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...caught a glimpse of the pilot, "like a vision ... like an imaginary being," and decided that he wanted to fly--a theme in many Herzog docs. Dengler went to the U.S., joined the Navy and was shot down over Laos in 1966. He endured dreadful torture as a POW, escaped with a friend (played by Steve Zahn) and was finally rescued...
...post-war Germany, so Dengler emigrated to the U.S., went college, joined the navy, won his wings?and was shot down on his first mission over Laos in 1966, well before the war in Southeast Asia tragically expanded. Captured and imprisoned in what may well be the most horrendous POW camp ever shown in a film, Dieter somehow managed to escape through the jungle - an odyssey that is, if anything, more gut-wrenching than his incarceration...
...primitive cruelties these men endured both in prison and during their escape. It has the ability to show us, in grim detail, things that Dengler, in the previous film, could only haltingly allude to. Yet, in so doing, it shifts our perspective. Inevitably, we start thinking about other POW escape movies and judging this one by their fictionally enhanced standards. Dengler becomes, in this incarnation, an almost merry soul, dauntlessly rallying his bedraggled troops (there are only six men in this camp). We're obviously not talking Stalag 17 or The Great Escape here, but stray thoughts of movies...
...Champions and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, the satirist, who struggled with depression, repeatedly explored the harmful effects of industry on human beings' collective morality. After laboring in obscurity for decades, he shot to global fame in 1969 with Slaughterhouse-Five, a fictionalized account of his experiences as a POW and "corpse miner" in Dresden after the Allies bombed the city in 1945--a book he said took 25 years to complete. At times dismissed as too accessible, Vonnegut once said his goal was to "poison [readers'] minds with humanity." Through his protagonist Eliot Rosewater, he famously echoed the dominant...
...speakers, the dancers dropped their poles and put on sunglasses to begin a hip hop-inspired number. As the only group to represent Native American culture, the Harvard Intertribal Indian Dance Troupe beautifully showcased their heritage through song and dance. The dancers displayed great skill in ballet, jazz, and pow-wow styles, but the performance was equally eye-catching for its brightly colored costumes, which included silk shirts as well as embroidered shawls emblazoned with sequins. Next came the Kuumba Choir, one of the largest and most dynamic multicultural organizations on campus. With over 100 members, the singers entered Sanders...