The Thin Red Line (1998) - Witt's Death
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- "The Thin Red Line" by Terrence Malick.
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【0:50 Japanese conversation】
・降伏しろ(kouhuku siro)
「Surrender」
・お前か、おれの戦友殺したの(omaeka、ore no sennyuu korosita no)
「Did you kill my friends?」
・お前か(Omae ka)
「you did....」
・俺はお前を殺したくない(ore wa omae wo koro si takunai)
「I don’t want to kill you」
・分かるか...?(Wakaru ka?)
「Can you understand what I am talking?」
・俺はお前を殺したくない(ore wa omae wo koro si takunai)
「I don’t wanna kill you....」
・もう囲まれてるぞ、素直に降伏しろ(mod Kakomareteiruzo.sunao ni kouhuku siro)
「You are completely surrounded. you should surrender for your life」
・お前か、おれの戦友殺したの
「you... you killed my friends...」
・俺は...動くな(Orewa...Ugoku na)
「But I...Don’t move」
・止まれ！降伏しろ！（Toma re! Kouhuku Siro!）
「Don’t move!! SURRENDER NOW!!」
BANG!
Please allow my terrible English.
glory to Artoska
No need to apologize my friend. Thank you so much for this translation, it‘s giving me chills to realize what the japanese guy said.
we appreciate your translation bro
Thanks for the translation, now I see this movie differently.
Thank you for your translation and solid English translation explanation of what was said.
"Surrender. It's you who killed my friends, but I have no desire to kill you. You are surrounded, please surrender."
+Hesitant Hero The japanese soldier says this ?
space jockey
More or less, yeah.
thanks, from Brasil !
+Hesitant Hero
Thanks for translations! どうも有り難うご座います! The lines of Japanese soldier in this scene puzzled me for years.
Well at least he said please..
The Japanese soldier is saying that he doesn't want to hurt him. He was trying to save Witt. This is one of the themes of this movie, which is that misunderstanding between the two sides were the biggest enemy. Wonderful movie.
Yes...save him for torture.
Witt went out similarly to his mother, that's the point.
+FranticAnimations similaly to his mother? Can you explain more?
Fermin Mi
Listen to Witt's dialogue about his mother dying in the prologue. He describes how she died and Witt dies a similar way.
I personally don't think Witt would have killed that Japanese soldier. He just didn't seem like the kind of person who would kill. He cares about people. Throughought the movie, we don't see him kill a single person. In the scene where the Americans attack the Japanese camp, he comforts a dying Japanese soldier. I think that in this scene, Witt is accepting his fate. He knows that he's going to die, so he raises his rifle to provoke the Japanese soldier into shooting him. But I don't think Witt would have fired. I just think he's preparing himself for death in this scene.
Canaan B
Yeah, Witt wouldn't have killed him.
The beauty of this scene is that Witt never says a word.
Fantastic scene. He knows he can't run, so he chooses to die by raising his rifle. The movie starts with Witt being AWOL to be with the natives who he loves and he embraces their simple, grateful way of life. After the movie has progressed and the battle has started, we again see scenes of the native peoples, yet things have changed. The children look ill and the elderly are fighting amongst themselves. As though the presence of the army has corrupted this thing that once was Witt's idea of heaven on earth. He sees no way out and does not want to be in this world anymore. He feels remorse and guilt. As soon as he is shot we see him in the waters, swimming with the children again. He is where he has always belonged. Witt was never part of this world. The final scene shows the waves breaking on a beach where a leaf has sprung from a tiny seed. That is Witt's soul, from all this death, life begins again.
This movie is a masterpiece and one of my favorite movies of all time, always driven to tears by so many beautifully shot scenes and the wonderful dialogue. Should have won the oscar for best picture.
Not gonna lie, I shed a tear reading this
Illquan Benjamin sorry man 😉
@@chrisvanderveeken Don't be g
Thank you for finally making this clear in my mind what really happened there.....
I always think about his scene with Penns character and he warned him that this war was gonna kill him " What difference do you think you can make one man in all this madness" Yet he didn't listen to one word he said, he didn't heed his warning he knew what he had to do.....
His actions saved one young life I think we all forget, Witt was a hero he had the look of God in his eyes like you said as if he was born in this world angelic placed there to save one life....
Remember how he spoke of his mother's death, he was just simply an old wise soul ❤️.....
