He declines, however, to enlist for the combat film " God Is My Co-Pilot, " perhaps inspiring a future generation of draft dodgers during the Vietnam War.
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Quotes from Combat Film have appeared on DVD covers for films such as Confucius, Merantau Warrior, Sinking of Japan, IP Man 2 and House of the Rising Sun.
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These non-combat films were accompanied by " reenactments " of fighting, such as of Theodore Roosevelt's " Rough Riders " in action against the Spanish, staged in the United States.
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Hobden has been the Film News and Review Editor for "'Combat Magazine "'since 2007 where he regularly writes a column called "'Combat Film "'that looks at Action film related topics.
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Since the end of World War II and the virtual death of the western, the combat film has disintegrated into a showcase for swagger, cynicism, obscenely overblown violence and hollow, self-serving victories.
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"Hail the Conquering Hero " does not puncture the he-man mythology of the combat films so much as complement it, by reminding us that they also serve who only stand and sneeze.
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But for his first real combat film, he vowed " to acquit the veterans and what they experienced, as opposed to using World War II as just another springboard for an action-adventure movie ."
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Except for some commentary by historian Thomas Doherty and novelist Tim O'Brien and scenes that connect the World War II effort with the propaganda value of American combat films, this episode is a mess.
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The footage of paratroopers floating over an airport on a dark night, shot with low-light cameras by the military's combat film teams, was reminiscent of familiar scenes from World War II . But there was a big difference.
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The film tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus ( Laurent ), a young macaroni combat film, " The Inglorious Bastards " ( 1978 ).
