Band of Brothers: Currahee - Reactions and Icons (33)
So this is just my little thoughts on my recent viewing of the first episode of Band of Brothers. I must say, I am delighted to see this picture. It’s great that I can play it on my VLC player on my Mac all by myself, interrupting the program with the constant camera click of my screencapping. I have 525 MB of caps already!
The cinematography is truly breathtaking. The vastness they managed to achieve is awesome: from the tents at Toccoa to the shipyard in Brooklyn, to the airfield of Upottery, and the thousands of C-47s aloft in the sky. I wonder how they got so many people and so much equipment. Even the feel of the airfield was astounding. The overcast sky felt so real somehow, so vast and beautiful.
The storyline was also nicely done. I loved how past time was mingled with present time in the first jump scene, keeping the past’s lecture interesting by adding the present’s first paratrooper jump.
There wasn’t any violence this episode, as it showed the men training primarily. There were three or four f-words and a handful G-m’s (don’t know if that’s the right euphemism). Still, so much better than Flags of Our Fathers, and much more tastefully done. Most of the language was in places where it made sense to be, unlike in Flags. And the officers weren’t as foul as the enlisted men, which was a masterful touch, probably reflective of real life. In fact, the mood difference between the NCO’s and enlisted felt very real and distinct. Another nice touch.
Overall, I enjoyed it tremendously, and am quite happy to present this series of icons from the first episode Currahee. You’ll notice Lt Winters is my favorite of the men, mainly from what I’d known of him from the book. The movie really can’t do much justice to their character, but it does the best it can. It surely got Captain Sobel down! You hate him for his ridiculous rules and yet there’s this frightened boy inside him, which is portrayed very delicately in the film. I really enjoyed that hint of depth in him.
OK, from left to right: Colonel Sink, Sgt Guanere, Sgt Lipton, Lts Nixon (background) and Welsh (foreground), Lt Nixon, Lt Nixon and Winters.
And now for Lt Winters...
(For the first two, notice what Photoshop can do!)
Winters and Lt Nixon...
And the men of Easy Company...
The first three are of George Luz, a cute, kind of innocent fellow, who can vocally impersonate his superiors.
And you can't forget Captain Sobel...
Yup, these are all my original screencaps! Feel free to use them, manip them (G-rated, please), and credit me!
The cinematography is truly breathtaking. The vastness they managed to achieve is awesome: from the tents at Toccoa to the shipyard in Brooklyn, to the airfield of Upottery, and the thousands of C-47s aloft in the sky. I wonder how they got so many people and so much equipment. Even the feel of the airfield was astounding. The overcast sky felt so real somehow, so vast and beautiful.
The storyline was also nicely done. I loved how past time was mingled with present time in the first jump scene, keeping the past’s lecture interesting by adding the present’s first paratrooper jump.
There wasn’t any violence this episode, as it showed the men training primarily. There were three or four f-words and a handful G-m’s (don’t know if that’s the right euphemism). Still, so much better than Flags of Our Fathers, and much more tastefully done. Most of the language was in places where it made sense to be, unlike in Flags. And the officers weren’t as foul as the enlisted men, which was a masterful touch, probably reflective of real life. In fact, the mood difference between the NCO’s and enlisted felt very real and distinct. Another nice touch.
Overall, I enjoyed it tremendously, and am quite happy to present this series of icons from the first episode Currahee. You’ll notice Lt Winters is my favorite of the men, mainly from what I’d known of him from the book. The movie really can’t do much justice to their character, but it does the best it can. It surely got Captain Sobel down! You hate him for his ridiculous rules and yet there’s this frightened boy inside him, which is portrayed very delicately in the film. I really enjoyed that hint of depth in him.
OK, from left to right: Colonel Sink, Sgt Guanere, Sgt Lipton, Lts Nixon (background) and Welsh (foreground), Lt Nixon, Lt Nixon and Winters.
And now for Lt Winters...
(For the first two, notice what Photoshop can do!)
Winters and Lt Nixon...
And the men of Easy Company...
The first three are of George Luz, a cute, kind of innocent fellow, who can vocally impersonate his superiors.
And you can't forget Captain Sobel...
Yup, these are all my original screencaps! Feel free to use them, manip them (G-rated, please), and credit me!