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Windtalkers
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Release
Date: August 16th 2oo2
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
Certificate: 15
Starring: Nicolas
Cage, Adam Beach, Christian
Slater, Frances O'Connor
Director: John
Woo
Running Time:
135
minutes
Famed
Hong Kong director John Woo ('M:I-2', 'Hard Boiled') is back with another
feature filmed here in the West. 'Windtalkers' is a spectacular war film
centring on the relationships between the US Marines and the Navajo codetalkers
they were assigned to protect during World War II. From the time that the US declared war on Japan, they were fully engaged in battle throughout the Pacific, taking over islands one by one in a slow journey toward mainland Japan. During this brutal campaign, the Japanese were continually able to break coded military transmissions, dramatically slowing down the American's progress. But in 1942, several hundred Navajo Indians were recruited as Marines and trained to use their ancient language as code.
Starring
Nicolas Cage as Marine Joe Enders, 'Windtalkers' is the dramatic story of
a soldier assigned to protect Ben Yahzee (Beach) - one of the Navajo code
talker, and the Marines' new secret weapon. Enders' orders are to protect
his code talker, but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands, he's to "protect
the code at all costs." And in the midst of battle, Enders has a tough decision to make: if he can't protect his fellow Marine, can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code?
'Windtalkers'
is possibly one of the most creative war films in recent times, and although
violent, and at times slightly unbelievable, at it's centre it has a theme
of the pointlessness of war. Great.Click
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