollins5117 Yes, it's an important part for the story.
I say it's a good change. The movie outstayed it's welcome after the 2 hour mark, imagine if it was 3 hours long
@@Vulpes_Shinbi Because they added a lot of stuff, which wasn't in the book. If you replace this with the time, where Paul went home, the movie would be the same length.
@@Arandui Yes but they removed the crucial moment when Paul could not communicate with his own relatives on what war really was, and the incredible unreality of civilian life for him. This prepare his second book, Der Weg Zurück / the Road Back, on the strange feelings of former comrades meeting again as civilians in the crumbling Germany.
Small correction: the regiment depicted in this adaptation is Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 78 (which is actually stated by an officer in the beginning), a regiment that actually did serve on both the Western Front (and the Eastern Front as well at one point.)
Another interesting tidbit is that "Heinrich Gerber" from the very beginning of the film is also a member of the same regiment, which you can see if you zoom in closely enough on his uniform's clothing tag.
I also liked the contrast this movie showed between the grunts who were sent to the meat grinder to die and the people who sealed their fates like the old bald scummy general who still ordered them to attack in the last hours leading to the armistice while he ate & drank comfortably in the warmth of his headquarters smoking cigars. Great remake.
Too bad it's not true to life. There was a long list of general officers who were killed and wounded, either in their headquarters, or while visiting the front line. This movie pushes all the same cliched buttons the other First World War films have pushed.
And the general that demanded that final push causing 11.000 deaths was actually american, John Pershing. Who would've thought, huh?
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!-An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.-
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
- Wilfred Owens
Just a personal thing, but there was a scene where one of either the politicians or generals in the train cars were sitting down, eating a pastry and drinking tea. Idk if it''s just me or if it was done intentionally, but there was something about it that was absolutely disgusting. The crumbs he got on himself and moustache, his little burp, the almost close-up ASMR aspect to his chewing sounds, just this dude comfortably pigging out thrown in the middle of a visceral and brutal movie which already had me feeling uncomfortable, it made me want to puke. I don't know how else to describe it.
Paths of Glory did a similar thing. There's a sharp contrast between men dying in trenches and the military commanders playing petty political games in their offices.
A few things:
First of all, Paul’s friend who is named Tjaden, states earlier in the film that he wishes to be a corporal when he returns from the war to which Kat jokingly tells him that he won’t. The injury he sustained later appeared to be a wound to the upper thigh which likely would’ve caused amputation, and Tjaden even states himself that he will never be accepted as a corporal now with such a disability. You’ll also notice that when Paul brings him the soup later, that the first thing Tjaden asks about is cutlery, showing this was likely a decision he had made rather than an act of emotion. To me that exemplifies the utter waste of life for often extremely little which really was the entirety of the western front. Even the survivors are broken as Tjaden, despite surviving, is now unable to follow his dream and feels lost, or the other millions affected by physical or mental trauma. Secondly, the German general at the end who orders the final charge is indeed fictional, however I think that’s kind of the point; The soldier we see die at the beginning, Heinrich, dies which causes Paul to inherit his former uniform, with the name tag being dropped to the ground. All of the named soldiers with their individuality end up dying in the machine, Ludwig, Franz, Paul… all individuals who died for an unnamed general trying to fight over inconsequential areas of land. There is no deeper meaning behind the war or it’s architects, no real reason for why these men died, instead just a machine that determines a cost but which doesn’t understand the importance of that cost. Thirdly, why does it matter if the movie deviated from the book? Were any of you on the western front? Did any of you experience it’s horrors? When the author wrote the book, I don’t think he intended it as some classic novel that tells a story. He wrote a story that makes a point, a point that he came to when he was on those front lines. Despite enlisting with the idea that they were fighting for life, they realized they were instead fighting with life, senselessly dying for a cause that didn’t even exist. I agree that the movie should’ve kept the portion where Paul returns home to his family because it shows how the war has ruined any chance of normal life, however as I mentioned with Tjaden and the other characters, this same point is still expressed, just differently. The point of this movie wasn’t to recreate the book because of how great of a book it was, but to recreate the message of the book in a more modern way. Yes changes were made and you can have your opinions on whether or not you think they were justified, but “not following source material” really isn’t enough of a critique to make here. The source material was a soldier recounting the terror of war and the effect it had on him. He writes Paul as a stand-in for himself who, regardless of the version, dies ultimately for nothing. Clearly the author didn’t die in the war, but you could instead say that a part of him died, that part being represented by Paul. When you consider the intentions of that novel, and the way you are left feeling afterwards, I think this film did a fantastic job as it portrays war as the brutal and unforgiving monster that it is just as the novel did. So instead of complaining that the film deviated from the original, instead understand why it deviated, and what these changes actually meant for the overall theme of the movie.
