During world war ii, an american navy ship is sunk by a japanese submarine leaving 890 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters. Your music, tv shows, movies, podcasts, and audiobooks will transfer automatically to the apple music, apple tv, apple podcasts, and apple books apps where youll still have access to your favorite itunes features, including purchases, rentals, and imports. Nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich, mark ruffalo, brian van holt, martin henderson, roger. Windtalkers was released on june 14, 2002 in north america. Windtalkers, however, sinks under too many cliches and only superficially.
Loosely based on a reallife operation during world war ii, this actionadventure from director john woo stars nicolas cage as joe enders, a marine. You might expect that to mean it would be a good opportunity for native american actors, and it is, but as a bigbudget hollywood feature it also requires bigname anglosaxon actors, so the story is more about the marines played by. Latturi nicolas cage e christian slater sunu prutagunisti e nterpritanu dui sirgenti dei marine assignati a pruteggiri i parraturi in codici navajo nta a battagghia di saipan duranti a sicunna verra munniali. As many of you know, the one unbreakable code the allies had was based on the navajo language. The navajo code talkers who are the ostensive focus of the new john woo world war ii movie have so little to do with the story that calling the picture windtalkers feels like a sham. Windtalkers appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2. Nicolas cage during windtalkers premiere at graumans chinese theatre in hollywood california. Download itunes from apples website, then click download to download the itunes installer. A lot of articles i read focused on the recognition issue underlying the code talkers story.
Marine joe enders is assigned to protect ben yahzee, a navajo code talker, the marines new secret weapon, but if. Windtalkers comes advertised as the saga of how navajo indians used their language to create an unbreakable code that helped win world war ii in the pacific. Marines in wwii are assigned to protect navajo marines who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher. Star of windtalkers nicolas cage arrives at the library of congress for a reception after the. Get windtalkers dvd and bluray release date, trailer, movie poster and movie stats. Windtalkers 2002 stream and watch online moviefone.
Joe enders is a gungho marine assigned to protect a. See more ideas about adam beach, code talker and john woo. He is racked with guilt and feeling as though his indecision during an ambush is what led to the loss of the entire platoon. If you have windows 10, you can get the latest version of itunes from the microsoft store. Windtalkers simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Windtalkers reunites two of woos previous heroes nicolas cage and christian slater into what is a generally effective war film, chronicling the lives of those courageous men who risked and more often than not sacrificed their lives in battle against the enemy. Thats a fascinating, littleknown story and might have made a good movie. Windtalkers is a 2002 american war film directed and produced by john woo, starring nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich, mark ruffalo, an.
Windtalkers is a 2002 american war film directed and produced by john woo, starring nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich, mark ruffalo, and christian slater. Windtalkers 2002 is a world war ii action, drama movie starring nicolas cage and adam beach. Woo was being honored with his hand and footprints in. Windtalkers opens peacefully, introducing adam beach as he prepares to leave a reservation for wwiis pacific theater, where hes been assigned to work as a communications officer in a code based on his native navajo language.
Windtalkers featuring nicolas cage and adam beach is streaming on showtime, streaming. Windtalkers 2002 trailer hd nicolas cage adam beach. Marine sergeant nicolas cage, shellshocked and injured after losing all of his men to japanese attackers in an ambush. Starring nicolas cage, adam beach and peter stormare. World premiere of windtalkers stock pictures, royaltyfree photos. Starring nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich. If you get itunes from the microsoft store, you shouldnt need to follow the rest of the steps in this article. Windtalkers is a 2002 american war film directed and produced by john woo, starring nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich, mark.
Please feel free to add your own birthday wishes for nicolas by adding a. The navajo language doesnt resemble even remotely anything the japanese had ever encountered, plus it was an oral language only, not written so it wasnt like even if they figured out what it was they could go look it up in a. Marines in wwii assigned to protect navajo marines who know a secret radio code. Lisa marie presley nicolas cage during windtalkers premiere at graumans chinese theatre in hollywood california united. Alas, the filmmakers have buried it beneath battlefield cliches, while centering the story on a white character played by nicolas cage. Windtalkers follows suit of most postsaving private ryan war films and tries to make its point by dousing us with relentless violence. I thought the original dvd looked decent but demonstrated some concerns that surprised me due to the age and budget of windtalkers. The unusual premise for the movie includes a village largely run by the female population.
Nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich, mark ruffalo, brian van holt, martin henderson, roger willie, frances oconnor, christian slater, jason isaacs, holmes osborne. It revolves around a littleknown facet of wwii history. Windtalkers is an 2002 action war movie that was produced by john woo, terence chang, tracie grahamrice and alison rosenzweig and was directed by john woo. Download premium images you cant get anywhere else. With nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich. If you cant install or update itunes for windows apple. Director john woo and leading man nicolas cage, who previously collaborated on 1997s faceoff, reunite for this unusually tense, engrossing, characterdriven world war ii drama. Loosely based on a reallife operation during world war ii, this actionadventure from director john woo stars nicolas cage as joe enders, a marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in the solomon islands during an ambush he believes. John woo and nicolas cage didnt get enough quality time during faceoff so they have reteamed on this world war iibased project. Joe enders played by nicolas cage is a marine coping with the complete loss of his platoon in the solomon islands. Windtalkers 2002 watch on fubotv, showtime, and streaming. The directors edition seemed to present virtually identical visuals. The movie windtalkers was a complete disservice to the actual navajo codetalkers. The plot involves nicolas cages tough, mentally tortured sergeant being required to protect a code that is part of the navajo language and is embodied by a native speaker of the language.
Director john woos south pacific world war ii drama windtalkers concerns the use of the navajo language as a code to get radio messages past the japanese. Japanese from cracking their codes, an operation that must be kept secret, at any cost. We follow the two men and their comrades through several battles as the us marine corps makes its way across saipan against entrenched and fearsome opposition. In his hong kong films, director john woo proved that he was a master of action. On the plus side, cage, slater, and a solid supporting cast of character actors are all dependably good, and its interesting to see john woos distinctive action style put into a war film. Saw end of windtalkers, now i understand the high road. Cest beau, poignant, bien filme et nicolas cage est vraiment excellent dans son. Loosely based on a reallife operation during world war ii, this actionadventure from director john woo stars nicolas cage as joe enders, a marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in. Available on itunes, showtime, prime video, hulu, showtime anytime. While the movie, the windtalkers, gives a general overview of what the navajos job was during world war, the movie still left much to be desired. Nicolas cage, adam beach, christian slater, peter stormare, noah emmerich, mark ruffalo, brian van holt, martin henderson, roger willie, frances oconnor mpaa rating. The 2006 remake starring nicolas cage and ellen burstyn recreates much of the suspense and drama from the original film of the same name which debuted in 1973.
He is assigned to protect a navajo codetalker ably played by the charming adam beach with the stipulation that the code itself is more valuable than the codetalker. Directed by john woo, windtalkers is loosely based on a real operation during world war ii. With nicolas cage, tom sizemore, thomas jane, matt lanter. The film was released in the united states on june 14, 2002. Released june 14th, 2002, windtalkers stars nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich the r movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 14 min, and received a score of 51 out of 100 on. Typical of hollywood mentality to produce a movie of an ethnic subject, casting and storyline using a nonethnic person in a starring role.
Nicolas cage adam beach peter stormare noah emmerich. Marines in world war ii are assigned to protect navajo marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher. Loosely based on a reallife operation during world war ii, this actionadventure from director john woo stars nicolas cage as joe enders, a marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in the solomon islands during an ambush he believes was deadlier than necessary due to his indecision. Windtalkers by john woo john woo, nicolas cage, adam. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Corporal joe enders is the only soldier to survive a battle with the japanese army that wiped out his entire squad.
He returns to active duty and is given a special assignment. Marine joe enders nicolas cage is assigned to protect ben yahzee adam beach a navajo code talker, the marines new secret weapon. Windtalkers nicolas cage is a wwii marine charged with guarding one of the codetalkers, navajo indians who communicate for the military in a littleknown language. A real movie about the codetalkers windtalkers 2002.
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