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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

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All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues, literally "Nothing New in the West") is a 2022 war film from Germany directed by Edward Berger. It is the first ever German-language film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's iconic 1929 novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. There were two versions prior to it, a 1930 theatrical film and a 1979 TV film, both made in the USA.The film is set in 1917-1918 during the last year and a half of World War I in Western Europe. Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) is a 17-year-old schoolboy who, along with his buddies Albert Kropp (Aaron Hilmer), Franz Müller (Moritz Klaus), and Ludwig Behm (Adrian Grünewald), volunteer for the Imperial German Army after getting a patriotic talk from their teacher. They do not know that the army uniforms they are receiving have been taken from corpses.The boys are sent to the trenches where they come under the wing of a veteran sergeant, Stanislaus "Kat" Katczynski (Albrecht Schuch). The mud, blood, and horror of the trenches quickly strips the boys of their patriotic enthusiasm. Time passes, and the fortunes of war turn against Germany, and the German army goes into retreat. While the surviving boys try to make it to the end of the war alive, German Minister of Finance Matthias Erzberger (Daniel Brühl) is sent to the French, to beg for an armistice.The film was released on October 28, 2022 on Netflix.
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Charge-into-Combat Cut
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Charge-into-Combat Cut: During the opening battle sequence, Decoy Protagonist Heinrich charges against the enemy with his folding shovel. Then the scene cuts away to the aftermath with Heinrich's corpse being loaded onto a truck.
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Table Space: Brixdorf has dinner with General Friedrichs. The lavish food on the table is itself a jarring contrast with the lives of the common soldiers, but also, Brixdorf and the general are on opposite ends of a long table, further emphasizing the isolation of the German high command.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: While General Friedrichs is simply an allegory of German officers that kept ordering pointless attacks after the armistice, he is heavily inspired by General Ludendorff. His father fought in the German unification wars and it's implied that he never participated in combat himself due to the long period of peace, just like the real Ludendorff. Politically, he also mirrors Ludendorff's far-right views, his hatred of Social Democrats (blaming them for the armistice), and his belief in the "stab-in-the-back" theory.
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One Last Smoke
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One Last Smoke: Paul wants to remove the bullet from Kat's stomach but the latter requests a cigarette instead. Soon after he is dead.
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Tempting Fate
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Kat is killed on the morning of the armistice (after talking about his plans for after the war, and saying "I'll be right back").
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Scare Chord
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Scare Chord: Whereas most of the film's score consists of standard subdued strings and organ, a number of tense scenes will feature a loud synthesizer riff to mark the profound danger looming over the characters.
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The Ghost
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The Ghost: Hindenburg. Erzberger is called in for a meeting with Hindenburg and the high command, but the film cuts away. Later Erzberger sends a telegram from Compiegne with the peace terms, and receives a telegram from Hindenburg ordering him to sign.
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In the Back
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Towards the end of the film, during a tense moment between Paul and a French soldier, the two are at a standstill in a bunker, neither one of them seeming to want to make a move. The camera turns to Paul just in time to catch him get stabbed through the back by another French soldier.
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Cruel and Unusual Death
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Paul's friend Albert Kropps is caught at gunpoint by French soldiers while retreating and is executed by flamethrower. Albert is left screaming in pain and agony until he is finished off with a Coup de Grâce while Paul can only watch helplessly in horror. One soldier who has fallen to the ground ends up crushed under the treads of a French tank. The French soldier that Paul kills in the bomb crater is stabbed multiple times, and begins to choke on his own blood. In a desperate attempt to quiet the man's gurgling, Paul shoves mud into his mouth before realizing what he has done, and desperately tries to save the man's life. It does not work, and the man dies in agony as Paul scrambles and fails to help. Tjaden, upon realizing that he will likely be crippled by the bullet wound in his leg, stabs himself repeatedly in the neck with a fork, sending blood flying from the wound.
