… the film is full of extreme close-ups of faces, does not flinch from the unpleasant details of burnt flesh and bloodied corpses, and the guns were often loaded with live ammunition as opposed to blanks. Kravchenko mentioned in interviews that bullets sometimes passed just 4 inches (10 centimeters) above his head (such as in the cow scene). Very little protection was provided on the set. When the dive bombs were detonated the camera crew only had a concrete slab 1.5 meters tall and 5 meters wide to protect them.…
Thanks, I had not heard of that movie. Just reading the Wiki page about it is interesting. Yes, the 20th Century certainly did hone and industrialize the killing machines of war, the worst of which is the human factor.
Try to find this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_See
…no one was killed.
Thanks, I had not heard of that movie. Just reading the Wiki page about it is interesting. Yes, the 20th Century certainly did hone and industrialize the killing machines of war, the worst of which is the human factor.