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Quando eu pensei q as bizarrices em termos de título se esgotaram eis q surge esta:

 

Exclusivo: Título nacional e cartaz de Flags of our fathers

Por Érico Borgo
12/9/2006

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A Warner Bros. revelou com exclusividade ao Omelete o título nacional e o cartaz de Flags of our fathers, filme dirigido por Clint Eastwood (Menina de Ouro).

O nome do drama de guerra por aqui ficou A conquista da honra e a estréia está marcada para 1º de dezembro. Veja abaixo - em primeira mão! - a arte do cartaz que será utilizada internacionalmente. Ela mostra dois soldados dos EUA entrando em um dos abrigos subterrâneos dos japoneses na Ilha de Iwo Jima.

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A conquista da honra adapta o livro homônimo de James Bradley sobre a batalha, uma das mais sangrentas da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em apenas um mês, 22 mil japoneses e 26 mil norte-americanos morreram para tomar Iwo Jima, ilha do Pacífico cuja importância estratégica incluía pistas de pouso. No elenco estão Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, Paul Walker, Jamie Bell, Barry Pepper e John Benjamin Hickey

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Sem dúvida o poster americano é muito mais bonito' date=' vai ver eles não quiseram dar a impressão de que é um filme muito nacionalista ou que seja um filme de americanos para americanos.

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Tb acho que foi isso mesmo. Um filme chamado A conquista da honra com a bandeira americana no poster poderia parecer patriota demais.

 

Mas eu vou ficar puto é se ver a capa do dvd americano com aquele poster e a nossa com essa foto.smiley36.gif

 

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CLINT EASTWOOD PARECE SER NOVAMENTE O FAVORITO DO OSCAR

 

 

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Pelo

já mostrado até aqui durante a nova temporada cinematográfica' date=' iniciada

na primeira semana de setembro e que prossegue até o final do ano com

lançamentos de filmes sérios, já dá para se ter uma idéia de que a

corrida do Oscar 2007 será em clima de vale tudo, como a do ano

passado, na qual vários filmes pequenos, vindos do nada, surpreenderam

nas indicações.

 

Dália Negra, de Brian De Palma, decepcionou

meio mundo. O noir estrelado por Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson e

Hilary Swank é o pior filme já dirigido por De Palma. E todos os atores

estão péssimos no filme.

 

O remake de A Grande Ilusão (All the

King's Men), que estréia amanhã, já recebeu várias críticas negativas

durante o Festival de Toronto, onde foi exibido recentemente. Esse

também não será filme de Oscar, apesar do grande elenco - Sean Penn,

Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Patricia Clarkson... - poder colher alguma

indicação nas categorias de intepretação.

 

O filme que vem

ganhando o maior buzz é Flag of our Fathers, que estréia no dia 20 de

outubro e tem um grande pedigree, além de uma história interessante. A

produção de Steven Spielberg foi escrita por Paul Haggis (vencedor do

Oscar pelo roteiro de Crash) e dirigida por Clint Eastwood. O longa

examina a história dos cinco jovens soldados que hastearam a bandeira

americano no Monte Suribachi em 1945, palco da batalha de Iwo Jima

durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, e tiveram esse momento reconhecido

numa foto icônica (acima).

 

Clint dirigiu também uma segunda

produção, Letters from Iwo Jima, essa com a mesma história, mas contada

sob o ponto de vista dos japoneses.

 

Hoje o jornal New York

Times publica um grande artigo sobre os dois filmes, dando o pontapé

inicial na campanha de Eastwood para o Oscar. Leia aqui.

Marcelo Bernardes - http://mediasoup.blig.ig.com.br/

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The Power of an Image Drives Film by Eastwood

 

 

 

 

Published: September 21, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 — Oscar season is only just getting

under way, but on credentials alone a presumptive front-runner would

have to be Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of Our Fathers,”

the World War II epic about the men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima,

which began screening for selected journalists this week in New York.