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Bloodier and Gorier
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Bloodier and Gorier/Darker and Edgier: Compared to its 1930 and 1979 predecessors, the 2022 film takes advantage of modern cinematography to depict a brutal and grittier portrayal of the horror and tragedy of the First World War. This includes incredibly visceral portrayals of amputated limbs, bullet wounds, bodies reduced to mist by explosions, burn victims... it goes on and on.
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Adaptation Expansion
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Adaptation Expansion: The part of the film that follows Matthias Erzberger as he tries to get an armistice is an addition to the story, found neither in the original novel or previous adaptations like the 1930 film.
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Patriotic Fervor
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Patriotic Fervor: Used, as always, to manipulate the people. A gung-ho teacher at Paul's school tells his students that they will be "the Iron Youth of Germany", that they're going to march on Paris, and they must fight "for Kaiser, God, and Fatherland!". It works, as all the boys march off to war.
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In Medias Res
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In Medias Res: Subverted. While the book starts well into Paul's war experience, and so did previous adaptations, having flashbacks and conversations about the past, one of the easiest to spot deviations in this adaptation is the chronological order of events. Specifically, the film begins by focusing on a Decoy Protagonist, Heinrich, who is killed in the opening battle. His uniform is then retrieved, repaired, and handed to Paul, the actual protagonist as he signs up for the war effort alongside his friends, all in chronological order.
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Bald of Evil
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Bald of Evil: General Friedrichs, the fanatic General Ripper who sends his men on an insane last attack fifteen minutes before the Armistice, is totally bald.
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Plot Armor
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Plot Armor: Paul somehow manages to survive against all odds in all the hellfire he goes through. This protection finally runs out at the end of the movie, when a French soldier stabs him in the back with a bayonet.
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More Dakka
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The French counterattack is horrifying to witness. After the Germans cause the French to retreat, Paul and his squad mates enjoy a quick bite from food abandoned in a pantry, only to feel the ground shake, see rats running away, and hearing the mechanical rumbling of a French armored column headed their way. The tanks blast their way through the German infantry using machine-guns, and cannons, and the sight of them rolling over the Germans in the trenches below causes them to scream in panic, when one tank rumbles through a semi-collapsed trench it drives over an unlucky German. Once the tanks have the main German force on the run, French infantrymen rush over to shoot the stragglers, and back up the flame thrower troopers who burn any stranded Germans where they stand.
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Artifact Title
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Artifact Title: In the novel, Paul dies a month before the war ends "on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front." — In the movie, however, Paul dies in different circumstances on the last day during an attack, losing the context in which the original title arose.
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Life/Death Juxtaposition
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Life/Death Juxtaposition: The opening shots show a fox in a forest, nursing her puppies. The film then cuts to no-man's-land, littered with dead bodies.
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Adapted Out
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Adapted Out: Several characters that were featured in the original 1929 novel and the 1930 and 1979 films, such as Himmelstoss and Kemmerich, have been left out of the 2022 film.
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The Hero Dies
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The Hero Dies: The movie ends with Paul getting killed in combat.
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Foregone Conclusion
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The audience is fully aware of what sort of hell the frontlines of WW1 is by default and if they are somehow unaware, there is a combat scene before even opening credits roll. Characters in-universe, however, are not. This is most prominent with all the eagerness with which the students go willingly and enthusiastically to the recruitment office, even if the war has been at a complete stalemate for three years already.
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Historical Hero Upgrade: Matthias Erzberger. In the movie, he is presented as a Reasonable Authority Figure that wants to end the war as quickly as possible, in contrast to the Honor Before Reason approach of the German officers. While a centrist with some Progressive views who opposed unrestricted submarine warfare and was instrumental in the peace effort, Erzberger was also known to be a political opportunist that supported the German militarization that led to the war, even though he was aware of the consequences. He also not only enthusiastically supported Germany's involvement in the war but was known to support extravagant and bizarre proposals, like annexing Belgium.
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Vader Breath: The gas masks that the soldiers have to wear to protect against gas attacks give them all Darth Vader-breath. You can even see their masks expanding and contracting with each breath.
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War Is Glorious
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War Is Glorious: Paul and his friends come to believe this thanks to unending propaganda and the Rousing Speech delivered by their high school principal, who congratulates all the young men who valiantly signed up to fight for the honor of the Fatherland. Paul and his friends even gleefully chant how they'll be in Paris in a short few weeks. Keep in mind this is three years into the war, rather than the opening months of it.
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Screams Like a Little Girl
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Screams Like a Little Girl: Played for Drama. Albert and his comrades scream in terror as the French tanks overrun their positions and roll over their trench above their heads.
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Bad Vibrations
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Bad Vibrations: When the Germans seize the French trenches and our heroes enjoy the French food, the liquids on their table suddenly start shaking. Then they see the fleeing rats and rush out of the dugout to see the approaching enemy tanks.
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Stress Vomit
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Stress Vomit: A soldier turns around and vomits on-camera into the trench, as all the men stand at the ready, waiting to go over the top in a counterattack.
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Intergenerational Friendship
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Intergenerational Friendship: After the Time Skip, Paul and Kat have become close friends. Paul is a former student who is 19 at most by this point, while Kat is a married tradesman in his 30s who had a son 10 years ago.
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Death by Adaptation: Several characters who survive in the original novel and previous film adaptations are killed off in the 2022 film, most notably Albert and Tjaden.
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Peaceful in Death
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Peaceful in Death: Just as described in the original novel, Paul's body is found with "an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come."
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Big Good
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Big Good: Matthias Erzberger, who's trying to negotiate a stop to the war that Paul and his friends are trapped in.
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Not Quite Saved Enough
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Not Quite Saved Enough: All of the characters, but especially Paul and Kat. Kat dies of a small bullet wound given to him by a child mere hours before the end of the war, and Paul rescues him and takes him to the medical hut, still talking to him all the time. He then turns around and Kat dies, with the doctor telling him that the bullet went to his liver and he might as well have not bothered. Paul, and all the dead of the last strike. There are only fifteen minutes left until the armistice, General Friedrichs fanatically forces them to go on a last charge. It's suicidal, and Paul (along with plenty of soldiers who survived that long) all die. Paul even has it rougher than that. He makes it across the whole way in the final suicidal strike, before being stabbed to death by a bayonet in the literal last minute of the war.
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Downer Ending: Just as in the original novel and previous film adaptations, Paul loses all his friends and dies just before the end of the First World War. The film ends with a newly-arrived German recruit whom Paul earlier saved in battle finding Paul's body, a look of calm on his face.
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Wham Shot
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Wham Shot: Several: After the bunker collapse, Paul is tasked with collecting the dog tags of the soldiers who died in the attack. To his horror, he steps on Ludwig's glasses. He then turns over what is revealed to be his corpse a mere few feet away, a leg severed and his face disfigured. While eating food found in a recently captured French dugout, Paul and his comrades are alarmed by the sight of rats escaping the dugout and the sound of mechanical rumbling outside. Realizing that they are about to face a French counterattack, they rush outside to the trench and man their positions. They are shocked to see not one but an entire wave of French Saint-Chamond tanks slowly advancing out of the fog. Towards the end of the film, during a tense moment between Paul and a French soldier, the two are at a standstill in a bunker, neither one of them seeming to want to make a move. The camera turns to Paul just in time to catch him get stabbed through the back by another French soldier.
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Insert Grenade Here
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Insert Grenade Here: During the French counter attack, after the tanks drive off the main German force from the trenches, Kat catches up to a tank and places a grenade on the treads, which immobilizes it. Once the tank is stationary, he goes to a machine-gun slot, and inserts another grenade inside. After the grenade goes off inside the vehicle, the wounded tank crew crawls out of the smoking vehicle allowing Kat and Paul to gun them down with ease.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: The film begins and ends with a shot of the western front's wilderness, calm and unaffected by the grisly happenings of the war.
