Original title: Im Westen nichts Neues From the Netflix Movie: "All Quiet on the Western Front" (2022) #AllQuietontheWesternFront #worldwar #movie #clip #filmtrim
This scene really hit me hard. I always assumed soldiers were given new uniforms when they joined. It never even crossed my mind that they might be recycled from the dead. What a chilling opening to the film!
I’m pretty sure today most if not all uniforms and equipment used in most armies have been used more than once. It’s cheaper to refurbish and repair old equipment than buying a whole new set, body armor as well if it hasn’t absorb any enemy fire is tested and then repackaged for the next recruit to use. This video show how the US military saves money by reusing equipment: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NyM8uC3wWHg.html
German uniform were solid leather boots, belt, and quality wool tunics, as well as steel helmet. It would be foolish to throw it to the trash because of a rip or hole.
A chilling effect indeed. The rips and holes being patched up by a machine making almost the same noise as the machine that made the holes and took the lives of those wearing them
And yet many critics didn’t understand what the score was doing. Some called it too brutal and purposeless, but the truth is war is brutal and purposeless. So the composer understood and delivered accordingly a exquisite body of work.
The saddest part wasn’t when the uniform was given to Paul. It was when you see how apathetic those recruiters were when they started throwing the name tags on the floor, like those names meant nothing to them.
Its the late stage of the war. Humans have the capability to shut of their emotional reception at some point. Its a self preserving mechanism. Don't think about it, don't take it home. Continue. Contununing will make this hall make sense. Just a little longer. Don't think about it.
The recruiters had no choice but to shut down . They would have gone insane otherwise. Imagine seeing so many young faces knowing you were sending them to certain death They themselves suffered with terrible PTSD and guilt judging by the records
I love how this sequence ties into the whole movie because it shows that Heinrich IS Paul. Heinrich saw his friends die before his eyes and goes on to die himself. Paul inherits his uniform and the same things happen to him. All of these young soldiers are experiencing the same pointless horrors of war and death. The ending text further illustrates this monotony when it states that, "Shortly after the beginning of the war in October 1914, the Western front became bogged down in trench warfare. At the end of the war in November 1918, the front line had barely moved. More than three million soldiers died here, often while fighting ti gain only a few hundred metres of ground. During the first world War, almost 17 million people lost their lives." Heinrich, Paul, and millions of others over the course of years experienced the same tragic fate here, all while the line barely budged.
@@armybeef68 it was war that King George used to try to subjugate the colonies, if you recall how British soldiers killed first at Lexington and Concord to initiate the war. In a hypothetical scenario where we take out the possibility of war and murder: we could have declared independence and Great Britain wouldn't have any say otherwise as war was their only way to keep control of us.
@@JonPonchoit was Concord For One. There’s Zero Evidence to this day Who fired the first Shot there either. Wtf are you talking about🤣 The British Would’ve Never Given up the US Without a forceful succession You’re full.
By 1917 the Germans were running out of nearly everything. If you notice in the movie, some of the soldiers are wearing coats with cuffs and brass buttons. Those are pre-1914 uniforms that have been recycled or pulled out of storage.
And that's why it's a true anti-war film. These deaths meant nothing to the men responsible for throwing those soldiers into battle. That's the true nature of a war.
Garbage generals Can’t view men in that way there playing chess everyone from top to bottom plays there part and you need men like that to win wars difficult choices have to be made because the other side will make the same decisions. Don’t get me Wrong it’s a horrible messy bussiness nut job still needs doing
@@Wasserkaktus No, the death caused by war is completely pointless, because it's all preventable if higher ups can stop being children fighting each other, and act like adults that take matters seriously. As there's always beginning of war and the end of it. But the in-between, millions of lives are lost over nothing.
There was something oddly terrifying about this scene. For me, it was perhaps the thought of wearing the washed and patched attires of someone who drew their last breath while wearing them, with their blood soaked deep into the same fabric. Accompanied by the sounds of that horn ominously playing, machinery running in the background. It reflected the coldness of it all. The inhumanity in war.