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Actors re-enact the flag-raising on Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945, in a

scene from Clint Eastwood’s forthcoming film “Flags of Our Fathers.”

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Eastwood’s last two movies, after all, were “Mystic River,” which picked up best picture and best directing nominations in 2004, and “Million Dollar Baby,” which won in both categories in 2005. Paul Haggis,

who wrote the shooting script for “Flags of Our Fathers,” also wrote

“Million Dollar Baby” and was a co-writer of the Oscar-winning

screenplay for last year’s best picture, “Crash.” To top it off, the movie’s producers include Steven Spielberg, whose battlefield decorations include Oscars for “Saving Private Ryan” and Emmys for the mini-series “Band of Brothers.”

 

Whether “Flags” ultimately connects will be up to the audience and

Oscar voters. But it is already emerging as a candidate for best back

story.

A big, booming spectacle that sprawls across oceans and

generations, “Flags of Our Fathers,” which opens on Oct. 20, was

anything but a simple undertaking. With much of film following the

surviving flag raisers as they crisscross the country in the spring and

summer of 1945 pitching war bonds for a government in desperate

financial straits, it is neither a pure war movie nor, given its

sweeping and harrowing combat sequences, merely a wartime drama. It

examines the power of a single image to affect not only public opinion

but also the outcome of a war, — whether in 1945, in Vietnam or more

recently.

Above all it is a study of the callous ways in which

heroes are created for public consumption, used and discarded, all with

the news media’s willing cooperation. And it is imbued with enough of a

critique of American politicians and military brass to invite

suspicions that Hollywood is appropriating the iconography of World War

II to score contemporary political points. Yet just when it verges on

indicting the people responsible for exploiting the troops, the movie

comes round to their point of view.

What is more, in a rare and

audacious feat of moviemaking and distribution, “Flags” was produced

back-to-back with a companion film, “Letters From Iwo Jima,” also

directed by Mr. Eastwood, that is told entirely from the Japanese

perspective, and in Japanese. The two movies will be released, a few

months apart, by two competing studios and the remnant of a third:

Paramount, because it bought DreamWorks SKG last year, is releasing

“Flags” domestically, while Warner Brothers is to release “Letters” in

North America and both films overseas.

Mr. Eastwood actually

tried to option “Flags of Our Fathers” after the widely read book by

James Bradley and Ron Powers was published in May 2000. But Mr.

Spielberg had snatched up the movie rights that summer, and in early

2001 he assigned its adaptation to the screenwriter William Broyles

Jr., a former marine who also adapted “Jarhead.”

The two spent more than two years collaborating on four drafts, Mr.

Broyles said, before Mr. Spielberg, still unsatisfied, put the project

aside in 2003.

The following February, on the night of the 2004

Academy Awards, Mr. Eastwood and Mr. Spielberg fell into a conversation

at the Governors Ball afterward, and Mr. Eastwood came into work the

next morning saying that Mr. Spielberg had invited him to take over the

project, said Rob Lorenz, a producer at Malpaso, Mr. Eastwood’s

production comany.

Mr. Eastwood was then in preproduction on

“Million Dollar Baby,” and he asked Mr. Haggis to tackle “Flags of Our

Fathers” in his down time, Mr. Lorenz said. Mr. Haggis said he hit upon

a way to tell three stories: of the months of training leading up to

the invasion and battle for Iwo Jima; of the stateside bond drive and

its life-altering effects on the surviving flag-raisers; and of James

Bradley’s discovery of his late father’s well-concealed past as one of

the three most famous heroes of World War II.

“I wanted to talk

about the toll it takes on a man, on a person, when they’re labeled a

hero, and how that can destroy a person,” Mr. Haggis said in a recent

interview. “Especially now, when we seem to have a need for heroes, and

we seem to be creating heroes and villains of our own men and women.”

