It's about righting a wrong. Somewhere along the line, someone screwed up. The feeling about the POWs was, 'We owe them.' It's not supposed to be political, but it's kind of hard to review your mistakes.
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Dale single-handedly chang-ed the way Hollywood makes movies about the military, ... He gives the actors a real sense of obligation about what they're doing. At night he'd play '40s music and talk about some of the history leading up to the war in Japan so he could bring these guys into this frame of thinking.John Dahl
He's good-looking, he's got a great charismatic presence, and he's a very good actor. He hasn't always had the material or opportunity to show just how good. In a lot of ways, he's very underrated. When he came aboard, he went all the way.
John Dahl
That's fine with me. I like the process of making movies.
John Dahl
I did not go to boot camp, ... but our actors did. I am not an actor, so I was spared.
John Dahl
I think MGM was a little worried about some of the parallels. I thought it was a kind of completely different story.
John Dahl
He is the man to go to. He changed the way the military was portrayed in films and made it more accurate.
John Dahl
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