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Mood:
- ContemplativeSincereEmotionalGloomyTouching
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Plot:
- SoldierDangerMilitaryMind and SoulDisorderSurvivalHomecomingMilitary Life more...
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Genres:
- DramaWarHistoricalPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century40sWorld War 2
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Place:
- AsiaJapanUSABattle ZoneIsland
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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Style:
- Voice OverGory
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Based on:
- Based on BookBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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- ProfanityViolent Content
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Flags of Our Fathers, 2006
English
USA
Profile of Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers can be described as contemplative, sincere, and emotional. The plot revolves around soldiers, disorder, and danger. The main genres are drama, war, and period. In terms of style, Flags of Our Fathers includes a voice over and is gory. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Flags of Our Fathers is set, at least in part, in a battlezone and on an island. It is located in Japan and the USA. It takes place in the 20th century. Flags of Our Fathers is originally a true story and based on a book. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves profanity and violent content.
Summary of Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood's early-21st-century output has endeared him to Academy Awards voters, and he makes another bid for their attention with this tale of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima. Eastwood cuts back and forth between the battle that led to the flag being firmly planted in enemy soil, and the tour undertaken by three of the flag-planting Marines (played by Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, and Adam Beach) in the aftermath of World War II. The re-creation of Iwo Jima features impressive APOCALYPSE NOW-style battle scenes, the air full of thick plumes of smoke, zinging bullets, and pounding explosions. But the most interesting part of the movie comes as the three men are paraded in front of the American public, as they vacillate between embarrassment and anger at the public relations campaign they find themselves embroiled in, while also pleading with the public to help provide funds for the soldiers who are still at war.
Eastwood uses a script co-written by CRASH director Paul Haggis and a source book written by James Bradley, the son of John "Doc" Bradley (played by Phillippe in the film), to tell this affecting tale. Tom Stern, who worked with Eastwood on MILLION DOLLAR BABY, employs his skills as a cinematographer once again, deftly coupling vast panoramic battle scenes with darkly contemplative moments between the touring soldiers. Fascinatingly, the director's next jaunt behind the lens was LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, which provided the Japanese perspective on this famous event.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 20 October 2006 |
| Runtime: | 132 min |
Cast and Crew
as John "Doc" Bradley
as Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski
as Colonel Chandler Johnson
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