 

Mr. Haggis turned in a first draft in late October 2004, and with scant

revisions, Mr. Eastwood shot that script. But Mr. Eastwood, who read

everything he could about the battle, grew eager to tell more about Iwo

Jima. “He wanted to show both sides, thus the Japanese perspective,”

Mr. Haggis said.

When Mr. Eastwood learned of Lieut. Gen.

Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the Japanese commander whose letters home

revealed a man certain he would die before ever seeing his family

again, he proposed making a second film. Mr. Spielberg and executives

at Warner Brothers, Mr. Eastwood’s studio, quickly gave their support.

 

Mr. Eastwood, who declined to comment for this article, at first even

wanted to shoot both films at once, Mr. Lorenz said, but timing and

other practical concerns made that impossible. Yet the producers did

achieve some small economies of scale. “Flags of Our Fathers,” which

cost $90 million to make, was shot mainly in Iceland in 2005, where the

black-sand beaches are an adequate substitute for those of Iwo Jima.

And “Letters From Iwo Jima,” a much more modest film at $20 million,

will include some of the invasion scenes staged for “Flags.”

While much of “Letters” was filmed in Southern California, Mr.

Eastwood arranged a scouting trip to Iwo Jima in April 2005. The island

was too remote to allow for a full-scale production. But he received

permission to return this past April with a small camera crew and Ken

Watanabe, the actor portraying General Kuribayashi in “Letters,” to

film at the foot of Mount Suribachi, Mr. Lorenz said.

Mr. Haggis said that he and

Mr. Eastwood had treaded quite carefully in making this war movie,

given the continuing war in Iraq. “I was most concerned that the movie

would be seen as somehow justifying this war,” Mr. Haggis said.

 

He said Mr. Eastwood wanted to avoid romanticizing World War II as so

many older movies have. One result of that was the decision to cast

younger actors, few of them household names. “What Clint wanted to

explore was the fact that these kids were 18, 19 years old, and having

to make terrible decisions. And that even in good wars, the horrors one

had to witness, and one had to perpetrate, would just stick with you

forever.”

For the same reason, Mr. Haggis said, the combat in

“Flags of Our Fathers” is particularly grisly, with many scattering

limbs, spilling intestines, Japanese soldiers blowing themselves up

rather than surrendering, and a flying severed head.

That

brutality was largely concealed from the American public then, just as

it is now, he said. “We don’t see the bodies. It’s sanitized.”

 

Mr. Lorenz cautioned against viewing the film through a political, let

alone a partisan, lens. “I don’t think we were trying to make any sort

of political statement, or had any sort of agenda,” he said. “I do

think it so happens that it’s a movie that the country can use right

now.”

Mr. Broyles said he saw plenty of resonance between the story and current events, up to a point. “Look at Jessica Lynch,”

he said. “What really happened to her didn’t fit the story line. There

are lots of stories that don’t make the press, but the kids out there

are real heroes.” He added, “The important thing is to present it in

the truth of what happened in 1945, without winking about what’s

happening in 2006, and people can draw their own conclusions about

what’s parallel.”

Mr. Haggis said he had made certain in his

script to subvert any one-dimensional depiction of the politicians and

generals as unfairly exploiting the returning marines. So in a crucial

scene, a politician tells the surviving flag-raisers that their crass

re-enactments of the flag-raising, however unfaithful to the memories

of their fallen comrades, were vital in rallying the nation at a moment

when the government was nearly broke.

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Flags do Clint é ovacionado...

 

CLINT PLANTA SUA BANDEIRA NO OSCAR 2007

A

briga vai ser boa no Oscar 2007: Clint Eastwood está definitivamente no

páreo. Em sua esperadíssima premiere, no teatro Samuel Goldwyn da

Academia, Flags of our Fathers recebeu, ontem, uma longa e entusiasmada ovação, de pé. As primeiras críticas _ que, como sempre, são dos trades

_ esgotaram seu estoque de elogios. (Nota a parte: Existe o hábito,

fora de Hollywood, de achar que crítico de trade é um mero vassalo da

indústria. Nada pode ser menos exato. Críticos como Todd McCarthy, da

Variety, têm a mesma formação teórica sólida de seus colegas na mídia

de consumidor. Mas, por mandato do posto, devem, analisar não apenas as

propostas estéticas mas também os parâmetros industriais e comerciais

dos filmes que vêem. Fui crítica de trade durante quatro anos e me meti nas mesmas encrencas de choque de egos que qualquer um de meus coleguinhas em outras áreas).