What's often misunderstood is the swimming with the children after he is shot. This isn't what's happening, it's showing you how he disassociated with reality in his final moments to be where he was last truly happy. The tell is that after he is shot, it shows him swimming, but then he moves off frame, you hear a crack and a flash - the gunshot - and he is gone, and it's just the kids, alone.
Witt was looking beyond the Japanese soldier. He'd already crossed in his mind. Just needed to do one more physical act to cross. Incredible.
well said, he already made up his mind from the beginning
not true, he just started to realize this is his last breath and he can face death now with calmness... and find immortality@@the3rdmaster311
The way he went out was smart, He just knew it was over with. The look on is face was like he was going to miss this world but knew he was going home
No thats not whats that look means. Not even close.
It's the look of a man who has fully realized that his journey is over. The horrors Witt had suffered through in the war, were finally over.
You don't get it, guys. The look on his face refers to what he said before in the movie :
"I remember my mother when she was dying. Looked all shrunk up and gray.
I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head.
I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her.
I couldn't find nothing beautiful or uplifting about her going back to God.
I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it.
I wondered how it'd be like when I died.
What it'd be like to know this breath now was the last one you was ever gonna draw.
I just hope I can meet it the same way she did. With the same... calm.
Cause that's where it's hidden - the immortality I hadn't seen."
Except when you translate what the enemy is saying he’s asking Witt to surrender because he does not want to kill him. So not smart
@@jomama969 by that point in the war, the US knew how POWs were being treated.
Faced with that, something the soldier trying to talk him into surrendering has no control over once he takes him back to his superiors, yes he did make the right choice.
This was way more than just a war movie
Yes , It actually irritates me when its called a "war movie" .
War just happens to be the best setting .
Malick waited (i think) 25 years before deciding on it .
The Narration is from Buddhist Philosophy .
A lot of it is from the Bhagavad Gita ....an Indian text that heavily influenced Buddhism (which was set in a Civil war )
"Who are you living all these many forms " / your death captures all , you are the source of all to be born ."
"I am all encompassing Death. I too am the source of all to be born" (Bhagavad Gita)
The other lines above . (and nearly all the rest are from the Gita ).
Pick any of the narration (except the wife) and I can explain it and find the original quote.
Jim Caviezel described the film as a "Prayer" for a good reason .
Tito Rocha it was a cinematic poem
It's an anti-war war movie. It's poetry on celluloid.
A great film of poetry, in the face of death at any one given moment.
I agree
The butterflies that flutter up when the Japanese soldier rushes forward with the gun. The beauty amid the horror. What a masterpiece.
Witt was already dead in his mind. He kinda understands what the japanese soldiers are trying to say but he had no desire to survive this encounter.
To him, those soldiers were not killing him, they were liberating him from the pain of being such a beautiful human being in the midst of a terrible war.
He managed to lure them away from his company, his friends were safe, his purpose was accomplished.
He didn't really have options, did he?
Most likely the Japs would have tortured him to death either for intelligence or just for the fun of it.
In the unlikely case they take him as proper prisoner, they would have no means to remove him from the island, back to a real POW camp.
Even if they did put him on a returning supply ship, the Americans were sinking most of those anyway.
He had one in a million chance to reach a prison camp and spend the next 3 years as a starving slave laborer. No thanks.
not exactly. Witt finally resolved his existential crisis caused by the fear that he is losing his spiritual self as a combatant in war. Here we see him finally accept his fate as a warrior allowing him to lose his fear of not existing. It's a retelling of the Bhagavad Gita which Malick studied and admired when he was younger. Witt is essentially that buried Japanese soldier whose head we see in the fog, telling Witt that his virtue won't save him from the horrors of war. But unlike that soldier Witt has overcome his existential crisis and made peace with his true being.
I love how they humanized the Japanese as opposite as Hollywood normally do. You can feel how he is terrified. And he is very young.
these types of director's don't make hollywood movies. the music is sad but magical at the same time. the music can fit with anything. it can be sad or beautiful.
you could play this music over some beautiful scenery and it will fit.
There was nothing human about the average Japanese soldier in WW2. They were brainwashed at birth to want to die for their Emperor (god) and Whitt would have been considered a traitor for surrendering. There is not way he would have lasted as long as he did before being shot. Same as the other way around.
@@MarvelousLXVII Dont americans are brainwashed to die for their "country"?
