Windtalkers

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="06dd8c02dduajq.jpg"> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">       <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><IMG SRC="0660b0b0.png" border=0 width="11" height="11" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3b7ae050.jpg" border=0 width="174" height="261" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Judy & Lutz Perschon</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Judy Lutz Perschon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >back to</FONT>  <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><B>At The Movies With Lutz</B></U></A></div> <div> Windtalkers</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="790" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 229 WIDTH="778"><div> indtalkers could have been a good movie - if it had been about Windtalkers.  But it wasn't.   It was mostly about the Nicholas Cage character, Sgt. Enders, who after having lost all his buddies in a useless defense of a swamp, decides to go back and wreak revenge on the Japanese.  The theme of the Windtalkers is thinly interwoven into the story, but we get no real character development, how they might have felt about the racism they faced, and anything deeper than just another war story, trying to out do the last one for graphic gore.  However the fact that this movie gives us a glimpse into this little know fact about the war, is meritorious enough.   The movie actually goes into "Rambo" modes at times, with Cage's character leading out front in the wide open, Japanese soldiers jumping out to be shot, American soldiers dying all around even when they are more protected than Cage.   The character development of our Windtalkers is minimal, and we know very little about their stories.  Also there is a hint of a love story, but we don't know why she came to love Sgt. Enders, whether he loved her back; in fact after a while she isn't there at all anymore.   I'm giving it one happy face because as a rental it's worth catching a glimpse of this little know but interesting story about the war.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 51 WIDTH="778"><div> Lutz's Rating  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <img src="HTMLobj-952/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  </FONT></div> <div> Judy's Rating  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <img src="HTMLobj-954/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="21" height="21">  </FONT></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 115 WIDTH="778"><div> Storyline From Yahoo:  On December 8, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan. For the next several years, U.S. forces were fully engaged in battle throughout the Pacific, taking over islands one by one in a slow progression towards mainland Japan. During this brutal campaign, the Japanese were continually able to break coded military transmissions, dramatically slowing U.S. progress. In 1942, several hundred Navajo Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use their language as code. Marine Joe Enders is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee - a Navajo code talker, the Marines' new secret weapon. Enders' orders are to protect his code talker, but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands, he's to "protect the code at all costs." Against the backdrop of the horrific Battle of Saipan, when capture is imminent, Enders is forced to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine, can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code? </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>