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World War Ii | Nazi
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Film Composer of the Year For and | 2014
Film Composer of the Year | 2014 | Alexandre
NotSoObviously Worst Film | 2015
2014 | George
Best Original Score for a Drama Film | 2015 | Alexandre
Best Music Supervision for a Trailer | 2014
Outstanding Color Grading Feature Film | 2014
Outstanding Color Grading Feature Film | 2014
Budget 70,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 154,984,035 USD
The "Monuments Men" were a group of approximately 345 men and women from thirteen nations, most of whom volunteered for service in the newly created MFAA section during World War II. Many had expertise as museum directors, curators, art historians, artists, architects, and educators. Their job description was simple: to protect cultural treasures so far as war allowed.
From a newspaper report dated 13 December 2013: Police broke into the flat of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi art dealer who hoarded hundreds of works believed to have been looted by the Third Reich. Gurlitt has been the focus of huge media attention after a trove of over 1,400 previously unknown masterpieces were uncovered in his München flat. A task force appointed to research the origin of the art has said that around 590 pictures fall into the category of art looted or extorted by the Nazis from Jewish collectors. These include pieces by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Paul Cézanne and others.
Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite, who died on 4 May 2020, in Taylor, Michigan, was the last of the Monuments Women, the group of men and women whose actions are depicted in this movie. Born Motoko Fujishiro on 24 August 1927 in Boston, she was sent back to Japan with her mother and after the war being bilingual was part of the Monuments Men operations in Japan. She got the Congressional Gold Medal in 2015 for her work.
The German vehicle (A "Kubelwagen") commandeered by Epstein and Stokes is eventually adorned with a hand-painted star in a circle on its side, redesignating it as a U.S. military vehicle. This is a recreation of an actual photograph taken during the war of a member of the Monuments Men driving the exact same model vehicle, complete with a hand-painted circled star on the side door. The recreation in the film is perfect, right down to the American military trailer it pulls behind it.
John Goodman claimed in an interview that making this film was the most fun he had ever had making a film.
"Frank Stokes: You can wipe out an entire generation, you can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they'll still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it's as if they never existed. That's what Hitler wants and that's exactly what we are fighting for."
"Frank Stokes: I was told that before you were sent here, you ran one of those camps. Colonel Wegner: Who told you that? Frank Stokes: A little bird. Colonel Wegner: You're not Jewish, lieutenant? Frank Stokes: No. Colonel Wegner: Then you should thank me. Frank Stokes: You know, I don't smoke either. My first cigarette. [lights cigarette] Frank Stokes: But I want to remember this moment. I'm gonna go home soon. Got a nice apartment in New York on the Upper West Side. There's a deli down the street called Sid's. Every morning, I walk there and I get a cup of coffee and a bagel, and I read the newspaper. I think about it every day here. It'll be the first place I go when I get stateside. I'm gonna be sitting there, eating one of Sid Meldman's toasted onion bagels and reading a tiny article in the New York Times, page... 18... that says you, Colonel Wegner, were hanged for your crimes you committed during the war and you were buried in an unmarked grave. And then I'll think about my cigarette... and I'll think about you sitting there with that stupid look on your face. Then I'll finish my coffee, leave the paper for Sid to wrap fish in. I'll never think of you again."
