As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.
World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it is plenty grim and grisly. Audience members may feel like prisoners of war forced to watch a training-torture film.
The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.
'The War' is a stunning achievement in filmmaking.
I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.
I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.