The Pacific

The Pacific:
Los Angeles:Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg swapped war stories of other people for the groundbreaking, the tragic impact in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers."And harsh and visceral shooting battle in World War II is the cooperation of review by the "Pacific", which is Part 10, $ 195 million miniseries debuting Sunday at 9 pm Eastern time the United States on higher vocational education. As it is celebrating the veteran said.
But "the Pacific" carves its own path around the lesser-known theater of war with the likeness of current conflicts. It also breaks the "Band of Brothers" mold after being beaten and battered by Marines home with little to institutionalize a classic World War II film "the best years of our lives.Challenge "was to be human beings and put them through hell, and I wonder how in the world they would approach the world when he returned," said Hanks.
"Section 10 is the first time that we went for it," he said.
Higher vocational education in the new series was born from its predecessor, 2001 acclaimed, Emmy-winning "Band of Brothers", and that dramatic true story of a company of paratroopers fighting in Europe.
"We just tell the story of a partial 'Band," said Spielberg. "My relatives used to say for me .. and we all fought in the Pacific region. This is a different story, and jungle warfare."
The father of the director, Arnold, and clashed with the Japanese in Burma and an uncle B - 29s flew over Japan. Other Pacific Theater veterans wrote to Spielberg, "wanted me to tell them the story."
Challenge for the executive producers Hanks and director Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman is that the conflict between the United States and Japan expand through a series of remote islands, and lacks the features that gave the European "Band of Brothers" in the immediate intimacy.
Men "and the Pacific" fought for dirt on Guadalcanal, New Britain, Pavuvu, Peleliu and Iwo Jima. In the series opens shortly after the of 1941 the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and keep track of three Marines and ending youth on the home front in 1946 after the surrender of Japan.
"You can see who these men were before they come to war, where they came from, why they want to get there .... you can see how to get out of it, and if they did at all," said Joe cast member Mazilu. "You get the full scope of what it's like to be U.S. Marines at the time."
Mazilu, such as his co-stars, playing a true member of the First Marine Division. In the series focuses on Eugene B. Sledge (Mazilu) and Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), both privates and writers of memoirs, which were used in the development of miniseries, as well as Sgt. John Basilone (Jon Seda), and the Medal of Honor.
"The hardest part was filming these men and try to tell their stories honestly," said Dale, a sentiment echoed by Mazilu SEDAN During a joint interview.
Even as the producers promised to go deep into the truth of the Pacific, and if the fight against U.S. troops emerged as the hero or not, Goetzman, the producer realized that at the end of the day, "you just can not help but have such respect for this unabiding vets" .
According to Hanks, theater and the Pacific, which faced was very different from the one Union.
"The war in the Pacific was more like the wars that we have witnessed since that time, the war on racism and terrorism, a war of absolute horror, both in the battlefield and those living in normal circumstances," he said.In addition to the suffering faced by the soldiers, and there are scenes in the series depicts Japan's forced use of civilians on the islands to become suicide bombers ready. In one scene, a woman blew up a bomb body; baby in her hands."We want the public to be prepared that there is a level of brutality in the 'Pacific' which are more intense than it was in the 'group of brothers," said Spielberg.
"Anything less than the graphic nature of the war, or for that matter, any war, will have been met by scorn by those veterans who fought in it," he said. "It would be just one of the most Hollywoodized filming an event that is tearing your body ... and often does not create even the memory of your existence, and in the war, and this is what will happen."
Co-executive producer, Bruce McKenna, a writer who started looking for "Pacific" Shortly after the work "a group of brothers," The violence is historically accurate.
Okinawa was the site of "most terrible fight which the Americans fought in World War II," he said. "And there were 8 million artillery rounds, one every second."The estimated number of deaths, according to several historical accounts, including more than 100,000 Japanese troops, at least 75,000, and severity of more than 12,000 U.S. troops.
I stood in Australia for more than a series' sites, including the war zones and scenes of the United States, within one year of photography in the period 2007-2008. More than 90 sets had been built, with 62,000 tons of earth excavated in a quarry outside of Melbourne for the construction of Iwo Jima and Okinawa battlefield.
There were six writers and six directors on this project, with retired Marine Captain Dale Day as a military adviser as he did in "Band of Brothers."Actors recognize that the circumstances did not suit the actual war, but with that infernal.
"You were not comfortable that the appointment for one day," said Mazilu, with 110 degree weather that made it against the burning of clothes and skin with the unending parade of flies "in an attempt to get on the nose, and eyes".
"They really CGI'ed of flies because there were too many on our faces," said Seda, using the abbreviation for the computer to generate images.
Spielberg and Tom Hanks are determined to honor all of history and those who live with their World War II films, which Spielberg will help to narrow the so-called "generation gap" between his father's generation and those that followed.
There are other ambitions for another project. Asked if they expected "and the Pacific" to resonate with viewers when it comes to conflicts facing America today, Hanks responded quickly.
"We want to resonate fully," he said. "The war in the Pacific are the war on terror, racism and suicide attacks. Both sides look to the other side such as dogs that are not worthy of human beings, of a civilization which does not recognize the advancement of the human species.
"Sound familiar? Sound like something that could happen?" He asked, referring to the United States and the conflict in the Middle East.
He pointed out that Americans who once bitterly rejected the Japanese brutality and barbarism is now accepted as friends and on an equal footing.
"Now we are in the face of another part of the world where we view and we see it as a deviation of mankind," said Hanks. "There is a possibility that somewhere down the line, 60 years from now, can look to the people who are trying to kill us and kill us now as we do today Japanese."
They are Hollywood A listers recognize that cooperation at the earliest possible time, 1986 a slight comedy which starred Tom Hanks and Spielberg's producer, gave no hint as to their roles in the future as historians of war be respected.
"When we first worked together in the 'money pit,' If someone has come to saying, to me: 'You two guys will get a job telling stories historical ... more specifically, the history of World War II,' you have said, 'You're nuts,' "Hank said, grinning.