The movie reinforced my idea that war is the apex of human stupidity and cruelty.
So many young man dying for nothing in a cruel and terrible war.
They didn't die for nothing, they died for 100 meters of land
Then the movie and book did what they were meant to do
Often times, us Germans tend to dislike most German movies. Bad German shows are like a running gag in Germany. But on Netflix, I have seen so many good German movies/shows. They are really improving! This movie was awesome and so sad
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The series “Dark” on Netflix was amazing
1899 is another masterpiece to
I think it is the budget. All the productions on Sky and Netflix are the most expensive german productions that ever came out.
This is very true haha. Maybe someday us Germans can have better movies and shows, but for now, this will do
I had a paternal grandfather who fought for Germany in the First World War--on both fronts. He told stories to my dad about having to survive on the eastern front by eating rats--so the scarcity of food depicted in the film was a constant disadvantage, which ultimately contributed to Germany's defeat in 1918. Regarding the tragic last day of the war, my understanding was that the majority of unnecessary attacks were perpetrated by the allies, looking for a last chance at glory. I've seen the 1930 & '79 versions. This latest one might be too graphic for me to handle. George, Canada.
Right. All those last minute attacks on Nov. 11, 1918 were launched by Allied troops. Some had the idea of a glorious grand finale. One American officer lost 300 men just to conquer some houses to shelter his troops (and himself). However it was political leverage for the oncomig peace negociation what drove HQs into such absurdity.
@@danrooc The last American to die in World War I was killed at 10:59.
@@gordonbergslien30 That's right: Henry Gunther (last KIA).
Many others died of wounds and desease afterwards though.
My great great grandfather fought for the Germans on the western front. My great grandpa (his son) once recounted a story to me. One time in the trenches one of his friends was standing right next to next to him his hand wrapped around the machine gun handle. French artillery opened up and he ran for cover. When he went back to defend, his friend was gone and all that remained was his hand still gripping the handle of the gun. Just one of many stories my great grandfather recounted to me of his father (my great great grandpa). Eventually my great great grandpa immigrated from Germany just barely after the war in 1924 with my great grandfather who he had in 1915 before he went to war in 1916.
Honestly the tank scene in the film is one of the most frightening and harrowing scenes I’ve ever seen on film
Yeah. Imagine it, seeing huge metal tanks roll towards you and then as you retreat they start firing flamethrowers at you! Brutal.
THANK YOUUUU! That scene fucked me up completely I cannot imagen seeing that FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
And then the flame throwers lighting up the people in the trenches and that one surrendering guy
100% agree. That scene is truly horrifying - and when the tank simply rolls over that one soldier, and his guts and whatnot get squished out of him - OY! I had such a physical, visceral reaction to that scene - and to realizing that these men (or boys, more accurately) couldn't hit "pause" or change the channel if it got too intense... I honestly don't know how this war was allowed to progress. It was just wholesale brutality to NO purpose.
@@bear2710 Yes - I think that was Kropp. He kept saying, “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!” and they trained the flamethrowers on him, all I could think was, “My God, I wish they WOULD shoot! This is torture!”
