The Big Red One
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (974 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 055314037X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 259 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Big Red One is his masterpiece. Excruciating scenes of suffering and brutality are juxtaposed against heartbreaking scenes of compassion and selflessness. In Fuller's vision the lines between heroism and villainy are blurred—"the only glory in war is surviving"—but The Big Red One also provides an epic adventure steeped in the true history of World War II.. Twenty years in the making, both the novel and the film are based on Fuller's own experiences with the Army's First Infantry Division ("the Big Red One") in World War II. Describing Sam Fuller as a cult legend and a celluloid genius would be like describing Muhammad Ali as a boxer or Jimi Hendrix as a guitar player. The story centers on the friendship of five soldiers and follows them from the arid landscapes of Vichy French Africa to Europe to the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and onward into Germany. He was a singular American visionary, a giant of independent filmmaking, and a king of bruised-knuckle cinematic poetry
A Must For Understanding the Master Sarvi Sheybany You've probably heard the name Sam Fuller mentioned by the likes of Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, and Quentin Tarantino. His name comes up whenever you want to talk about war movies, or truth in cinema. He manages, in all his films, to get at the core truth about violence: that it is. "Probably the best War Novel Ever Written" according to Karl Griesser. Read the Introduction chapter to this amazing book. Just by reading that, you'll discover that Samuel Fuller set out to write a novel unlike any other war novel ever written. While it is gritty and heart wrenching in that it explores the death and destruction of war, it still has . "A GREAT READ!" according to Novelist. Sam Fuller, the seminal film director and writer, directed the movie of the same title, THE BIG RED ONE. Though the book and the movie differ, both share haunting images of both horror and beauty, sin and redemption. Sam Fuller ought to know as he fought in many of the major battl