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All quiet on the western front movie3/22/2023 Echoing 1917, which came out three years ago, the film utilizes many long takes, letting the audience observe the entire story from Paul’s point of view, but also to fully show the horrors of the Great War. Overall, the new 2022 movie is extremely good even if it wasn’t the exact same as the book, yet still there are many standouts that set this movie apart, one of those being the cinematography. In the book however, he is shot while reaching for a butterfly, symbolizing peace and beauty of which Paul couldn’t find during the war. In the movie Paul dies when fighting in a close quarters fight with a French soldier, later walking out into the trenches and dies of blood loss. Paul has a much different death in the book than he does in the film. Paul never goes home in the new movie, which was quite an important and pivotal part in the book as Paul realizes he can never go back to the way he was before enlisting and how much he has changed since fighting in the war. This change isn't terrible, but it’s something to point out. Kat, who was Paul’s best friend and closest ally in all adaptations, has a very minor change in the way he dies. It was important to have Kantorek as a character in the book because he was the direct opposite in terms of viewpoints to the people he sent to die, but doesn’t play a big role in the new movie. Kantorek was important because he was the symbol of blind faith and nationalism, a man who knowingly sent his students to die in a war yet still is completely trusting in the fatherland. Kantorek, the schoolmaster who in the original book and both the 1930’s movie delivered his nationalist speech about German pride and glory was made into an extremely minor role in the 2022 movie. Many of the greatest moments from the book don’t appear in the movie, such as: A great example of this would be Harry Potter, which had very pivotal moments that were changed or altered in some way to suit the movie better. It should be stated that it’s OK for a movie to change some things to suit the story they are trying to tell. “All Quiet On The Western Front” was a book detailing the horrors and small happy moments in World War I and the terrors of watching your friends die right before you, but also finding some joy in what would be an otherwise bleak endeavor. To understand what makes this movie so great and terrible at the same time, one needs to look into the book the movie is based on.
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