But Imperial Japanese didn't perceive morality in the same way the westerners did. To them, the devotion to their emperor as a symbol of nation was ultimate. They received brutal military training (watch BBC's Horror in The East). Surrender was a humiliation to them, which in turn explained their horrible treatment toward captured POWs
Never Forget Bataan
Nice thing about youtube is that you get to know you are not the only one that was moved by this scene.
He knew this would be his final day.. when he rejoined his company after being with the Natives.. he saw that the natives started to exhibit the same attitudes of evil and contempt for one another and even him. “How’d we lose the good that was given to us?” He shed a tear when we got back to camp... said goodbye to Sergeant Welsh and passed the beautiful light to him because he still had a spark. As Witt was laying down.. the camp fire was extinguished. The next day.. he was extinguished.
thank you.
This was Jim Caviezel's first film ever and he absolutely killed it! His performance pushed ALL the other accomplished actors performances into the background. That's no easy feat. It's a shame he got blacklisted.
Jon Doe how did he get blacklisted?
I didn't hear about it please explain
he was in gi jane,
He played Jesus Christ in "The Passion of the Christ". Jewish snowflakes in hollywood saw it as being Anti-Semitic. So they took it out on Jim Caviezel.
Jon Doe it was not his first film ever stop spreading lies you fucking loser
Christopher Rogers his first film was my own private Idaho you fucking liar loser
IMO this is one of the "greatest" movie deaths of all time. Very touching and powerful.
It definitely is...
It's the greatest...
@BC Bob it's the camera angle. a 7.7 Japanese round at close range will enter small and exit with a giant wound that will shred the heart and lungs upon exit with chunks of bone from the shoulder depending on how heavy the grain the bullet is
The two greatest movie deaths of all time both belong to Jim Caviezel.
Kurt Russell Backdraft
Love the way Witt went out of this world. Masterpiece of a movie.
Cause that's where it's hidden. The immortality I hadn't seen.
Goosebumps when I read this
This line just killed me.
Its about Zen , believe it or not .
Its about Zen but a lot of the narration is taken from the Bhagavad Gita which laid the foundation for Buddhism
This scene alone should have won an oscar
except Saving Private Ryan didn't win either
this movie blows Saving Private Ryan out of the water (pun intended)
Lol didnt some Shakespeare romance movie won? Shame.
+Jeremy Lim yes, beat this and Saving Private Ryan....the oscars are fubar.
Dwight K. Schrute Also "The Truman Show" missed out on an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. Which in its own right was a fantastic film. If the Oscars Shakespeare in Love won were split between Private Ryan, Thin Red and Truman Show it would have been a fair result.
No fear in the end, just like his mother, he was content. -cg
What ? Why do you imagine hes autistic ?
If , I assume an "autist" is someone with autism ?
If I had cancer , would I be a cancerist ?
Does a gynecologist have something wrong with his gee ? (or her gee ?)
People are liable to think that an "autist" is some type of chauffeur or mechanic .
@@olliephelan ????
@@derth9230
No idea.
It seems whoever I was replying to deleted their comment.
Ill check if anything appears with the bell.
This movie isn't just a war film, it's an exploration of life and how beautiful and fleeting it is....
The reluctant warrior Jesus. Sacrificing himself for the greater good. This actor has a truly soulful expression.
You hear the waves of water right before he lifts the rifle. I think that is symbolic of him seeing the other side and he welcomes it.
Oh good catch! The sound of the waves is also a reference back to the first scene where he's on the seashore beach discussing his dying mother and wonders whether he'd meet death with the same sense of calm as she had.
@@RedShipsofSpainAgain yeah I love that
I saw this film recently and this scene was amazing. When he's surrounded by the soldiers, the look on his face says it all. It's like his whole life is flashing before his eyes. Then suddenly, he returns to reality and is completely lost. Amazing.
When Mel Gibson saw The Thin Red Line, he realized he had found his Jesus. One of the greatest death scenes, ever.
Yes! He said so in an interview!
@Primordial Vengeance Yes. He was intelligent enough to recognize that this was, in fact a Christ figure. Gibson,also knows that Malick is both a fellow Christian, albeit not of Gibson's Opus Dei,Tradition, Family and Property, Falangist type,and like dear old Mad Mel,someone who refuses to play the Hollywood power game.
@@JHarder1000 That's so cool. Do you have a link for it? I'd love to watch/read the whole thing.
