Mary O'hare and the War

You'll pretend you were men istead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-lovoing, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs" (Slaughter-House-Five, p. 14).
In your blog, please respond to the above quotation. Do you agree or disagree? Do movies help promote war? Were they more likely to promote war in the past. Please explain your position.
Discuss the two or three war films that you have seen. Which ones would you concider pro-war and which ones would you consider anti-war?


I Agree with this quotation from the story Slaughter-House-Five. "Men" are babies when it comes to a life or death situation, like war. They pretend that they are really tough and they tell every one that war was not bad at all. Deep down inside, they were scared and screemed like babies when things got outragious.

Movies help to promote war, though it makes people more like a baby, or more like a man, depending on that person. Movies are not to the exact reality of war. Producers make war seem unrealistic, by making it less bloddy, or adding more of a people plot into the plot line instead of a major war plot. For example, I have seen the movies SavingPrivate Ryan, Full Metal Jacket and Behind Enemy Lines. They are all very different war movies. Saving Private Ryan is more about saving a man from the war, and it wan't totally about the war itself. Full Metal Jacket is more of a comedy and it is to show that men are babies but practice can make it better. And finally, Behind Enemy lines has a war invovled but it is not totally about the war. It is about living through a bad time during the war and trying to get out.