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Broad Strokes
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Broad Strokes/Truer to the Text: The film manages to be both in the same time. Large sections of the story are made for the adaptationnote Particularly, the entire subplot involving armistice delegation and its outcome, as well as the skipping or compressing of various events and the removal of certain characters, but dozens of tiny detailsnote Like Kat being considered Old Soldier despite being in his late 30s or the various quirky behaviours soldiers developed as means of survival that are depicted on-screen simultaneously put it closer to the text than the previous two adaptation.
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg: While retreating in panic from the battlefield, Albert and several German soldiers are cornered by French soldiers armed with flamethrowers. They immediately throw down their rifles and beg them not to shoot. Unfortunately, the French soldiers are in no mood to give mercy and promptly execute them with their flamethrowers.
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The Mountains of Illinois
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The Mountains of Illinois: There is a scene early on where we get introduced to the heroes in a small town in Northern Germany. The background shows the town being located on a hillside which is very untypical for the area. The scene was most likely shot in some town in the Czech Republic where principal production took place.
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Man on Fire
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Man on Fire: Many German soldiers end up getting burned to death by French flamethrowers in the counterattack, including Albert.
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Time Skip
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Time Skip: After the first half hour which shows the boys joining up and their first horrifying taste of combat, the film skips forward 18 months to November 7, 1918.
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Sacrificial Lamb
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Sacrificial Lamb: Ludwig dies in the trenches early on to show how dangerous the battlefront is.
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Hell Is That Noise
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Hell Is That Noise: Paul can't take the noises the French soldier makes in his agony.
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Old Soldier
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Old Soldier: Kat, the veteran of trench warfare who gives the newbies advice on stuff like how to deal with frozen hands (stick them in your pants) and how to not get shot after firing off a round while on picket duty (move ten meters, because the French will aim at your muzzle flash). While he's older than Paul by almost a generation, he's not even 40 and his wartime experience isn't that much longer, either - it's just how this particular war re-evaluated what "old, experienced veteran" means. Despite only serving for 18 months, Paul qualifies as one after the time skip.
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Too Hungry to Be Polite
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Too Hungry to Be Polite: When Kat and his fellow German soldiers discover the French mess room, they stuff food into their mouths as quickly as they can with no thought to etiquette or dignity.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Unwilling to live as a cripple, Paul and Kat's maimed comrade Tjaden repeatedly stabs himself in the neck with a fork and bleeds out, much to their horror.
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Politically Incorrect Villain
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Politically Incorrect Villain: In his speech to the troops just before his final attacks, Friedrichs outs himself as something of a proto-Nazi since he accuses those who signed the armistice as traitors who stabbed Germany in the back, which is the Big Lie that would form the central pillar of the Nazis' platform.
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From Bad to Worse
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As Paul and his friends march towards the trenches, several shells land nearby, terrifying them. Then they get to the cramped and filthy trenches they'll be calling home for their tour of duty, and then they are forced to take shelter from a French artillery bombardment in a bunker, that soon starts to collapse due to the intensity of the shelling. It gets worse from there.
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Bayonet Ya
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Bayonet Ya: This being a World War I movie, bayonets are standard. Notably, Paul's death comes from the point of a French bayonet with only moments to go before the armistice.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: When faced with the non-negotiable conditions of the armistice and surrender, Major General von Winterfeldt suggests ending the talks and simply leaving. Erzberger, who by now is sick and tired of having to butt heads with every single officer on his path, chews him down for the stubborn refusal to accept the reality of the war and how stalling the cease-fire will only make things worse.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: During the frantic retreat from the French counterattack, Paul's friend Franz is separated from the group, his fate left uncertain.
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Shovel Strike
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Shovel Strike: Heinrich in the opening sequence and Paul at the halfway point are both seen using sharpened shovels to stab enemy soldiers. This is Truth in Television, as both sides found during the war that sharpened entrenching tools were effective weapons in the close combat of the trenches.
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Personal Effects Reveal
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Personal Effects Reveal: Paul goes through the pockets of a French soldier that he has just killed and finds various personal effects, including an ID and, worst of all, a Fatal Family Photo of the man's wife and daughter.
