I tire easily of someone griping every single time there's a WW2 movie that has GIs in it, whinning that the other nations aren't represented.
Heck, I never heard anyone gripe when US forces aren't represented in Eastern Front movies.
PLENTY of movies on the Brits in WW2 have been made with no mentions of the US at all. When's the last time someone griped about the lack of GIs in one of those?
Anyone ever see the Canadian movie on Dieppe? Heck, there were US Rangers in that raid, and there is ZERO mention of them in that film. But did you hear anyone in the US gripe about that? Nope, not one...
Don't get me wrong, I could care less if an American film follows American troops. Of course they'd do that. I think my issue is with the attitude I've seen that seems exclusive to the American public that they were the only ones fighting the war. When films reinforce that malice it's aggravating. As a veteran of another military it's infuriating that this is an actual conversation I had:
Guy: "WW2 was 1941 - 1945"
Me: "Actually it was 1939 - 1945. You mean the US was a part of the war after 1941"
Guy: "Nah, that doesn't count. No one fought back until the US came"
Me: "Are you ******** me? I have relatives that died FIGHTING before the US entered the war"
Guy: "Well it still doesn't count, it's not a world war unless all continents are involved and we didn't join until 1941"
Me: "You realize you're not the only one on this continent right? Canada joined in 1939"
Guy: "Ya, but America didn't join so it doesn't count"
At that point I told him to **** off and try reading a book sometime.
Or how about not even WW2. Flyboys! Here we have a film about WW1 pilots in the early to mid war period. I think, awesome! We've got so many awesome ones to chose from from the French, British, and German air forces. What do we get? A story about an American volunteer force with the French. Okay, I say, fair enough, American film. Then they take this unit, which was below average in it's effectiveness in action, and give it an American ace who has more kills than the highest scoring American at the end of the war and put him in charge of a unit that takes out squadrons of Red Barons! What a load of horse ****.
I honestly don't mind a bit of "rah rah" but it's affecting the American psyche and the viewing public is eating it up as real.
/RANT
In the end, my frustration is with the lack of education I guess. Don't mind me.
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I recall Eastwood really being peripheral and useless.
Eastwood is NEVER peripheral and useless. :lol