tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post4225753879142522375..comments2024-03-28T10:44:41.756-05:00Comments on The War Movie Buff: #38 - The Dawn PatrolWar Movie Buffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999735218343872013noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-19010434831749923572012-06-21T13:16:54.967-05:002012-06-21T13:16:54.967-05:00All of that may be true, but it doesn't change...All of that may be true, but it doesn't change the fact that it was a strange decision to remake a movie less than a decade later. I get upset when they remake war movies instead of doing something new. It's not like we are out of good stories.War Movie Buffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999735218343872013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-11831532013555689772012-06-21T11:06:32.807-05:002012-06-21T11:06:32.807-05:00If the question is, specifically, why remake Dawn ...If the question is, specifically, why remake Dawn Patrol so soon instead of filming some other anti-war story, my guess would be economy. Warner Brothers already owned the rights to Dawn Patrol, so it was cheaper to remake their own property rather than buy "Paths of Glory" or "The Good Soldier Svejk." And a remake had the added benefit of being able to use stock footage from the original, thus further cutting costs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-19527133690976953692012-06-20T20:37:13.891-05:002012-06-20T20:37:13.891-05:00Excellent input. Thank you.Excellent input. Thank you.War Movie Buffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999735218343872013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-39948643131341676452012-06-20T14:21:56.079-05:002012-06-20T14:21:56.079-05:00What changed between 1930 and 1938? A review at ww...What changed between 1930 and 1938? A review at www.fredonia.edu said that it was the political climate. In the late 1930's, with Nazism and Fascism on the rise, the prospect of another world war was becoming a real possibility. Many people, remembering the horrific death toll of WWI, wanted to avoid another war at any cost. Official British policy toward the Nazis was appeasement, and official US policy was neutrality. So the time may have been right for anti-war propaganda to justify the "peace at any price" party line. Apparently, the original movie was not as overtly anti-war as the remake. It might even be seen as condoning the heavy casualties as the necessary cost of victory. The remake seems to emphasize the futility of war. Of course, attitudes changed very soon afterward when war became unavoidable. As for advances in movie-making technology, that review did say that the remake had more sophisticated cinematography.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-81339621297421949052012-06-18T21:38:44.007-05:002012-06-18T21:38:44.007-05:00A cliche is not necessarily something that could n...A cliche is not necessarily something that could not happen in real life. It is sometimes something that when it appears in a movie, you know what the result will be ahead of time (e.g. the new guy being the next to die). Another type of cliche is something that always appears in a movie genre and thus is assumed to be true (e.g. pilots being merry in the face of daily death). Surely this is exaggerated. <br /><br /> You are right about the remake. My guess would be that movie technology was advancing so rapidly that they thought they could significantly improve the retelling of the story. However, much of the air combat was reused in the remake which kind of refutes my theory.War Movie Buffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999735218343872013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201660899514011402.post-61523334835361516742012-06-18T05:54:17.639-05:002012-06-18T05:54:17.639-05:00This is going on my TBW list. I like a bit of film...This is going on my TBW list. I like a bit of film history and it is interesting where later movies might come from.<br />I didn't get the part on cliché. I would have thought that the drinking as well as the "dead meat" idea were not only clichés but sadly quite accurate? No? <br />What i find very surprising is the fcat that they felt like remaking a movie which was only 8 years older. I'm just trying to imagine, someone had dared making a Saving Private Ryan remake in 2006.allaboutwarmovieshttp://allaboutwarmovies.comnoreply@blogger.com