#himmelstoss

[sawoqa]

I hate himmelstoss👎

[spectacularizm]

It can’t just be me...

Paul is EXTREMELY Bi-coded. Like, c’mon. Dude is head over heels for Albert and Kat throughout most of the book, and he LOVED that woman that he banged. Obviously Remarque couldn’t just openly disclose that back in ol’ 1920′s but like c’mooooon.. Albert and Kat are equally as Bi-coded. Maybe everyone in there is just some form of Gay. ......Even Himmelstoss (I’m joking-)

[tenth-sentence]

He stands right in front of us and waits.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" - Erich Maria Remarque

[mansnooziesmoosmutzel]

[chickensauras]

I may or may not actually make a whole post about all my many MANY issues with the new Netflix adaptation of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' but man honestly I just want to know if all the people I keep hearing say it was a good movie:

A. Actually exist. and

B. Assuming they exist, did they read the book

Because I don't think iv ever seen a more gutted and hollow adaptation.

[vera-gemini]

My friends’ reactions to All Quiet On The Western Front (1979) characters

I’m French so I had to translate them, sorry (we were also drunk)

Himmelstoss :

“It’s Bilbo Baggins with a mustache !”

“His mustache is homophobic”

Paul Baümer :

“Of course he’s a twink !” 

“Totally a twink. Pretty eyes” 

Albert Kropp : 

“He looks like the Lady Of The Camellias” (the heroine of an eponymous book written by Alexandre Dumas fils - she has tuberculosis)

Franz Kemmerich : 

“He is at the top of his class, no ? I just know it”

“When you see his face, you know he’s going to be the first to die”

Kat : 

“He looks like a mobster”

“No, more like a farmer... who grows potatoes...”

Haie Westhus :

“He has the cheekbones of an heterosexual man. Don’t ask me why.”

“He’s got the vibe of a military man”

Tjaden : 

“He looks like my communist friends from high school... we drink alcohol together, he’s a good guy.”

Detering : 

“Very cute, very pretty... he’s totally a bottom.”

Peter Leer : 

“First of all, this is NOT an heterosexual man.”

“Why does he looks like Emmanuel Macron ?”

Joseph Behm : 

“He looks like Brandon Fraser, no ? Whatever, he seems nice.”

“Is he sleeping ? Good night then”

Friedrich Müller :

“I know he smokes weed”

“He’s gay. I know it because he looks like my gay colleague who makes YouTube videos.”

[gayfring]

Oh my god I keep thinking about how the new all quiet movie had so much potential but it all went to waste. It was so different from the source material it just seemed like they made a war movie with a couple homages to all quiet in it. This movie was literally made for tiktok users to make edits of and nothing more. No Kemmerich and his boots no Himmelstoss no graveyard no leave NO Himmelstoss!!!!!!! NOT a single hint of character development NO FUCKING LEAVE where Paul gets to visit his FUCKING mother NO ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT!!! Why even call it all quiet on the western front if it's.... Not all quiet on the western front. I'm sorry I just have to talk about this movie with someone. Do not watch the movie! Go to the library and pick up the book and save yourself the trouble! Thanks

[essaysandopinionss]

All Quiet On the Western Front was one of the best films I watched last year. It's beautiful and sounds amazing and the acting is great and the editing is super slick and and and......

But it's not really a great adaptation.

Like so very rarely do you get an adaptation of a novel that happens to be so brilliant as a film that it's almost strange for it to at the same time be bad at the adaptation bit.

Usually you get a good film that is a good adaptation (A Clockwork Orange, The Princess Bride, No Country for Old Men, I'm Thinking of Ending Things) or a bad film that is a bad adaptation (Eragon, the Percy Jackson films, Hannibal Rising, The Goldfinch).

You do occasionally get films that are more of an homage rather than a direct adaptation (Trainspotting, Brokeback Mountain) although these tend to be due to the format of the original material not really being suitable for a feature length film.

All Quiet (2022) is none of those things, though. It is, in some ways, incredibly faithful to the book. Certain scenes are almost exactly as they were originally written, and many others were so fitting in tone that the fact they weren't quite ripped straight from the book didn't matter. Many of the more intense combat scenes are beyond what was shown in the book (the book took much more time to explore the non-combat bits of war, though more because it is a book about the consequences of war rather than the unedited horror of violence itself). It's also German, in language and in production. A minor point, but something that had a big impact on my experience watching it, and one of the few things I found to be a big step up from the 1930 film.

These things are all good - an adaptation should stay faithful to tone, if not exact scenes, right? And the 1930 film does already provide a play-by-play adaptation. So perhaps the 2022 version wanted to be a little different.

And it was. Some of the small changes are good, others not so much.

The opening where we follow the bullet riddled uniforms from their owners bodies all the way to the hands of their new owners? Fucking genius.

Paul's death happening moments before the ceasefire? Misguided at best, and a distraction from the heart of the film's message at worst.

