Get ready for The Pacific

  
Band of Brothers & Generation Kill & The Pacific
photo from here

台灣HBO播出時間：4/3 Sat. 21:00

HBO拍的戰爭迷你影集，目前都還沒讓我們失望過。這對The Pacific來說，不知道是好事還壞事，現在大家對它的期望簡直有無限大那麼大。

昨天考完期末考（YAY!!），抽空看了一下HBO目前給出來的相關影片，雖然覺得可能因為和Band of Brothers一樣都是二戰背景的故事，以及製作人都是Steven Spielberg和Tom Hanks的關係，大家都說The Pacific是Band of Brothers的姊妹作，但是看一看幕後花絮，覺得描寫故事的方向好像不太一樣。

Making The Pacific

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BoB從頭到尾帶我們跟著美軍101空降師506團第二營的E Company走過整個歐戰戰場，看到他們所經歷的一切，感受到E Comapny弟兄之間堅真的情感。The Pacific的故事，則似乎圍繞在陸戰隊第一師三位主角的身上。三位主角背景各自不同，The Pacific影集感覺上好像更著重於主角們心理層面的描寫。

The Pacific的故事改編自主角之一的兩人寫的回憶錄。Eugene Sledge - With the Old Breed以及Robert Leckie - Helmet for My Pillow。兩本書在Amazon.Com的評價都很高，尤其是With the Old Breed，247個review裡，有228個是五顆星，16的是4顆星，這真的很厲害。我買書還滿吃這一套，故事簡介是我的菜的話，星星多的通常不會讓我失望。所以要是影集好看的話（雖然我有信心），應該會買原著來翻吧。


Jon Seda as Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone, Joseph Mazzello as Corporal Eugene Sledge & James Badge Dale as Private First Class Robert Leckie

The Pacific: A Conversation With The Executive Producers

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Who is very important for us to show how this war affected these men. During the war, after the war. We think that really is someting that we didn't get into as much in Band of Brothers. -- Gary Goetzman, Executive Producer

The Pacific: On The Set Featurette

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It's a story of the corruption of the human spirit and the private war that all of those veterans had to fight. -- Steven Spielberg, Executive Producer

The truth is always much more amazing than any story you could make up. You gotta find the truth. You gotta dig for the truth but it's always a better story. -- Gary Goetzman, Executive Producer

Gary Goetzman講的話，也很適用在Generation Kill的故事上。

The Pacific: Marines of the Pacific - Robert Leckie

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My Dad died of Alzheimer's in 2001. Towards the end he had forgotten all of us. He never forget being in the Pacific. -- Son of Robert Leckie

其實這篇文的重點是下面這張啦！！

 
E Company @ The Pacific Premiere

原來E Company的人有去參加The Pacific首映耶！都過了快十年了，果然比電視上看起來"成熟"許多。（笑）糟糕，我第一眼看有兩個人叫不出名字來。（掩面）