Word: iwo
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...Globe winner for foreign film, Clint Eastwood's Japanese-language Letters from Iwo Jima, will not even be nominated in that category, since the Academy's foreign-language finalists are selected from a list of films submitted by their home countries. A non-English-language film from the U.S., like Iwo Jima and Mel Gibson's Mayan massacre movie Apocalypto (also a Globe nominee), is eligible only for Best Picture. The other Globe runners-up - The Lives of Others from Germany, Pan's Labyrinth from Mexico and Volver from Spain - would all be honorable choices for the foreign Oscar...
...Accepting a trophy for his World War II drama Letters From Iwo Jima, veteran Globesman Clint Eastwood traded gravitas for a groovy toss-back to a newcomer's speech earlier in the show. "You don't know what this does for my confidence," American Idol runner-up Jennifer Hudson said when she collected an award for her performance in Dreamgirls at the top of the show. When Eastwood repeated Hudson's line, it was with a wink. But no matter. Dirty Harry quoting an Idol runner-up is a sure sign of the apocalypse...
...There was criticism that Hollywood made a number of cultural errors in The Last Samurai. Is Iwo Jima truer to the Japanese spirit? I think so. The Last Samurai is a fiction. But with this film we were very thorough when it came to the historical facts. We paid attention to the smallest detail...
...What did you learn as you researched your character, Lieut. General Kuribayashi, and the story of Japan's defense of Iwo Jima? He was a commanding officer, so I was interested in how this war began, how they made such a mistake and ended up on the wrong path. I re-studied the war because I could not understand the thinking process he went through. It was a good chance for me to find out that there were people like Kuribayashi who fought in such a way, to find out how much they suffered...
...What did you conclude about Kuribayashi's tactics, which some argue extended the battle of Iwo Jima at great cost to both American and Japanese lives? He knew that Iwo Jima would eventually fall to the United States and that he and his soldiers would all perish. So he worked for the end of the war, so it did not spread to the Japanese islands, and so the Americans would not have to fight any longer this senseless war. All he was thinking was how he could make the Americans want to finish the war as soon as possible...