Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18

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Subject: RE: [Leica]now:B&W photography
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:06:44 -0500

At 07:09 AM 2/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
> The story, in my opinion, was somewhat lost in all of the blood and
>horror.  Of course, I am sure it was, in many respects just like the movie

We did an article on a person here who was in that landing. He says it was
dead-on accurate.

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And, just FYI - My next-door neighbor is a PhD psychologist who runs the
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome Center at the Roxbury VA Hospital and is
literally one of the world's leading experts on PTSS...He said he was blown
away by the movie, and was astounded how right Speilberg got it all...He
said he was particularly impressed by the ways in which the men related to
each other, and the ways in which those relationships evolved in the combat
situation. His one "complaint" was also quite facinating....I commented that
I had been really impressed by the fact that the "coward" wasn't redeemed
and turned into a hero, as usually happens in war movies. He said that yes,
that was right, but that it was highly unlikely that given his state of
panic, etc., it's highly unlikely that the "coward" would have lived more
than about the first 15 minutes.....

And how did we get onto the trashing Spielberg theme? Who makes better
movies today? Many of them may not be light entertainment, but they sure are
incredible to watch....

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.