Jim Caviesel had been asked to play the LORD before In I guess plays and other minor productions and He sure has the look we associate with JESUS.I think its all in the passion his eyes and chiseled long face .While WILLIAM DAFOE remains my favorite portrayal of the LORD.For an man who could also play NASFARATU and the GREEN GOBLIN it is a tribute what a great actor can do.I think Caviesel would have difficulty playing the variety of roles DAFOE has,but so few can?
@@jymfysher7704 uhhh anyone who associates a blue eyed Caucasian as Jesus doesn’t know history or geography... I guess if it makes you feel good though believe in whatever fantasy
At one stage this film portrayed Witt as a coward, when in fact he was incredibly brave and rock solid. This movie is just amazing with the directions and messages that it contains.
This movie was not even supposed to be centered around Witt. It was Adrienne Brody"s character that was supposed to be the center. But Jim was outstanding here, he really was. And this is a very underrated movie.
As much as I feel Witt had accepted his faith and was ready to move on, I also feel that he purposely wanted to be shot so the sound would ring out and alarm his company that danger was near...one last act of protection. Probably wasn't the director's intention, just something I've always thought to myself.
Terrific film!
That look on his face said so many things. Such a sad moment. Rip soldier
I belive he was a marine.
No, these guys are army, Thin Red Line movie deals with US Army Infantry.
@@2210ethan actually this was an assault by marines
@@benjo33 The US Marines first made the assault and the US Army is coming in after them, which is this movie
One of the most beautiful scenes and a shockingly great movie. Makes me sad more people haven’t seen this out standing film
Even though released around same time SPR was more "typical" war film with ridiculous plot and normal set of different characters, more easy for normal viewers to watch. I thought same way first time, after seeing both films 3 times i started to warm to Thin red line and now i think is definately better war movie.
An absolute amazing scene. Jim's acting ability is brilliant. During this scene you can see Witt's fear, but also his strength and character, and his decision to sacrifice his life to save his troop as he knows his death is near.
One of the most epic scene i have ever see in my life!!! What a masterpeace in movie history!!!
MasterPeace in a war movie, lol !
I concur, truly a Masterpiece in every sense of the word.
Although not the point of the scene, that Japanese soldier may not have wanted to kill Witt but only a painful (and tortuous) death awaited him if he didn't go out the way he did.
That being said, it's a beautifully-directed scene and genuinely heart breaking. Witt found the same "calm" as his dying mother. He saw the other side and welcomed it with both arms. Look no further than the scene between Witt and Welsh (Sean Penn) in the abandoned house. PENN: "Still believing in the beautiful light? How do you do that? You're a magician to me."
you just misunderstood the point of that scene, the japanese soldier gave every chance to Witt, to surrender
Witt basically committed suicide. He wanted to get back to the utopian village from the beginning of the film. The same village he revisited in the middle of the film and saw disease and friction. The second visit lead him to believe that the world he told Welsh (Penn) that he had seen was gone and the only way to revisit it was to leave (die) the "only" world there was as told to him by Welsh.
Törőcsik O'Connor death is much better than torture and high chance of death later.
okay, i copy and paste my comment: "you just misunderstood the point of that scene"
do you remember the scene when the little wounded bird is in central? or when the soldier exploding himself by his own grenade?
I certainly don't misunderstand this scene. For one I absolutely loved this film and have seen it a fair few times. But in reality, he was better off raising his rifle and being shot than taken prisoner by the Japanese. I'm Australian, and many Australians who served spoke of the absolute tortuous ways of the Japanese to troops who surrendered as those who did were often looked down on for cowardice. There are many stories of prisoners of war (women and children included) being simply beheaded. I remember an interview with an Australian veteran from WWII - he said he had no trouble forgiving the Germans in North Africa even liking some of the ones he met, but the Japanese you could tell he had a real anger and hatred for due to their practices. He said he would never forgive them. The Japanese are obviously a different people now, but this was a time when, like the Nazis, the Japanese were so indoctrinated toward their "god emperor" that many seldom looked at other human beings as being equal. That being said, in this particular scene you can see the Japanese soldier has no malice or ill intent toward Witt but Witt's fate once surrendered isn't up to that soldier but the officers in charge. The Japanese struggled to feed themselves at various stages, I doubt they would keep too many POWs if any at all.
