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...Samuel Fuller is best-known for making hard-boiled, melodramatic, semi-autobiographical genre films that draw on his own ample personal life experience. By the age of 29, Fuller was an aspiring filmmaker, a promising pulp novelist, and a seasoned crime journalist. Fuller’s experiences show a man defined by wanderlust, an evaluation supported by his justification for enlisting to fight in World War II. “I had a helluva opportunity to witness the biggest crime story of the century, and nothing was going to stop me from being an eyewitness,” he said...
...Fuller was on a quest for inspiration and-—during his four year war experience—that was exactly what he found. What this inspiration led him to do was make was The Big Red One, a World War II epic film whose lifetime journey reflects its creator’s in both relative length and drama. Although Fuller first conceived of it in 1959, the final version of the film is only gracing the big screen this year, seven years after Fuller’s death...
...make it through every battle while anonymous reinforcements die beside them just as suddenly and quickly as they appear. The movie is a tale of war as a journey of neither glory nor honor, but rather of survival. Instead of to heroism, the soldiers aspire—as Fuller himself put it—“to live, live, live...
World War II veterans lauded Steven Spielberg for his chaotically realistic representation of the storming of Omaha Beach. Fuller was a veteran of that invasion himself, and he strove for something other than purely visual realism. Like Spielberg, he was working to convey the brutality of war but, as Connor explains, “unlike in Saving Private Ryan, it was never an exercise in verisimilitude but rather an exercise in filmmaking.” A master of the overstatement, Fuller’s abrupt humor, drama, and violence serve as a means—not an end?...
...kept shining, in a symbolic, oddly cinematic sort of way, it turned out that Caples wasn’t done. She had youth and a core to build on, she declared. New people had been baptized by fire; last year’s freshmen like Julie Lane and Gretchen Fuller improved by leaps and bounds on the offensive end. Juniors Beth and Jane Sackovich were each given All-Ivy recognition. They, even in this awful loss, had all “gained valuable experience” by playing Wake Forest...