The golden duo of Spielberg + Tom Hanks has been the perfect pair since Saving Private Ryan.
Cost $225 million, epic war blockbuster
Teamed up to create the classic World War II drama "Company of Brothers",
Several records were set.
The unfinished duo once again focused on World War II,
Turning his gaze to the Pacific Theater,
Today brings you the most expensive war drama in history, "Pacific War", a total of ten episodes.
The story of "Pacific War" comes from the two novels "With the Old Breed" and "Helmet for My Pillow".
and a collection of interviews with World War II veterans by Hugh Ambrose, the son of the late company of war historian Stephen Ambrose.
The outbreak of war began on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Japanese air raids on the U.S. Naval Base in the Pacific, the port of Hawaii,
After the United States declared war on Japan, China, which had been at war with Japan for many years, also declared war on the United States, and Nazi Germany and the Kingdom of Italy also declared war on the United States.
Pacific War invested $225 million, surpassing Company of Brothers' $125 million,
It became the most expensive war TV series ever, with more than $20 million per hour of integration alone.
In the words of the HBO production team, the show they made was an extended film.
From exterior construction to props such as ships, aircraft and tanks, as well as hundreds or even thousands of battle scenes, it costs a lot of money.
At the same time, the crew demanded that the pursuit of reality must be pursued, including weapons and uniforms all of which were of the type at that time.
These details are truth-seeking, and the investment budget is also high.
The volcanic ash of Iwo Jima and the coral stones of the beach were all transported from other places.
Ninety percent of the entire show's budget, nearly $200 million, was also consumed in Australia.
This created 4,000 jobs for Australia, and the Australian media thanked the crew many times.
The seeds of the Pacific War were planted as early as 1898.
Japan, which won the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, won the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War without success in demanding China's Liaodong.
Continue to expand significantly to the surrounding areas, and then affect the interests of Russia, the United States, Britain, France, Germany and other parties that have occupied a place in the Pacific region,
From its own interests, Britain vigorously instigated Japan to go to war with Russia, and eventually defeated Russia to gain advantages in northeast China.
However, the pace of Japan's expansion into the Pacific region is limited by the United States.
Through the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States occupied the Philippines and annexed the Kingdom of Hawaii,
It greatly stimulated Japan, which had already immigrated to Hawaii in large numbers at that time and was thinking of annexing Hawaii.
After this, especially after the Russo-Japanese War, the development of the Japanese Navy has always regarded the United States as a hypothetical enemy.
In terms of its attitude toward China, Japan has always dreamed of monopolizing China, while the United States demands that interests be equalized.
In 1937, Japan launched a war of aggression against China and gradually expanded its scale, seriously threatening the interests of Western countries in China.
At the same time, in order to dominate East Asia and strive for world hegemony, the Japanese ruling clique has long established the national policy of advancing north and south simultaneously.
In 1940, Germany invaded western Europe. The United States was too busy supporting the War of Resistance against Germany to look east.
Japanese militarism believes that this is a good opportunity to move south.
In the same year, the Konoe cabinet threw out the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere plan in a vain attempt to establish a great Japanese colonial empire that would include China, Korea, and the whole of East Asia, and thus Oceania.
In September 1940, the Treaty of German, Italian, and Japanese Alliance was signed in Berlin, which seriously irritated the United States.
Japan successively occupied all of Indochina, making it a strategic supply base and a springboard for southward expansion, further exacerbating the contradictions between the United States and Japan.
The United States, Britain, and other countries have strongly demanded that Japan withdraw its troops from China and stop expansion, and threaten Japan with restrictions on scrap steel and oil exports, forcing Japan to comply.
In October 1941, the cabinet of the main war faction Hideki Tojo was established. On 1 December, the Imperial Council decided to go to war against the United States, Great Britain, and the Netherlands.
In the early morning of the 8th (3:20 a.m. Japan time on the 8th and 7:50 a.m. Hawaii time on the 7th), the Japanese army, under the command of Combined Fleet Commander Isoroku Yamamoto, sneaked into Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands, the largest naval and air base in the Pacific.
On the same day, the United States and Britain declared war on Japan, and the Pacific War broke out.
The series is a highly restored version of real history, and the main battles depicted include:
The Battle of Guadalcanal, august 1942 – February 1943;
The Battle of Bougainville Island, between November 1943 and March 1944;
The Battle for Peliliu Island in 1944;
The Battle of Iwo Jima, which took place from 16 February to 26 March 1945;
The Battle of Okinawa, which took place from April 1 to June 21, 1945.
Pacific War unfolds from the perspective of three Marines, through whom the audience is shown the entire Pacific Theater.
In addition to collectively snatching supplies from friendly forces, the U.S. troops in "Bloody Pacific" also wet the bed in fright, had a nervous breakdown and committed suicide, and it was not uncommon to torture and kill prisoners of war.
Marine Rookie Sladge witnessed his comrades prying gold teeth on enemy corpses; Afraid of exposing the target, the out-of-control person was killed by his comrades.
The childish Slij, who was burned by the war, also used his bayonet to pry the gold teeth of the Japanese army.
The story ends on Victory Day against Japan, August 15, 1945, what americans call "V-J Day."
Freedom and peace are so precious that countless of humanity's best sons and daughters have given their lives.
To this day, there are still countries caught in the middle of a fiery dispute,
And we, born under the red flag and growing up in the spring wind, see the appearance of the Taiping and the prosperous world.
Cherish hard-won peace.