"The War"

[Walt's Daughter]

Just want to set the record straight for ALL time here. As many of you have heard elsewhere and read on this forum, this new film is stirring up some controversy because some say it doesn't cover everyone. According to Ken and the article I read on him in the September 2007 issue of World War II mag, they only covered a small scope of men from four towns. Here's the direct quote. He is speaking of previously made films.

 

"...None of them seemed able to understand the simultaneity of the two theatres. And so we try to tell an entirely bottom-up, intimate story of the war that gives you a sense of what it meant to be in battle but at the same time communicate the largeness of it. The overarching story is chronologically anchored in these four regular American towns, so that we would have a sense of home, a place to return to, while showing both theaters."

 

So as you see, they visited four towns, just four towns, and took the stories from only a handful of individuals. This film was never meant to show every American man who fought, nor was it ever the intention to represent every race, creed, color or nationality. It is an intimate portrayal of the men in these four towns in America.