Eastwood Goes Underground
Barry Pepper reveals the real reason Clint made Letters from Iwo Jima.
by Steve Head
November 27, 2006 - Originally scheduled for February of next year, producer
Steven Spielberg gave the go-ahead to release Letters from Iwo Jima, director
Clint Eastwood's companion film to Flags of Our Fathers, this December 20th.
Eastwood said in a recent press release, "The two films were meant to
complement each other, so it just makes sense to release Letters From Iwo
Jima this year, closer to the release of Flags of our Fathers."
Of course, everyone knows what this December release date really means:
Letters from Iwo Jima will be eligible for Academy Award consideration.
Speaking with IGN, Flags of Our Fathers co-star Barry Pepper says, "Clint
shot aerials and effects plate shots while we were filming our movie. When
[Letters from Iwo Jima] comes out, people are going to be amazed by this
movie. The right thing to do would be release it sooner."
Warner Bros./DreamWorks
After seeing footage from Iwo Jima, Pepper explains that he asked Eastwood
what inspired him to follow Flags with a companion film.
"He said he had this profoundly moving experience while researching Flags of
Our Fathers," says Pepper. "Clint went [to Iwo Jima]. And no one can just go
to Iwo Jima. No one can just visit. It's by military invitation only. He
said, 'I walked into one of the caverns and found everything in there was
left as it was since 1945 - cigarette packages and shell casings and gear and
supplies. They left everything. And there were these letters that told the
story of these young Japanese soldiers who knew they were going to die.'
That's actually the reason for this: In addition to the letters, Clint was so
inspired by what he saw in the tunnels on Iwo Jima."
Beneath the sulfuric, volcanic rock of Iwo Jima lies 16 miles of
subterranean, concrete-reinforced tunnels. "These incredible, underground
reinforcements," says Pepper. "Which is why the battle engaged for months and
the U.S. Marines hardly even saw a live Japanese soldier." And what the
Japanese saw through their gun emplacements, Pepper adds, was "the full force
of the American Fleet sending wave after wave of bombardment from land and
air."
Warner Bros./DreamWorks
"That's where the Letters from Iwo takes place, in these caves and tunnels,"
Pepper says. "It's not the Supreme Emperor's perspective of the war. It's not
about the policy makers in Japan. It has nothing to do with how that whole
side of the war was waged. It's from the perspective of these 19-year-old
Japanese kids in the caves. These young kids, who, like the Americans, have
the exact same sensibilities and worries. These kids were writing letters
home to their Mom and Dad saying things like 'I'm scared and I don't want to
die,' 'I miss my dog,' 'You're my girl and I love you.' All the same
identical themes of war that are time eternal. Culturally this is very
different, but the themes are identical."
Whereas the American Marines were determined to take Iwo Jima, the Japanese
soldiers, on the other hand, knew they were going to die. "They were sent to
Iwo knowing this," says Pepper. They had orders to fight "in the face of an
overwhelming force, and they knew they wouldn't live."
Warner Bros./DreamWorks
Pepper, who also starred in Saving Private Ryan, believes Letters from Iwo
Jima is revolutionary in its approach to the war film genre.
"We think of ourselves as seeing things from a certain perspective," he says.
"We are good, you know? We're the good guys. But a movie like this hasn't
been done before by an American production. It's not preachy. It's not
offering any kind apology. It's about the fact that Clint realized these are
Japanese kids who we just as easily could have been friends with. As easily
as you could identify with the young American Marines, there's this other
side of the gunplay."
Adds Pepper, "I think that Flags of Our Fathers will stand the test of time
primarily because of Letters from Iwo Jima."
http://movies.ign.com/articles/747/747440p1.html
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這兩部果然是有互補作用的呢
就像nino說的一樣
時間當然是愈拉近愈好啦
"來自硫磺島的信"將會讓"父親的星條旗"更好看
是這樣的理念呢
美國這樣的國家會想了解戰爭中其他國家的兵士們的心情...
這部電影會有很指標性的意義吧~在文化上
nino能參加這麼一部電影真的是太好了^^
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另一個新聞:
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1762762006
(因為禁止再發布所以不貼內容@@")
他們也在質疑硫磺島在美國將會有的評價呢
畢竟一班演員中只有渡邊san在好萊塢有名聲
且日語發音英文字幕~預算又比flags少很多
還說wanar提早發布的原因之一是要提名金球獎?
在美國闖出名聲吧~nino!
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