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[HobnailedBoots]

Look fellas, even if they DIDN'T use that kind of language back then (which I suspect they did), the movie maker is trying to do more than just offer up a documentary. They're trying to draw you in and make you feel the emotions of the characters. I'm sure the screen writer felt like explicit language would help to convey the gravity of the situations portrayed. Let's face it, if you had a 105mm round incoming on your position about to blow you sky-high, the first word out of your mouth probably wouldn't be "oh darn." If you're making a modern-day war flick, you've got to throw in more explicit material if you want to translate the horror of war, because audiences these days aren't as easily affected by explicit material anymore.

[UKat]

RDM said:

Look fellas, even if they DIDN'T use that kind of language back then (which I suspect they did), the movie maker is trying to do more than just offer up a documentary. They're trying to draw you in and make you feel the emotions of the characters. I'm sure the screen writer felt like explicit language would help to convey the gravity of the situations portrayed. Let's face it, if you had a 105mm round incoming on your position about to blow you sky-high, the first word out of your mouth probably wouldn't be "oh darn." If you're making a modern-day war flick, you've got to throw in more explicit material if you want to translate the horror of war, because audiences these days aren't as easily affected by explicit material anymore.

It's not just in the battle scenes, it is when they're still in the states, etc., etc.. Filthy language does nothing to draw you in lol, at least not me.

[Robzilla]

You know I haven't watched this show at all.  I've been wanting to, but after reading a statement Tom Hanks made about WWII I'm starting to have my reservations that this may be revisionist history instead of anything close to the truth.

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While promoting his new HBO series "Pacific," Hanks said that racism was at the root of World War II, and that the U.S. was out to annihilate the Japanese "because they were different."
"Does that sound familiar to what's going on today?" Mr. Hanks asked on MSNBC, suggesting that racist motives are also driving the war on terror.

[jacobp]

He was basically pointing out that Americans didn't really know anything about the Japanese, and the Japanese didn't know much about us.  In Europe we were fighting against people that looked like us so we could empathize with and humanize them, but with the Japanese, racism (on both sides) fueled a lot of the fire.  That's why you had residents of some of these Pacific islands killing their families and committing suicide when the Americans landed;  the Japanese had convinced these people that we were monsters who would torture, rape, and murder their children.  They were convinced we were monsters; and we in turn were convinced that the Japanese were (insert asian sterotype and/or racial slur here).

[Robzilla]

jacobp said:

He was basically pointing out that Americans didn't really know anything about the Japanese, and the Japanese didn't know much about us.  In Europe we were fighting against people that looked like us so we could empathize with and humanize them, but with the Japanese, racism (on both sides) fueled a lot of the fire.  That's why you had residents of some of these Pacific islands killing their families and committing suicide when the Americans landed;  the Japanese had convinced these people that we were monsters who would torture, rape, and murder their children.  They were convinced we were monsters; and we in turn were convinced that the Japanese were (insert asian sterotype and/or racial slur here).

And of course that was a factor.  Hence all the Japanese internment camps that popped up.  But according to the article, Hanks said that racism against the Japanese was "at the root" of the war which couldn't be further from the truth.

[RammaJamma]

The scene you're talking about while they're still in state is a few Italian guys talking right?

[ConwayGamecock]

UKat said:

I know foul language is used in the military and in most folk's everyday language. But I really do find it overdone/ used in The Pacific, it's over the top.....I don't believe it was the F bomb was used that heavily in BoB, in fact I know it wasn't.

I know, y'all are gonna say if I don't like it, then don't watch it, but that's not the point, if it's not 'F' then it's GD or JC anything to offend. I love the series so far, but I'm confident that in the 40's the F word or GD wasn't used nearly as much as they portray it in the series. I'd say very few soldiers used foul language back then......and foul language in the 40's was more like Damn, Hell and Shite. Shoot, I can remember my momma no letting us watch All in the Family when it came out because Archie said Hell and Damn, groundbreaking language on t.v. back then.

I could understand under some very stressful/ scary situations during firefight scenes of a few men saying it, but they have almost every single character using the F@#K. It's overblown......and the series really didn't need that heavy use of that word and GD to be a great series..it adds nothing to it.

Sorry, I just had to opine on this......it's been bothering me for a few days especially after my wife commented on it, she loves the series too (she loved BoB also).

Hope I'm not the only one on here that is sick of Hollywood's shoving down our throats language that prevents my 15 yr.old from being able to watch great historical films.

I bet you just loved watching Deadwood.....

:p

[shamoan]

i agree....the use of F#$k is totally FUBAR!!!!!

[shamoan]

anybody watching on hbo.com?  i got it going and the thing loaded VERY slowly.  i gave up and said FU....err, screw it.