Talking points about the movie and the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front".
1. If you're going to include everything from the novel into the movie, why can't it happen in the order it was written? The dynamic of something chagnes everytime that happens even if it still portrays the same emotions as before.
2. Paul still believes in the innocence of youth deep down inside, if he didn't he wouldn't have lasted as long as he did. Even though most of war is luck, it still has a lot to do with mindset. The newbies in the trenches were likely to go crazy faster because they hadn't had time to adapt like the men who had been there longer. All about presence of mind.
3. The movie was banned from many countries (Italy (1956), Australia (1941), France (1963), and Austria (1980)) and almost banned in the U.S.because it was branded as "anti-military propaganda" and because it had a "sympathetic treatment of Germans".* And many versions of the movie were censored or cut to fit specific countries views. **
4. The director of the movie, while he was filming, actually put out a call for German WW1 army veterans to authenticate uniforms and equipment. Many were cast as officers in the movie and had them drill extras in the movie. **
5. A comical end note: Even though it is his death scene there was a large goof in production. Paul reaches for the butterfly with his left hand but in the close up it shows his right. The hand however, is not even Paul's actor to begin with. It is actually the director's. **
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=355269%7C357370&name=All-Quiet-On-the-Western-Front *
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/ **
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