Will there be a series about warfare on the sea in WW2?
I want to see battleships fight each other, I always thought the hunting of the Bismarck battleship was a great story, I'm shocked Hollywood didn't turn that into a movie.
Do you know the 1960 movie? Sink the Bismarck
shareI didn't know, but the movie was released in the '60s, so the VFX must have been very bad. I wish they could use modern VFX like the movie Battleship or Greyhound to remake Bismarck.
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4xUS8IVTEY
you know what's better than fake effects? real ships
The movie uses a combination of real ship footage and large-scale models. The models and explosions are better than modern CGI.
shareWouldn't happen, because the British sunk the Bismarck and Americans would never make a series about that.
If anything, they'd rewrite history and stuff Americans in it, pretending it was all them as usual, like in U-571.
Actually, you're wrong -- I can say that because we did. There were plenty of American movies about non-American adventures and heroes. Gunga Din (1939), for example, an American adventure film, from RKO pictures, about about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti (water bearer), who fight the Thuggee cult, in colonial British India. "Beau Geste" (also 1939) is an American movie about three English brothers who enlist in the French Foreign Legion. Or Paths of Glory (1957), and American film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, adapted from a novel by Humphrey Cobb, but the actors are all playing WWI French army soldiers. Or the 2002 version of "The Count of Monte Cristo," which also takes place entirely in France, with French characters. There are other examples, but these are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Yes, it's far more common for American movie studies to make historical movies with American heroes, and leave stories about foreign heroes to the movie studios of those heroes' respective countries, but it's not unheard of for them to make movies that tell the stories of non-American heroes, in non-American settings either.
And let's not pretend this kind of cinematic ultra-nationalism is a trend unique to American movie studios. "A Night to Remember," which is a 1958 British film (and to date the still the best one about the sinking of the Titanic) several characters based on American passengers, were depicted as being British. When questioned as to why he perpetrated this deliberate historical inaccuracy, director Roy Ward Baker stated that "it was a British film made by British artists for a British audience".
The movies you named are ancient, with one minor exception. Doesn't that ring a bell?
How come there are no noteworthy recent examples? Yeah, exactly, because it's just not a thing really.
I was also being rather specific about WW2, I didn't say there was never a US movie about a non-US historical account.
But about WW2? Hell freezes over before that happens. There's a reason they made mini series about US paratroopers and US bomber crews and not British Royal Engineers in Normandy or the British Navy fighting in the pacific.
As for your Night to Remember example, I find it a bit lacking. First of all, it's quite the isolated example that basically underlines my claim and second, it's not like the movie pretends Americans did not exist on Titanic, or something, while US productions often don't shy away from that. They even do the opposite, as in switching Americans out for a substitute nation - but only if these are the bad guys, like in Master & Commander that turned Americans into French.
Anyways, while I wouldn't deny that all nations have some sort of bias in that regard, and that's totally fine by the way, I think it is very clear that US movie productions really take the cake here and all considered, I do not see an issue in saying that a US production about the British hunting the Bismarck, would just not happen. I didn't in 80 years and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to happen now either.
How many British and French movies have been made about American exploits in the world wars?
shareProbably none, and I wouldn't expect that to happen either. But that's not the point you're missing.
The point is that OP said: "I'm shocked Hollywood didn't turn that into a movie."
Hollywood. That's the American film industry.