that what I was said like what really piss me off that the general send his man on a last ditch effort to win the even those the war was most over and he just wanted win so badly and got many his soldier killed
Actually. He suicide after that. Because surrender is worse than attack at last. The allied wanted to take everything from German(scene in the train) the german wouldnt get anything after surrender. And the general couldnt do anything, he wasnt a politican, he was a general, so the only thing he could do is give order and fight. Thats the best thing he can do for german before surrender at 11am(it killed many soldiers tho). After that you can see he drank poison to suicide.
@@TinNguyen-kv5xs he a coward then rather then face what he did and I glad he kill himself cause I bet alot soldier that survivor probably want him died after that
"He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to a single sentence: All quiet on the western front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come."
@@ADP057 GRR MOVIE BAD, BOOK GOOD. NO LIKE BOTH. You can appreciate them both for what they are, you know. The existence of the movie doesn't nullify the book.
I don't think any Germans died in the last hour of the war, only entente soldiers with the last being an American who hit the ground as the artillery ceased
@@WarDyl3 5 years, technically. 1914 - 1st year 1915 - 2nd year 1916 - 3rd year 1917 - 4th year 1918 - 5th year The war lasted less than 5 years but it still were 5 different years of suffering.
One additional tragic detail is that despite before seeing war as something to be glorified, at the very end he was shooting and stabbing enemies in the back. And in the end, that’s how he died. No honor in his actions, or even in death. There is no glory in war, not even in victory or defeat.
@TheJayIsOK in ww1 it was common for defending troops to leave the trench and press forward if the enemy was already within close proximity. This was to avoid being hemmed in by grenades, or slaughtered by downwards fire once the enemy had reached the trench lip
@@TheJayIsOK during WW1 there were many old war mentalities still in play, this displays the cult of the offense. That being it is always better to be on the offensive. If you're attacking, don't stop. If you're on the defense, make it the offense. This takes place as the war ends, but there's a chance some units didn't learn their lesson about offense vs defense until the war ended
@@TheJayIsOK i think trenches were mostly used to protect against artillery. So when under an ennemy charge, there is no artillery, you can attack out in the open. Staying in the trench might give your ennemy the higher ground. And you have nowhere to run.
Surprised no one else is mentioning this but wut i loved about this ending is paul saving the young german soldier which leads to Paul's death and the young german soldier collecting dogtags just like paul at the start of the movie.
Pretty sure he used to be friends with that young soldier, throughout the war they lost contact though Edit: turns out it's not, I was thinking of franz
My grandfather was a Survivor of WW1. He was Born in 1887. Italian Front, Alpini Fiamme Verdi, from Isonzo to Piave. He has runned on many Battlefields. Rip. MV
My grandfather, a royal engineer, survived Gallipoli, as did a future uncle (who had emigrated to Australia before the war) who introduced my grandfather to his widowed sister in Wales.
My great grandparent and his two brothers died in Gallipolli, on the ottoman side, they were farmers at home and were 'privates' on the battlefield. One of them is written on a memorial in Canakkale, Gelibolu (Gallipoli). RIP to all souls..
@@Kero-Di-PapaAs a fellow Turk, reading your story made feel very sad and the tragedy’s of war. However, you must also remember that your grandparents didn’t die for no reason and everyone will remember them for protecting their home land.
@@Dracos145It’s sad but also infuriating. So many died because Kitchener and Churchill wanted to do Sazonov and Bazili a favor and secure for them Russian dominion over the Straits. The British and French grunts may not have even realized they were killing and dying for Russian war aims.
@@Dracos145 As I Turk my great grandfather he was in a bush in a hill at galipoli Australians where pushing so he had to fight back as his commander told him Turks charged my grandfather shot a Australian but when he went to the Australian trench he got stabbed
@@oogabooga7025 then the videogame is also anti-war by not gloryfing war in the introduction(i know bf1 inst anti-war but the introduction should be one)
What I understood from this film is that the protagonist has nothing left. His friends died doing their duty, which was to fight for their country, and the protagonist thought that the best way to honor them was to continue fighting in the last minutes of the war. . I hope there are more World War I movies, since the one that caused World War II, came from World War I. i mean hitler
Didn’t the protagonist keep fighting because the douchebag general didn’t want to surrender, and if he wanted to go home safe he had to follow the orders?
If I was at the tail end of the losing side of the war. Especially down to the final few minutes. I’d just pretend I got shot and lay still in a bombed out crater. Phuck that!
I think the whole point of this movie is that they are not "War heroes." Heroes are mostly propaganda myths to get young men to sign up for a slaughterhouse that does not even slightly value them.
@@carlosandleon Yes there is. You just let hollywood brainwash you into believing that all war is pointless and theres no reason to fight for something greater than yourself. People like you is why our society will fall apart.
I’m not sure if it was deliberately choreographed this way, but Paul’s movements during the charging and fighting outside of the trench strike me as weary, and mechanical. He’s not reacting to the soldiers dropping like flies around him, he isn’t really expressing any sharp fear whenever the French are close or when he’d shooting, just going through the motions in a rapid yet still drained and exhausted manner, without the energy of fear and adrenaline (at least until he jumps in the trench). I’m not sure if it was deliberate, but it gives off this feeling that he’s done this so many times, the possibility that this one could be the last time just. He’s beyond the point of giving a shit. He doesn’t care if he catches one of those machine gun rounds, all that matters is getting to that next bit of cover. And then bayonetting that Frenchman. And then jumping into the trench to save the guy he can hear pleading for his life inside. And it’s not until it becomes a fistfight that the adrenaline kicks in. Up until that point, just operating on standby mode and going through the motions of combat without really processing it, is what it seems like. Absolutely dead inside already.
Agreed. I noticed this in the bit where Paul takes a gun stock to the face after stabbing someone in the back, and he simply continues running forward to the line. He's on complete auto pilot. He sees an enemy, he kills him and moves on. He takes a hit but isn't dead, he keeps moving. It's like he's in pure shock throughout the battle, numb to everything. Even death.
It’s called shellshock he is in pure shock and all of his friends have died so you can really tell he doesn’t care if he dies sense he has nothing left and nothing to live for.
@@unfortunatecircumstances8870 he didn't take a gunstock to the face i think. He stabbed someone with a bayonet and one of his (unnamed) comrades finishes the Frenchman off with his rifle stock. Paul didn't even thank him which just shows that at this point he doesn't really give a shit like the other seasoned soldiers who are at this point just fighting for their own life. Only when he saw the blonde teenager did he actually help his fellow soldier.
Also notice his facial expressions after he bashes the french soldiers face in with the helmet. His eyes look primal, looking for his next target to kill - just turned into this killing machine
impossible! your mind would go nuts with pre-ptsd by the following days. Next battle you would go hard into the enemy because battling your demons is way worse than battling the enemy. That is why war exist.
@@quetshupfa But what we're saying is that this was during the day of the Armistice, and many soldiers DID actually refuse to attack and go out. In fact, German soldiers were PLEADING with an American soldier named Henry Gunther (the person suspected to be the last soldier killed in WW1) not to continue charging at them but sadly had no choice but to shoot him with their machine gun just a MINUTE before the Armistice came into effect.
Paul is a damn good fighter at the end. When he figured it out it was over for him. Also i love the symmetric portrayal of the french soldiers. They are mourning their lost friends just like paul and kat were. They had the same look as paul. They arent portrayed as monsters but equals
@@Courierman6 Non les soldats sénégalais étaient affectés dans des unités coloniales. Les soldats noirs se battant dans les régiments métropolitains étaient souvent des afro-américains que les USA ne voulaient pas voir se intégrés dans leurs et que les Français avaient pris dans les leurs.
I don't think it was that. It was that at first he was just struggling and not thinking like a child. But in the end it wasn't about the POWER to move, it was about the logic in HOW to move that saved him. Since he had the stone in his left hand he had to use his head and think of a way to hit him with it instead of just flailing around like a child.
The maternal grand father of my maternal grand mother fought in WW1 and died between 25-27 February 1916 in East France. Her father engaged in 1917 and fought and survived. The paternal Grand father of my paternal Grand father and his 4 brothers Fought in WW1 and all came back.
0:56 , 1:14 , 1:241:34 In all those scenes we see that the innocent soldier is dead and now the evil soldier is born trying to murder all his targets, that is what war makes us.
I don't think him tossing the grenade at 0:56 is evil lmao its just him saving him and his comrades from being blown to shreds, same can be said about every other time he murders in the final battle, its just out of self preservation
The hardest part about this scene for me, was the look of shock on the French soldier. He and his fellow soldiers were simply waiting for the armistice to come into force at 11:00 a.m. We rarely think about the impact of a few minutes, but the final moments of the World War I were senseless.
I like the original version better though. Paul in the end without meaning being shot by a French sniper as he tries to grab a butterfly just outside the trench and an infamous like "all quiet on the western front"
I loved this version more than 30's one because it just works better as anti-war movie. 30's was a comedy that would crush you entirely when least expected, but this version doesn't even let you take a break from suffering. I'm very hard to be shocked, but this movie is shocking
SPOILERS:The actual ending is that the man still survives and sees a pistol next to him,Paul tries to get it but the gets it first but Paul tackles the man into the bunker and the man misses the shoot,then they get up and the man pauses,Paul I confused and there another man being him and stabs Paul in the heart behind Paul's back and the man runs outside and the guy in front of Paul walks away and the worst part is that the war just ended after Paul is stabbed and Paul gets up and walks up the stairs and sits by a wall and dies,Then another person who met Paul finds his body and sits there and pauses just sitting there and looks and Paul and later he the person walks away and the scene cuts to credits.THE END
It would be so sad to die in that charge. Dying in the last 15 minutes would be horrible. Imagine being so happy you’re about to surivive after 4 years and you die in the last 15 minutes. That’s so sad.
@@Ebpeeba I never said that. The Germans were worse over the course of the war. They did start it on the western front. But the historical fact is that they didn’t launch any offensives on the last day of the war, whereas the allies did.
@zeldadudup1927 "oh well it's just a cross with hooks added on the sides is there a problem???" Like come on mate, you perfectly know what that skull symbolizes. Maybe you don't though, then I'd advise you to read up to some extremist symbols not to use them accidentally. This certain skull however (Totenkopf) is a rather widely known Nazi symbol. Members of the SS used to wear it on their headwear as far as I know.
The stone thing at the end, a little incredible. You see bugger all when you've got mud in your eye. In any fighting scene no one is going for the eyes, throat or groin, the weakest parts. If I'm fighting for my life my attacker WILL lose his eyes, no sight = pretty harmless.
Going for the eyes is hard : small target, on a surface that is harder to grip than you might think (theres a reason our skull has a certain shape, protecting weak point being one of them). Its possible when you got someone pinned down (at which point you can got for a kill strike on the neck anyways) but very hard otherwise, much harder than portrayed in movies. Neck is a bit easier to reach because bigger target but the treachea and artery are at the center so you better not miss And groin is below the belt its not the obvious spot to hit
This movie shows how the men at the first battle were motivated and ready to battle and in the last one, no one wanted to even set another step while having low motivation
Small mistake at 2:02 it turns out that in the industrial era, French helmets were the most impenetrable, so this scene makes no sense. After all, it's still a movie, so it's not too bad.
@@MrJrv1993 The Adrian helmet is made of 0.7mm steel plus a layer of semi-steel under 'the bomb', here we see that the shooter is 3-4 meters from his adversary, with a trigonometrical calculation we get 62° between the pontoon and the French soldier's head, from the point of view of the German soldier's rifle, knowing that an Adrian helmet is about 88mm in radius, we get about 20mm difference, Conclusion: the bullet should have ricocheted given that in the film we don't know the measurements, I can estimate the probability of penetration of this bullet at around 44%.
The main character started as a young soldier excited for war like millions of other young recruits like him, stirred up by propaganda to fight in a meaningless war. He then realises what war is really like once he enters the front lines and sees death and destruction all around him. He starts to regret his actions of joining this war as well as his other young friends. After many battles and seeing countless deaths including the deaths of his friends, he becomes a battle hardened soldier. A soldier who is efficient in combat as they are used to combat and know tactics and skills to survive in combat and fight the enemy. After even more battles and more people he saw dying all around him, constant shelling all around him, the death of his last best friend and the realisation that some general who sits in his dining hall eating food and living in luxury orders him and many other soldiers already tired of war to go on a last offensive against the enemy moments before the armistice takes place. Our young main character now becomes a battle weary soldier, a soldier who has seen too much combat, too much death and destruction to the point where they don’t even care anymore. The only thing on their mind is survival and fighting. Their humanity either lost or chained up deep within them, unable to break free. They are tired of war either physically, mentally, or both. They just want to go home. They just want it to end.
@@Courierman6 Yeah no shit, but it doesnt mean you care about Paul's death. the original ending where he is just about to make it and gets killed by a french sniper in his trench makes you feel more than this film
My great great uncle fought in this war he was KIA at moquet farms by a German machine gunner during a Australian 8th battalion charge may Percy Seckold rest in peace.and lest we forget.
It's such a nice touch that the kid he saved doesn't even get his dogtags but instead loots the scarf he kept Just shows how pointless his courage and sacrifice was making it even more depressing
It was a generals game, a chess game, and they didnt care about your life...ill take life and fight on my own terms and tactics, not running into machine guns
Une scène qui me donne des frissons a chaque fois que je la regarde et qui nous fait comprendre que nos ancêtres français allemands on combattus bravement tout 2 pour leurs pays !
@@feelingsfeelings.2848 désolé mais bien que la guerre soit la pire invention que l’homme n’ait jamais créé nous ne pouvons pas dire qu’ils soient morts pour pour rien cela serait une une insulte à leurs mémoires alors que nous avons put récupérer l’Alsace lorraine en 1918
@@CapitaineQuentinGicquel22 Oops sorry, let me correct myself, they died for METERS of land, which is essentially nothing. It's tragic how young men who have the potential to do something greater was forced into the meat grinder only to end up as a number on the casualties list, some even died without a name, some wasn't even in tact, and they were as humans as everyone else when they joined, they had people waiting for them as home, their mother, children, spouses.
@@feelingsfeelings.2848 c’est comment même pas croyable la déconnection entre l’état major de l’époque et les tranchées car dans cette optique le soldat n’est qu’un matériau remplaçable et optimisé aussi fragile que sans valeur même si nous pouvons saluer le courage de certains officiers et maréchaux d’époque comme Petain qui n’était pas le même qu’en 40 et le maréchal Foch qui nous est montrer dans le film et que sa fait toujours mal au cœur de passer devant le monument au mort de ma commune bretonne où il est inscrit tout les noms des soldats morts au combat de 14-18 à 39-45 et que sans eux j’écrirai en allemand aujourd’hui
This last attack ruined the movie for me. I could find no historical background for major last minute attacks like this. In fact, it kind of messes with the whole concept of the title of the movie. In the books, and the 2 previous movies, the main character was killed on a relatively quiet day on the Western Front about a month before the war ends, by a sniper -- thus making the point that the war was so horrific that even on relatively quiet normal days men were being killed and individual lives didn't really count for much in the big picture.
@@silasmerzenich Well, it doesn't really specify exactly _how_ he died in the book. It just states he fell on a "quiet day". The people who made the first two movies apparently interpreted that as him being killed by the ever-present sniping that occurred between trenches. But even if it wasn't a sniper, it seems clear the author's intent was to make the point that he didn't die in a major battle (which the makers of this movie totally ignored).
@@bennygari Did you report my reply because you felt I was condescending or something? That's the only thing I can figure because I didn't say anything I would think would get the reply automatically pulled. I basically said that no kidding it's a book. It's a famous book I've read multiple times. And the book doesn't have anything close to this scene. And the invention and inclusion of this scene in this movie stands in contrast to the central theme of that book.
it’s absolutely disgusting how the orders of one or a few men blinded by their avarice, pride, and ego led so many innocent young men to their death. My generation says no to this sort of group think. We will not fight like this ever again we refuse.
We need more war movies showing the German side the Germans and Austrians suffered the same as the French and British they were just men who fought in a war an enemy they did not even knew
I did wonder if Paul's manner of death was a subtle reference to the 'stab in the back' story the Nazis favoured as the reason for Germany's defeat. Sometimes I wonder if I think too much.
With these kinds of battles happening on both sides its understandable how deadly the soldiers are in this scene, this how they were treated and this is how they treat back
Honestly, I wouldn't have even made it to the trench. I'd have ducked into a crater or a ditch and waited for 11 o clock. It's not cowardice at that point, the war is literally minutes away from being over. There's no way I'd be fighting.
I mean they probably had some idea given that they were nurses, factory workers, and eventually had their husbands, brothers, and fathers return as broken men with ptsd and alcoholism or some other addiction.
Its really sad how the men were forced to go on a last minute attack while the general just sits back and relax
that what I was said like what really piss me off that the general send his man on a last ditch effort to win the even those the war was most over and he just wanted win so badly and got many his soldier killed
Actually. He suicide after that. Because surrender is worse than attack at last. The allied wanted to take everything from German(scene in the train) the german wouldnt get anything after surrender. And the general couldnt do anything, he wasnt a politican, he was a general, so the only thing he could do is give order and fight. Thats the best thing he can do for german before surrender at 11am(it killed many soldiers tho). After that you can see he drank poison to suicide.
@@TinNguyen-kv5xs he a coward then rather then face what he did and I glad he kill himself cause I bet alot soldier that survivor probably want him died after that
Well, instead, lose all your generals. Haha
@@TinNguyen-kv5xs wait, he really drank a glass of poison ?
"He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to a single sentence: All quiet on the western front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come."
Movie be like: VERY LOUD SCREAMING ON THE WESTERN FRONT
@@ADP057 GRR MOVIE BAD, BOOK GOOD. NO LIKE BOTH.
You can appreciate them both for what they are, you know. The existence of the movie doesn't nullify the book.
@@unfortunatecircumstances8870 nah I still enjoy the films, they're Incredible war time movies and the book is a classic
So you read the book to honestly the book in my opinion is top five 100%
All quiet =nothing has changes or basically"nothing news"
Brother, imagine, you suffer in a war for 5 years, losing friends, seeing millions of bodies, so much despair that in the last battle you die
At least he can rest after the whole nightmare he got
I don't think any Germans died in the last hour of the war, only entente soldiers with the last being an American who hit the ground as the artillery ceased
4 years*
@@WarDyl3 he gave an example because in germany the war lasted 4 years but american soldiers returned home in 1919.
@@WarDyl3
5 years, technically.
1914 - 1st year
1915 - 2nd year
1916 - 3rd year
1917 - 4th year
1918 - 5th year
The war lasted less than 5 years but it still were 5 different years of suffering.
One additional tragic detail is that despite before seeing war as something to be glorified, at the very end he was shooting and stabbing enemies in the back. And in the end, that’s how he died. No honor in his actions, or even in death.
There is no glory in war, not even in victory or defeat.
Only politicians win wars. Soldiers either lose their humanity or their life. Civilians lose family or their livelihood.
@@nobuffer101 he also shot his own men in the back
@@grumpymonkeyenterprises6413 it happens irl it's not a game you can only tell by there uniforms I'm pretty sure
W comment 100% real
@@grumpymonkeyenterprises6413 wait when?
Good detail at 1:06, the French officer orders a counter charge, which was common and historically appropriate for French "aggressive defense"
But it makes no sense at all to leave the trench to fight the germans in the open…So I don‘t think it‘s accurate
@TheJayIsOK in ww1 it was common for defending troops to leave the trench and press forward if the enemy was already within close proximity. This was to avoid being hemmed in by grenades, or slaughtered by downwards fire once the enemy had reached the trench lip
@@thebassplayificationsource.
@@TheJayIsOK during WW1 there were many old war mentalities still in play, this displays the cult of the offense. That being it is always better to be on the offensive. If you're attacking, don't stop. If you're on the defense, make it the offense. This takes place as the war ends, but there's a chance some units didn't learn their lesson about offense vs defense until the war ended
@@TheJayIsOK i think trenches were mostly used to protect against artillery. So when under an ennemy charge, there is no artillery, you can attack out in the open. Staying in the trench might give your ennemy the higher ground. And you have nowhere to run.
Surprised no one else is mentioning this but wut i loved about this ending is paul saving the young german soldier which leads to Paul's death and the young german soldier collecting dogtags just like paul at the start of the movie.
However the young German soldier never picked up Paul's dog tag leaving Paul to be forgotten
@bangkokjack4698 Do you really gotta be such a dick to him about it?
@@borgie-c6p He's right tho
Pretty sure he used to be friends with that young soldier, throughout the war they lost contact though
Edit: turns out it's not, I was thinking of franz
@@DVloper-dude0101 its all good most people thought that as well
My grandfather was a Survivor of WW1. He was Born in 1887. Italian Front, Alpini Fiamme Verdi, from Isonzo to Piave. He has runned on many Battlefields. Rip. MV
I hope that you're not scrolling on tiktok all day so that he's actually proud of you
@@karolx4441 70 year olds scrolling in TikTok would be crazy
Yes, Italians ran on a lot of battlefields ; in both wars , and on various sides
He was stupid
He was lucky he survived, Italian front was the worst of all
My grandfather, a royal engineer, survived Gallipoli, as did a future uncle (who had emigrated to Australia before the war) who introduced my grandfather to his widowed sister in Wales.
My great grandparent and his two brothers died in Gallipolli, on the ottoman side, they were farmers at home and were 'privates' on the battlefield. One of them is written on a memorial in Canakkale, Gelibolu (Gallipoli). RIP to all souls..
@@Kero-Di-PapaAs a fellow Turk, reading your story made feel very sad and the tragedy’s of war. However, you must also remember that your grandparents didn’t die for no reason and everyone will remember them for protecting their home land.
@@Dracos145It’s sad but also infuriating. So many died because Kitchener and Churchill wanted to do Sazonov and Bazili a favor and secure for them Russian dominion over the Straits. The British and French grunts may not have even realized they were killing and dying for Russian war aims.
@@Dracos145 As I Turk my great grandfather he was in a bush in a hill at galipoli Australians where pushing so he had to fight back as his commander told him Turks charged my grandfather shot a Australian but when he went to the Australian trench he got stabbed
@Kero-Di-Papa similar circumstances for my family to but we were on the other side
"Instead of adventure, we found fear. And in war, the only true equalizer is death."