 

Back to Clint: Flags é, desde já, o oponente a ser derrotado. Nem mesmo a estranha decisão de adiar para fevereiro

a estréia de Letters from Iwo Jima (o filme-companheiro de Flags que

narra a batalha de Iwo Jima do ponto de vista japonês) pode abalar a pole position de Clint. Nos Globos de Ouro, a coisa se define mais facilmente, com Flags na categoria drama e títulos como Dreamgirls, Running with Scissors e Pequena Miss Sunshine indo para a categoria comédia. Mas nos Oscars....

 

Do blog da Ana Maria Bahiana

 

 

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As primeiras críticas (pelo menos, as dos críticos mais renomados) foram  de fato bastante positivas. Já o colunista David Poland enxerga uma reação morna ao filme - não sei como, mas ele é do meio e escreveu isso no site Movie City News. E Tom O'Neill, expert em premiações como o Oscar, considera uma espécie de tiro no pé o adiamento de Letters from Iwo Jima para Fevereiro do ano que vem. Outros, em contrapartida, pensam que a estratégia só vai ajudar a refrescar os ânimos dos votantes.

 

Mas será que isso importa tanto... Com essas duas figuraças nos créditos: 16xdf7.jpg

 

 

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Movie Reviews: 'Flags of Our Fathers'

 

 

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A bloody battle is being waged among the critics over the worthiness of Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers. On the one hand, there's Chicago Sun-Times critic Richard Roeper,

who calls the film "an American masterpiece ... a searing and powerful

work." On the other hand, there's Michael Sragow of the Baltimore Sun, whose review is headlined, "Eastwood's cliché-riddled Flags

doesn't rate a salute," and who remarks, "The film has all the

coherence and lucidity of a fragmentation bomb." Many of the reviews

fall somewhat between those two responses to it, observing that

Eastwood himself fails to take a stand -- attempting to appeal to

jingoists and pacifists alike with his film about the soldiers who

appeared in the iconic flag-raising photograph taken during the battle

of Iwo Jima in World War II. As Jan Stuart writes in Newsday,

the movie "allows everyone to eat his cake and have it, too. It's not

anti-war so much as anti-idolatry, a philosophical position that plays

to both 'stay-the-course' and 'cut-and-run' camps." But most critics

appear to side with Roeper, including Manohla Dargis's in the New York Times.

She writes: "It seems hard to believe there is anything left to say

about World War II that has not already been stated and restated,

chewed, digested and spat out for your consideration and that of the

Oscar voters. And yet here, at age 76, is Clint Eastwood

saying something new and vital about the war in his new film, and here,

too, is this great, gray battleship of a man and a movie icon saying

something new and urgent about the uses of war and of the men who

fight." Writes Claudia Puig in USA Today: "Flags of Our Fathers is the rare action film that is superbly acted, hauntingly powerful and deeply insightful." And Kenneth Turan concludes in the Los Angeles Times:

"We are close to blessed to have Eastwood still working at age 76 and

more fortunate still that challenging material like Flags of Our

Fathers is what he wants to be doing."

 

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Interview: Clint Eastwood

 

"Flags Of Our Fathers"

Posted:   Monday, October 9th 2006 2:55AM

Author:   Paul Fischer

Location: Los Angeles, CA

The tall,

strident figure who enters the room is unmistakable. Age, as has been

said, has not wearied him. Clint Eastwood still looks impressive at 76.