Yes it one of those horrifying scene without actual horror. It felt like the lives of those dead soldiers doesn't matter, as they can always be replace again by new batches. Just my opinion when I was watching this
The idea behind the sound design was to portray the industrialization of war. No war before this came close to the immense global mobilization and the directors wanted to capture this in this scene.
Love the audio in this scene. Love the low sounds that sound like a speaker vibrating and the Foley trolley wheels keeping time with it and the sewing machine/machine gun. So well done.
It's very subtle and very well done, around 2:02 you can hear the audio merge from the sound of just a sewing machine to the sound of a Vickers or similar machine gun firing. The industrial revolution of death. Great movie & sound design.
The opening to this movie was truly a masterpiece. You see the horrors of the front, the mass killings, and the logistics behind the machine that recycled the equipment of the dead for use by the next batch of naive young men being sent into the meat grinder to begin the process all over again. Absolutely horrific and masterfully done
Ничего ужасного, обычная ерунда от Нетфликса(настолько ерунда, что даже лень гугл-переводчик использовать, сам переведешь, если захочешь). классический фильм "Список Шиндлера" пострашнее был.
It should be noted that later on in the war Germany was suffering such a massive material shortage that they were using wooden bicycle wheels and other shit like that. They didn't have the excess clothe/fabrics nor the dyes for uniform production as they did prior to the war.
@@Luis-be9mi Not that uncommon. This was used during the siege of Leningrad and in a couple instances there were cases of this technique being used during sieges during the Roman times. In some rather "Aggressive" instances of desperation people in a siege that occured as a result of a rebellion resorted to eating belt leather then when things got worse they started eating/drinking raw sewage. Lack of food makes people crazy. Also cannibalism was rumored to be rampant in Leningrad.
They also lacked flour to make bread, so they used other means. That's why you see Tjaden complaining that they have nothing to eat but "Turnip bread". That thing is not only unappetizing but also induces diarrhea.
@@morammofilmsph1540 Thats... probably one of the worse thing you can do in a war even if your low on food xD. Diarrhea is going to dehydrate their own soldiers and it also depletes things like electrolytes. Its kneecapping their own guys
I loved how I didn't really feel the music ay first. But as the process went on the music became a reminder of what we just saw as the audience. And then the sowing machine combined with machine gun sound was really clever
I remember when I got Issued my M16 in the Marine corps it was all worn out, I held it and my friend said something ill never forget, he said "Danny, that rifle's probably killed a lot of people, treat it with respect". countless deployments, thousands of Marines before me had it and its still around somewhere.
Imagine day after day, patching the bullet, bayonet, and shrapnel holes, washing the mud and blood off of uniforms that belonged to your father, your son, your big/little brother, the love of your life. In a way, these women were just as much as pawns and victims in the industrial war machine as the boys and men they loved and never saw again.
That's how I would interpret the sewing machines with machine gun sound. The women are fighting the war as well in the factories. No war till this point has ever reached this scale.
To be honest that’s pretty disrespectful. While women were sewing jackets, boys as young as 14 were getting run over by tanks, burned alive, getting there heads blown off and getting bludgeoned by bayonets. Women may of been “sad” during this time due to their loved ones dying, but what the men and boys went through is so much worse that it can definitely be considered highly disrespectful to even mention this.
@@slipperydoorknob9950 I strongly disagree with this assessment. I said "in a way", to show how they were also affected by the war, but not to the exact extent as the actual soldiers. I never downplayed the horrific injuries and deaths suffered by the boys and men at the front, nor do I ever intend to. I think it's more disrespectful to dismiss the mental and emotional anguish the women (and not just them, but children and any other males too old or otherwise unable to fight) felt when they learned their loved ones have died as just them feeling "sad", in quotation marks implying their emotions weren't even real. And even more disrespectful to try and cease mention of it. The horrors of war extend to far beyond the battlefield.
Emotional suffering is revered significantly less than physical suffering by the majority of people and for good reason. Interesting thought though not very comparable
@@darkosphere3252And what would this good reason be? The consideration of phisical suffering as greater than psychological one is one of the main reasons as to why mental illnesses are often time ignored and dismissed even today.
