![]() Dig detailed trenches, research new technologies such as poison gas and tanks, and make decisions that will have a profound and lasting effect on your success. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory, by directing your armies in gritty real-time battles and by guiding high-level decisions in turn-based strategic gameplay. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the pivotal Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Of course, read a book while you’re at it, but with the release of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, here is the best round-up of WWII movies that uniquely address and preserve the memory of this major moment in history.The Great War: Western Front is the definitive World War 1 strategy game from Petroglyph, the makers of Command & Conquer™ Remastered & Star Wars™: Empire at War. ![]() To let our consumption stop at the American exceptionalism role as “heroes” in this event, without proper context and analysis, is to risk letting history repeat itself. As we revisit early cinema’s patriotic depictions of WWII, as well as modern cinema’s more nuanced interpretations, it’s vital that we bear witness to the realities of this era. Ironically, so have the films depicting it. However, our understanding of this war, and the humanitarian crisis at its root, has greatly expanded. For these reasons, WWII has held tremendous relevance in cinema-both for its compelling narrative and for its fodder as jingoistic propaganda. ![]() A black and white dichotomy of “good guys” and “bad guys” laid before us with tales of heroic sacrifice, secrecy, and an evil, inhumane villain at the root of it all. ![]() The way many of us first learned about World War II was inherently cinematic. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |