Dreamworks/Paramount has alerted us to the first trailer for Flags of Our Fathers and, though it is still hard to tell where the majority of the film's emphasis lies, it still looks pretty damn good.
Flags of Our Fathers Trailer
From Academy Award®-winning director Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven) comes the World War II drama Flags of Our Fathers, produced by Eastwood and Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List).
February 1945. Even as victory in Europe was finally within reach, the war in the Pacific raged on. One of the most crucial and bloodiest battles of the war was the struggle for the island of Iwo Jima, which culminated with what would become one of the most iconic images in history: five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi.
The inspiring photo capturing that moment became a symbol of victory to a nation that had grown weary of war and made instant heroes of the six American soldiers at the base of the flag, some of whom would die soon after, never knowing that they had been immortalized. But the surviving flag raisers had no interest in being held up as symbols and did not consider themselves heroes; they wanted only to stay on the front with their brothers in arms who were fighting and dying without fanfare or glory.
The trailer for Flags of Our Fathers allows Ryan Phillippe to once again show off his acting prowess and prove that he is not a teenie-bopper actor. The guy looks good in this very serious role. What I can't tell, however, is how much of the film's running time is dedicated to the actual war footage or the scenes with the soldiers back at home on tour to build moral and funds with war bonds.
Maybe you can get a better indication by joining the Military (direct wmv).
Flags for Our Fathers comes to theatres
on October 20th.
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