No longer the Man with No Name or Dirty Harry, these days he's a

formidable force behind the camera, an Oscar winning filmmaker known

for his economy of scale. But Eastwood's latest film, the World War 2

drama Flags of our Fathers, is an anomaly for Eastwood, a big-budget

epic work that is in sharp contrast to the likes of his acclaimed

Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby.

 

 

 

A film centered around the tragic Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the most

crucial and bloodiest battles of the second world war, it culminated

with what would become one of the most iconic images in history: five

Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount

Suribachi. The inspiring photo capturing that moment became a symbol of

victory to a nation that had grown weary of war and made instant heroes

of the six American soldiers at the base of the flag, some of whom

would die soon after, never knowing that they had been immortalized.

But the surviving flag raisers had no interest in being held up as

symbols and did not consider themselves heroes; they wanted only to

stay on the front with their brothers in arms who were fighting and

dying without fanfare or glory.

 

 

 

'Flags of Our Fathers' is based on the best selling book by James

Bradley with Ron Powers, which chronicled the battle of Iwo Jima and

the fates of the flag raisers and some of their brothers in Easy

Company. A book originally set to be filmed by Steven Spielberg,

Eastwood, who picks projects that interest him on a personal level,

says that he wanted to tell this particular war story "because there's

never been a story on Iwo Jima, even though it was the biggest marine

corps in marine corps history," says Eastwood. "What intrigued me about

it was the book itself and the fact that it wasn't really a war story."

 

 

 

The director, who says he had been involved in a few war films as an

actor, says he never set out to do a war movie per se, "but I liked

this, because it was just a study of these people, and I've always been

curious about families who find out things about their relatives much

after the fact. The kind of people that have talked to me about this

campaign and many other campaigns, seem to be the ones who have been

the quietest about their activity. It's a sure thing that if you hear

somebody being very braggadocio about all their experiences in combat,

he was probably a clerk typist somewhere in the rear echelon, but there

seems to be a commonality with these kind of people."

 

 

Much has been said of the parallels, if they exist, between World War 2

and contemporary events, but Eastwood denies making any kind of a

contemporary parable, and the two wars represent vastly different

ideologues. "World War 2 was a different time in history, of course.

When the war was brought to us in Pearl Harbor, it became a reality

that if we didn't fight this one out, we might be speaking another

language today, so it was sort of simple. Most of the young men and

women who went to war were about 19 years old. You figured they were

probably all born in the late 20s early 30s, and they were over there,

but they all had the spirit. So it was important to tell this story for

that reason, as it told of a time in our history when there was a lot

of spirit.

 

 

As for today -- I suppose war is war whenever you're in there. If

you're in the front lines, there are always various problems you have

to deal with that are hard for us to understand who are in a non-combat

situation unfortunately. The country seemed much more unified than it

is today, because the war we're in today -- excluding the Iraq War in

the front lines -- is a different kind of war, incorporating Ideology

and religion. There are a lot of factors coming in to it that may make

the next war much more difficult, but World War 2 was much more cut and

dried."

 

 

As Flags is, in many ways, an old fashioned, classic war story, for

today's audiences, Eastwood hopes that through this film, "they get to

know these people, and what they went through, as well as perhaps give

the audience a feeling of what it was like in that time, what these

people dedicated or donated their lives for." But also, he adds, he

wants audiences to know more about what it has been defined as The

Greatest Generation. "A lot of people talk about the greatest

generation so it was fun to just try to visualize that. We now live in

a time where it's different. We have an all voluntary military, the

country's a lot more comfortable, economically and is in fact right now

probably a lot more spoiled than we were then, so war is more of an

inconvenience now where then it was an absolute necessity."

