The Great War

[rcgreen]

There's been a lot of recent interest in the
Second World War, but not as much in
the First World War. I think it had a greater
impact on the course of history than we
realize.
And when will someone make a really
big "blockbuster" film about it?
:cool:

[rcgreen]

There's been a lot of recent interest in the
Second World War, but not as much in
the First World War. I think it had a greater
impact on the course of history than we
realize.
And when will someone make a really
big "blockbuster" film about it?
:cool:

[oblio]

All quiet on the western front was a blockbuster film.

[oblio]

All quiet on the western front was a blockbuster film.

[rcgreen]

Originally posted by oblio
All quiet on the western front was a blockbuster film.

um, uh...I knew that. :cool: sheepish grin.
:cool:

[rcgreen]

Originally posted by oblio
All quiet on the western front was a blockbuster film.

um, uh...I knew that. :cool: sheepish grin.
:cool:

[Wizeman]

rcgreen:

Well, the fact that World War 1 was escentially thousands of soldiers running out of their trench towards the enemy's and getting shot by a gattling gun, or a canister of mustard gas being thrown into a trench. You'll notice there were no "real" fabled battles (ala Battle of the Bulge, Invasion of Normandy) in WWI. You need to realize that hollywood is not out to make movies that have historical relevance, they are out to make money, and now-a-days watching guys live in their own filth in a trench, only to run out of the trench and die would not make money.

Regards,
Wizeman

[rcgreen]

Originally posted by Wizeman
rcgreen:

You need to realize that hollywood is not out to make movies that have historical relevance, they are out to make money, and now-a-days watching guys live in their own filth in a trench, only to run out of the trench and die would not make money.

Regards,
Wizeman

It's too bad that this generation cannot find a way to emotionally
"connect" with the tragedy of it. A generation swept away, for what?
:cool:

[Ennis]

Its an amazing subject and I was studying a few minutes ago the ol staídear (history as Gaeilge) I realised it had a short little chapter yet the Second World War took up three chapters and its a big book.

Who knows why we have such a mundane approach to WW1 on the big screen but money talks and maybe the interest is just not there...!

;)

[4ChecK]

You'll notice there were no "real" fabled battles (ala Battle of the Bulge, Invasion of Normandy) in WWI.

you are kidding, right? the battle @ Argonne Forrest was not a major battle? dude, the germans surrendered there like 2 days later. the battle @ Ypres was the 1st time the germans used chlorine gas. the battle of Cabrai is where the British first the tank as a mjor component in a war. man you can go on and on about WWI. some schools have an enitre semester devoted to WWI and the ramifications of it.

[4ChecK]

p.s. sorry if i was intruding on a private conversation. :halo:

[gold eagle]

Sad that it is called the great war. I'm not sure any war is great. They were attempting to capture the monstrous scope of it but could it not have been the large, massive, all encompassing, huge, big, worst or other descriptor?

[Ennis]

Well the reason it is the Great War is because if you have any interest in War itself it is the epitomy of war, the first modern battle, so many nations and so much loss. Sadly.

:(

[rcgreen]

In a way, it was the "end of civilization as we know it"
We can't comprehend the civilization that stood
before the war of 1914-1918.

The people who experienced it felt so traumatized,
that many never recovered emotionally
The world was permanently changed.

I think it was a more significant turning point
in history than the war that followed a
generation later.
WW1 set the moral tone for the remainder
of the 20th century.

The first modern genocide (in Armenia),
set the pattern for things to come.
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