But there is something more egregious.

I'm sure if you've read the book or seen the original film you'll have a good idea of what I'm talking about.

Political intrigue is a popular genre. Films, but TV most of all. Think of the most popular shows of the last decade or two. House of Cards, Borgen. Even things like Game of Thrones or The Thick of It. The politics that drive everything are what people enjoy, if you take ratings at their face value.

So why not in All Quiet on the Western Front?

WW1 right? One of the greatest conflicts the world (read Europe, mostly) ever suffered, and so politically complex that its inception is basically a joke at this point. And the armistice. Such a wonderful demonstration of... what exactly?

And that's the problem, isn't it.

The politics that drove the war were so far removed from the people who were truly a part of the war. Erzberger did a good thing. A great thing, sure. But I don't want to care about his journey or whatever bullshit we were handed. And I really, really don't want to be forced into hating that silly caricature of a warmongering general, regardless of who he was meant to represent.

Remarqué never wrote All Quiet as a criticism of the individuals responsible for the first world war, he wrote it as a criticism of war itself and as an homage to the men destroyed by it.

Why, do you think, are we shown Paul and his friends tormenting corporal Himmelstoss? And why are we shown Paul, after months on the front lines, unable to understand the people he left at home?

We are shown that because it makes us understand the essence of war, not as a big, evil, incomprehensible concept, but as the tangible, devastating force that takes a human being and annihilates everything about them but their rawest instincts.

We are shown that, because Remarqué wanted us to understand what the war had done to an entire generation of sons who were expected to pack up and go back home as though they hadn't experienced hell on earth.

So yes. I loved All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) as a film. The soundtrack alone deserves special mention, let alone the cinematography, editing and sound design.

But no. It's not All Quiet on the Western Front. So read the book, if you haven't. And I promise you'll gain quite a bit more.

[rich4you]

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[porcom]

À l'Ouest, rien de nouveau

"1914, la guerre éclate en Allemagne. Paul Baumer et quelques camarades incités par leurs professeurs, s'enrôlent très vite dans l'armée, prêts à servir leur patrie. À peine engagés, l'esprit volontaire fait place aux désillusions : leur instructeur, le caporal Himmelstoss, fait preuve d'un sadisme sans faille et les premières images du champ de bataille leur jette la réalité de la guerre en plein visage."

👍 Aimé !

[laoyangtutor]

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 War Can Bring Out the Best

Introduction

It is known to us that war can bring out the worst in us and it has really caused various detrimental effects on the vast majority of people over the history. And the influence of war is so serious that many soldiers still have postwar shadows even long after the end of the war. However, war can as well bring out the best in us, which can be readily detected from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel titled All Quiet on the Western Front. This novel has explored comradeship in a ravishing way, during which Paul’s friendship with his fellow soldiers has been well delivered. War can really bring out the best in people in that it can help create strong comradeship and deep friendship among those young soldiers, which can be embodied via the below three aspects: the formation of the extraordinarily strong bond between these young men; the caring, humanity and reliance on one another among those young soldiers; the erasing of a series of distinctions including the class divisions.

War Can Bring Out the Best

First and foremost, war has helped create an extraordinarily strong bond between these young men that peace never could. As a matter of fact, camaraderie plays a part in relieving the horrible descriptions of front line death and assaults and it as well supplies a bright light to a place with nonstop darkness. Detailed speaking, a young soldier is afraid of guns when he firstly engages himself on the battlefield when there are explosions and a rocket fire in Chapter 4. As a result, he searches for a shelter to Paul and buries his head in the chest and arms of Paul. And Paul gently and kindly comforts him that he will soon get accustomed to it sooner or later. Based on this, camaraderie can be easily imagined; otherwise there won’t be such intimacy between this young recruit and Paul. Apart from that, Paul and his friends waylay Himmelstoss and beat on him, which can show that Paul and his friends stand by one another and they would like to fight against their common enemies. It is known to us that Himmelstoss deserves it and Paul and his friends are just giving him his due.

Actually, these young men are comrades-in-arms and they are more intimate than family members or even lovers. The rationale why such intense bond between them can be formed lies in that they have together endured unimaginable sufferings and seen unspeakable horrors, which are all issues that can never be shared with those who do not have war experiences. They can understand one another better because they are going through the same journey. What the comrades mean to Paul can be found in the sentence that “I could almost weep. I can hardly control myself any longer. But it will soon be all right back here with Kat and Albert. This is where I belong” (). Also, what has to be pointed out is that the death of one soldier will naturally induce a powerful emotional reaction among the other soldiers. However, grief is too much for these battle-hardened soldiers to suffer in that they are unable to mourn their fallen friends properly in addition to the outbursts of rage and sorrow (Cristina Pividori. 2017). With the development of this novel, we can know that Paul becomes increasingly numb to the losses of other soldiers so that he unconsciously emphasizes more on his relationship with Kat. Therefore he continues to fight with the accompanying of Kat and Kat becomes his closest friend at last. But he turns to have no will to survive after the death of Kat and he even accepts and welcomes his own death in the end of the novel. Without his comrade-in-arms Kat, he is without the will to live, which can as well help suggest how the bond is between these young soldiers.