 

 

Like in much of Eastwood's recent work, his films offer a reflective

comment on the humanity, coupled with a certain physicality, and this

is particularly evident in Flags, that shows off the two sides to the

director. Eastwood says that he has little difficulty in reconciling or

balancing these two facets of his persona. "I just kind of go along. I

think as I've matured -- which is in a way of saying aging -- I've

reached out to different sides of different stories. I started out in

movies with a lot of action and that sort of thing, but as I got to

this stage in life now where I'm sort of retreating to the back side of

the camera, I just felt that it's time to address a lot of different

things that are closer to me than maybe fantasy characters that I might

have been involved with."

 

 

In a career spanning half a century, Clint Eastwood can afford to pick

and choose what he wants to do on either side of the camera. With

little to prove, either to himself or audiences, the director still

insists on pushing himself, and that includes shooting not one, but two

films about Iwo Jima. Opening early next year is the Japanese

perspective, Letters from Iwo Jima, and Eastwood does laugh when asked

if these days, making two films back to back is his most serious

challenge. "Sometimes I think I'll take some time off, and it goes in

waves. I did "Mystic River," and I was going to take some time off

after that project, then I read "Million Dollar Baby," and said, boy, I

gotta do that, so I went right into that. I had tried to buy this book

sometime earlier and DreamWorks at bought it and I ran into Steven

Spielberg and he said why don't you come over and direct this film. I

told him I liked the book very much, we shook hands and I said, yes,

I'll do that. He didn't have a screenplay he was happy with so we had

to kind of start from scratch."

 

 

It was part of the way into the research for Flags of our Fathers that

he started getting interested in Lt. General Korubioshi the Japanese

commander at Iwo Jima. "I was kind of wondering what kind of person he

was to defend this island in a very clever way by tunneling the island

and putting everything underground, doing it differently than most of

the Japanese defenses were at that time. I sent to Japan and got a book

about General Kuribayashi, which was a book of letters to his wife,

daughter and son."

 

 

As Eastwood's films tells of a father and son, asked whether he

would want his own children to depict his life on film, the ferociously

private Eastwood smiles. "No, no. I don't feel my life is that

interesting, which is maybe why I became an actor." In summing up his

own life, Eastwood adopts the brevity that has often defined him. "I

just feel like I do a job. I've been lucky enough to work in a

profession where I enjoy it and still do. Obviously I'm doing it still

and I don't seem to have any ambitions about retiring. If I do, I

haven't kind of found out about them yet, so maybe I'm just waiting

until they retire me."

 

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Comentário de Filipe Furtado , crítico da Contracampo , no seu blog www.anotacoescinefilo.blogger.com.br :

 

Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood,06)

O Homem que Matou o Facinora de Eastwood. Não chega a ser um dos seus melhores trabalhos, mas esta quase lá. Um filme todo muito bem pensado a partir da ideia de representação: por exemplo trabalhando de forma auto-onsciente como as razões que tornam Ira Hayes a figura mais interessante dramaturgicamente entre os três soldados é a mesma que tornava ele um estorvo para a campanha de fundos do exercito.Por esta mesma razão o filme é menos imediato do que os melhores Eastwood, apresentando tudo a partir de um cuidadoso filtro histórico. As partes da guerra incluem algumas mortes ironicas a mais do que devia, mas em compensação o cineasta me parece ter encontrado um equilibrio bem adequado entre a apresentação realista dos combates que fuja da impressão de instalação maximizadora do Soldado Ryan. Dito isso, o filme definitivamente esta mais interessado no que acontece depois de Iwo Jima. É também um filme bastante fordiano na sua relação conflituosa com o mito e a história. Talvez o mais fordiano da carreira do cineasta.

 

 
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Opa, de novo serei o primeiro a dar minha opinião...q beleza06

 

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS - smiley10smiley10 ou 4/10

 

Não esperava encontrar um roteiro tão fraco e mal estruturado e uma direção que tenta ganhar em realismo o que perde na trama.