- Battlefield 1.
cringe
@@oogabooga7025 ok edgelord
@@MarxBoiii bro quoting a videogame on a serious topic like world war 1 is dumb as hell
@@oogabooga7025 then the videogame is also anti-war by not gloryfing war in the introduction(i know bf1 inst anti-war but the introduction should be one)
@@oogabooga7025 can you try this drink called bleach heard its pretty tasty idk
What I understood from this film is that the protagonist has nothing left. His friends died doing their duty, which was to fight for their country, and the protagonist thought that the best way to honor them was to continue fighting in the last minutes of the war. . I hope there are more World War I movies, since the one that caused World War II, came from World War I. i mean hitler
Every thing at ww1 caused ww2 not only hitler
Didn’t the protagonist keep fighting because the douchebag general didn’t want to surrender, and if he wanted to go home safe he had to follow the orders?
I think you didnt get the Message...
@@Turkpatriotantalia Are you telling me?
@@jairo866 Ww1 isnt only about hitler and history is not only about ww2
00:20 the way they run forward give me chills 😢
If I was at the tail end of the losing side of the war. Especially down to the final few minutes. I’d just pretend I got shot and lay still in a bombed out crater. Phuck that!
Me too, what a good idea
Kid
Facts
@@zeroo7273 he's a kid that he wouldn't want to die a horrible death for no reason at all?
True, my only fear is if I get unlucky with a bomb blowing up near me or on me 😆
That fact that you could have an ancestor war hero and not even know is crazy
I think the whole point of this movie is that they are not "War heroes." Heroes are mostly propaganda myths to get young men to sign up for a slaughterhouse that does not even slightly value them.
The point is that there is no heroism in war.
The moment war starts, everybody has lost.
its crazy when you think about it. there couldve been hundreds or even thousands of guys like paul who endured so much, only to die with no legacy
@@carlosandleon Yes there is. You just let hollywood brainwash you into believing that all war is pointless and theres no reason to fight for something greater than yourself. People like you is why our society will fall apart.
@@bruh-bn3ni thing is it's not a could've, it's literally a fact. Millions of men died like this we will never know
I’m not sure if it was deliberately choreographed this way, but Paul’s movements during the charging and fighting outside of the trench strike me as weary, and mechanical. He’s not reacting to the soldiers dropping like flies around him, he isn’t really expressing any sharp fear whenever the French are close or when he’d shooting, just going through the motions in a rapid yet still drained and exhausted manner, without the energy of fear and adrenaline (at least until he jumps in the trench). I’m not sure if it was deliberate, but it gives off this feeling that he’s done this so many times, the possibility that this one could be the last time just. He’s beyond the point of giving a shit. He doesn’t care if he catches one of those machine gun rounds, all that matters is getting to that next bit of cover. And then bayonetting that Frenchman. And then jumping into the trench to save the guy he can hear pleading for his life inside. And it’s not until it becomes a fistfight that the adrenaline kicks in. Up until that point, just operating on standby mode and going through the motions of combat without really processing it, is what it seems like. Absolutely dead inside already.
Agreed. I noticed this in the bit where Paul takes a gun stock to the face after stabbing someone in the back, and he simply continues running forward to the line.
He's on complete auto pilot. He sees an enemy, he kills him and moves on. He takes a hit but isn't dead, he keeps moving. It's like he's in pure shock throughout the battle, numb to everything. Even death.
It’s called shellshock he is in pure shock and all of his friends have died so you can really tell he doesn’t care if he dies sense he has nothing left and nothing to live for.
@@unfortunatecircumstances8870 he didn't take a gunstock to the face i think. He stabbed someone with a bayonet and one of his (unnamed) comrades finishes the Frenchman off with his rifle stock. Paul didn't even thank him which just shows that at this point he doesn't really give a shit like the other seasoned soldiers who are at this point just fighting for their own life. Only when he saw the blonde teenager did he actually help his fellow soldier.
Also notice his facial expressions after he bashes the french soldiers face in with the helmet. His eyes look primal, looking for his next target to kill - just turned into this killing machine
I would’ve just pretended to have been hit and laid down til the time came.
And get executed for cowardice?
@@KingOfTresune Would they know for sure?
impossible! your mind would go nuts with pre-ptsd by the following days. Next battle you would go hard into the enemy because battling your demons is way worse than battling the enemy. That is why war exist.
@@quetshupfa But what we're saying is that this was during the day of the Armistice, and many soldiers DID actually refuse to attack and go out. In fact, German soldiers were PLEADING with an American soldier named Henry Gunther (the person suspected to be the last soldier killed in WW1) not to continue charging at them but sadly had no choice but to shoot him with their machine gun just a MINUTE before the Armistice came into effect.
@@quetshupfa What we're saying is that if we were there, we'd try to do anything not to attack
Paul is a damn good fighter at the end. When he figured it out it was over for him.
Also i love the symmetric portrayal of the french soldiers. They are mourning their lost friends just like paul and kat were. They had the same look as paul. They arent portrayed as monsters but equals
What i love about this scene is if at 0:14 you closely and seeing a black Senegal troop running past the French officer at the right
There’s several black soldiers in that scene
@@ElijahCinco51484true
Our Harlem Hellfighters were assigned to the French. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷
@@eaglesfan226true but I'm pretty sure the one shown in the movie are senegel colonial troops from Africa
@@Courierman6 Non les soldats sénégalais étaient affectés dans des unités coloniales. Les soldats noirs se battant dans les régiments métropolitains étaient souvent des afro-américains que les USA ne voulaient pas voir se intégrés dans leurs et que les Français avaient pris dans les leurs.
Thank you for not spoiling it for people who haven’t seen the movies or the book. First I was upset the clip was cut short but I applaud you for it.
That rock at the end gave him the strength to move his entire body around 😂
I was thinking that, too. "Wait, how. Oh yeah... movie logic."
