Inside the Hero Factory

摘要

Clint eastwood's tough, smart, achingly sad "Flags of Our Fathers" is about three anointed heroes of World War Ⅱ -three of the men who appeared, backs to the camera, in the legendary Joe Rosenthal photograph of six soldiers hoisting the American flag on Iwo Jima. It was an image that electrified a nation at war. The military wanted these men to be larger than life to raise desperately needed money for the war effort by selling war bonds.