My kid’s second grade class did a short version of All Quiet on the Western Front that bizarrely included the line
World War One has begun!
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NightOps@nord.pub 16 hours agoThat reminds me of a war movie I’ve watched, when Josh Hartnett’s character said “I think WWII has just started” during the attack on Pearl Harbor. In reality, people would just call consider it a “war” (referring to the European theater) or “Jap invasion of America” marking the US entry into the conflict (the term WWII was not coined yet until after).
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Eq0@literature.cafe 16 hours ago
Hilarious talking about WWII before the end of the conflict! At the time, WWI was called “the Great War”, surely not “part I” of anything
NightOps@nord.pub 16 hours ago
There’s another anachronism from that movie around 34 minutes in: you can literally see the USS Arizona memorial in the background as pictured and circled below: hGXgAE8SiDqgAn9.png It’s a nitpicky detail Michael Bay left in the final cut, since that wasn’t built until 1962 (After the war!).
wjrii@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I understand that the movie is quite awful, and I haven’t seen it. Is this shot worse in motion, or did they consistently try to hide it with the handrails? If the latter, it’s not really all that bad for on-location shot.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Reminds me of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s dying words: “I’ve been shot! Time for the First World War.”
Anchorxiety@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
I would pay good money to see that line uttered in a movie about the incident. Or just have characters constantly state the obvious like the audience had never heard of WW1 before.
"Gentlemen, Germany has invaded France. By God, this could become a multi year war of attrition and thousands could die!”
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Make it a musical and I’m in.