@@MrCantStopTheRobot Movie logic didn't save him in the ending though
@@Administrator-ed3nl yeah, Movie Logic giveth, and Movie Logic taketh away
I don't think it was that. It was that at first he was just struggling and not thinking like a child. But in the end it wasn't about the POWER to move, it was about the logic in HOW to move that saved him. Since he had the stone in his left hand he had to use his head and think of a way to hit him with it instead of just flailing around like a child.
No. The french soldier thought paul was getting weaker and he was dying so he started to let go of paul then paul countered him
My grandfather fought in Verdun (french side). He was telegraphist in the infantery. Hopefully he survived.
Do u mean fortunately or are u not sure weather or not he lived?
@@parkertitle1923 well he’s alive so his grandpa had to live to at least have children
@@GabeMcRich Doesn't always mean that.
Original poster Jeam Hédin is French from his name so I think its just an English Translation error. I think he meant to say "Thankfully he survived."
The maternal grand father of my maternal grand mother fought in WW1 and died between 25-27 February 1916 in East France. Her father engaged in 1917 and fought and survived. The paternal Grand father of my paternal Grand father and his 4 brothers Fought in WW1 and all came back.
The determination to survive, must have been equal to the fear of dying
Yeah
They're sort of the same thing. Not completely but they are heavily connected
@@HelloThere..... yes, they sort of inter twine
Bro when Paul bayoneted the first French soldier the the other German hit him in the head with his gun is just true teamwork
Paul is no longer a boy here, but a warrior.
he becaume veteran
0:01 shout out to this veteran officer even though the war is over it doesn't suprise him that one country trying one last push
the choreography in this scene is absolutely insane.
Yess! Massive Respect
0:56 , 1:14 , 1:24 1:34 In all those scenes we see that the innocent soldier is dead and now the evil soldier is born trying to murder all his targets, that is what war makes us.
I don't think him tossing the grenade at 0:56 is evil lmao its just him saving him and his comrades from being blown to shreds, same can be said about every other time he murders in the final battle, its just out of self preservation
So a soldier is evil for fighting?
Nothing for a long time pissed me off in a film more than that German commander ordering them to attack right before the ceasefire.
2:55 paul jumpscare
The hardest part about this scene for me, was the look of shock on the French soldier. He and his fellow soldiers were simply waiting for the armistice to come into force at 11:00 a.m. We rarely think about the impact of a few minutes, but the final moments of the World War I were senseless.
when people lose their humanity and become beasts 😔
The most anti war. War book and then movie ever made. Everyone dies no happy ending just senseless violence of young men
I like the original version better though. Paul in the end without meaning being shot by a French sniper as he tries to grab a butterfly just outside the trench and an infamous like "all quiet on the western front"
I loved this version more than 30's one because it just works better as anti-war movie. 30's was a comedy that would crush you entirely when least expected, but this version doesn't even let you take a break from suffering. I'm very hard to be shocked, but this movie is shocking
Hitler banned it when he came to power.
SPOILERS:The actual ending is that the man still survives and sees a pistol next to him,Paul tries to get it but the gets it first but Paul tackles the man into the bunker and the man misses the shoot,then they get up and the man pauses,Paul I confused and there another man being him and stabs Paul in the heart behind Paul's back and the man runs outside and the guy in front of Paul walks away and the worst part is that the war just ended after Paul is stabbed and Paul gets up and walks up the stairs and sits by a wall and dies,Then another person who met Paul finds his body and sits there and pauses just sitting there and looks and Paul and later he the person walks away and the scene cuts to credits.THE END
It would be so sad to die in that charge. Dying in the last 15 minutes would be horrible. Imagine being so happy you’re about to surivive after 4 years and you die in the last 15 minutes. That’s so sad.
Nobody will say anything that at the end of the video Paul stares at us?
Nah, he stares through us
Things like this did happen where the battle did continue despite 11:00 am was about to strike.
Thing was it wasn’t the Germans launching last minute offensives.
It was the Allies.
The very last person in Europe died at 10:59am. Fighting in Africa by German guerillas lasted for 3 additional days.
@@OrtadragoonX "allies bad, german good"
@@Ebpeeba yes germans are good
@@Ebpeeba I never said that. The Germans were worse over the course of the war. They did start it on the western front.
But the historical fact is that they didn’t launch any offensives on the last day of the war, whereas the allies did.
2:58, my face when he or she doesn't show the rest of the battle
Cringe avatar. Imagine watching videos like this while at the same time simping for the people who helped make similar massacres but 100 times worse.
For real
@@iegoriasynetskyi1003most nqzis are interested in history sad but true
@zeldadudup1927 "oh well it's just a cross with hooks added on the sides is there a problem???"
Like come on mate, you perfectly know what that skull symbolizes. Maybe you don't though, then I'd advise you to read up to some extremist symbols not to use them accidentally. This certain skull however (Totenkopf) is a rather widely known Nazi symbol. Members of the SS used to wear it on their headwear as far as I know.
@zeldadudup1927 that is not just a skull
I went with my dad and cousin to watch this. I couldn't hold the tears. To quote capt Hawkeye, "war is hell".
The stone thing at the end, a little incredible.
You see bugger all when you've got mud in your eye.
In any fighting scene no one is going for the eyes, throat or groin, the weakest parts.
If I'm fighting for my life my attacker WILL lose his eyes, no sight = pretty harmless.
Going for the eyes is hard : small target, on a surface that is harder to grip than you might think (theres a reason our skull has a certain shape, protecting weak point being one of them).
Its possible when you got someone pinned down (at which point you can got for a kill strike on the neck anyways) but very hard otherwise, much harder than portrayed in movies.
Neck is a bit easier to reach because bigger target but the treachea and artery are at the center so you better not miss
And groin is below the belt its not the obvious spot to hit
Paul killed 5 people before he died, he really turned into a badass at the end
Josiah Trelawny
now I can’t unsee it.
as slippery as an eel in an oil slick
Arthur
Did I miss a rdr2 reference?
