Clint Eastwood Making Two Iwo Jima World War II movies...
October 17th, 2005
Clint Eastwood ("Million Dollar Baby") is currently filming a movie based on the book FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, by James Bradley and Ron Powers, that recounts the story of the six young U.S. Marines who raised the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the great battle for Iwo Jima. The story is ultimately a tragic one as it follows their story as they return home and how they were exploited by the U.S. government to raise civilian morale and, incidentally, sell billions of dollars' worth of war bonds. Something this country really needed at the time, by the way... I hope this is not a revisionist (a.k.a liberal) perception of World War II. A War that had to be fought, one in which we tried to stay out of it, but were forced into it BTW...
So leading up to this film, Eastwood began talking to both American and Japanese veterans of Iwo Jima, which remains the bloodiest engagement in Marine Corps history and the one for which the most Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded (27). As for the Japanese, only about 200 out of 22,000 defending soldiers survived. At some point in his research, Eastwood realized that he had to find a way to tell both sides of the story--"not in the Tora! Tora! Tora! way, where you cut back and forth between the two sides," he told Time Magazine, "but as separate films."
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So leading up to this film, Eastwood began talking to both American and Japanese veterans of Iwo Jima, which remains the bloodiest engagement in Marine Corps history and the one for which the most Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded (27). As for the Japanese, only about 200 out of 22,000 defending soldiers survived. At some point in his research, Eastwood realized that he had to find a way to tell both sides of the story--"not in the Tora! Tora! Tora! way, where you cut back and forth between the two sides," he told Time Magazine, "but as separate films."
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