This is the best warmovie i ever seen. Im impressed by Netflix. They produce material that you just dont see anywhere else. This is so far away from Hollywood you can come. It deserved to show on the cinemas but a movie like this could never make it to the cinemas. I mean we are following german soldiers and get to see their part of the story as human beings. Its really rare.
@@marshapelo9830 Thats another thing i dont understand with hollywoodproductions. Why use same actors all the time when you can get an equally good actor for a much cheaper salary. And at the same you get that uniqueness you only can get with a new actor. Imagine how destroyed this movie had been with a Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise.
Two things I find incredible about this scene. First, the lighting and camera focus is almost exclusively on the machines while every face is back-lit to cast shadow on it. It hammers home what this scene is meant to show: that war and death are an industry. Second, every inch of "Heinrich" is being wiped away both as a person and an idea. Heinrich probably wore that coat for months on end; he would have known every inch of sweat, blood and mud on it up until his death. Afterwards, methodically, it all gets washed and sewn and ironed away until all that's left of him is a name tag that's forgotten until Paul finds it by chance. And then it's ripped off and cast aside next to a polished boot with the scattered others, with a smile and a few short words spoken to the next young recruit to die in those clothes: "Happens all the time."
It's only now that I realized the corpse, and the uniform being fixed up in this scene are Heinrich's, the exact same person you saw climbing over the ladder at the beginning. And also that Paul then gets his uniform, Heinrich's name tag then excused with "Meh, it was probably too small for him, happens all the time." Christ, man.
Can you imagine you are busy at work patching up the uniforms and you come across a name that happens to be of your son or brother. That must of happened I would think.
What people fail to understand is an entire generation of literally the best of European Youth died in that war. It impacted European civilisation to this day, and why there are population problems in Europe.
@@davidoliver9655 Not really. Maybe for 1930 standards. Old movies look goofy as fuck. I watched it after seeing the new one and I fell asleep 3 quarters in. Movies from the early 1900’s just aren’t fun to watch.
@@slipperydoorknob9950 I still think the 1930s version is still the most authentic, they got German WW1 vets to help with the production but still since most of the people are detached from the war as well as the production technique and culture at the time the 1930 movie seemed goofy for us but most likely not for our ancestors.
My dad was in an American armored division during WW2. I remember him telling me that in the field they would throw their old uniforms in a pile and get someone else's uniform that had previously been washed in gasoline. Their old uniforms would be washed and and then get recycled to some other unit.
The scene where the girl is sewing the uniform is quite terrifying. If you pay attention, you only hear her machine, and it sounds like a machine gun. Indeed, both in the front as in the mainland, the sound of the machine guns never stopped...
I'm pretty sure it is the sound of a Vickars or similar machine gun PM M1910 or MG 08, it's very subtle but at 2:02 you can hear it merge from the sound of her sewing machine to the Vickars.
@@QuasiMonkey I don't think there's a machine gun, I think it's just the sewing machine, there was one of these super old sewing machines in my mother's side of the family when I was a kid, and it did sound this noisy. And that's my original point, a duality perfectly shown, in the battle field the repeating sound of the machine guns never stop, in the mainland the sewing machines never stop. Both places industrialized the business of death, in one place the sound means dead men, in the other just the same. I think they purposefully made them sound this similar, to send that point through.
@@diegosolis9681 Right, No machine gun in the scene but I mean the audio was most likely mixed together as those machine guns make a very similar knocking noise from the design of their charging/loading handle. It starts off as just the sewing machine then at 2:02 it changes a bit and you hear the more deeper, heavier sound of the machine gun, to help drive home the message of how WW1 was the beginning of the industrial revolution of death.
@@QuasiMonkey Yes, I understood what you meant my friend. I think it might be possible that they indeed did that mixing to give a stronger feeling. But, what I meant is that these old sewing machines did have a heavy noisy sound. And what I thought they did in this scene is simply isolate that sound to create the effect. But, yes, I think your theory is perfectly plausible. I think the fact that we are uncertain of which of the two options is the real thing goes to show how well done this sequence was.