Moreover, Paul’s friendship with Kat is another relationship worth exploring when the idea that war can bring out the best would like to be better illustrated, which can perfectly imply caring, humanity and reliance. The most impressive one is the scene with the goose dinner. In Chapter 5, Kat and Paul have got a goose and they are cooking it in the late night. Paul says. “We don’t talk much, but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have” (), which indicates that they would definitely live or die together and their communion is so complete that it is more complete than the lovers have. In the meantime, it can directly bring Paul peace and reassurance when he hears Kat’s voice and sees Kat roasting the goose nearby. In the mind of Paul, Kat is not only a friend of his own anymore but that Kat has actually become a father-figure for Paul.

Besides, the comradeship of this group of young men can be easily found in both the scenes of battle and the scenes of rest over and over again. Maybe Paul really counts their losses at many different aspects, but he still deems their attempts and close relationship to make them stay together to offer help to each other. Just take the scene in which Paul is trapped in Chapter 9 as an example. In Chapter 9, Paul loses his direction and his nerve and he is afraid of his death when he is alone in the trench. However, the voices his comrades immediately lead Paul to regain his nerve and what his friends say are “I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life; we are nearer than lovers, in a simpler, a harder way; I could bury my face in them in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me” (). Taking the fact that his friends’ voices can quickly make Paul regain his nerve into consideration, there is no doubt that these young men have absolutely become the soul-mates of one another. Or maybe it can be put in another way that there is grace here at the same time and the grace appears when those soldiers get clear about their humanity and their reliance on other soldiers when they are confronted with hopelessness and all sorrow. But what is a pity to say is that Kat is so important to Paul that Kat’s death really hurts Paul a lot in Chapter 11. The more detailed condition is that Kat’s death is so final and so overwhelming to Paul and we do not hear his reaction at all. What we can only see is that he breaks down in the face of it and the loss of Kat is really too much for him to stand or accept. It is rather hard to imagine how it will be when you lose one that is closer than your own blood relatives, which is right what Paul experiences when he loses Kat in the end. Kat’s death represents the crashing down of Paul’s world.

Last but not the least, war has erased a series of distinctions, like the class divisions. In this novel, a fair knowledge can be obtained that these young men choose to hold each other up all the time no matter what happens, through battle and rest, hopelessness and horror, think and thin, etc. and without taking any regard of which class they are from. Class divisions no longer matter in the front and they have to die without any difference. Young men that are well-educated, such as Paul, have to fight in the battlefield and even die for it, which is the same as peasants including Detering (Sandra De La Torre. 2013). To put it more specifically, war has made Paul a totally different person after undergoing too many losses of other soldiers and what he cares about is the survival of himself and other soldiers. Due to the formation of comradeship, these soldiers have cultivated altruism to help them adjust and survive throughout the war and they also trust and cooperate with one other. The sentence “Kropp divides a cigarette and hands me half. Tjaden gives an account of his..broad-beans and bacon.. Kat appears.. he has two loaves of bread under his arm and bloodstained sandbag full of horse-flesh in his hand” () shows that that these soldiers learn to help one another and they perceive the importance of mutual help in that each and every one have their own unique and special skills and talents. The divisions between them are just nothing when compared with their survival.

Conclusion

To sum up, a reasonable conclusion can be drawn that war can definitely bring out the best in people because it really plays an important part in creating strong comradeship and deep friendship among those young soldiers and it can be justified by the following three aspects: the formation of the extraordinarily strong bond between these young men; the caring, humanity and reliance on one another among those young soldiers; the erasing of a series of distinctions including the class divisions. Though the war can bring out the best in people, war is better to be avoided when taking the severe detrimental effects of war into account.

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[spectacularizm]

Himmsy Wimmsy UwU bear!!! I’m sorry in advance (I’m not he’s the sexiest hottest most OP character in the whole book and all 3 movies even the 2022 one where he doesn’t exist) Himmelstoss haters get off my page smh (I’m kidding I hate him too but it is SO FUN TO HATE HIM)

[tenth-sentence]

We have something else far too important on our minds.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" - Erich Maria Remarque

[badlydrawnallquiet-blog]

Drawing of how I imagine all the characters I remembered in All Quiet on the Western Front. This is my first post, so glad to meet you. There’s literally no one in this “fandom” so I’ll be surprised if anyone sees this.

[ultramegatroutman]

vagy nemtom

[cigarettesbeforeandduringsex]

An interesting adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front would be one where Kantorek and Himmelstoss and all the people like them gradually get harder and harder to understand as the story progresses. I mean like except for in flashbacks to before Paul had experienced the horrors of war their voices would sound distorted and staticky as if they were coming through a bad set of speakers.