Mendes: "Americans Don't Get 'Jarhead'"

Mendes: "Americans Don't Get 'Jarhead'"

Oscar-winning film director Sam Mendes claims American viewers don't
understand his new movie Jarhead as well as Europeans - because they expect

Kris Baker...

Oh, whine, whine.

Americans DID understand that it was a boring film made from
a GREAT book.

Didn't Mendes get his oscar for "American Beauty", one of those
shallow films like "Forrest Gump" that WAS highly entertaining
but didn't stand the test of time?

war films to be one-sided. The movie based on the novel Jarhead: A Marine's
Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford, and focuses
on the frivolousness of war, rather than the glory - something Mendes feels
Americans don't grasp. Mendes says, "I feel they've understood in Europe. In
America, it's like talking about a different movie. "Fundamentally, Jarhead
disobeys all the laws of American movies, and not just the political laws of
American movies right now which demand on some level to tell us which side
they're on. "In Europe, there's a sense this film comes from the tradition
of absurdist war movies about the futility of conflict. "It has more in
common with Beckett, Sartre and Banuel than it does with Oliver Stone. "In
America, they assumed I was trying to make an Oliver Stone movie and that
I'd failed."

CliffB...

No, Sam; they just plain ignored you and your absurdist war film. Move
on now.