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Originally posted by davlet
Hi Voyager,
Personally I didn't like that movie. I think it would seem somewhat offensive (?) to most Russians, the Soviets all look like thugs -- dirty, hungry, disorganized; and those Germans with their cool uniforms and aristocratic looks slaughter them by the hundreds (the Russians didn't even have any weapons in some of the scenes). I somehow felt almost more sympathetic with the Ed Harris' character (I actually think Ed Harris was a bad choice for this role, he's too charismatic for a Nazi). Now compare this treatment of war heroes with a movie like "Pearl Harbor", and you'll see what I'm talking about. I mean Americans show their own war heros as saints, but we always come out as idiots.
Anyhow. The best war movie ever made (IMHO) is called "Come and See", (USSR, from the 1980ies), it's a kind of avant-garde, scary, and very realistic-looking film about the Belorussian partizans.
D.
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I have to second that. Enemy at the Gates really annoyed me in its portrayal of Soviet troops. There was no professionalism at all, as if the guys were all rookies holding their first guns. Zaitsev was like a "wonder boy", not a brave, committed soldier.
This Hollywood arrogance can be unnerving. The slow-mo Apaches and crying soldiers in Black Hawk Dawn totally rewrote the history over what was a massacre of Africans.
R