Clint Easto

In 2006, director Clint Eastwood tackled a project that only a few other film makers dreamed of, developing successive war films depicting the same event, but from opposite views. It was a largely ambitious idea, as war films could be difficult in itself, and to do two within a short period of time, it is a tall thing, but Eastwood had a vision and passion that helped him make “flags from our fathers” and “messages from Iwo Jima” strong and exciting.

“The Flags of Our Parents” and “Letters from Iwo Jima” depicted the battle of Iwo Jima, which took place in February and March in 1945 on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima and ended with a wrapping of March 26, when a group of naval infantry raised the American flag over one of the island’s peaks. (Although there are years rumors that the famous marine image of the naval was fake, a National Geographic A piece in 2020 witnessed its authenticity.) The IWo Jima battle was especially brutal, as about 7,000 US Marine Corps and 20,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, and it was long for five weeks because the Japanese built defenses on the island very well, making it very difficult to overcome.

By creating two films with opposite views, Eastwood showed that the war was not futile in a completely new way, to remind us that we are all human and we must try to avoid the irreplaceable bloodshed whenever possible.

East Eastwood had a complex relationship with the cinema in the war throughout his career, and although he would continue to direct the national fare more openly like The great successful American “sniper”, “ When he made “flags from our fathers” and “messages from Iwo Jima”, he was in the context of a more mind than war. With “flags of our fathers,” He was appointed to show the shock of war And how this affects the soldiers long after their return to their homes, while “messages from Iwo Jima” aim to show the American masses about the horrors and heroism of the Japanese side of the battle. In reality, It was supposed to make “messages from Iwo Jima” the fans uncomfortableUsing a silent color palette and we look forward to highlighting the misery of war.

Both films depict the soldiers concerned as somewhat heroes, although patriotism is very far away as Eastwood is trying to make their championships about endurance and flexibility, not success in the battle. What they survive in the face of unimaginable horror is what makes them heroes, and not some ideal misleading than national pride or a warrior symbol. It is something that unites both films behind their preparation; Eastwood focused on the human cost of the war on both the large and personal range.

Eastwood photographed and released “Flags of Apathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima”, and is based on both non -fictional books. “Flags of our Parents” depends on the book 2000, which has the same name by James Bradley and Ron Powers, who follows the six men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima while trying to return to life after the war, while “Letters from Iwo Jima” depends on “the speeches of the image from the leader in the leader” by Tadamichi Kuribayashi, which is simply a group of fighting. Unfortunately, anti -war situations and dark stories mean that all of this was not successful at the box office, with “messages from Iwo Jima” that earn a little more just a little more than “the flags of our fathers”, which had failed at the box office explicitly.

Fortunately, both films were cash better, with positive reviews of both and some dangerous awards for “IWO Jima messages”, including the Best Picure Academy Award. Both easily between The best efforts of Eastwood as a director, Although most critics and the public see that “messages from Iwo Jima” are the most powerful two pictures. Anyone is unlikely to try to treat this type of things again any time soon, Val, Val