150 sats \ 17 replies \ @ek 14 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
I wanted to watch (or read?) Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz for a long time and at this point, I might actually do it. Soon.
The Wizard Of Oz was a big part of your life if you grew up in the U.S. in the 1970s because of the movie. I want to read the book at some point. I watched a Lewis Carroll documentary on YouTube. Interesting. I guess he was a strange guy.
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I want to read the book at some point.
I can really recommend reading books based on movies or series after you watched them. After I read the book With the Old Breed on which the HBO mini series The Pacific is based on, I realized I need to read a lot more books which became movies or series.
It was just so interesting to see all the details in which the series and book diverges. Might be obvious to some, but the series was very well made and everything was authentic. But in real life, some things that some characters did in the series were actually done by someone else. I guess that was done because you can't have so many different actors just for single scenes. Also, some relationships were overblown in the series (because they actually resemble multiple relationships IRL) and some weren't even mentioned even though they were very important to Eugene IRL, the protagonist.
Also, there was a scene in the series where Eugene meets an old friend from home who joined the Marines after him and they have a good and fun time. But in the book, they never met because Eugene didn't want to meet because the letter that friend wrote to Eugene sounded like he knows nothing about war. Which he didn't, just like Eugene didn't at first. Eugene didn't even reply.
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I have never seen the series nor read the book. I'll check out the series first. I had a similar experience after seeing the new Scorsese movie with my wife. She then read the book and has been pointing out all the differences and inaccuracies to me.
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I'll check out the series first.
No pressure but definitely interested in more opinions on the series from other people :)
There is also a HBO mini series about the western front, Band of Brothers, if you're more interested in that part of the war. Also mostly based on books written by veterans iirc
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I watched Band Of Brothers. That was enjoyable. Yesterday I watched a documentary on the Pacific War focused on the final days- Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I had no idea that the US Russia rivalry extended to Japan, and was the reason the bombs were dropped. Japan was already defeated, but the U.S. wanted the credit for the surrender. Very sad.
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I watched Band Of Brothers
Wow, that was fast, did you watch the whole series in one sitting?
and was the reason the bombs were dropped
to my understanding, they wanted to force a surrender and prevent a very costly invasion of the mainland. and of course, to try out the nukes on real targets and show the world their superiority as @carlosfandango mentioned (preparing for the cold war?). getting the credit for the surrender may just have been the icing on the cake, i guess
to be honest, i can't blame them though. war is hell.
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Ha! No, I'm slow. Band Of Brothers is really old. I watched it years ago, when it came out. It was released in the U.S. in 2001.
Yeah, that's the story we were taught growing up. The horrible loss of life in an invasion. I dont know. I would think they could have exercised some patience. The Japanese leadership would have delayed surrender, but the remaining troops were inexperienced and with low morale. Also, the average citizen just wanted the war to end. Who knows? I feel like the bombs were a drastic, unnecessary choice.
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I need to watch so many movies at some point haha
I really need to write them down since when I feel like watching a movie, I don't know which I want to watch and then I don't, lol
And a whole movie just about the D-Day landings? Sounds very interesting! Most of the times, the landing is just the intro.
A Bridge Too Far is also on my list since some episodes of Band of Brothers are during Operation Market Garden.
And I like this quote the most:
We're airborne rangers. We're meant to be surrounded.
After watching the series, I realized that Company of Heroes actually got that quote from the series, lol
If you select a paratrooper squad, they also sometimes say this.
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Seems like I'm old enough to enjoy black and white movies now :)
And wow, almost 3 hours, but looking forward to watch the rest now because it already started great :)
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I guess Lewis Carroll came up with these stories to entertain Alice and her sisters, but he was an educated professor, so he was aware of the literary traditions.
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Yes. I never read them. I did watch a Lewis Carroll documentary. He was a strange guy. He got very close to the young Alice and her sisters. Some intimations of inappropriateness, but this could be layering a modern sensibility on what was an innocent relationship back then.
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