"In another life, we could have been friends." - A wise man
«And I would have taken him by his hand, and we would have been the best of friends»
- The German veteran interviewed by the BBC in 1964
This was such a fantastic movie. Ive been waiting for YEARS for it to release, and my god was it worth the wait.
One thing to consider, the general that ordeder the final push on the 11th of November was actually John Pershing, an american who believed in fighting till the last second
Paul's killing spree at the end actually shows that he is completely dehumanized by the war. The war not only subjected him to dehumanizing conditions, it made him become a monster.
The camouflaged helmets were more frequently used by Sturmtruppen units, since their whole thing was to strike at night and strike as fast as possible, their camo was actually effective
It’s one of my favorite books and I was worried it wouldn’t do it justice. While the book should still be a required read, the movie is incredible.
Great movie. Easily one of the most heart-wrenching movies i've ever watched
Haven't teared up over a war movie since I watched "Saving Private Ryan" for the first time... absolute mind blower
1917 is also very good!
@@stilesx6874 1917 has me cry everytime he runs across the battlefield
It’s a shame the entire movie of SPR was complete fiction. Since the old man was Ryan, the entire movie up until him meeting with the group was totally made up as he wasn’t there
@@jonathanrowe1827 what is SPR? Thank you
@@j.lietka9406 Saving Private Ryan.
“That’s because wool is scarce, and human life isn’t” is my new favorite line of all time
9:00 Your'e wrong about the camouflage helmet. Soldiers began camouflaging their own helmet from the start of the war. That's where the higher command got the idea and then made it official requiring all helmets to be camouflaged.
One single episode of Stranger Things cost $30 MILLION DOLLARS. $270 million total for season 4. I'd rather have 30 more movies like this than one episode of Stranger Things.
This video is completely wrong. The budget of this film was not $1.2 million. That's how much the 1930s film cost.
Loved the movie
You might be human after all... 😉
This is a very good movie, I highly recommend it.
For me it's one of the best war movies I've seen lately.
Also the name tags from the uniforms of the former soldiers is a sad detail.. 😢
"With a budget of 1.2 million dollars" (1:06)? You sure tha isn't supposed to be 120 million?
On media says it's 16 Million... not even reach 20...
Not like Hollywood Trash Grab this day...
After seeing the other two versions, as well as showing the terror of the trenches, I think this one was an excellent adaptation with the pertinent political background scenes.
Great film, it rightly won 4 Oscars. I missed a scene in this version that was in the 70's movie. Namely the scene where Kat is shown a bayonet by a new recruit, he proudly says his instructor told him to file it so it can be used as a saw. Kat then points out that there is an agreement with the enemy out here that such saw bayonets will not be used (cruelty). He warns that if he gets caught with it, the enemies will gouge out his eyes and fill them with sawdust. The scene is short, but it says a lot.
In the new version of the film, this doesn't happen at all because the new recruits fell victim to a gas attack. (they took off their masks too early and Paul finds them all laying dead already)
The scene you talk of is in the script (which I found via the German Wikipedia article about the film, in the links section at the end). While reading through the script, I recognised a few small scenes like the one you mentioned, that were probably filmed but excluded from the final version.
Maybe there will be an extended version someday.
No, it doesn’t deserve it, we have the original that’s all we need
I walked Into the living room today and it was playing on the telly though my mother wasn't watching it..... And no just thought to my self..... Man tht war was fucking brutal....
Really good movie that really captures the darkness of war for all of those involved on the battlefield.
Many years ago, I re-enacted as a WW2 german soldier...an incident with a tank is vivid in my memory. As our unit pushed up a hill, I reached the crest, lay down in the tall grass for some concealment. Coming up the opposite side of the hill was a Sherman tank, they had no idea I was in front of them...the Sherman stopped about 20 feet from me, and fired its main gun.The concussion sent me about 3 feet backwards and deafened me for the rest of the day. It was something I will always remember, and those that were near me said it was the most amazing thing they had ever seen....I should have gone to the cleaners afterwards...or thrown my pants away.
