"The Hun: Short Independent Film details the Horrors of WWI" Topic
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Tango01 | 27 Mar 2018 9:36 p.m. PST |
"The Hun is a short film drama set in the trenches during the late stages of WWI. It follows a young American soldier who has just become his company's new message runner. Facing imminent German advances, the men mentally prepare for the onslaught. The Hun portrays metaphorical themes in the fog of war through storytelling and myth. Written and directed by Marine Corps veteran, Tyler Mendelson, this short film aims to shed light on a worldwide conflict during its one-hundred-year anniversary that is sadly much forgotten. Mendelson has always had a keen interest in war history. Growing up with war movies, it seemed as if there was only ever WWII and Vietnam. On the anniversary of the end of WWI, Tyler realized how underrepresented the conflict is in modern cinema and television, and how little people today know about the importance of this world-altering event. The Hun brings awareness to the horrors those young men endured, due to the then new and deadly technological advancements, and trench warfare…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Cacique Caribe | 27 Mar 2018 10:17 p.m. PST |
How did Germans end up getting called Huns exactly? Who came up with that? Isn't that like calling Greeks something like Turks (Ottoman)? Dan
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Cerdic | 27 Mar 2018 11:16 p.m. PST |
The Hun thing comes from the Kaiser. He made a speech to the troops being sent to China during the Boxer rebellion likening them to Huns. The First World War may be forgotten and ignored by Hollywood but there have certainly been plenty of films and TV shows made in Britain about it! |
Cacique Caribe | 28 Mar 2018 4:18 a.m. PST |
The Boxer Rebellion? i had no idea. Thanks! Dan |
Old Wolfman | 28 Mar 2018 7:04 a.m. PST |
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Shagnasty | 28 Mar 2018 9:53 a.m. PST |
"Willy" had a real knack for foot-in-mouth speeches and actions. |
Tango01 | 28 Mar 2018 12:07 p.m. PST |
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Bobgnar | 30 Mar 2018 1:21 p.m. PST |
A strange little film. some gas seeps in and the American puts on what looks to me and early war mask. I thought they had respirator masks by 1918. A German (hun)Trench raider appears and gets beaten up by a yank with the trench club. Why didn't he just shoot him? I guess what really struck me as incongruous Was that the director didn't know there were no African-American troops mixed in with euro American troops. did you notice how clean everybody shoelaces were. You'd think that an outpost would have telecommunications with a nearby artillery unit. Too bad that the director author did not know about "all quiet on the Western front" Or "west front 1918" , "Grand illusion", "The big parade" , " Dawn patrol, "wooden crosses, "not western front but exemplary, "the lost patrol, " paths of glory, "could there be a better representation of the war? |
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