Mixed Messages
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Devil's Brigade
zillion29 — 18 years ago(September 16, 2007 09:13 AM)
This movie really flips it's message in the last 5 minutes. The whole movie is fairly rah-rah military WWII patriotism for the first 2 hours and then completely goes "Vietnam era" and shows it's 1968 side when it ends as a complete bummer. Was that the original scripted ending, or did they just give it a "hippie" flavor as an afterthought?
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roscoe-11 — 18 years ago(September 26, 2007 06:22 AM)
I'm not sure that the intent of the film was to have a msg at all. I DO know that the movie was based on the book "the devils brigade" that was written by the forces intelligence officer. it does an alright job of following the book I suppose (though they invented the raid on the town and they completely ignored the aleutian island campaign). I think that "hippy flavor" was there to let people know that although the force was an elite unit, people still died serving in it