In the book, a recruit soiled himself after a mortar attack. Paul tells the nameless rookie to slip away and discard his underwear in the woods. After a second artillery attack, Paul, Kat, and Kropp do what they can to treat the wounded. They come across a soldier with a shattered arm. Paul cuts off the wounder man's pants to use the underwear to bind the bandage. When Paul finds none, he realizes it is the same recruit from before. The trio do the best they could but it is speculated the boy will not survive his first battle. No one had the chance to learn his name.
There is no possible way that they made this movie for 1.2 million dollars
Yes because this one wasn’t 1.2 million the 1930s was 1.2 million this one was more
It was good to see the realities of WW1 again lest we forget. My great grandfather lasted about 6 months as a Lt. in Ypres from Feb. 1915 to Aug. Was wounded several times and suffered PTSD.
"Be fair to your enemy. Otherwise, he will hate this peace" is a quote that is really overlooked in this movie.
1.2 million dollars?
I guess the producers do know how to stretch their budget…
Lol, yeah there's no way that's accurate.
Yeah that's way off. I think that was the budget for the 1930 film.
Most of the money used for marketing and famous actors. Even So I kniw some actors of this mocie I think theymade it for less money because "Im Westen nichts neues" is very famous in Germany so to work on something like that is a honor
The budget was over € 16 million!
21 million was the budget....
Great movie. I honestly thought Paul was going to live with Survivors Guilt.
"All quiet on Western front" is one of my most favourite books.The film is a good war film but has almost nothing to do with a book.
The 1930 edition of the film follows the book much more closely
I disagree. I've read the book as well and I feel like this is the best adaptation of the book. Yes a lot of the book was cut for time bit the hit the tone and the themes of the book very succinctly. This is a great adaptation of the book. Additionally, the 1930 version does include a lot more ripped straight from the text if the book, it doesn't do the book as much justice as this version.
9:45 They might have come home "crippled" as you say, but not in body bags. Most soldiers on both sides were buried in cemeteries within a few feet, yards, or at most, miles of where they fell
maybe not body bags but body nets. There have been special hospitals, that took care of the survivors. The hospitals were completely closed to the outer world. Inside men without legs and arms, noses ears or mouths missing. Just big holes. As they couldn´t move themselves. they were hanged in nets. Their families have been told, that their sons / relatives were killed and didn´t survive. The authorities were too scared that the families wouldn´t recognize their relatives and that there would be a big anti-war momentum. I had a grand uncle who survived, but one side of his jaw was shot away. Nowadays wars are said to be more "human", but how can the killing of people be human?
Thanks for including the former adaptations and referring to the meaning in the of the book (on several instances)! E.R.M's book, part of the "New Objectivity" was burnt by the nazis to avoid war being portrayed as horror of mankind and it's imho important to every generation that it was not just tactics and trenches, but pretty normal guys like Heinrich, and Ludwig and so on, losing their humanity and being not able to conform to society anymore. Depicted in the series "Löwengrube"(s2e5) and more concurrently in "the hurt locker".
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An emotional film, possibly the best film I'd seen in 2022. I actually cried during the last battle seen.. this is without doubt a masterpiece.
Brilliant...
This was a really impressive movie. I actually thought the helmet looked more like it was welded perhaps rather than painted or fabric camouflage material. That rectangle section looks like a separate metal material. Kind of like the same concept as the recycled uniforms.
Well done. Great video.
Aw, cut em some slack. It still is a dope film. And WW1 was over 100 years ago. I'm sure it's hard to get every single detail historically correct.
Not a criticism but the fact you had to ask was it to violent perfectly sums up why its best hollywood didnt make this movie.
