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Why in God's name did they keep sending them into the machine gun fire?

posted 11 years ago by DJWhamo
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They knew that the Turks were in their trenches, and they saw the first wave get sliced to ribbons, as well as the second. What they hell did they think they were accomplishing? Also, I thought I heard it said that they were sent in without guns (or possibly bullets). Was this the case? They MIGHT have stood somewhat of a better chance had they been armed.

I know it's a dirty game, but it's the only one The Man left us to play.

[–] bootblack987 8 years ago

I thought the head general had the plan of a separate unit taking over a needed area, but they could only do that if the Turkish army was busy elsewhere. So he had to sacrifice the men we saw so the Turkish military were fighting where this movie takes place. If that's the case, it would have been helpful to see these other things happening, but in the DVD extras, the director Peter Weir talked about not being able to do a number of different things because of his limited budget.