All Quiet on the Western Front

The book and film were both banned during Nazi rule. From Mel Brooks' interview (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/heroes/brooks.htm):. The Road Back, another book written by Erich Maria Remarque, is about a different group of soldiers trying to cope with postwar Germany: dealing with the defeated German society after the war, trying to go to school, and trying to live a normal life. The lead actors will be the same, with the exception of Will Ferrell as Franz and Uma Thurman as Ulla. The film has also been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. A film based on the musical has been announced and set for a 2005 release. It also received two further nominations:. The Producers was nominated for the following Tony Awards in 2001:.

The movie starred Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander. Overall the musical is much more upbeat and ends more happily with the two producers becoming successful after being released from jail. Gardner Sullivan, Walter Anthony (uncredited) and Lewis Milestone (uncredited), won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone. Dubois (LSD), a hippie who played Hitler in the 1968 movie, does not appear in the musical. The film version, adapted by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. The character Lorenzo S. Also, when he sees the French countryside, he sees it is not different from the German countryside, why should he destroy this either? When wanting to change the tone of the book to a nice tone, the author uses nature as a tool to achieve that. Ulla has a much larger role, as does Springtime for Hitler's director Roger DeBris.

He wonders why this nature is being destroyed on the front, he wants to preserve this beauty not destroy it. Although the musical has many scenes and jokes taken directly from the film, there are still many differences. When traveling by train, Paul describes the beautiful mountains and plains of Germany. Its first run starred Nathan Lane (who reprised that role during the show's first run on London's West End) and Matthew Broderick and won a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards. Nature is used to represent escape, it is beautiful and pure. The movie was adapted as a Broadway musical by Mel Brooks in 2001. The landscape on the front is barren, but when Paul goes on leave, he sees nature. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

If the war has not killed the soldiers then the lethal combination of physical and mental anguish have figuratively killed the soldiers. It won an Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Gene Wilder). They are forced to deal with the emotional shock of watching the violent deaths of their friends. The movie was written and directed by Mel Brooks. No food or water for days on end. However, the producers end up in prison where they cast a new show amongst the prisoners. And their living conditions are atrocious; they live in mud/earth dug-outs infested with rats, along side rotting corpses. The producers see it as a final — yet futile — plan to reap their ill-gotten gains.

They are in constant fear. He and the producers bomb the theatre to end the production. The never-ending attacks and counter-attacks destroy their nerves. Franz Liebkind (the writer, played by Kenneth Mars), who really believed they were producing a tribute to Hitler, is insulted by the audience's laughter. Physically, they are in constant danger from being shot and bombed. Unfortunately for the con artists, the Broadway musical is misinterpreted as an over the top satire on Nazism and becomes a hit. One of the other main themes in this book is how war completely ruins soldiers. Springtime for Hitler, a musical comedy about Adolf Hitler, is the result.

War is ultimately fought by human soldiers, and this book is set where they fight. They set out to purposely make a flop, so that no one will ever audit the flop's books. The day Paul eventually dies was otherwise militarily uneventful, the army report just noting "All quiet on the western front". Their plan is to oversell shares in a show and then go bankrupt and keep all the unspent funds. Nothing short of being there could show the sheer numbers of dead and wounded every day in the war. Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is a failed, aging Broadway producer who meets up with accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder). It was adapted into a Broadway musical in 2001. Vivid descriptions are presented throughout the book. The Producers is a 1968 feature length comedy film set in New York City in which two con-men attempt to cheat theatre "angels" (investors) out of their investment money.

Finally, the French troops come and the German lines disintegrate. Tony Award for Best Orchestrations WINNER. The trenches and fortifications are shelled continuously, poison gas blankets the battlefield, snipers shoot at anyone with their head above ground. Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical WINNER. Paul describes the horrors of war throughout the book. Tony Award for Best Choreography WINNER. Another main theme seen throught All Quiet on the Western Front is the way the soldiers metaphorically change from humans into animals. Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical WINNER.

The novel shows these weapons being used for butchery on a grand scale; for instance, battles lasting for four months. Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical WINNER. World War I saw the development of many new horrible innovations such as poison gas, machine guns, and tanks; all of which made killing easier and even more impersonal. Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical WINNER. This book shows a vivid, realistic, and horrible portrait of war. Tony Award for Best Performace by a Featured Actress in a Musical (Cady Huffman) WINNER. The archetypical war novel romanticizes war and exhults the heroes of the story. Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Gary Beach) WINNER.

A main theme in All Quiet on the Western Front is the brutality of war. Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Nathan Lane) WINNER. Nobody has any answers. Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Matthew Broderick). Some of the soldiers ponder how the war was started, what is it for, and who it benefits. Tony Award for Best Original Score WINNER. After all, none of the characters have ever seen a Frenchman before the war, much less have reason to kill them. Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical WINNER.

The first is that war is total nonsense. Tony Award for Best Musical WINNER. There are many central themes in the book. Battle seems to be waged only to gain pitifully small pieces of land. Rather, one after another they offer a chance for him to be killed.

Battles have no names. He is also indifferent to the significance of any of the battles. While all the soldiers at the front wish for nothing more than peace, knowing that they are losing the war, people back home talk about marching on Paris. He finds it difficult to understand people at home anymore.

Occasionally Paul receives leave from the army, and returns home temporarily. We are fleeing from ourselves, from our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.". We don't want to take the world by storm. "We are not youth any longer.

Remarque often refers to the living soldiers as old and dead, emotionally depleted and hardened. The monotony, the constant artillery fire, the struggle to find food, and the overarching role of chance in the lives and deaths of the soldiers, all are described in detail. The book focuses not on heroic stories of bravery as do so many other war stories, but rather gives a realistic view of the hell the soldiers found themselves in. They are the only people that can gain anything from this war, not Paul and his friends.

All his friends say that they are fighting the war for a few persons whom they have never met and most likely never will. Paul and his friends have to endure day after day of non-stop bombardment. Eventually it all becomes clear to him: war is entirely pointless. Paul and Kat swiftly became almost brothers, bonded by the hardships of the war. Kat soon becomes Paul's mentor and teaches him about the realities of war.

He arrives on the western front with his friends (Tjaden, Müller, and a number of other characters) and meets Stanislaus Katczinsky. The story follows the experiences of Paul Bäumer: a soldier who joined the German army shortly after the start of the war. Although it is unrelated to the novel, "all quiet on the Western Front" has become a popular slang for the lack of action, a reference to the Phony War in World War II's Western Front (WWII). In 1930 the book was turned into an Oscar-winning movie of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.

It sold a million copies within a year in Germany and a further million abroad. The book was first published in German as Im Westen nichts Neues in January 1929. All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, about the horrors of that war and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front. Best Writing, Achievement - George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson and Del Andrews.

Best Cinematography - Arthur Edeson.