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THIS MOVIE WAS AWESOME
bro really said the budget for the 2022 release was $1.2 mill. Lazy research
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The scene where that guy gets crushed by the tank, and the scene where that guy got burned alive, were so brutal. Even if it made no sense seeing a French soldier with a flamethrower, that will probably stay in my head for a while
the french used schilt flamethrowers. it made sense.
“We don’t know if this version will win any awards”
Bagged 4 Oscars 😅
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Did not know Netflix had done a new adaptation of the story. Thanks!
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial-I believe we are lost.” ...
They did a pretty good job copying the Saint-Chamond tank. There are a lot of movies (especially WW2), in which they didn't make any such effort... Seeing the wheels, the vehicle was probably a BMP at origin. The movie was filmed in Czechia and they have a lot of leftover BMPs.
Yeah - you can only go so far regarding vehicle accuracy. Up until an actual Tiger appeared in Fury they were always Russian tanks re-figured but close enough (far better than Walker Bulldongs with a German paint job lol). There's only 1 Saint-Chammond left it the world, no sense in spending such crazy money to make it 100% accurate
I think it left a bit to be desired compared to the 70's and 30's version but it was still pretty good. There are some scenes from the older one I think they should have adapted into this one. like the Basic training scene with corporal himmilstoss or when paul confronts his former teacher while on leave ect.
Totally agree.
I think the new one and the '79 are both excellent films, with many differences. I have the 1930 version in my Netflix DVD queue, and I need to read the novel, as well.
This is cinemas latest classic
In germany when the movie was shown in the 30s Joseph Geoblles (sp) and several hundred brown shirts raided the theatre and ridiculed everyone calling it a judenfilm. also the character played by Daniel Breuhl what was his name, Ertzberger? the brown shirts or SA murdered him. I think one if the main points of the film was how much the allies really didn’t care what happened to Germany after the war. Guess that lessened was learned in the 2nd when the allie’s excluding russia helped out Germany as much as they could
Damn
Erzenbergers Sentence about "dont be to harsh at your enemy or they will hate the peace " is very important
Hardened mud on half of the face feels symbolic of how circumstances like war can pretty much force people to split and become a killer hardened through experience on one side, but still maintaining a true human lover on the other
Last soldier killed in WWI was an American Henry Gunther who died within the last minute of the war, trying to take a machine gun position
Probably not intentional from the filmmakers, but that scene at 6:20 when Paul is dying in the bunker after the ceasefire, his shivers and body language reminds me of a zombie from The Walking Dead...I interpret it as another representation of how he is already "dead".
This movie was brutal, brilliant and heartbreaking. 😢 I wished Paul survived the war.
They also cut Himmelstoss from the movie, so there was no sadistic training followed by Himmelstoss turning up in the trenches
Murdered in cold blood = killed in self defense.
regarding the mud, i love how they made its everpresence and its horror, because living in a muddy trench for years while getting shelled non stop is literally as horror as it gets, and just the extreme dirtiness of it all
I've slurrped 3 to 4 egg yolks for a month in the morning for a quick breakfast before heading yo tend to the cattle and never got sick. Bussies it's quite tastful.
The road wheels match those of a Soviet PT-76. These were also produced in Czechoslovakia. Hence, cheap and easy to find for a film made in Czechoslovakia. That their lower front slope is close to a Saint-Chemand helps in its construction. Unlike the original, the replica was less likely to throw its tracks.
I thought the wheels were inaccurate but if you look at WWI French tanks there is a pretty close match. Regardless the actors in the movie were absolutely amazing!!
When I first watched the trailer, I was taken aback by the sight of those very post-war, Soviet wheels. For a split-second I thought they were showing footage from Ukraine to make an allegory. Am I mad at the film makers? Nah... It's good enough for the average viewer. Though that would have been a good reason to use CGI.
