Story is a 10, direction is a 10, acting is a 10 and the cinematography is a 10. Drama, tension and resolution occur naturally in Das Boot, which contributes to the very real impact of the film. The director lets the story shock and horrify the audience, not by forcing it, but by letting the story just tell itself. Everywhere, all around is War, but for these men as we witness them, war does not begin with a capital "W". A German submarine patrols the Atlantic Ocean during World War II, manned by a crew that must contend with tense conflicts and long stretches of confined. Here, it is the small moments which fill the screen. These often succeed in the immediate response (usually crying) but fail to impact the viewer on anything more than a surface level. So often, films which aspire to move the audience quickly fall into melodrama, over-acting, and overblown images. They are at La Rochelle near Rochefort-sur-Mer, built by the. Can submarines capsize This kind of fascinating information adds such verisimilitude to one of the submarine classics to come out of WW II. Part of the "power" of the film comes, I think, from a certain restraint in the direction. The submarine pens the sub sets out from, and site of the tragic air raid at the end, are real. Meaning The Boat, it is an adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s 1973 German novel of the same name. To say this film is "powerful" seems so weak a description. At the end of the day a sub is a really delicate ship that depends on stealth and evasion to survive. Secondly, submarines who got into duels with charging destroyers rarely came out on top. Das Boot is a German-language movie with subtitles, but it’s regarded by some as the best war movie ever made, and certainly one of the best sub movies ever made. 300 yards is a point blank shot for a WW2 sub. How few films are there which affect the viewers on this level. First, because they couldn’t shoot at a target that close. A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II. I could not shake the images, and now some fifteen years later, I still remember how completely meaningless the movie made everything seem, and the nihilistic message stayed with me for a long, long time. With Jrgen Prochnow, Herbert Grnemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch. When I woke in the morning, I felt as if I were escaping through the hatch of the submarine. I saw this film when I was a freshman in college during a weekend that I later dubbed my "depressing movie festival." (The Wall and Apocalypse Now were the other weekend "entries.") Of these films, it was Das Boot that haunted me-when I laid down at night, I saw Jurgen Proctow's pained blue eyes. Here is a movie that explores heroism, duty, patriotism, hope, fear and the futility of war-all grand themes-explored in the confined, and collapsing, spaces of a German u-boat. Maybe it is true that epic themes make the greatest novels and films. Das Boot is not just a great war film: it's a great film period.
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