Submitted by Dog_Welder - December 27, 2007 at 4:48 pm -050069.32.128.19
@Cidas -- d'oh...I meant Griffith when I typed this. Yeah, Birth of a Nation was VERY controversial, but it really was what one would consider the first real war movie, and the soldiers were lauded as heroes in the film. The inherent racism of the time (and in the film) comes out in the latter half of the film. And "The General" did have the exact opposite tone (it was a comedy, after all) but the brave soldier manages to get the girl at the end.

Neither are like the jingoistic WWII movies that cropped up on the 50s and 60s, but that was also a different era.

War movies from the past couple of decades have gone out of their way to show the horrors of war. Again, the cultural tone changed thanks to the Vietnam War. I used to know a couple of vets who were on the Normandy beach. One refused to go see "Saving Private Ryan" because he really was trying to forget about being there. Another who saw it said it was the closest any movie had ever gotten to what it was like, but it still really wasn't close (the real event was far worse).

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