But it cracks me up that ScreenRant was like "Hey, bet you missed these non-WWI wheels [I didn't], they're WWII wheels!" But they missed that they're actually post war wheels.
Incredible film. Great analysis. By the way, I think there was a bit of an error, the 2022 film definitely cost a lot more than $1.2MM (I can’t find the exact figure). But when I googled it, the 1929 version said it’s budget was $1.2MM so maybe that’s where it is mixed up.
There were many German college students that volunteered early in the war. Most of them are buried in Belgium. They stood to gain status after what they thought would be a quick campaign. Return home and be part of the elite. They like soldiers of all the armies were quickly attrited and forced conscription followed.
1.2 Million!!!!! That was the budget for the 1930's version. The Tank scene alone would have cost that much.
Yes, the budget was €16 Million!
Are you sure the budget was 1.2M? That seems low if you’re also saying it’s the most expensive German film on Netflix. I read that it was 10.2M.
I love this film. For me it is a perfect adaption of the story. I wonder if there will be a longer directors cut someday
This terrific movie caught me completely off guard. I hesitated to watch it because it screamed “bad Saving Private Ryan copycat” at first glance. Well get over that, as I did, or you will miss out on one of the most masterfully shot and beautifully resonating depictions of horror put to film. You won’t be there but tell me by the end you don’t have mud in your eyes, bullets blazing past your ears and an ache in your stomach both for a crumb of stale bread or an ounce of reason. I’ll believe you but you may have to convince yourself. Comparisons with the source material or the previous adaptations aside, I haven’t seen or read any of them, this is a masterwork. See it or you’re not fully American…. German….. French….
"Not saving Grenadier Bäumer", or something like that.
One thing that I was looking forward to see in this recent adaptation is that scene from the 1930s version of the film where a French soldier was hit by a cannon and all that remained was his hands gripping on the barbed wire. It was witnessed by one of the war veteran extras which the production added to the film to show how ugly war looks like fighting on the ground. Sadly, it didn't make it in Netflix. But they made up with the addition of the Armistice, which was not present in the first version.
The glasses strapped on with string were meant to be used with the gas mask.
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I wonder how many of those young lives saved in WW1 ended up in WW2.
The yolk and a hard place quip made me out my hand on my face lmao good joke
The scene of that solider screaming and banging his head into the wall :(
1:06 no way this film only cost $ 1.2 million
As long as the eggs have not been cooled they should be good. Eggs have an protective filtering layer that gets destroyed by cold dry air. In germany the label has two expiration dates. First date is when you have to put it in a fridge, second date is when it expires in the fridge.
Like did he really think a war movie commentary needed jokes
This movie was absolutely well received. It won the British Academy Film Awards among several others!
One of the most touching movies of all time...
Bro, the glasses… I just KNOOOOW this guy is gonna come out on some creepy sh*t sooner or later.
3:42 "Kriegsgefangenenlager Soltau" wow I live there and didn't even know about this...
It would be cool if they made a second movie called “all quiet on the eastern front” or something along those lines where a German soldier is fighting the Soviet Union something I just think it would be interesting
You were incorrect. Paul’s dog tag was not collected by the young soldier at the end of the film. He died anonymously and his fate would remain unknown to his family and friends. Just one of the small details that make the film excellent in its own way.
In the invasion of Iraq, I was with the 3rd ID. There was a huge dust storm that blocked all vision, you could see like 20 ft and that was it. We knew there were Iraqi army units very close to us but we couldnt see them. Then he heard a T72 or something very close to it. It had to be within 200m of us. We were a mechanized infantry company dismounted in fox holes. They moved on and we never saw them, but knowing there was a tank right in front of us was terrifying and a feeling I will never forget.
content was great
wait... 1.2 million ONLY to make this film? You must have mistaken the 1930s budget with the current one mate. 1.2 Million is not enough to make even one battle scene.
This guy is giving me strong PTSD over the wrong milk at Starbucks vibe. Absolutely amazing film though.