1. WHERE were the AUSTRALIANS? YET AGAIN AMERICANS NEGLECT THEM!
2. The JAPANESE didn't fight alone! Where were the Germans and Italians??? MORE AMERICAN REWRITING OF HISTORY!!!
3. WHY WAS COMMODORE PERRY NOT SHOWN???
4. Typically only WHITE Americans are shown!
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Lol are you serious? dude it was just about one battle. Plus Japan was on the otherside of the world and italy was gone by this time and germany was almost gone to.
And yeah its funny how in movies about marines in wwii they typically only show white people. That is pretty racist lol
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Slightly fun, but unconvincing.
"4. Typically only WHITE Americans are shown"!
That's because at this time the american military was still segregated. No black Americans would be fighting with the white Americans if Eastwood was trying to be historically accurate.
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well if your such a smart *beep* you would realize that on imdb you can see who the writer(s) are. Your smart enough to care about accuracy and make a thread but your to *beep* dumb to realize that A *beep* JAPANEESE guy wrote it. And Why the *beep* would the Italians and Germans go to that distance theres a reason why its called the Pacific theatre and European theatre not the world theatre beacuse those pieces of *beep* didnt go to every country. And there were soldiers of others races but most were fighting in amphibious vehicles. And Commodore Perry? All of the men in the NAVY of that name died by that time, but if you were talking about the USS Commodore Perry named after the officer it was decommissioned on June 26 1865. So what are you talking about. Get your *beep* right mate then talk.
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Bram, considering that the Italians and Germans had pretty much been destroyed by this point, it is accurate that they weren't around Iwo Jima. As for the white American point and it's relevance to shaming Eastwood, in his Flags of Our Fathers one of the soldiers who was prominently displayed was a Native American. Not to mention in this film, we hardly see that many American soldiers, it is more focused on the Japanese soldiers defending Iwo Jima. I don't think Americans were trying to "rewrite" history here, it is you drawing wild accusations.
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US army was segregated but blacks could still be cooks, thats the democracy everyone fought for back then, there were no good guys in ww2 there were only the ones that were more evil and less evil, the less evil ones won
shareAmerican racism meant that African-Americans were often restricted to non-combat roles (with some very notable exceptions). Axis racism meant the murder of millions of people for being the wrong ethnicity - Jewish, Roma, Chinese etc. progress to the Western Allies meant expanding opportunities to non-Whites. progress to the Axis was increasing the number of so called racial inferiors who were killed.
Any attempt at moral equivalency is pretty much doomed by the great disparity between the actions of the contending powers.
Any attempt at moral equivalency is pretty much doomed by the great disparity between the actions of the contending powers.
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1. I think Paul Hogan was cast as Hirohito, but his scenes were cut. He couldn't leave the country, and Imperial Tokyo just didn't look very convincing with the Sydney Opera House in the background.
2. Hey now. This movie was written by a Japanese citizen. So it's not American rewriting of history, it's Japanese rewriting of history. If they want to believe they were the only people fighting the entire world in WWII, more power to them. It's kind of a "losing with defiance" stance, you know, sure Japan was miserably defeated for the first time in their history, but look who they were up against! THE WHOLE WORLD!!!
3. Steve Perry wasn't born until 1949, silly. (But how much happier would this movie have been if they'd set the reveal of all those old letters to "Don't Stop Believin?")
4. And all the Japanese were Asian!!
Awesome post by the way. I especially love how more than half the responses have treated it seriously.
Here, let me help. A year or so ago, Spike Lee got really righteous (hard to believe) and accused Clint Eastwood of blatant racism in his WWII movies. Saying he didn't cast any black men as soldiers on the island. It's a nonsense issue, especially because there weren't any black soldiers on the island, and that's more a crime of segregation and our own government's near-sightedness in the 1940's, rather than Clint Eastwood's. But that's what (I believe) the OP was commenting on. Ta Da!