Because one thing has become clear to me: you can cope with all the horror as long as you simply duck thinking about it – but it will kill you if you try to come to terms with it.

— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other, as in theyre the retelling of the same war with one saying here's what happened, we all died, and it did not matter at all and another going hush little boy, of course we won, of course your friends came back

This is so fucking funny, apparently “war bad” is liberal propaganda now??? Yes, war IS bad you fucking dipshit.

All Quiet on the Western Front (the original book) was written by a German WWI veteran who was determined to show just how utterly horrifying, disgusting, and senseless the war- and by extension all war- was. The book and its adaptations take great pains to portray the suffering endured by the common soldiers on both sides, who didn't even really want to fight but were manipulated/forced into it by those in power. The book was even banned in Nazi Germany and the author had to flee the country because the Nazis believed the book was “anti-German” and would hamper their war efforts by showing the German people the real horrors of war.

So in some ways I guess history is repeating itself, more right-wing idiots are hating on this brilliant piece of anti-war media 🙄

war movie

Pinocchio (2022) dir. Guillermo del Toro All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) dir. Edward Berger

Me when there’s gay people and they’re at war

Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 2023 — James Friend, ASC, BSC All Quiet on the Western Front // Im Westen nichts Neues (2022) Directed by Edward Berger Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

One way the film places viewers up close to its fraught battle scenes is through its varied color palette. “The soldiers’ uniforms were designed to be camouflaged and blend in,” Friend says. “So, we would find any excuse to add a pop of color.” For example, when Paul and his comrades find themselves under attack from a tank division, the vehicles appear from behind a dramatic cloud of yellow smoke. “I don’t know if that color is historically correct,” Friend says. “It was dreamt up in a hotel suite between Ed [Berger, director] and me as we did visual notes and thought, ‘What horrible, acrid color can we introduce that will pop?’ We didn’t want the film to have that desaturated, almost black-and-white ‘war movie’ feel that has been visually exhausted.” — The American Society of Cinematographers, November 2022

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (2022) dir. Edward Berger

it is the Law that every piece of war media with has to have a pair of soldiers who are vaguely (obviously) homoromantic with each other

you, paul bäumer, will almost certainly be dead by dawn.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930)

Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet On The Western Front)

l 2022 l Directed by Edward Berger

baumer and friends