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 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) / int_93deab19
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Ominous Fog
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Ominous Fog: The trenches are often obscured by ominous fog and mist in the mornings, like in the opening shots of the movie, or when Paul's unit is sent back to the front line in the last days. This invokes a sense of fear and dread.
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Tanks, but No Tanks
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Tanks, but No Tanks: Some sharp-eyed viewers noted that the Saint-Chamond tanks featured in the climatic French counterattack are actually modified from Soviet-era BMP infantry fighting vehicles chassis. There is only one surviving Saint-Chamond restored to running condition that is preserved at the Musée des Blindés at Samur.
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Coup de Grâce
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Paul's friend Albert Kropps is caught at gunpoint by French soldiers while retreating and is executed by flamethrower. Albert is left screaming in pain and agony until he is finished off with a Coup de Grâce while Paul can only watch helplessly in horror.
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Living Prop
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Living Prop: At the armistice talks there are two British naval officers, Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss and Captain Jack Marriott. Notably, they never speak, and whilst discussions are translated into French and German, no one also translates it into English.
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 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) / int_a1b141f4
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My God, What Have I Done?
 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) / int_a1b141f4
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The French soldier that Paul kills in the bomb crater is stabbed multiple times, and begins to choke on his own blood. In a desperate attempt to quiet the man's gurgling, Paul shoves mud into his mouth before realizing what he has done, and desperately tries to save the man's life. It does not work, and the man dies in agony as Paul scrambles and fails to help.
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Eye Scream
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Eye Scream: Ludwig's left eye is swollen and has turned blood red from ruptured vessels within upon his death.
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Externally Validated Prophecy
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Externally Validated Prophecy: During the negotiations with the French, Matthias Erzberger warns the French delegation that the terms imposed on Germany will lead to famine and anarchy with the general population and requests for more merciful terms that will not cause resentment amongst the populace. The French delegation does not listen and forces them to sign the peace agreement, setting the stage for the post-war conditions in Germany that led to the Nazis' rise. At one point upon seeing that the end of the war is near and the conditions Germany will be left in, Paul remarks "I'm scared of what's coming".
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Desperate Plea for Home
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Desperate Plea for Home: Ludwig has already seen enough on Day 1 and admits under tears that he wants to go home.
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General Ripper
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General Ripper: After the French and German delegations sign the treaty that officiates that the ceasefire will begin at 11:00 am, on November 11, 1918, General Friedrichs is furious that Germany accepted defeat. In a last-ditch effort to recapture some land from the French and spite the "Social Democrats" that he believes will "ruin mankind", he orders his men to march towards no-man's land and achieve at least one last victory in the hours before the war officially ends, and orders any soldier who refuses to fight to be executed as a deserter and a traitor.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: As far as we can see in the film, General Friedrichs faces no serious punishment or comeuppance for coldly ordering his men on a pointless Suicide Mission in the literal last minutes of the war just to assuage his own ego.
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What a Senseless Waste of Human Life
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What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: Erzberger's stance towards the ongoing war. When he's about to face Hindenburg, he has just a single paper file as his argument: the sheer unsustainable number of men that Germany is losing every day even as it keeps losing territory. Invoked and subverted mid-way through the film. When protagonists are sent to search for a missing detachment of New Meat, they eventually find the missing soldiers all dead inside a building: after thinking they had survived a gas attack, the inexperienced men took off their masks too early and got killed by the lingering fumes. Kat briefly talks with Paul about how stupid it is, but they are both thoroughly hardened by their war ordeal and just roll with the fact that fresh recruits are useless and die by the dozen.
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Dramatic Irony
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Dramatic Irony: The audience is fully aware of what sort of hell the frontlines of WW1 is by default and if they are somehow unaware, there is a combat scene before even opening credits roll. Characters in-universe, however, are not. This is most prominent with all the eagerness with which the students go willingly and enthusiastically to the recruitment office, even if the war has been at a complete stalemate for three years already. During recruitment, Paul is given the refurbished uniform of the late Heinrich, the POV character from the opening. And audiences were given an entire credit sequence tracking that jacket until it reaches Paul's hands. Once Paul spots that there is a nametag already sewn to his uniform jacket, the recruitment clerk tells him it probably didn't fit the previous owner and was sent back. The clerk then rips the nametag off and throws it on the ground - and the camera pans across the entire collection of such tags under the table.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Paul and his fellow comrades' reaction upon seeing a wave of French Saint-Chamond tanks advancing on their positions.
