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Hollywood has represented World War II films seemingly in the same manner. Most of the films produced have had the same characteristics of camaraderie, survival, and violence. Hollywood, for the most part, gives the audience a good representation of the hellish effects of war also giving the audience an environment that these soldiers have to battle through. Whether these environments are in open terrain or in a small confinement inside a submarine, the horrors of war are felt the same way. Even in some films the protagonist dies demonstrating that no one is safe in battle including the hero. To get a more accurate understanding of how Hollywood represents films it will be more fitting to see every side of the war and how their films are produced. Hollywood also gives the audience a different side of war by seeing it through the enemies’ eyes. Hollywood portrays each countries film in a similar fashion from the epic American Hollywood film of Saving Private Ryan to the virtually unknown Japanese side of the war in Letters from Iwo Jima. Even though Hollywood can never duplicate the brutalities of war these different films gives the audience a depiction of the war that was never seen before.

Hollywood has had a history of making World War II films during the war itself from the years of 1942 to 1945. During the years of World War II Hollywood would make war films to prepare the “American audiences for what was to come, as well as to profit from the popularity of anything pertaining to the war.” Hollywood also portrayed a lot of violence on the theater screens, usually not censoring anything. “For many American civilians, these films provided prototypes of American soldiers and represented how they were expected to perform i...

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... the six servicemen who had raised the second flag (which was the only flag to be captured on film) of Iwo Jima. Even though Bradley had lived of somewhat of a normal life he was still haunted with the memoires of his fellow servicemen dying next to him. Flags of Our Fathers depicted Bradley as avoiding the spotlight as much as possible; this was also true in real life. “In 1985, Bradley gave his only taped interview at the urging of his wife, who had told him to do it for the sake of their grandchildren. During that interview, Bradley said he would not have raised the flag if he had known how famous the photo would become. He stated that he did not want to live with the pressures of the media and desired to live a normal life. He also stated, during the interview, that anyone on the island could have raised the flag and that he was just there at the right time.”