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As the surviving flag-raisers reluctantly play their public roles as "the heroes of Iwo Jima" during an exhausting (but clearly necessary) wartime bond rally tour, Flags of Our Fathers evolves into a pointed study of battlefield valor and misplaced idolatry, incorporating subtle comment on the bogus nature of celebrity, the trauma of battle, and the true meaning of heroism in wartime. Wisely avoiding any direct parallels to contemporary history, Eastwood allows us to draw our own conclusions about the Iwo Jima flag-raisers and how their postwar histories (both noble and tragic) simultaneously illustrate the hazards of exploited celebrity and society's genuine need for admirable role models during times of national crisis. Flags of Our Fathers defies the expectations of those seeking a more straightforward war-action drama, but it's richly satisfying, impeccably crafted film that manages to be genuinely patriotic (in celebrating the camaraderie of soldiers in battle) while dramatizing the ultimate futility of war. Eastwood's follow-up film, Letters from Iwo Jima, examines the Iwo Jima conflict from the Japanese perspective. --Jeff Shannon
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Clint Eastwood |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 20 October, 2006 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Paramount Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | 2, Action, Adventure, Award, Awards, Best Picture, Drama, Feature Film-drama, Globe, Globes, Golden, II, Iwo Jima, Military, Nomination, Nominations, Oscar, WW II, WW2, WWII |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 097361235042 |
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Customer Reviews of Flags of Our Fathers (Full Screen Edition)
The Film of the Year that You Missed! Sadly, Flags of Our Fathers did not get the expected welcome and enthusiasm in 2006. For those of us who were fortunate to see the film in the cinema, we were lucky to experience something everybody else had missed in the movie experience. The film is beautifully shot, written, and acted. I don't know what people expected but I read the book long before seeing the film. It is a visual masterpiece! You feel like you are there in war with the cast members. Ryan Phillipe was fine as James Bradley, the mortician, whose son would write about the picture. Adam Beach was unforgettable as Ira Hayes, the Native American soldier, who was so traumatized by the war experience that he died only years later. The actor who played Rene Gagnon also did a superb job and was my favorite. Melanie Lynskey had a small role as his wife. Myra Turley also had her best performance to date as a soldier's mother as did Judith Ivey. First, the film was adapted from the book and didn't lose that touch that the author had allowed us to see. The movie recreated a world that most of us didn't live through. The film allowed us to see and appreciate what three ordinary men went through. They detailed about the tour of the flag raisers as celebrities and heroes rather than ordinary people. I remember Rene calling people for a job. Ira giving a speech at a Native Americans Congress. James probably had put that part of his life behind him. You have to remember that James, Ira, and Rene did not want to be part of the campaign for war bonds. Ira was the most resistant and his life was the most tragic. The film does not go into Ira's family background or the losses of his siblings. It was painful watching a car stop with a family who took a photo with Ira in the fields. Ira had the most guilt over the war. Rene and James had moved on with their lives and married but the legacy of a photo that changed American attitude towards a war that most of us are connected to whether we like it or not. This film was released in movie theaters as the photographer Joe Rosenthal died. I hoped that he saw it and gave it his blessing. Still, I thought it would be a shoe-in for the Oscars but I guess people are just put off by war even one that happened years ago.
Is there an "ultimate edition" planned?
It's become so common for film companies to release a film and then 2 months later to bring out the "director's cut" or 2 disc version etc. The last several Clint Eastwood films have had 3 disk versions. Given the soon (although unannounced) release of Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima," does anyone out there know if Paramount has planned a collectors edition or special release of both both films together? I am so sick of buying a film only to have a "better version' come out shortly after.
One of the best
I'm sick of people trying to compare this movie with Saving Private Ryan. They aren't even close enough or have enough similarities between them to compare. Saving Private Ryan was a flat-out action movie, and the character development wasn't as good as this. Don't get me wrong, Saving Private Ryan was one of my favorites, but in my opinion, Flags is better.
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>Flags of our Fathers is much more of a drama, and the battle scenes are stretched out in the movie, and when they do show themselves, they are brief, yet action-packed. Since Spielberg had a hand in the movie, the characteristic color-desaturation is apparent throughout the film. The effects are very good, and I got chills when they showed Suribachi being shelled from afar.
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>The character story is very deep in Flags, and you truly feel for each soldier that the movie focuses upon. Ira Hayes, played by Adam Beach, steals the show with his incredibly haunting performance. Never in this movie did I become bored. But as for you war-movie fans who only want blood and violence, this one will probably disappoint you, although its action scenes were done extremely well.
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>The majority of the movie is after the three surviving flag-raisers are taken home to take part in a bond-drive. The actual war-scenes are random flashbacks throughout the movie. The rest of the movie that hasn't been mentioned takes place before James Bradley wrote the book on which the movie was based. He is interviewing his father and such, and these scenes are quite a small percentage of the overall film, but very emotional.
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>Overall, this movie is one of the top films I've ever seen, and Clint's companion, Letters from Iwo Jima, was equally impressive. I was upset when Clint didn't get a best director bid for flags, but Letters is up for "best film," so I was ok. This movie will certainly be in the top of my collection for as long as I live.