skiwillgee opened this issue on May 03, 2013 ยท 23 posts
orbital posted Sat, 04 May 2013 at 9:43 AM
Well not so much a novel, but I'd like to see a good depiction of WW1 put onto the big screen. It's a great interest of mine and I've read many books on the subject and visited Ypres last year. Some photos I took if anyones interested
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinsta303/8396885659/in/photostream/
Spielberg went some way with Warhorse but it never really captured the full horrors or the war and the tragic loss. I think a good story would be the pals battalions that joined up and went on to fight at the battle of the Somme. They were unique in that a whole town or working companions joined together and served together. The problem was that as in the case of the Somme they were wiped out in minutes meaning whole communites were devastated when the men of the town never returned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pals_battalion
The best movie about WW1 in my opinion is Gallipoli which touches on the points I mentioned to some degree. I'd recommend anybody who hasn't watched it to do so.
On a side note I think Spielberg really coped out making War of the Worlds the way he did. I wish he had stuck to the original story.