1:15 on is such brilliant non-verbal acting from Jim Caveziel. At first you see the fear in his eyes and the gulp he takes at 1:17 knowing he’s caught, then his expression turns to confusion as he looks around to see he’s surrounded as he tries to comprehend the situation. Then finally, resolve and acceptance, knowing that he’s staring death in face and is ready for the next phase. In the beginning of the film, Welsh states that he hopes to face death with the same calm as his mother. Here his character comes full circle. This film is such a masterpiece.
Yes, but in the end he‘s not staring death….
Give him 3 days and he'll rise again.
XDhaha
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Felix Mann: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's messed up yo.
I think at least one of the subplots of this movie , the Christ figure, mans inhumanity to man, the singing of the island people. Raises philosophical on many levels.
Felix Mann Hillary?
Japanese soldier : Ore wa omae ni korosutaku nai wakaru ka? ... no te voy a matar, entiendes?.. i will not kill you, do you understand?
That's the problem with war, a lack of understanding on both sides.
lol con tu comentario en Ingles, Japones y Español. Gracias por la traducción.
Omae wa mue shindeiru
Clorox Bleach Nani?
Space Hitler
Aprender a manejar un arma es rápido; pero, aprender el idioma del otro lleva mucho tiempo.
The Thin Red Line is not only the title of the movie, it also means a band of soldiers holding out against a larger force - no matter the colour of their uniform - they might be referred to as a "thin red line." The title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he calls British foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes"
This is still my favorite scene in a movie ever. The look on Witt's face when he realizes he's been caught but he still can't comprehend the situation. Amazing
I disagree, I believe Witt knew exactly what was going to happen. He had accepted his fate. Absolutely brilliant scene that brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it.
Oh he knew what was going to happen
Witt comprehended situation after few seconds totally. You can see already his mind wandering and trying to flashback his beautiful life. He chose to end this madness by committing suicide.
I love this film but... it's hard to believe that a japanese World War II soldier offered an enemy soldier to surrender (Specially in the Pacific Theater)... It was a brutal war and both were brutal foes...
Not all Japanese soldiers were brutal
There were plenty of POWs on both sides
I said it's hard to believe because it is known that japanese soldiers were brutal against their foes (especially against the chinese whom the japanese considered them "worse than pigs") and the POW's numbers in the pacific were lower than any other WW2 front (except the Eastern front) the japanese soldier was trained under the bushido code: never surrender, fight to the end... an extreme cult to death...
Yeah but it was common that after they were taken prisoners they were executed and with the Japanese tortured.
History is written by the victors. Japanese Armed forces weren't the holiest of all, but certainly not all of them were cruel.
Beautiful scene, Witt see's the world in a different way.
@Zachary Thomas: LOL
I like to think Witt knew that the Japanese soldier was offering surrender, but chose to go anyway, the door to his other world was open. This scene really shook me when I first saw it.
Called a coward, but died like as brave man!
“Where’s your spark now?”
I’ve seen another spark, sometimes I think it was just my imagination
1:46 Few stares into the camera have effected me as much as Witt's. He knew where he was going...not death. Glory
I have never felt so emotional about a movie like I did with this one. The scenes with him and Penn were classic. Plus the music and cinematography. Almost a perfect film for me.
Can we take a moment to appreciate that Japanese soldier's reflexes?
Breathtaking beauty of a film. Masterpiece from Malick
First time I watch this movie I was 7 years old, now i'm 20, it mark me for life, it really had.
"-Do you ever feel lonely ?
-Only when there is people around"
Love how Witt accepts his fate.
How many men saw that final moment...when they say goodbye to all they know and loved..." I didn't get home after all...and i really had too " . A powerful scene.
Obviously Witt , sacrificed himself for his Unit by leading the Japanese away. from them. If they captured him, they would've tortured him for information on their positions & He would've died (slowly) anyways. He lastly lifted his rifle as a representation of never surrendering but to complete and even conquer his fear and understanding of Death. Also the final realization that if "one lived by the sword, one would die by the sword." That one flourishes or subcomes to the means one lives by. He certainly died Enlightened .
IMO he never wanted to be a part of the war and chose to go out and have the eternal peace he had on the island. He lifted the rifle not to shoot, cause I think he wouldn't have killed anybody, but rather to provoke them to shoot him. He always seemed detached from the war and chose to go out.
