All Quiet on the Western Front behind the scenes

2022-01-03 08:01
In the film, Paul's hand to catch the butterfly is actually the hand of the director Lewis Milestone.
To ensure the authenticity of the film, director Lewis Milestone asked people to find German veterans living in the New York area to provide guidance on the German military uniforms and equipment that appeared in the film. Later, those German veterans became extras in the film.
Because of the role of Paul in the film, Lew Ayres refused to serve in the military during World War II, and his film was banned in more than 100 theaters in Chicago.
At first, there was Lew Ayres pretending to be Paul’s mother in the film, but the audience laughed during the preview, so director Lewis Milestone re-identified an actress to play.
The silent version of the film was only released in the UK in November 2003.
In the United States in the 1930s, the film was called the bloodiest movie.
As of 2006, only two of the actors and crew members who participated in the filming of the film were still alive.
The film is the first sound film directed by Lewis Milestone.
The film was banned by the Nazi Party in Germany, and the ban was not lifted until 1956.
The film cost 1.25 million U.S. dollars, with as many as 2,000 extras.
In order to express the serious theme of the film, director Lewis Milestone did not use any soundtrack in the film. However, to his chagrin, many theaters have added soundtracks without authorization. 
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  • Lottie 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    As far as the shooting method is concerned, it seems a little outdated now, after all, it is a movie from nearly 90 years ago. However, the director and actors played the theme brilliantly. The anti-war movie of 1930, it is very good to be able to make this level. However, within ten years, the Nazi Party came to power and World War II broke out. Humans really don't learn the lessons of history... For more ordinary people, war is really just death. Worrying about the unknown fate of the directors and actors, wondering if they survived World War II?

  • Alexys 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    There are many faces in the basic drama [I am too vulgar! 】 The ending tortured me...

All Quiet on the Western Front quotes

  • Ginger - the Cook: [looking at soldiers lined up to eat] What do you want?

    Katczinsky: Beans, you homely-looking son of a frog's leg! What do you think I want?

    Ginger - the Cook: [the men shout that they're hungry] Shut up! I'll feed you when you're all here.

    Tjaden: We're all here now!

    Ginger - the Cook: Only half the company's here. Get the rest! Wake 'em up!

    Katczinsky: [the men laugh] I wish I could wake 'em up. There's 80 of us left. The rest is in dressin' stations or pushin' up daisies!

    Ginger - the Cook: [shocked] 80? And I cooked for 150!

    Westhus: All right, we'll have enough for once. Come on, dish out!

    Tjaden: You mean you've cooked beans for 150?

    [the cook nods]

    Tjaden: And you've got bread for 150 and sausage for 150 and tobacco for 150?

    Ginger - the Cook: Everything. It's all wrong. I should have been notified!

    Katczinsky: What a feast! Everyone gets two issues!

    [the waiting men shout]

    Katczinsky: [trying to keep order in the ranks] Get back in line! Get back in line!

    Ginger - the Cook: Oh, no, that woun't do. I can't give 80 men what's meant for 150.

    Katczinsky: [he starts to punch the cook but thinks better of it and tries to be persuasive] Listen, you drew rations for the Second Company, didn't yuh?

    Ginger - the Cook: Yes.

    Katczinsky: All right, we're the Second Company!

    [the men shout]

    Ginger - the Cook: I got my orders.

    Albert Kropp: [agreeing with Kat] That's right.

    Paul Bäumer: We're the Second Company and if only half of us get back, that's our good luck. Come on, dish it out!

    Ginger - the Cook: [the men shout] No!

    Katczinsky: [grabbing the cook by the throat] You're the yellowest baboon that ever drew a cook wagon, and you're scared, and it shows! All we want to hear out of you is one more little yip, and we'll cut yuh up and eat you raw! Why, you keep your kitchen so far back of the lines, we never get anything to eat until it's cold and we're asleep. Now, you low doen rat, get out, or we wreck the joint, so help me!

    [the men shout]

    Katczinsky: Come on, give us some food!

  • Tjaden: There used to be some food in the sawdust. Now it's all sawdust.

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