Jack marston could’ve gone on to fight in ww1.
This movie shows how the men at the first battle were motivated and ready to battle and in the last one, no one wanted to even set another step while having low motivation
0:52 first error, the weapon is plastic bruh
Which weapon ?
the man behind@@silasmerzenich
@@nikooswgg8129 I see
Not the gun is plastic only the bayonet to prevent that the actors hurt each other
Thats not rare in movies
Bro expected actor to actually stab each other to death with real weapons lmao
You try making a war movie
0:50 is that the guts and black powder scream-
@@carlep34 because that scream was just taken from this movie
@ woahh
He really became a true warrior near the end
What a horrible mess that was for all of those young men.
All so some general can say he took land in his last battle.
Small mistake at 2:02 it turns out that in the industrial era, French helmets were the most impenetrable, so this scene makes no sense.
After all, it's still a movie, so it's not too bad.
8mm Mauser at about 10 feet range would probably have gone clean through it. Even if not, the impact would have incapacitated the victim.
@@MrJrv1993 The Adrian helmet is made of 0.7mm steel plus a layer of semi-steel under 'the bomb', here we see that the shooter is 3-4 meters from his adversary, with a trigonometrical calculation we get 62° between the pontoon and the French soldier's head, from the point of view of the German soldier's rifle, knowing that an Adrian helmet is about 88mm in radius, we get about 20mm difference,
Conclusion: the bullet should have ricocheted
given that in the film we don't know the measurements, I can estimate the probability of penetration of this bullet at around 44%.
88°*
And sorry it’s 22% probability of penetration at short distance
@@el_jaguar5122 you can edit comments
The main character started as a young soldier excited for war like millions of other young recruits like him, stirred up by propaganda to fight in a meaningless war. He then realises what war is really like once he enters the front lines and sees death and destruction all around him. He starts to regret his actions of joining this war as well as his other young friends. After many battles and seeing countless deaths including the deaths of his friends, he becomes a battle hardened soldier. A soldier who is efficient in combat as they are used to combat and know tactics and skills to survive in combat and fight the enemy. After even more battles and more people he saw dying all around him, constant shelling all around him, the death of his last best friend and the realisation that some general who sits in his dining hall eating food and living in luxury orders him and many other soldiers already tired of war to go on a last offensive against the enemy moments before the armistice takes place. Our young main character now becomes a battle weary soldier, a soldier who has seen too much combat, too much death and destruction to the point where they don’t even care anymore. The only thing on their mind is survival and fighting. Their humanity either lost or chained up deep within them, unable to break free. They are tired of war either physically, mentally, or both. They just want to go home. They just want it to end.
Adakadee🔥🔥
"Attaque ennemie! En positions!"
Damn, man, he was ALMOST there. And then stab.....
.... that's it... that's it.... that's it....
An unsympathetic death for paul, he killed so many towards the end of the war. You dont care about his death
@@cpldalton5966 shrug.... such is life.
@@djsnobodycares6065 No its not. It was a terrible ending for the film. They should have kept it the same as the original.
@@cpldalton5966yeah fun fact you killed people in war hell that's the whole point in war to kill the enemy
@@Courierman6 Yeah no shit, but it doesnt mean you care about Paul's death. the original ending where he is just about to make it and gets killed by a french sniper in his trench makes you feel more than this film
Yall in the comments just can’t appreciate a good movie
1:22 i like that cooperation
2:58 that scared me lol
Found your ass
My great great uncle fought in this war he was KIA at moquet farms by a German machine gunner during a Australian 8th battalion charge may Percy Seckold rest in peace.and lest we forget.
It's such a nice touch that the kid he saved doesn't even get his dogtags but instead loots the scarf he kept
Just shows how pointless his courage and sacrifice was making it even more depressing
Sad when you think about it the war was basically a waste of time and lives 😕
It was a generals game, a chess game, and they didnt care about your life...ill take life and fight on my own terms and tactics, not running into machine guns
It’s crazy how he’s finally become a competent killer then dies literally seconds before the war ends
because he got nothing to live for paul lost everything friends feeling..........
Une scène qui me donne des frissons a chaque fois que je la regarde et qui nous fait comprendre que nos ancêtres français allemands on combattus bravement tout 2 pour leurs pays !
More like fought bravely for a pointless war that result in even more unnecessary deaths for meters of land.
@@feelingsfeelings.2848 désolé mais bien que la guerre soit la pire invention que l’homme n’ait jamais créé nous ne pouvons pas dire qu’ils soient morts pour pour rien cela serait une une insulte à leurs mémoires alors que nous avons put récupérer l’Alsace lorraine en 1918
@@CapitaineQuentinGicquel22 Oops sorry, let me correct myself, they died for METERS of land, which is essentially nothing. It's tragic how young men who have the potential to do something greater was forced into the meat grinder only to end up as a number on the casualties list, some even died without a name, some wasn't even in tact, and they were as humans as everyone else when they joined, they had people waiting for them as home, their mother, children, spouses.
@@feelingsfeelings.2848 c’est comment même pas croyable la déconnection entre l’état major de l’époque et les tranchées car dans cette optique le soldat n’est qu’un matériau remplaçable et optimisé aussi fragile que sans valeur même si nous pouvons saluer le courage de certains officiers et maréchaux d’époque comme Petain qui n’était pas le même qu’en 40 et le maréchal Foch qui nous est montrer dans le film et que sa fait toujours mal au cœur de passer devant le monument au mort de ma commune bretonne où il est inscrit tout les noms des soldats morts au combat de 14-18 à 39-45 et que sans eux j’écrirai en allemand aujourd’hui
0:00 French guys sitting around smoking as there are screaming enemies rushing towards you
This last attack ruined the movie for me. I could find no historical background for major last minute attacks like this. In fact, it kind of messes with the whole concept of the title of the movie. In the books, and the 2 previous movies, the main character was killed on a relatively quiet day on the Western Front about a month before the war ends, by a sniper -- thus making the point that the war was so horrific that even on relatively quiet normal days men were being killed and individual lives didn't really count for much in the big picture.
