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Mood:
- EmotionalRoughSincere
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Plot:
- SoldierSurvivalHeroic MissionMilitary LifeDangerHeroesMilitarySociety more...
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Genres:
- DramaWarAction
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Time/Period:
- 20th CenturyWorld War 2
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Place:
- AsiaJapanBattle ZoneIsland
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Style:
- Gory
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- SeriousRealistic
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- ProfanityStrong Violent Content
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Windtalkers, 2002
English, Navajo, Japanese
USA
Profile of Windtalkers
Windtalkers can be described as emotional, sincere, and rough. The plot revolves around military life, survival, and a heroic mission. The main genres are drama, war, and action. In terms of style, Windtalkers is gory. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a battlezone and on an island. Windtalkers is located in Japan. It takes place in the 20th century. Note that it involves strong violent content and profanity.
Summary of Windtalkers
Windtalkers begins quietly--with widescreen aerial shots of clouds that gradually clear to reveal the beautiful mesas of Monument Valley. A bus collects Navajo volunteers Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) and Charlie Whitehorse (Roger Willie). It's 1943, and the U.S. has developed an indecipherable secret military code based on the Navajo language. Yahzee and Whitehorse are to be trained as code talkers.
Then John Woo's Pacific war film erupts into violence, with a savage battle that has one survivor, Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage). Badly wounded and feeling guilty at the loss of his companions, Joe recuperates in Hawaii where he is helped by a sympathetic nurse (Frances O'Connor). Joe disguises his hearing loss and he is promoted as Yahzee's battlefield bodyguard. Ordered to "protect the code at all times," Joe must prevent Yahzee from being captured. At first, Yahzee and Whitehorse, whose bodyguard is Ox Henderson (Christian Slater), are subjected to prejudice--particularly from Rogers (Noah Emmerich). But when the unit is shipped to Saipan, the Marines begin to appreciate the code talkers.
Director Woo has created a powerful drama. The visceral battle sequences are strikingly filmed and there is fine acting from Cage, Beach, Willie, Slater, Emmerich, and Frances O'Connor, who portrays the poignancy of love in uncertain times.
Details
| Language: | English, Navajo, Japanese |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 14 June 2002 |
| Runtime: | 134 min |
Cast and Crew
as Sergeant Joe Enders
as Private Ben Yahzee
as Sgt. Pete 'Ox' Anderson
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USA Today
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
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