For those who were wondering this actually was not that uncommon, especially towards the end of the conflict, and probably the most with the central powers. After all, if you think about it from an economic standpoint, it’s probably significantly less expensive to wash, patch, and reuse, an older uniform than it is to make a new one, especially when these kinds of materials Are becoming more and more rare as time goes on. Not only that, but despite this films, Raphick nature, this is actually a anti-war film. This scene is probably the best to show that by this point in time in the war, the lives of these individual soldiers Were in the eyes of their officers, essentially just seen as purely expendable. The human element didn’t matter. Only the material and industrial element did. Now the scene shows only the uniforms. But literally everything that could be salvaged would be. The uniforms would be taken off the soldiers as shown along with their boots. Other items such as leather accoutrements like their ammo belts and everything. Helmets. And of course weaponry. One has to remember that by the point in the war that this movie takes place the Germans while I wouldn’t say they are losing the war, at least in a military speaking form. But they are on the back foot when it comes to supplies. By this point in time the logistical area of the German empire was essentially in tatter. Not from in session, Ariel bombing, or anything like that, but just simply from basically being down by the sheer attrition of the war. And, of course, not only is the war costing lives, and Equipment, but it is also costing a great deal of money. And this is one of the reasons why following the initial hardship of the stock market crash at the beginning of what became known as the great depression. This is one of the reasons why Germany was hit the hardest.obviously along with America.
The way this scene is so emotionless and industrial. It’s a testament to how war treats humans not as living things facing honorable deaths, but as pons constantly being killed and replaced. Your name means nothing.
I remember a line from the book "i was young 17 yrs old but i knew nothing of life but despair and superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrows. I see how pple are set against one another and dying to wait innocently slay one another. Our knowledge of life is limited to death" dude was a word master
my grand-grandfather was an ottoman soldier in the Caucasian Front. He was prisoned by Russians but Russian soldiers released him after a few days because he was a really friendly and funny person and Russians liked him very much. Rest in peace all soldiers who fought in WWI
Can you imagine the ironclad will those seamstresses had? The fear of seeing one of those uniforms bearing your husband's or your brother's nametag must have been nerve racking.
Imagine being one of those women...doing your "duty" for the homeland, stitching away for hours on end, knowing that you're working on the clothes of dead men. Men who were their brothers, cousins, sweethearts, fathers, and husbands...
I'll admit, I don't really like this movie on the whole, but I will say that this is one of the best opening scenes to a war movie I've ever seen. The notion of something as simple as a uniform, the clothes on one's back, being scavenged, cleaned, patched up, and passed on to the next man in line only for the same thing to happen all over again. Truly shows how seemingly endless the war was, how what many thought would just be this quaint little dispute turned into one of the most horrifying periods in the history of the world.
Reminds me of my grandmother. She was in a German concentration camp in WW 2 , she lived because of her ability on a sewing machine. She told us German uniforms would come in off of dead soldiers, they would clean and patch them up to be given out to the next soldier.
Reminds me of a Book I read about Vietnam, where a War Correspondent arrives at a Unit and told to get a pair of Boots from a pile; only to find that they were all used and had Names in them !
that scene was so powerful like they tell new soldier old dead uniform and also that explain why it was so important to get the dead bodies cause they got send the uniform back
This film is good, I really like how it focuses on the mental side of wars. I was recommended to watch "All Quiet on The Western Front" from my friends as they know how much I love 1917. It's a chilling, gripping film. I could only get about half way through the film, just after a British tank squishes a German soldier to pieces. I was having a discussion with a friend after a lecture on wars in general, particularly comparing this film to the current war we're having now between Ukraine vs Russia. We're often seeing war films from the allied side, British and French. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the only film that focuses on the German's side of the war. They're all feeling horrible that their doing this, they didn't really get the chance, if you were like 20 or over, you're joining no matter what, they didn't get a say. This is the same with the Russian soldiers fighting against Ukraine, they were most likely forced into it. If a Russian came over to your country, looking for a place to stay, they're villainized, if a Ukrainian comes over to your country looking for a place to stay, they would be more accepted. In NO WAY am I saying I support Putin and his actions against Ukraine, but I feel somewhat bad for the Russian soldiers. Did they ask to join? No. War just keeps repeating itself and it's sad.
