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Originally Posted by sa226
I thought the best parts of BoB was that there was very little sensationalism, few cheesy lines and the simplistic way they told the story was effective. There wasn't flashbacks of home and family or anything like that, they just followed E company from their inception to the end of the war focusing entirely on the soldiers themselves with very little on politics, ideals, and the mood of the countries. I thought it was extremely effective.
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I agree.
I get the sense Pacific is going to be a lot more "soap opera" than Band of Brothers ever was and might be a lesser depiction as a result.
One of the great moments in Band of Brothers was actually the last moments, with the baseball game, when you find out what happened to all of these guys after the war . . . . . before that, you really only knew them from their experiences to that point. Very effective.
Clint Eastwood's recent depiction of the Japanese side of the Pacific war was fairly amazing but that also included vignettes and maybe that is the effect Hanks is looking for.
Cowperson