Edward Berger’s new film, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” is less radical in import than either the original novel or the 1930 adaptation, alexrossmusic writes. “The critique of nationalist ideology is weakened at almost every turn.”
,” a harshly realistic story of concentration-camp life, which appeared in 1952. It is dedicated to the memory of Remarque’s sister Elfriede Scholz, who had remained in Germany. She was executed in 1943 after she was overheard saying that Hitler deserved a bullet through the head.
Milestone, a Russian immigrant with a strong leftist streak, refused to soften the polemical edge of Remarque’s story. Crucially, he relied on regular-guy American actors and avoided the use of accents. Lew Ayres, who played Paul, was only twenty-one when filming began. Not long before, Stateside audiences had been subjected to hysterical propaganda pictures in which Erich von Stroheim portrayed Prussian officers as baby-killing rapists.
The pacifist mood did not last: Hitler, who served in the First World War with unremitting enthusiasm, made sure of that. A decade after the release of Milestone’s film, Hollywood was once again training audiences to see Germans as demons. Stroheim was called back into action, alongside dozens of émigré German-speaking actors who had to impersonate the villains who had driven them into exile.
At the same time, the new film is less radical in import than either the original novel or the 1930 adaptation. The critique of nationalist ideology is weakened at almost every turn. At the beginning, we see a school principal rousing the boys into a patriotic frenzy, but there’s no parallel scene of a disillusioned Paul returning home and mocking the delusions of the armchair chauvinists.
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