Making an Anti-War Epic | Behind the Scenes of All Quiet on the Western Front | Netflix 

Ikr :)

Hmm thank you. I found that part a little odd since a major intent of the movie was not to show anything concerning war as heroic.

Exactly.

Thank is correct, it got me also confused with the translation

I am glad the film maker of this movie did not stray in glorifying war or celebrate heroes of war, its clear cut showing war is miserable for whoever that is involved

Didnt catch me at all though i dont get why this film is so hyped

@@MegaFregel I think the film is a masterpiece but it hinges on its ability to sell the macabre horror of war and if you aren’t moved by it then I can see why you may not see it the same way.

Its not a masterpiece. It is not even a real anti-war movie. And it had NOTHING to do with the book.

@@CyVinci it’s horrific for the sake of being horrific. If you want to sell the horror of war then do it in a realistic way and not how a teen would picture it.

ur the real true mobster!

Huh who is he

@@Haiseisgone a yter who makes stuff abt airsoft and tactical loadouts

Ww1 is a classic example the clashing of empires. There were no good guys, just politicians using young men to sacrifice their life for "national interest"❤

@@mingyuhuang8944 I have a doubt. Why cant these young men at that time deny that they cant participate in the war. Why cant they say that

As the book from Erich Maria Remarque is....don't hesitate to read it.......... take care : )

I couldn’t agree more this movie was so good

I’m 8 yrs old and I watched like 20 mins of battle including the French using the flamethrower’s and the German bozo getting smushed by a tank😂😂 0:39

@@bilplaymo6121 His sequel was good too, describing the aftermath of the war for these soldiers in Germany.My Oma talked to me about growing up in Germany during WW1 and it was pretty hard.

@@juliaforsyth8332 thanks for sharing, my grand father from my father side have lived until end with shrapnel, impossible to make it leave cause too nearly situated to heart, never know him, died in 1953, anyway we make their sacrifices and hurt alive with memories....take care, wish a world without wars, seems to not take this road...

"War is old men talking and young men dying"

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@@GH0STCCC-vu5rz Plenty of old men dying too in many cases. Once they run out of young men, the old men are drafted.

@@KonstantinKonstantinovic-xf3qt Good point. There are also plenty of stories of WW1 veterans in WW2.

Ermm actually, in the book paul bäumer dies in a more calm than avarage day from a sniper, also in the first movie, also no last battle happened in the real war🤓👆

to be honest privat ryan falls apart a bit after its Dday scene - at the end of the movie it falls back into a cliche depiction of action movie heroism imo. All quiet on the western front tho stays true to its gruesome depiction and there isnt a happy end either

@@allanredhill8682 Yes, All Quiet doesn't frame war in any "grand scheme" or soliders doing a "righteous sacrifice". It shows the battlefield for what it is: a brutal place where humanity dies. There is no hero's journey, there is only survival. The scene with the killing of the French soldier says it all. Truly an anti-war film.

Stalingrad 1993 depicts these horrors just as well, if not better

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Totally agree, mate. Great movie, yet horrifying.

You make an excellent point here actually. Several war films (even where anti-war) make out the key protagonists as these greater characters - they are somehow empowered and emboldened by the story and we get the sense that they're a little bit untouchable by the events around them.1917 suffers this to some effect, Saving Private Ryan is very affected by this and in many ways some classics like A Bridge Too Far are also a little disconnected. All Quiet On The Western Front however is quite the opposite. The main character could be any of the other lads in his regiment, he represents them but is not made more powerful by it - he is just as frail and disposable as the others and (of course he is killed in the end). It does a great job of zooming into the life of one particular soldier, but does not elevate that soldier for it. When you zoom back out, you see hundreds of Pauls running, fighting and dying all across the field of battle. Its just so striking and unnerving in many ways, but this film is a true masterpiece and a piece of history for the ages.

Exactly! And it really sinks in when he dies at the end and another younger soldier takes his tags and pretty much overlooks him as he was nobody of importance. Just another face in the war.

a masterpiece of shitting on history and dumbing everything down, to the point its laughable and basically a comedy. the deathscene was also a joke, i actually laughed, because it was so bad

@DayKlight bro I forgot you were there in trenches. Get that trench foot out yo mouth. It's okay this is a safe space :)

@@DayKlight why did you go on this video to shit on the movie? to go into the replies and shout about how bad at this movie is? why?

Saving Private Ryan was a US propaganda movie.

The D-Day scene is the only anti-war part of that movie

doest not matter if it is so. All matters is that SPR is exceptionally good film@@stell4you

Im Westen nichts Neues has the better pictures, 1917 the better camerawork. I prefer 1917, but i love Im Westen nichts Neues for its storytelling in the book. When love the movie, read the book!

@@torgiwankenobi1155 Yes, the book is a masterpiece!

I thought 1917 was also in your face, both are powerful films

And every time you thought that for once something good and well deserved happens to Paul and the boys it's disrupted immediately, reminding the audience that this isn't some heroic story and that war has no good endings

@@sandyhossman7771 I actually watched 1917 again a few weeks ago. It's such an incredible movie. And to do it all in two consecutive two shots was crazy impressive.

My paternal grandfather fought in WWI, either shell shock or an underlying psychiatric disorder he was catatonic in a VA hospital at the end of the war. His brother's had to search for him. He spent the rest of his life in and out of state mental hospitals. He died before I was born, but his parents and siblings immigrated from Bern Switzerland. He was very artistic, I have a wood carving and a couple paints he did and he hoped to study art. However his mother who seemed old world Swiss, made him drop out of school and work at age of 12. Watching that movie made me understand why and how he lost his mind in the trenches. When my dad went to war in WWll my grandfather was terrified my father would be killed. My grandmother and aunt kept a lot of news about my dad from him.

