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A scene from “Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Drones”, by George Lucas (2002), second opus in chronological order of the saga which began in 1977. CHRISTOPHEL COLLECTION When Jean Baudrillard wrote, on January 4, 1991, “the Gulf War will not take place”, did he know that he was plagiarizing Scarlett O’Hara? This is exactly what the heroine of Gone with the Wind, by Victor Fleming (1939), says about the Civil War (1861-1865) at the very beginning of the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Margaret Mitchell: “Taratata! War, war, war! These conversations about war ruin all our parties. All this bores me to death! Besides, there will be no war. » What Scarlett and Baudrillard together say is that the image is at the heart of war. In fact, in Gone with the Wind, the war does not take place on the big screen: it is resolved in an ellipse, since it is its effects on the fate of civilians that count in this fresco, not the details of the battles. In its nature, war does not change in cinema: it is the forms of war that change, and which also transform the cinema that takes hold of it. Cinema loves war passionately. Since The Soldier, by Charles Chaplin (1918), or The General Mechanic, by Buster Keaton (1926), via The Great Illusion, by Jean Renoir (1937), The Longest Day – the megaproduction by Darryl F. Zanuck in 1962 – or Apocalypse Now, by Francis Ford Coppola (1979), the war film is a genre in itself. For Frédéric Ramel, university professor of political science and researcher at the International Research Center (CERI), “cinema is a market which encounters an unfortunate reality: the rawest and most tragic reality of international relations is war”. You have 86.99% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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