The Big Parade
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The Big Parade

1925Movie2 h 31 minNR

Romance
90
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb7.8Letterboxd3.9/5Rotten Tomatoes100%91%
90
ExcellentGoodWatch score
IMDb7.8Letterboxd3.9/5Rotten Tomatoes100%91%

Summary

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

Good for

  • Friends night
  • Teens
  • Drop-in friendly

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  • Graphic violence bothers you

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  • Makes you care deeply.
  • Puts you on the battlefield.
  • Breaks your heart.
  • Leaves you longing.
  • Leaves you shaken.

Not for laughs or scares.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Tropes

Low-Speed Chasein 75 titlesPlayed for drama. Jim, having been shot in the leg, shoots a German soldier in the chest. The German falls and starts to crawl back towards German lines.Meadow Runin 113 titlesPlayed pretty much straight at the end of the film, and to great dramatic effect. Melisande's attention is drawn by the figure of a man walking with an odd gait at the top of the hill.All 28 tropes

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