The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (2 DVDs) Reviews
Newest Review: ... as we go along. This narration is quite common in war films nowadays but it wasn't always so, and perhaps the power that this ... more
... narration lends to the film is a reason why so many others have followed suit.
We follow the platoon not so much with the action in mind, but with how the vagaries of war affect those fighting in it. We flicker between venues, following four main soldiers within the group, seemingly blessed with always staying alive while all around them die not long after joining them. Always in the thick of it, they're seasoned and well trained, but we just really don't see as much combat as you'd expect. There's a lot of conv...more
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Samuel Fuller The Big Red One
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Customer The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (2 DVDs) Reviews (2)
by - written on 06/12/12 (Very useful, 21 readings)
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Sam Fuller, ex soldier, wrote a story based on his experiences of war. Some of the best stories told are those which reverberate from the voice of experience, and this is one of them. Many war films are pitched, and by that I mean they are created for an audience as opposed to being created to inform. The Big Red One relates to the name of a unit during the Second World War, and it's a small band of constant members of this band that we follow through the War, from the deserts of North Africa to the vast countryside spreading up through Europe. The most stark element for this film for me comes in the comparison between the beginning and the end. It centres on ... Read the complete review
"This is fictional life based on factual death" (856 words)by - written on 01/03/08, updated on 01/03/08 (Very useful, 47 readings)
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A review of the DVD. In 1980 veteran director Sam Fuller's World War 2 movie, The Big Red One, was released. Based on Fuller's wartime experiences, it's a great film. But the version that was released was heavily cut down by the studio. In 2004 the reconstructed version, with almost an hour of restored material, was released. That's what you get on this DVD, and unlike the restored version of The Wicker Man, the extra footage is seamlessly integrated. (Bizarrely, this did actually find itself on an early version of the video nasties list in the UK; that's not why I like it, though.) We follow the fortunes of four young American riflemen ... Read the complete review
