The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'The War' is a stunning achievement in filmmaking.
War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.
Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Apocalypse Now.' But they're not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood's idea of war.
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.