"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
12/21/2018 at 14:40 • Filed to: None
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
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I started reading this fully expecting to roll my eyes, but the author makes some interesting points about Jackson’s approach to the movie. Worth a read, regardless of whether you plan to see it.
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CB
> Just Jeepin'
12/21/2018 at 14:55 |
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I think it’s interesting and makes good points. I think they author was one or two sentences away from just outright saying “they shouldn’t have made this movie, they should have made a different one” which is kind of strange when you think about it.
But yes, I think we do need a more diverse telling of the First World War. Granted, at least we’ve moved on from the sanctity of it.
ttyymmnn
> Just Jeepin'
12/21/2018 at 15:13 |
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Even though I’m not a fan of colorization (I don’t think it’s any closer to reality than the original black and white), I still plan to see this film. What Jackson and his team have done, particularly with slowing down the frame rates to “normal,” makes these films much more immediate, not old-timey.
RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire
> Just Jeepin'
12/21/2018 at 15:28 |
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I did see it, and I mostly agree. The most fascinating parts of the film was the sensation of looking directly into the past, and I really want to see all the other footage now that I know it exists.
Svend
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12/21/2018 at 16:31 |
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I read the article and Mr Jackson was expecting something very different.
The film is telling the story of several during the war. But is saying he didn’t learn more than what he already knew, well shock, maybe the film wasn’t made solely to educate him. It was made to educate people who see it as just another piece of history rather than a telling, granted quite one sided in many aspects as the footage is primarily from one side, of many thousands of peoples lives and deaths. It was meant to be the war to end all wars. The war on such a massive scale it was never to happen again, but turned out to be one of two, the second coming all too soon.
He goes on to say tha t it doesn’t tell the story of civilians living amongst the war, the story of the other side, other ethnicities fighting either alongside or separated or in different theatres of conflict, the * women who made the shells, etc...
The nature and length of the film means that not everyones story will be told.
*There is a museum on the women who made the shells and the ‘devil’s porridge’ as it was nicknamed which they made.
http://www.devilsporridge.org.uk/
I could go on for some time about this but I’d just make myself more annoyed in what Mr Jackson has wrote.
My bird IS the word
> Just Jeepin'
12/21/2018 at 17:16 |
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Similar to movies about ww2, trying to make an entertaining film about an entire world at war in only two hours is impossible. The films are also made for the people interested in them, to maximize profit. Hence, white guys. Who speak english.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Just Jeepin'
12/21/2018 at 21:49 |
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If he was making a 20 hour doc like ken burns, yeah
Britain lost over 500k s men on the Wester Front,
9k in Macedonia
16 k in Palastine
8k in gallipoli
11k in mesopotamia
gee I wonder why the focus