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All for Nothing
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All for Nothing: Paul volunteers in hopes of becoming a hero when the war is over, but in the end, Paul dies, and his dogtag is not even taken after his corpse is found, leaving his sacrifice in vain.
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Demoted to Extra: Paul's schoolteacher Kantorek, who encouraged Paul and his friends to join the war effort in the original novel and previous film adaptations, is relegated to a single scene in the film's introduction.
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The Film of the Book: A pretty loose adaptation that keeps only a couple of plot points from the book (the terror of huddling in a trench bunker during a bombardment, Paul trapped in a shell hole with a dying Frenchman) and the general idea of school friends signing up for the war and becoming a Dwindling Party.
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The Dying Walk: Paul has been Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by a French bayonet in literally the last minute of the war. He is able to stagger up out of the French dugout, look around, and see the peace that has broken out, before he dies.
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These Hands Have Killed
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These Hands Have Killed: Paul tries to wipe the blood from his hands after he stabbed the French soldier.
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Undignified Death: Kat is fatally shot in the liver by a farm boy while in the middle of urinating in the woods, and dies very slowly bleeding out as Paul tries to find an allied base for him to recover at.
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New Meat
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Invoked and subverted mid-way through the film. When protagonists are sent to search for a missing detachment of New Meat, they eventually find the missing soldiers all dead inside a building: after thinking they had survived a gas attack, the inexperienced men took off their masks too early and got killed by the lingering fumes. Kat briefly talks with Paul about how stupid it is, but they are both thoroughly hardened by their war ordeal and just roll with the fact that fresh recruits are useless and die by the dozen.
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Dies Differently in Adaptation: Several characters die differently in the 2022 film than in the original novel and previous film adaptations, most notably Kat, who is shot in the liver and dies from a combination of organ failure and blood loss, and Paul, who dies from a bayonet stab in the back mere moments before the war ends, though he lives long enough to see the immediate moments after the ceasefire is called.
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Hope Spot: It's November 11, 1918, and the armistice has already been announced. Kat and Paul talk about what they're going to do after the war; Kat wants to roast a goose for Christmas. Then Kat is killed by a French civilian boy, and Paul dies in General Friedrichs's insane last attack.
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And Starring
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And Starring: The cast list ends with "and Daniel Brühl".
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Gunship Rescue: During the last battle, the French get support not only from tanks but also a wing of military biplanes.
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Retirony: Kat is killed on the morning of the armistice (after talking about his plans for after the war, and saying "I'll be right back"). Paul is fatally wounded just seconds before the ceasefire.
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If We Get Through This…
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If We Get Through This…: While heading towards the French farmhouse for the second time, Paul promises Kat that after the war is over, the both of them will do something big. Shortly afterwards, Kat is dead.
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Tank Goodness: After successfully raising a French trench, the Germans' position is assaulted by Saint-Chamond tanks, which prove immune to their bullets and drive straight over them. The Germans are routed and soon flee.
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Armchair Military: The German delegation is seen taken refuge in an abandoned, luxurious, spacious château, while being tended to by servants and eating fresh food expertly prepared by experienced chefs. All the while the enlisted men take shelter in whatever nook and cranny they can find in the cramped, mud clogged trenches. This is made more apparent when General Friedrichs look on the distance from a balcony, where just a few kilometers away Paul and the rest of his unit are being massacred by a ferocious French counter attack that uses tanks and flamethrowers to horrifying effect. Friedrichs himself points out that there had been no major war in nearly 50 years, but it flies completely over his own head.
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Dramatization
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Dramatization: At the end of Remarque's novel, Paul is killed a month before the end of the war. Here he dies within minutes of the armistice going into effect, to make his death even more tragic in its futility.
