The conflicting representation of war in Hollywood Through Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima /

This thesis shows how sometimes the idea to create something new and unique in Hollywood can actually backfire and the audiences end up with yet another typical Hollywood movie, veiled under the aim of innovation and something one-of-a-kind. The thesis introduces what a typical Hollywood war movie l...

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Main Author: Pásztor Viktor
Other Authors: Dragon Zoltán
Format: Thesis
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://diploma.bibl.u-szeged.hu/74354
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Summary:This thesis shows how sometimes the idea to create something new and unique in Hollywood can actually backfire and the audiences end up with yet another typical Hollywood movie, veiled under the aim of innovation and something one-of-a-kind. The thesis introduces what a typical Hollywood war movie looks like and how the movies Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima brake down these conventions. However, the conclusion of the thesis is that these two movies, unique since they depict the same event in history, the Battle of Iwo Jima with Flags giving a portrayal from an American point of view and Letters from a Japanese point of view, are, especially Letters, although depicting the Japanese side favorably, is doing this with overdramatization and the movie actually ended up looking more like a typical Hollywood war movie than Flags. Flags concentrates on the three marines who took part in the raising of an American flag on mount Suribachi, which was eternalized by American photographer Joe Rosenthal and the marines’ coping with being regarded as heroes by the American public and their taking part in a war bond tour in the States, while Letters focuses on the Japanese soldiers defending the island and their doubts about the fight.