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Re: Has anyone seen Thin Red Line Yet?

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Estes,

Regarding the "dream sequence" on the island, are you referring to the opening sequence of TRL? (It's been a while since I saw it...)

...Some additional comments about the cliche`s in SPR. I thought the cliche`s in the D-Day battle sequence were important, and even required, because Spielberg was trying to be as faithful to the event as taste would dictate. The events those cliche`s depicted really occurred; to *not* show them would have been false. Guys did get their helmet zinged, they'd remove the helmet to see they damage, then get killed by another bullet while their helmet was off. Though these cliche`s were manipulative, I accepted them as necessary. I also feel they worked because they weren't mired in melodrama.

I took issue with the cliche`s found *after* the D-Day invasion. Because the rest of the film was a fictionalized account of a true event, Spielberg's ego felt the need to "goose" the audience through cliche`-driven manipulation (when I see this kind of thing it always makes me feel that the director doesn't think the story is interesting enough to stand on it's own merits, but that's a different complaint!). Case in point, the cliche` that's been referred to as the "man on the wire" (after the scene in the 1930 film "All Quiet on the Western Front"). It's the wounded guy, out in the open, that the enemy uses to psychological advantage in order to take out the rest of the squad by picking them off one by one as they attempt to rescue their buddy. That scene ran for what seemed like *forever,* and for what *good* reason was it there? So SS could milk the cow!

Anyway... enough yapping from the peanut gallery...



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