Navajo code talkers movie windtalkers
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Windtalkers
Movie Review
The WWII Navajo code talkers were so top-secret, their very existence wasn’t declassified until decades after the war. The code they created is now widely credited for the Allied success in the South Pacific—it was never broken. And none of the code talkers were ever captured by the enemy. . . .
It’s at this point that John Woo’s Windtalkers departs from history and begins to imagine what might have happened if one (or more) of those recently-decorated Navajos had been captured by the Japanese. What might have their bodyguards done? The handpicked Marines guarding the code talkers were instructed to protect the code, even if that meant killing the men who knew it. Joe Enders, therefore, has no intention of getting friendly with his code talker, Ben Yahzee. But the cruelty of war, long marches across desolate land and the close confines of military life forcibly bond the two men, making Enders’ assigned task all the more difficult. If the big moment arrives, will he pull the trigger? Will Enders kill his comrade? Should he?
positive elements: Enders’ battle with the ethics of his orders provides unique insights into Jesus’ eternal words, “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” The horror of
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On June 4, former Marine Chester Nez, the last of the Navajo radio operators of World War II, died at 93. The announcement came from Judith Schiess Avila, his biographer, who worked on Nez’s book, Code Talker. Despite coming at a sad time, I hope the PR she got in the past few days boosted sales of what I hear is a pretty good book (I haven’t read it), because the only piece of media we journalists have had any interest in, now that the last code talker is dead, is Windtalkers, a 2002 box-office flop featuring Nicolas Cage.
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No, Cage doesn’t play one of the Navajos. That would be racist. Instead, he plays one of those white protagonists in a movie about a minority group at war. Like Matthew Broderick in Glory, or Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai,Cage’s white face theoretically makes the whole thing much more palatable than one of the actual Navajo faces, like this one below, which belongs to Nez:
Press coverage considers the film one of Nez’s accolades. The Washington Post puts it in a paragraph with his military honors, saying Nez “was honored a generation later, receiving the Congressional Gold Medal in 2001. Windtalkers, a 2002 film
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Windtalkers
2002 American battle film outdo John Woo
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Plot
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