Sir,-An appropriate comment on this subject appears in the Saturday Evening Post (May 22) in an article by an American pilot who took part in the Bismarck Sea battle, in which a Japanese convoy was wiped out to the last ship and last man. The pilot-author reported that "we were all tickled over the show," and goes on to say: "From start to finish, it was like a football superclassic, even to the audience and the play-by-play accounts. At our base operations tent in Port Moresby, 160 miles distant from the action, we had our loud-speaker tuned to the command set, and sometimes we had nearly 1,000 men around, cheering like fools." That report is a pretty good indication of how the fighting men consider war; how otherwise could they fight to win? At any rate it is a complete answer to G.M.’s naive opinions about audiences and war-films. Your contributor writes as if we lived in a sane world. The next step towards civilisation is to kill Germans and Japs-the more the quicker the merrier. A few cheers by the way will help to humanise the process.
F.
G.
(Wellington). |
(We have no space for further letters on this subject.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 221, 17 September 1943, Page 5
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