Let's keep the movie fun going. Not the best movie in the world that I was watching Disturbia just now, with whatever his face is Shia LaBeouf? and yeah there was a scene in the beginning of the movie where there was a car accident and I thought wow they pulled it off very well. the physics the sound and the out-of-nowhere impact that a car accident can leave on your life.
What are some scenes that you sat back with a significant other or yourself and went "well this scene smells like a sweet rose of reality"
Just got me thinking and maybe I should start a thread
FWIW my father (WWII) and a friend (Viet Nam) both said that was as real as real gets.
The horror and mangling and chaos clearly were.
But the German positions were not head on when the LCM doors opened. They were worse.
They were on the headlands designed to cross fire diagonally down the beaches to produce a killing zone of cross fire.
And they did.
There were some places of head on observation posts with machine guns but the dominant source of fire was across the beach from two directions.
So less casualties upon opening the Landing craft doors and more horror crossing the beach.
The casualty rate in sections of Omaha was 90%. Then they gathered and got over the beachhead ànd inland.
By night the premade docks were assembled and every minute saw a loaded 2.5 ton truck starting inland. Amazing.
Hard to believe that scene underrepresented what courage that day took.
In real life almost everyone you meet is less than attractive, is overweight, and slouches.
The NTSB angle and consternation was completely dramatized, as were the hearings.
Apollo 18, not so much.
Love and Death - ( New Window )
Wait, I think I misread the thread title
Yippy Kai Yay Motherfucker - ( New Window )
The action scenes in Jeremiah Johnson,in particular the revenge scene with the Crow Indians.
Randy takes a shit - ( New Window )
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I obviously wasn't there to judge it's accuracy, but I've read that people who were had to get up and leave the theater over how real it was.
FWIW my father (WWII) and a friend (Viet Nam) both said that was as real as real gets.
True story: Many years ago I worked backstage at a small regional theater. We did a play that was about the Vietnam war. Stylized production, sort of inspired by Japanese theater, sound effects mostly produced by human voice. Trust me, it worked. There was exactly one pyrotechnic device in the show: A small flash pot in the stage floor that went off in the middle of a combat scene. Again, all other "effects" done by an actor's voice — which made it more intense, because it engaged your imagination.
So, opening night, we get to that scene, the flash pot goes off, and a Vietnam vet in the audience started screaming. He had to be helped from the room.
Like I said, it worked.
So they posted something that I guess we'd now call a "trigger warning" in the lobby saying that there were pyrotechnics and intense battle scenes in the show, No problem for a while.
Then about 3 weeks later, it happened again with a World War I veteran.
What these guys saw and lived through, holy shit.
The horror and mangling and chaos clearly were.
But the German positions were not head on when the LCM doors opened. They were worse.
They were on the headlands designed to cross fire diagonally down the beaches to produce a killing zone of cross fire.
And they did.
There were some places of head on observation posts with machine guns but the dominant source of fire was across the beach from two directions.
So less casualties upon opening the Landing craft doors and more horror crossing the beach.
The casualty rate in sections of Omaha was 90%. Then they gathered and got over the beachhead ànd inland.
By night the premade docks were assembled and every minute saw a loaded 2.5 ton truck starting inland. Amazing.
Hard to believe that scene underrepresented what courage that day took.
Bill, I appreciate your take on the technical, historical inaccuracies. However, based on my experience in the theater described above, the visceral reaction that the film elicited in combat veterans was very real, regardless.
One gentleman I spoke to in the lobby after the movie said that the brief shot showing the water along the beach tinted red with blood was the most affecting for him. He just kept stressing that that was the detail that struck him so profoundly. “The water really was stained red with blood. I’d never really remembered that detail until I saw it again on the screen. There was so much blood.”
The horror and mangling and chaos clearly were.
But the German positions were not head on when the LCM doors opened. They were worse.
They were on the headlands designed to cross fire diagonally down the beaches to produce a killing zone of cross fire.
And they did.
There were some places of head on observation posts with machine guns but the dominant source of fire was across the beach from two directions.
So less casualties upon opening the Landing craft doors and more horror crossing the beach.
The casualty rate in sections of Omaha was 90%. Then they gathered and got over the beachhead ànd inland.
By night the premade docks were assembled and every minute saw a loaded 2.5 ton truck starting inland. Amazing.
Hard to believe that scene underrepresented what courage that day took.
Bill, I appreciate your take on the technical, historical inaccuracies. However, based on my experience in the theater described above, the visceral reaction that the film elicited in combat veterans was very real, regardless.
One gentleman I spoke to in the lobby after the movie said that the brief shot showing the water along the beach tinted red with blood was the most affecting for him. He just kept stressing that that was the detail that struck him so profoundly. “The water really was stained red with blood. I’d never really remembered that detail until I saw it again on the screen. There was so much blood.”
The random butchery they somehow overcame should never be forgotten and the movie helps Americans keep that part of our heritage moving forward.
The gun fight at the airport was pretty good, too.
Some amazing filmmaking.
It inspired the North Hollywood bank robbery shooters a few years later. They found the VHS in one of their apartments.