According to
USA Today, Hollywood will be producing
seven movies based on World War II, hoping to gain the sucess of 'Saving Private Ryan'. Heres more:
"I do not believe in 100% heroes," says Gates director Jean-Jacques Annaud, whose film stars Jude Law and Ed Harris and opens Friday. "I don't believe in white horses without dark spots or dark horses without white spots."
He's not alone. Today's filmmakers are making the heroes and villains of World War II more complex than ever.
Hoping to emulate the success of the 1998 blockbuster Saving Private Ryan, Hollywood studios are unleashing seven World War II movies in 2001, which could be the biggest single-year arsenal of films on the war in decades. A twist for most of these new movies: They take great pains to paint the good guys with flaws and the bad guys with redeeming qualities.
World War II movies generally have been clear-cut about right vs. wrong because it's "the last good war," says J. David Valaik, history professor at Canisius College in Buffalo. "In World War II, there was a great sense of triumph throughout the nation. The good guys won, and there was no question about it. We haven't had a war like that since then. Korea was a stalemate that killed 70,000 Americans. We topped that one off with Vietnam, and we know what happened to the country there."To catch the rest, check out the link above.