 

É talvez um dos trabalhos mais fracos de Eastwood, que espero que se redima em Letters from Iwo Jima, já que Flags tinha até um bom argumento, mas se perde em flashbacks desordenados e atores fracos, com exceção do ótimo Adam Beach que, mesmo com personagens tão mal aprofundados, ainda consegue se destacar. E olha que o filme tem mais de 2 horas, o que chega a ser cansativo, não via a hora que terminava, já não agüentava mais.

 

Da parte técnica, apenas destaco o som, que é muito bom, mas no geral, não chega perto de filmes como Soldado Ryan ou Além da Linha Vermelha.

 

Por ser a visão americana da guerra, poderia ser mais emocionante ou tocante, coisa que Haggis, que eu gosto muito, talvez não tenha capacidade para fazer.

 

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(deve ter um ou outro spoiler)

 

Eu gostei. Não sei se foi porque sou um grande "fãzóide" (como gostam de dizer por aí) do Clint ou porque é bom realmente.

 

Mas eu achei que as cenas de guerra são bem fodas, intensas quando têm e engraçadas (ao seu modo, claro) quando necessitam. É como aquela velha máxima de que eles não são nada no campo de batalha, estão completamente vulneráveis, e daí acaba surgindo, meio que involuntariamente, algumas coisas que não me escaparam o riso.

 

Também acho que a grande força do filme reside mesmo no que vem depois da guerra, do povo estadunidense aclamar e chamar de heróis 3 (ou 6, de qualquer modo) panacas que só fizeram levantar uma bandeira no alto de uma montanha. É, obviamente, uma coisa simbolicamente interessante dentro de uma guerra, mas é muito curioso o povo saudar esses rapazes, enquanto que, talvez (não sei se conscientemente), acabam que se esquecendo dos que deram o sangue e a vida por seu país.

 

No entanto, esse mesmo povo aparentemente esquece seus "heróis" e preferem se focar no mito construído a partir de suas ações. A guerra é um espetáculo para eles e, para muitos, não deixa de ser uma boa oportunidade para fazer negócio com os melhores garotos propagandas da época.

 

Como disse, eles são esquecidos. O índio é abandonado até ficar na merda; o outro, ironicamente, acaba se tornando dono de uma funerária, etc. E não vejo uma cena melhor do que aquela para finalizar o filme: os soldados se divertindo e aproveitando o pouco de momento de alegria que lhes resta SEM a farda, roupa militar ou seja-lá-o-que-aquilo-for. Ali, naquele momento, eles eram apenas homens comuns tendo um pouco de lazer.

 

E a melhor cena do filme é aquela em que estão os 3 sentados numa mesa e servem algum tipo de sobremesa feito com a forma da montanha e dos rapazes ficando a bandeira. Daí alguém coloca um caldo de morango como cobertura. Genial.

 

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Já estreou. 05

 

Além de ser Clintão, estou ansioso por 3 motivos:

 

- Não fez sucesso nos EUA, o que indica que pode ser um filme fora do habitual; e pelo que parece, o filme foi vendido como uma aventura patriótica e não deu certo.

- Os críticos daqui que elogiam o filme fazem principalmente, uma comparação com "O Homem Que Matou o Facínora", do Ford. 13

- E o Pablito deu 3/5 estrelas. 06
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A conquista da honra



Clint Eastwood e a batalha de Iwo Jima


01/02/2007   Érico Borgo

Hoje
em dia é fato cotidiano o sucesso de filmes devido a qualquer tipo de
polêmica que os circunde. Não me recordo, no entanto, de um projeto ter
sido sensivelmente melhorado por conta do barulho alheio antes da
dobradinha A conquista da honra (Flags of our fathers, 2006) e Cartas de Iwo Jima (Letters from Iwo Jima, 2006), ambos dramas de guerra do septuagenário Clint Eastwood.


Melhorado porque, sozinho, A conquista da honra seria
apenas mais um filme de guerra (dos modernos, vale dizer, com um
pano-de-fundo de denúncia e análise contemplativa). Ao lado de Cartas de Iwo Jima,
porém, torna-se uma experiência cinematográfica única na sua escala
grandiosa: dois lados de um conflito observados simultaneamente, sem
concessões.


