La sottile linea rossa

Titolo originale: The Thin Red Line
Regia: Terrence Malick |
Anno: 1998
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Storia Guerra
Tag: epic | based on novel or book | steel helmet | world war ii | battle assignment | invasion | infantry | marine corps | us army | commander | rifle | pacific war | gun battle | jungle | sergeant | pacific island | soldier | battle | fighting | mourning | guadalcanal | pacific theater | burlesque | anti war | awol | japanese army | disturbed | 1940s | nervous | zealous | philosophical | philosophic conflict | battlefield trauma | shell shocked soldier | inspirational | wistful | intimate | provocative | ghoulish | powerful | philosophical depiction of war |
Cast: Jim Caviezel | Nick Nolte | Sean Penn | Ben Chaplin | Elias Koteas | John Cusack | Dash Mihok | John C. Reilly | Woody Harrelson | Miranda Otto | Arie Verveen | Kirk Acevedo | Nick Stahl | Thomas Jane | Tim Blake Nelson | Adrien Brody | George Clooney | Jared Leto | John Travolta | John Savage | John Dee Smith | Mark Boone Junior | Matt Doran | Paul Gleeson | Don Harvey | Donal Logue | Larry Romano | Penelope Allen | Danny Hoch | Benjamin Green | Simon Billig | Jarrod Dean | Travis Fine | David Harrod | Don Harvey | Michael McGrady | Stephen Spacek | Steven Vidler | Will Wallace | Todd Wallace | Simon Westaway | Dan Wyllie | Randall Craig | Kick Gurry | Randall Duk Kim | Darrin Klimek | Dane Moreton | Ray Samuelson | Justin Ward | Felix Williamson | Norman Patrick Brown |

Il film è tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di James Jones, vero reduce della guerra nel Pacifico ambientata durante la campagna americana a Guadalcanal tra il 1942 e il 1943, e che ha per protagonista la Compagnia C dei fucilieri dell'esercito. Il film è ambientato durante la grande battaglia sull'isola di Guadalcanal, durante la quale gli uomini della Compagnia Charlie cercano di conquistare una roccaforte giapponese, una collina denominata 210. La storia, ricostruita con estrema e cruda fedeltà comincia al momento dell'approdo sull'isola, ripercorre i mesi dei sanguinosi ed estenuanti combattimenti, dei pattugliamenti nella giungla, dei brevi riposi nei bivacchi e negli ospedali, e termina con la partenza dei sopravvissuti. Eppure, la conquista della postazione giapponese è del tutto secondaria rispetto agli effetti che questa battaglia comune ha sulle vite degli uomini della Compagnia.

Frasi

Capt. James 'Bugger' Staros: [praying] You're my l [...] D
Capt. Bosche: I prefer to think of myself as a fam [...] D
Private Edward P. Train: Hours like months. Days l [...] D
Private Witt: I can take anything you dish out. I [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: This army's gonna kiII yo [...] D
Colonel Gordon Tall: Look at this jungle. Look at [...] D
Private Witt: Do you ever feel lonely? First Sgt. [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: Staros, I'm relieving you of [...] D
Private Witt: I seen another world. Sometimes I th [...] D
Colonel Gordon Tall: How many men is it worth? How [...] D
Private Witt: I remember my mother when she was dy [...] D
[last lines] Private Edward P. Train: [voice over [...] D
Corporal Fife: They're coming! Fall back! D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: Rosy-fingered dawn. You're G [...] D
Capt. James 'Bugger' Staros: You are my sons, my d [...] D
[first lines] Private Edward P. Train: What's thi [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: Where's your spark now? D
Private Ash: I would have had you Witt if you were [...] D
Capt. James 'Bugger' Staros: The tough part is, uh [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: Hey Witt, who you making [...] D
Colonel Gordon Tall: John, I'm convinced that the [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: Captain, you say one more [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: Property. The whole fucki [...] D
Private Edward P. Train: I'm determined now. I've [...] D
Japanese Soldier: We know you're there, Yankee! S [...] D
Pvt. Charlie Dale: See them birds up there... they [...] D
Pvt. Charlie Dale: Maybe they wanna get into eh... [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: [Voiceover] If I never me [...] D
Private Witt: How did we loose all the good that w [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: What difference do you th [...] D
Brigadier General Quintard: The Marines had their [...] D
Pvt. Jack Bell: Love. Where does it come from? Who [...] D
Japanese Soldier: Are you righteous? Kind? Does yo [...] D
Sergeant Storm: No matter how much training you go [...] D
Private Jack Bell: My dear wife, you get something [...] D
Private Edward P. Train: [narration] This great ev [...] D
Marty Bell: Come out. Come out where I am. D
Capt. James 'Bugger' Staros: I've lived with these [...] D
Private Ash: I'm outta this war for good, Witt. D
Private Edward P. Train: The only things that are [...] D
Sergeant Storm: I look at that boy dyin', I don't [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: The only time you should sta [...] D
Private Edward P. Train: HeII... we're gonna be la [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: I might be your best frie [...] D
Private First Class Edward Beade: [as he is dying] [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: I don't have that feeling [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: There's not some other wo [...] D
Japanese soldier: We know you out there, Yank! Se [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: It's not necessary for you t [...] D
Private Witt: I Iove Charlie Company. They're my p [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: Get that blouse on, soldier. [...] D
Private Witt: [narration] Who are you to live in a [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: We're living in a world t [...] D
Pvt. Jack Bell: [voice over] We. We together. One [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: In this world, a man, him [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: [voice over] Shut up in a to [...] D
Private Witt: [voice over] We were a family. How'd [...] D
Sergeant Storm: It makes no difference who you are [...] D
Private Edward P. Train: [narrating] Oh, my soul, [...] D
Pvt. Charlie Dale: What are you to me? Nothin'. D
Pvt. Jack Bell: I haven't touched another woman si [...] D
Private Witt: [narrating] War don't ennoble men. I [...] D
Private Witt: [voice over] Everyone lookin' for sa [...] D
Private Witt: [voice over] Maybe all men got one b [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: You don't know what it feels [...] D
First Sgt. Edward Welsh: Everything a lie... Every [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: This is very important decis [...] D
Brigadier General Quintard: [pre-landing pep talk] [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: Come on, men, let's go! You' [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: Guadalcanal may be the turni [...] D
Sergeant Keck: It's for the best. I'm aII messed u [...] D
Private Jack Bell: You see that hill? Second Lieu [...] D
Private Jack Bell: [Narrating] Why should I be afr [...] D
Private Edward P. Train: One man looks at a dying [...] D
Sergeant Keck: Oh, Jesus! I blew my butt off. I bl [...] D
Private Witt: Kids around here never fight. Melan [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: We attack in one hour! We'II [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: From their knob up there, th [...] D
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall: You feel like a son to me, J [...] D
Imprisoned AWOL Soldier: He hates you worse than p [...] D