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【转贴】汤姆汉克斯关于太平洋的访谈 转自人人 Tom Hanks Talks about The Pacific The Difference between Band of Brothers and The Pacific “The main difference is our source material,” Hanks explained. “For Band of Brothers we had Stephen Ambrose's pretty magnificent -- rather, oral history, almost a piece of scholarship, in his book Band of Brothers. The three stories that we've culled from here -- Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed is considered perhaps as great a combat memoir as has ever been produced. It is very personal and it is very much written with his voice and with his perspective on life. Robert Leckie's combat memoir, Helmet On My Pillow, is really more like a pro's poem about what it means to be young and alive and involved in a quite hideous adventure. The story of John Basilone is more or less taken from public record. “But I would say that the differences between The Pacific and Band of Brothers are as different as really the concept of the two different theaters of war - Europe, maps, territory lines drawn on it, armistices that would be honored. By and large, the European war [in] World War II was the last war of its kind in which great armies fought and decided when they began and when they did not. In Europe, an enemy soldier could throw up his hands; his war would be over. The war in the Pacific was more like the wars we've seen ever since - a war of racism and terror, a war of absolute horrors, both on the battlefield and in the regular living conditions. The challenges that we put forward to ourselves at the beginning of all of this was to take human beings and put them through hell and wonder how in the world they would approach the world when they came back. The Pacific v Europe Hanks explained that the Pacific war was not as showy as the fighting and locations in Europe. “By and large, there was a thought that it would be hard to get people excited about a battle over a place like Guadalcanal or Peleliu without some context, some historical context to why our soldiers are fighting at Guadalcanal on Peleliu. There were those of us on the producing team that felt that context was a waste of time and once we got involved in this story, the context would be obvious.” Hanks admitted, “Quite frankly, [the Pacific theater] doesn't bend to the more, I want to say, graceful narrative that they can approach the war in Europe with. The war in Europe liberated Paris. They landed at Normandy, and eventually you crossed the Rhine into the fatherland, and Berlin fell. The war in the Pacific does not fall into that brand of territorial narrative. You tell me what's important about Peleliu. Well, we establish what's important about Peleliu, Guadalcanal, Okinawa, going on, little tiny spots. A hundred miles from where the moment where Saving Private Ryan (a 1998 movie about the war in Europe) took place, more or less, is the Eiffel Tower. A hundred miles from Peleliu is an empty spot of ocean in the middle of the Pacific. It doesn't fall into the same cognizant recognizability that the war in Europe does. That's why in this, we have much more individual stories of three Marines. It almost doesn't matter where they were. It almost doesn't matter what battle they fought and what they fought in. It's only very much important to them, not to us as the audience,” Hanks explained about the way the series is laid out.
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