“We don’t want any losers” Even more than 50 years after its release, this war film is still a monument to cinema

News culture “We don’t want any losers” Even more than 50 years after its release, this war film is still a monument to cinema

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A film that will be remembered

Unless you are of a certain age or a huge movie fan, you may have never seen it Patton. Nevertheless, it is actually one of the greatest war films of all time. Coming to cinemas 197054 years have passed since the actor George C. Scott offered us an absolutely impressive opening monologue in which he explained the passion of the American soldiers in the role of the general George PattonA nationalist and violent discourse that did not foresee a possible defeat of the American army, but which had a particularly ironic flavor since the film was released precisely during the Vietnam War.

It must be said that the director was not his first criticism of the United States and humanity since Patton appeared two years after his other masterpiece, which is far better known to the general public: Planet of the Apes. Thanks to his biography of one of the few Allied generals whom the Axis powers truly feared during World War II, Franklin J. Schaffner The film has definitely left its mark on the war film genre, and it would be a shame to miss such a monument.

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Who can do better 50 years later?

The war film genre tends to have as many fans as it does critics. It must be said that feature films on this subject are often long, sometimes slow and, above all, violent. But even if you don’t necessarily like this genre, you might like “Patton” because the director chose to focus primarily on the personality of the main character rather than on the battle scenes. In the early 2000s, Patton was added to the list of films preserved in the Library of Congress in the United States because of its cultural, historical or aesthetic significance.

Even today, many war films have left their mark. We could talk about, for example, Apocalypse now, Schindlers List, Full metal jacketor of course We must save Private Ryan. Steven Spielberg’s film was added to the list of films preserved in the Library of Congress in the United States in 2014, just like Patton a little over ten years earlier. But while the genre is starting to fade a bit, some nuggets are still emerging. In 2019, for example, we were able to benefit from the excellent development 1917 whose technique earned him several Oscars. The latter has also been available on Netflix for a few days in case you missed it.