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Close on Title
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Close on Title: The movie title is shown at the start of the closing credits.
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This Is Going to Be Huge
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This Is Going to Be Huge: During a dinner, General Friedrichs comments with conviction that the future of his aide, Brixdorf, is secured, for his family owns a saddle-making factory and those will never go out of demand.
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Decoy Protagonist
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Decoy Protagonist: The opening battle scene follows a soldier named Heinrich as he goes over the top and into hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. He is killed in that attack, and his is the uniform that is stripped off his body and given to Paul, the actual protagonist.
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History Repeats
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History Repeats: At the end, we see a boy collecting dog tags, the same way Paul did early on.
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Within Arm's Reach
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Within Arm's Reach: Paul when a French soldier tries to drown him in a puddle. As he holds him down in thick, muddy water, Paul grabs a rock that's just within arm's reach, and hits him with it, allowing him to escape the puddle. A bit earlier during the same battle, Paul is able to fend off a French soldier with a helmet he finds close by.
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Light Is Not Good
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Light Is Not Good: In their first night in the trenches, Paul and Albert are practically hypnotized by the beauty of the signal flares that the enemy is firing off. The bright, arcing flares are the signal that a French attack is coming.
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The Oner
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The Oner: There is an effortful one-minute action sequence during the last battle showing Paul violently killing enemy soldiers.
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Never Learned to Read
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Never Learned to Read: Kat, a cobbler, is semi-illiterate, attending school briefly and only when he was already an adult. He has to get Paul to read a letter from his wife just to double-check if he got everything right. Towards the end he mentions how embarrassed he was by this and tells Paul to go to university after the war, or else he will shoot him.
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Silent Credits
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Silent Credits: There is no sound playing during the first part of the closing credits.
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Dwindling Party
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Dwindling Party: Paul and all his friends, and all in the last five days of the war. Albert is burned to death by a French flamethrower. Franz disappears in the French attack, never to be seen again. Tjaden kills himself rather than face life as a cripple after suffering a terrible leg wound. Kat is killed by a civilian, and Paul dies in the last insane German charge.
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War Is Hell
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War Is Hell: As Paul and his friends march towards the trenches, several shells land nearby, terrifying them. Then they get to the cramped and filthy trenches they'll be calling home for their tour of duty, and then they are forced to take shelter from a French artillery bombardment in a bunker, that soon starts to collapse due to the intensity of the shelling. It gets worse from there. There are scenes of horrific violence throughout. In one scene they come across the rotting upper torso of a soldier, high up in a tree, apparently blown up there by a trench mortar. In another scene Paul sticks his entrenching tool into the gut of a French soldier, then has a beat to look at the Frenchman's face with its mute plea of mercy before another German finishes him off with a gunshot to the head. The French counterattack is horrifying to witness. After the Germans cause the French to retreat, Paul and his squad mates enjoy a quick bite from food abandoned in a pantry, only to feel the ground shake, see rats running away, and hearing the mechanical rumbling of a French armored column headed their way. The tanks blast their way through the German infantry using machine-guns, and cannons, and the sight of them rolling over the Germans in the trenches below causes them to scream in panic, when one tank rumbles through a semi-collapsed trench it drives over an unlucky German. Once the tanks have the main German force on the run, French infantrymen rush over to shoot the stragglers, and back up the flame thrower troopers who burn any stranded Germans where they stand. A scene taken straight from the book has Paul, stuck in a shell hole with a French soldier, stab him several times—but Paul does not finish the job. He then has to stay there, in the shell crater, as the Frenchman twitches and gasps while slowly dying.
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Foreboding Fleeing Flock: A Swarm of Rats acts as an alarm, as the rats are fleeing the French dugout, along with the ominous vibrations, alert Paul and his friends that something bad is happening. It's a French tank attack.
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Attack! Attack! Attack!
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Attack! Attack! Attack!: General Friedrichs, driven by a deranged sense of "honor", sends his men to attack the French lines fifteen minutes before the war is scheduled to end.
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