Cease Fire! (1953)
10/10
An interesting semi documentary
21 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
It's finally out the 3D, wide screen and three channel restored stereo version of the semi documentary.The 3D was great too.Like Fort Ti,the beginning of the film ,after it was introduced by Mark W, Clark,shows a cannon right in front of the camera and explosion.About real soldiers on their way to Porkchop hill.It was played by real soldiers.I made a mistake .I had thought that Roy Thompson j.r.was the one that died in battle,but, I was wrong.It was private Carrasco actually died in the real battle,as he portrayed his character in the film,who dies.Some of these solder,now ex, are still alive.Roy could have gotten into acting business and became a lead .He had strong chemistry,but,he stayed in the military till 67,then went to college.The Asian solider,played by real soldier Cheon Yul Bak .if he still alive he should be 86,portrays soldier ,who wife is expecting .He ends up getting killed in the film too near the end of the war.Then you got this fat soldier,not real fat ,who makes jokes.The best acting comes from Roy.There is a real actor,who plays a corespondent,John Maxwell,with another one ,who might have been an actor or a talented real soldier,in the tent scene ,during 100th attempt at peace talks.Was that suppose to be Kim Jongs grand father you saw at the distance or father going to the peace talks?Obviously there was some break downs of the 3D camera,cause the were some false 3d scene,where there was depth only and no pop out,but, it was not that bothersome.The 3d was breath taking .The hilly areas to the military tanks with their long nose almost coming out of the screen.The sound.Now remember this was three channel stereo,which was behind the screen.Although we can say that Fantasia had a surround affect on it's three channels ,with surround speakers,the three channel of 53 did not.Warner phonic was a surround channel for 4 tracks.The recreated stereo was almost as if it was never lost.The Dimitri Tiomkin score with it's chorus was as real as the 7 channel score from Return to Paradise and the 4 channel guns of Naverone score.The affects of voices going off the camera left and right was good too.The war noises,like the bombs, were so real.I think it was stereo dubbed rather than directional,may be.It's presented 1.66.1 also.If you cannot see it in 3d there is the flat version in the menu .Great.11/21/17
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