A idéia surgiu quando Eastwood manifestou seu desejo de filmar a
batalha de Iwo Jima, momento crucial da Segunda Guerra Mundial no
Pacífico, a partir do livro Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima, de James Bradley - filho de um dos "heróis de Iwo Jima". Imediatamente as autoridades japonesas manifestaram-se. O governador de Tóquio, Shintaro Ishihara, pediu ao cineasta que respeitasse os mortos no trabalho. Alguns meses depois, Eastwood anunciava o filme-irmão de Conquista da honra, com roteiro da descendente de japoneses Iris Yamashita e do experiente e versátil Paul Haggis, que cuidou dos dois textos.


A visão estadunidense do confronto chegou primeiro às telas. O centro da trama é uma imagem icônica, a fotografia tirada por Joe Rosenthal, da Associated Press.
Ela mostra seis soldados hasteando a bandeira dos Estados Unidos no
topo do monte Suribachi, suas silhuetas sem face lutando contra o peso
de um pedaço de cano japonês improvisado como mastro. Tal registro é
tão expressivo e poderoso que virou peça-chave da propaganda
estadunidense para a captação de bônus de guerra, recursos que
financiaram o desenrolar da campanha bélica na década de 1940. Famílias
viam naquela foto seus próprios filhos, distantes um planeta, e tinham
a esperança de um retorno.


O drama, com belíssima fotografia lavada e simbólicos contraluz de Tom Stern (que trabalhou com o diretor também em Menina de ouro, Sobre meninos e lobos e Dívida de Sangue),
divide-se assim em dois momentos. O primeiro, os sangrentos combates na
ilha, que tiraram a vida de 21 mil soldados japoneses e 6,8 mil jovens
ocidentais, cuja comparação estética com Resgate do soldado Ryan e Band of Brothers é inevitável (até porque Steven Spielberg é um dos produtores). O outro é a turnê dos sobreviventes da célebre foto - John Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford), Ira Hayes (Adam
Beach) - pelos Estados Unidos, convenientemente transformados em heróis
pelas autoridades, mesmo que isso não significasse exatamente a
verdade.


Os segmentos se intercalam num bem aparado quebra-cabeças que,
quando pronto, revela o claro desdém com que Eastwood vê a guerra -
qualquer guerra - e a hipocrisia com a qual governo trata o assunto e
seus ditos "heróis" desde então.


Fica apenas a ressalva à contratação preguiçosa de Adam Beach
para o papel mais importante do filme, o de Ira Hayes, nativo-americano
da tribo dos Pima, lembrado em canções de Johnny Cash e Bob Dylan pela
maneira como combateu, foi explorado e "morreu bêbado uma manhã, sozinho na terra que ele lutou para salvar" ("The Ballad of Ira Hayes", letra de P. LaFarge, 1964). Preguiçosa porque Beach já havia feito papel de soldado no mediano Códigos de guerra
(2002) e um ator nativo, com treinamento militar básico para atuação,
deve ter parecido uma solução fácil para o diretor de elenco. Mas,
careteiro, ele é incapaz de fazer justiça ao tormento psicológico pelo
qual passou Hayes, que merecia uma melhor interpretação na telona.
Outro problema do filme é a tendência de Eastwood a explicar demais,
não confiando em seu público para entender as lições - ou talvez
temendo parecer exageradamente patriótico ou desrespeitoso.


De qualquer maneira, tais problemas tornam-se meros incômodos quando A conquista da honra é colocado lado-a-lado com Cartas de Iwo Jima e
tem sua estrutura e intenções, feito a bandeira que sangrou o solo
japonês, desfraldadas. Se os filmes anteriores do cineasta têm como
tema em comum o remorso, este não foge à regra. Mas o sentimento de
culpa aqui é pela humanidade.

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