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that it was fiction.
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I think the critical point to bear in mind,
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therefore, is that as a filmic war, the war turned into myth
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at the very moment that it was being fought.
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Nobody had ever seen the landscape of the dark side of the moon
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that was created by industrialized war between 1914 and 1918.
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The way it was represented by film was completely fictional.
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Film comes straight out of theater.
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It has a proscenium arch
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and it has a vanishing point.
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Anyone who's ever been anywhere near a battle will realize
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that battles don't have vanishing points.