He wasnt killed by a sniper in the book
@@silasmerzenich Well, it doesn't really specify exactly _how_ he died in the book. It just states he fell on a "quiet day". The people who made the first two movies apparently interpreted that as him being killed by the ever-present sniping that occurred between trenches. But even if it wasn't a sniper, it seems clear the author's intent was to make the point that he didn't die in a major battle (which the makers of this movie totally ignored).
well, its a movie, and i believe that this movie is also based off a book so.
@@bennygari Did you report my reply because you felt I was condescending or something? That's the only thing I can figure because I didn't say anything I would think would get the reply automatically pulled. I basically said that no kidding it's a book. It's a famous book I've read multiple times. And the book doesn't have anything close to this scene. And the invention and inclusion of this scene in this movie stands in contrast to the central theme of that book.
it’s absolutely disgusting how the orders of one or a few men blinded by their avarice, pride, and ego led so many innocent young men to their death. My generation says no to this sort of group think. We will not fight like this ever again we refuse.
The way they double teamed the guy at 1:22 lol
hey there isn't rules in a battlefield!
Today we can see how our civilisation learned to never happen again....oh wait.
I hate when people say that the French are ass when they’re this badass also rest in peace for the men that lost they’re lives in this war
This is a horror film, we'd all do well to remember that.
Guess why there is so much screaming and craziness in basic, so when it comes down to it you won’t run away. War is hell.
Reading storm of steel right now...what an intense book.
The real Best Picture of 2022
1:23 assist +15pts
Damn Paul can fight
Yea, the truth that he lost almost everyone he knew. No emotions left and lost his good heart. That’s what a Soldier was ment to be after.
@@Gamerking64210 they lost all humanity, "it was savage, we were like dogs" -ww1 vet
That’s the thing about soldiers who got conscripted in the Great War. They were trained to fight for their country.
The way Paul just save the boys life by fighting a French soldier
I love how this video shows the ending of the movie
those officers and generals that ordered men to attack on the morning of the 11th of November were the worst 😑
This is a fictional attack, in reality the Germans weren’t in any position to launch any sort of attack
@@SaintJust1214yep, Paul’s unit probably would’ve just shot the general and go join a Soldiers-Workers Republic in Maubeuge or Brussels
We need more war movies showing the German side the Germans and Austrians suffered the same as the French and British they were just men who fought in a war an enemy they did not even knew
I did wonder if Paul's manner of death was a subtle reference to the 'stab in the back' story the Nazis favoured as the reason for Germany's defeat. Sometimes I wonder if I think too much.
We've learned nothing.
This camera working is insane.
The commander knew that when they were within grenade throwing range they had to counter attack.
With these kinds of battles happening on both sides its understandable how deadly the soldiers are in this scene, this how they were treated and this is how they treat back
Egotistical High Command, sitting comfortably in a chateau somewhere, forcing THIS!! 😢❤
He committed suicide
The Germans didn't attack like that in 1918.
Good thing they had true French to play the French military. Often they hire Canadian French with an accent or other people that barely speak french.
Just think, deep below the surface, a French soldier is running from a deformed monster in a bunker.
If I’m not mistaken, it was US General Pershing who made the Americans fight till the last second of WW1.
I’m sure some soldiers found a nice hole in no man’s land to camp out in & let the last 15 min ride out
The Western Front will remain as one of the most f*cking chaotic parts of history.
It looks like Paul had 1 more round chambered. I wonder why he jumped down into the trench to go into melee? It seems that decision led to his death.
He was emotionally shaken, he couldn't think straight.
when he didnt see the rock he was not even trying to move his left hand like he could pull his hair or something
it looked as if the french soldier had mercy on paul but the soldier at the back had no intentions on leaving paul alone
1:14 friendly fire?
Убийство дезертиров
@@Hrom_Shrom no that was a French soldier, look closer to the helmet
@jay15617 that was a french soldier, a passive aggressive tactic used by french.
That was a french.
Is it just a coincidence that the French officer looks like Peter Sellers as Inspector Crusoix from the Pink Panther movies?
Clouseau.
@@rogueriderhood1862 damn autocorrect
The start😐
The middle😃
The end💀
Just to let you guys know at the start he says “enemy attack get in position”
My grand dad died for Deutschland during the battle of tannenberg. He was only 17
wow thats young
@nukacolacompany2534 sadly there are probably younger people I've heard that there was like a 12 year old who fought for Britain
You're a liar. You're literally an underaged guy. This comment makes a mockery of the fallen.
Mine Died in the Marne for France at 20 with a pregnant woman at home
@@hrafneldr9086 may he rip
With the Context that the Germans were fired in this meatgrinder for no reason because the armistice is gonna be signed soon....its very sad
The Americans did the same, launched attacks when they knew the war was ending. Madness, causing unnecessary deaths.
Honestly, I wouldn't have even made it to the trench. I'd have ducked into a crater or a ditch and waited for 11 o clock. It's not cowardice at that point, the war is literally minutes away from being over. There's no way I'd be fighting.
Women have no idea.
I mean they probably had some idea given that they were nurses, factory workers, and eventually had their husbands, brothers, and fathers return as broken men with ptsd and alcoholism or some other addiction.
@@Potatotenkopf Good point. 👍🏻
Madness in unbelievable massive scale
War is the hell.
Mes arrière oncle sont aller à la guerre et il on sur écus de 1914-1918