Friday, August 5, 2011
Hollywood mis-portrays WW2?
It appears to me, that Hollywood doesn't just portray the atrocities committed during the war, but that they go way over the top and almost equate Nazi to German. It seems like Hollywoods goal is to make Americans think of German people when they think of Nazis. I find this appalling. I couldn't imagine how German citizens feel 60 years after the war, as British and American films portray THEM as evil people. The German people know their past and are rightfully ashamed of what their government did, but is it really necessary to portray the poor young German soldiers as Nazis and evil people too? Also, why does the Holocaust get SO much more recognition than the Soviet Gulag massacres? Is this a BS attempt to portray the Soviets as better people since they were more or less our allies for that war? I am not anti-Semitic by any means, but is this due to the fact nearly all movie directors are Jewish? Does anyone else share this frustration? I am American, but I have yet to see a WW2 film portraying Germans as human beings, they are made to look like monsters. By definition, if Hollywood portrays American soldiers as heroes, then the Germans, Japanese, and Soviet soldiers are also heroes in that context, as war is not heroic in any way. Schindler's list doesn't count, as he was pretty much the only good German in the flick. Anyone share my feelings? Anyone disagree? Let me hear your thoughts.
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