Right now in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine the most stolen item is the toilet. All the Russian people were lied to about Ukraine, and many Russians come from poor villages with no plumbing. Putin and all the shifty totalitarian leaders before him that cemented the country into an impoverished police state are the problem.
Now to be fair, unlike the Imperial German Army, which was conscript-based from the start of WW1, most of the Russians sent to Ukraine the first year of the war were volunteers, it is only the last six months that Putin’s "partial mobilization" has begun filling the trenches with conscripts. You can tell the increasing reliance on conscripts on both sides from how reduced the offensive ability of both sides is; besides Bakhmut, where the Russians were finally able to take the city after a year of fighting by using heavy artillery and human waves of prisoner recruits, the rest of the front line has barely moved a few kilometers regardless of which side made the push. The conscripts simply lack the training and equipment to break through the sort of heavy trench systems that has appeared. Ironically the lack of air power for both sides and reliance on conscripts has reduced them back to WW1 fighting styles, poor boys (and girls, though they are all volunteers) dying in the mud for scraps of land.
Exactly as Zelenskyy movilizing thousands of men, even young men and old men all the same, while villainizing every criticism, and even arresting voices who speak out against him, like Gonzalo Lira, and the US state department only giving more guns instead of peace. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it indeed.
Years, decades ago I read a similar description in Curzio Malaparte's "La pelle" ( the Skin), and just this was creepier than most battle descriptions, about the dark sense of death on war.
My grandfather was a young volunteer in WWI and an old soldier in WWII. He saw both of the biggest horrors of the 20th century. He walked back from East Prussia, to his family who survived the daily bombings of the Ruhr area and, at one point, had to extinguish their burning house with the contents of the septic tank. They lived in that house, build for one family, with three for years on end and only survived because they were fortunate enough to have a large garden so they could grow vegetables. One night, when the sirens howled again for the third or fourth time that day, my grandma got the kids ready to go to the shelter as usual. She saw the target markings fall out of sky all around her and so knew that she and her kids were smack in the middle of it. They ran to the bunker, with the baby carriage and kids at hand when the bombs started falling. They had to cross a small bridge to get to the bunker, but when they arrived, the asphalt was burning already. She made it through and brought her kids to safety. War is hell!
The unusual view in the Marine Corps (at least as far as civilians are concerned) is that you honor the fallen Marine by splitting his gear. It's considered an honor to use, and wear, the gear of a fallen brother Marine. But, that being said, under the conditions of WWI, with the number of casualties produced, the idea that uniforms were stripped from the dead on the battlefield, washed clean of the blood, vomit, urine, and feces and then mended and distributed to new recruits.... That makes my stomach turn.
Yup, though unlike in the movie you wouldn’t be wearing the same uniform the entire time usually, living soldiers would also have their uniforms switched out regularly because they needed to be washed in gasoline (or towards the end of the war with the shortages, water) to purge them of all the lice and nastiness from the trenches. Obviously they didn’t include this since it would take away from the symbolism of the main character’s uniform being the same one as the one introduced in this scene, but it does speak to the industrial scale of the war as well that most of your kit wouldn’t even be personal, you just wear it for a couple weeks or months and then as you’re rotated out of the trenches you are just handed someone else’s uniform and kit as yours is taken away for cleaning and redistribution to the next sorry batch rotated out of the muddy hell.
Great grandfather died at La Fontenelle in the Vosges July 8th 1915 with the 5th Bavarian Ersatz Brigade. I can assume he was killed by the heavy French artillery barrage that initiated the battle that afternoon upon Height 627. His post mortem most likely was not as organized like as this, actually it is not known if his body was ever recovered. Left behind two sons, ages 3 and 1.
These scenes alone are worth the Oscar it got!! My god is this powerful! The suffering, the horror, the stench, the disillusion, the fear, the bodies, the missing limbs, and ultimately death 😮
No need to watch post apocalyptic movies to imagine what horrors mankind is capable of. This does a much better job. Plus, it’s more chilling knowing it’s happened before
One thing to note is that in the earlier battle scene, it opens with machine gun fire periodically, which is repeated at the sewing machine scene, when we learn that Heinrich, who we met for only two minutes, has died.