1980 Yank/UK production w/Ernest Borgnine as Katz also filmed in Bohemia. No CGIs, just stunts and extras. Greetings from Pressburg/Pozsonyi

The same opinion like my. For me the new movie was so boring. There was not the same feeling it feels not ok.

the english dub is also not bad tho ! it is amazing.

Thank you for an honest word here among thos hypocrites. This film was a disgrace. They butchered a perfectly good story that has been told much better on screen, twice before. I was anxiously waiting for a black actor playing Hindenburg or something, but even as it was, it was bad enough. Der Film hat mich nicht abgeholt, they say in German. Meaning, the movie didnt touch me. Quite right. Abgeholt gehören nur die Produzenten und CEOs von Netflix for delivering yet another piece of wokeist propaganda.@@Cloudiskyies939

Me too

It was and is in theatre at least here in Germany. Otherwise it wouldn't quality for being an Oscar candidate...

I saw it in theatre here in Germany, idk if it got played in other countries too tho :)

Not in Canada :( But it's the first film from a streaming service where I immediately bought the 4k disc upon release. Stunning film in just about every respect.

@@ankulix neither here in the United States , I saw it in Netflix and wow best warm film I’ve ever seen .

A bridge too far

Das Boot.

I don’t get how people think 1917 is a great or even a decent movie. I mean, that sniper scene was an insult to the viewer’s intelligence. The forgettable lead character popping up three times in the exact same spot without getting his head blown off, subsequently nailing the sniper, while the Germans in the adjacent camp are oblivious to the shooting as they only come out at night? Come on!

Does Apocalypse Now count as modern?

Hacksaw ridge?

I have several schnauzer breeders and known kennels in the eastern part Ukraine, thankfully most have left. A few stayed and I worry for them and the entire country daily. I can't imagine what the children are going through and are seeing . Prayers for peace

as one of the worst war movies ever made, yap

yeah... because it's an anti-war movie.@@DayKlight

@@tricksor6589 so anti war means, not caring about historical accuracy? war is gruesome enough in its own, often way worse then depicted. i mean i guess in the real world a granade cant explode right at your feet and youd get no damage... just my guess.

Now all of these professions you mentioned won an Oscar for their work 😍

The start felt rushed, they should have told us in a caption how long the main character has been enlisted between getting hit uniform to when his first friend died.

4 is quite good, isn't it? 😅

What about 1917 ? I think this film also portrayed the reality of WWI really well

@@souslocean778 1917 has a somewhat happy ending and heroism. It also features a scenario that wasnt very typical for the normal soldier. Staying in the trenches, fighting in the trenches and being hungry was more of the reality of ww1. But dont get me wrong, its still a very good movie. I think if they made that he fails his mission, it would be way more impactful and realistic.

then youve only seen crap war movies

​@@DayKlightthen u point to some good war movies...?

@@ataullajafri4854 le croix de bois, westfron 1918, Journeys End, paths of glory (not tooo accurate but still great made), Le Pantalon (not much war scenes, but true story and very tragic), Verdun (1928). ofc there are more, and yes i liked the old all quiet at the western front way more.

Tank

@@LucasSoares-mh2nz that was such a heartwarming, inspirational quote.

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@@LucasSoares-mh2nz Oh shit tank

I thought that was a bit over the top. They didn't eat that much (the teeth have time to remineralize) and had no sweets. Of course his dental hygiene was lacking. But he was a young man and the movie only followed him for a few months. When watching the movie it actually made it feel less realistic.

Trampaloin*

​@@republicdefense354 Trampulen

I thought that too!!!

1917 to me looked like a film set. Add the giant plot holes and any immersion I might have had in the very beginning was gone. All quiet is much much better in every respect, even though I can’t really sympathise with Germans.

@@flandersstacking1938 if you can’t sympathize with the Germans then you missed the whole point of the movie

Former actor is doing it similarly.

@@Danielka80 Defending your home will never be meaningless.

@@redlevantinist8947 but one of this statements is a fact

@untergeher Thats not the reason for whats going on in Ukraine. Typical used shortened sight of it.

It is fake people and fake blood, it’s a movie

The same truth is that the leaders know the suffering. They simply don't care.

No matter how many films like this one will be released, we probably still won't get any more clever...that's my guess

English please.

​@@kiereluurs1243 Their english is fine though.

Someone ought to have taken a pot shot at that general in the balcony.

My great great grandpa fought for the French in this war. It's a stretch, but maybe they fought each other.

Youre anoying

Weil der FIlm international veröffentlicht wurde, und sogar Oscar-nominiert war und dies der Englische Netflix Kanal ist. Ist außerdem keine nur deutsche Produktion, da haben sehr viele dran gearbeitet

Es gibt das gleiche Video auch in Deutsch

It's hundred times worser in real life.

Americans almost didnt fight that war lol

Thanks

It's war. That is the plot😊

i noticed that they have taken a lot dialogue directly from the book. (in the german versions) if you read the book an then watch the film you will notice.

@@tilltronje1623 “iTs WaR” well no shit Sherlock. But it’s based on a book aka a specific story and should follow the plot of that, bird brain

@@GlobalTossPot you mean the plot of "they are in war, suffer and die"? Yeah, the movie is following that. Small hint: if you don't even know the difference between plot and story, you should go easy on the insults

@Darth_Plagues_the_wise that maybe so but compared to the original all Quiet on the Western Front it's like watching a video game. Maybe I'm just getting a little too long in the tooth 🥴