I am very impressed by the quality of this new film of 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. I have read the book and seen the previous 2 films of it and was moved by them also. It's all so hard to believe that all that loss of life, all that suffering and damage and upheaval was all caused by one man who shot one other man. Oh, and if there was no WW1, then there probably wouldn't have been a WW2 or a Cold War.
"If there was no WW1 there wouldn't have been a WW2 or Cold War." lmao sure bud. The war was going to happen regardless. "It was caused by one man who shot one other man" is one of the best just total misunderstandings of the time period I've read in a long time. The ignorance is telling.
Okay, so you have made a statement, do you mind backing it up. If it wasn't for Princip assassinating Franz Ferdinand, how then, would WW1 have started anyway? I suppose all the leaders of Europe would just say, 'Hey, everyone! Let's have a war!' Sir, I suggest you go to a library and educate yourself.@@hoy455
The film shows just how dehumanising war is and the detail leaves no doubt in the viewers mind Clever and chilling You can see how one step led to the Final solution in the end Ok the fighting is so called legal and the camps,qede
To those who claim this is not factual or was done by Germany only towards the end of the war, your incorrect. This was not only done by the Central Powers but by the allies, including the UK, as well. One of my Great -Aunts did this in Dublin for uniforms and equipment that made it back with wounded and dying soldiers of the Irish Regiments, she returned to the family farm in Clare after the war severely traumatized by the experience as they would have to clean out missed personal effects ( photos, letters etc.) before cleaning everything. She would spend the remainder of her life saying rosaries for the dead of the war in a church run "hospital". It was literally never spoken about until one of us younger ones questioned her fate and we were told that it wasn't to be spoken of.
One of the best opening scenes in any war movie, other than maybe saving private Ryan. Gave you a sense of what this war had evolved into. Just a repetitious, manufactured, and futile conflict. This movie made me sick, and it wasn't just because of all of the violence and death. It made the viewer despise what war is.
Terrifying scene, but true. That said, the burial we see isn't that realistic, on the frontline, many dead soldiers didn't have the chance to have a coffin and were buried, at best in a tent
(11:51) I'm reasonably certain that the staccato sound of the sewing machine is meant to represent the machine gun bullets that ripped into Heinrich's body. 🙁😔
@DoubleZero Bet you they mixed them in somewhat. Would love to interview the sound people on this movie. Like, the sound of the war was almost like a huge beast roaring in the distance at times. Like it was very organic.
The recycling of uniforms may be morbid, but in war, it is always senseless and a waste. At least they are recycling, in our waste-consuming society that is choking our planet with mountains of garbage we can still learn a lesson to conserve our resources.
Well At least, they didn't reuse the underwear from the fallen cannon fodders, yes? Besides sometimes I heard they even practically gathered and buried many of the bodies in some massive grave without a good looking coffin like these like they were disposing some pile of trash!
😱😨🤕💫 How could they, why would they? WTF is going on ? R!P 2 all men and boys from every country that fought in ww1 and 2. Less we Forget. no wonder the Germans said "Wir Sind Verloren" 😭🤧
In 1979 I was issued flight deck gear that was reused. I had two sets of trousers that were from OD green. When we went back to shore duty I had to turn in my jerseys and trousers.
Makes you wonder how many soldiers that have worn to the same uniform without knowing about it. This scene also does a good job at showing how little the death of a soldier really matters,not only is he stripped of the uniform he probably proudly wore to fight for his nation,but at the end of the cycle his name will be ripped from the uniform and thrown on a pile on the floor, ready to be worn by a new soldier who will become another nameless piece in the cog of the war machine.
Very appropriate that they’re reusing the uniforms because in the book, Heinrich (a friend of Paul’s who dies in the beginning) leaves his boots to another man in their group and when that man dies, he leave them to someone else. By the time the boots get to Paul, pretty much everyone in the group has worn them until only Paul is left. And we know what happened to him