Gavin Kirk That's it
You are missing the point of the scene. Witt was ready to die for his own philosophical reasons, not because he was afraid of whatever Japanese torture you are generalizing all Japanese for.
i dream yesterday i was figthing in a gun fire, i find 2 guys from the back i sneak aproach them and take a better position to get a sure kill, i stand behind a pole and when i was ready i hear 2 shot then i look down at the pole in front of me a see light coming from 2 holes, the pole was not solid and they see me somehow, i was in shock bc this never happened to me i always win, i cant believe it, i got 2 in my chest, i fall down to the flor but i feel nothing no pain no fear, i was surprised again it was so quiet and peacefull, my biggest fear to me all my life was death, but in that moment it was so easy to let myself go, i just accept it and close my eyes, then i just wake up
i think i didnt die in my dream but almost
sometimes dreams teach you great things
Another interesting thing is that he would have invoked respect from his would-be captors. The Japanese really abhorred the dishonour and cowardice of surrender. To them had he surrendered he would have been seen as sub-human, instead they see him die as a man. The Japanese were and are a culture steeped in the pursuit of honour which lead to extreme prejudice but also interesting displays of respect, read about the USS Johnston, the crew put up such a valiant fight, the crew of at least one of the opposing Japanese ships saluted the sinking ship and crew in the water en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Johnston_(DD-557)
“I wonder how it’d be when I died…to know that this breath now, was the last one you was ever gonna draw. I just hope I can meet it the same way she did, with the same…calm. Cuz that’s where it’s hidden, the immortality I hadn’t seen.”
It all comes full circle for Witt. The most beautiful moment in all of cinema, in my opinion.
Yes, the most beautiful moment in all of cinema..
And take a look at his face…he realises that it all has been a dream and is awake.
You are blessed bro.
During 5 years in a row i watch this movie one time per month... Best jim C. film ever... It sends you to the estratosfhere...
That look portrayed on jim's face says it all without a single word uttered
Seriously the bravest soldier dying scene period !
Jim Caviezel is a tremendous actor. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
The face of death is a peaceful moment, like in Tibetan mythology, when the pain finally ends , and one is just happy to let go like witt here.
DEFINATELY not a AMERICAN thought in ww2. If you WERE YOUD PRBABLY been bludgeoned to death by your own countrymen. Thanks for the 'philosophy' you pussy
me and my girlfriend watched this movie the other day, and she cried after this scene
Zach Lentz why
Lube up next time
Elyse Virtue if that's really you in your pic. Your pretty, just wanted you to know.
One thing I might call a bit sad. A very many people on this planet would not have had the opportunity to stand there and think about the fact that their life was about to end. Witt had the time, and took a moment to internalize it before he finally raised his rifle and sealed the deal.
In a way he found that Zen way of just letting go. That was a conscious decision to raise his rifle. Very feudal Japanese of him and an extremely beautiful moment.
The music that starts at 1:20 makes this scene all the more heartbreaking.
What is amazing about Witt is that he does not want to "die like a man" or "die like a soldier." He wants to die like his mother, who died in front of Witt with calm grace.
For me the best scene in the whole film. Brave beyond words.
That moment when you know you're fucked.
Hans Zimmer's soundtrack is absolutely brilliant.
Hi I am native japanese speaker.
This is the line of japanese soldiers.
0:31 to 0:33,0:37 to 0:38 and 0:56 to 0:57
japanese →Koufuku shiro.
sentences→降伏しろ。
meaning→Surrender.
1:00 to 1:03
japanese→Omaeka ore no senyu koroshita no ?
sentence→お前か、俺の戦友殺したの？
meaning→Did you kill my fellow soldiers？
01:09 to 01:16
japanese→Wa ka ru ka? Ore wa omae wo koroshi ta ku nai.wa ka ru ka?
sentence→分かるか？俺はお前を殺したくない。分かるか？
meaning→Do you understand? I don't want to kill you. Do you understand?
01:23 to 1:12
japanese→Orewa omae wo koroshitakunai.Mou kakomareteru zo.Sunaoni kou fuku shiro.Omae ka ore no senyu koroshita no wa?
sentence→俺はお前を殺したくない。もう囲まれてるぞ。素直に降伏しろ。お前か？俺の戦友、殺したの？
meaning→I don't want to kill you.You are completely surrounded.please Obediently rurrender. Do you kill my fellow soldiers?
01:43 to 1:54
japanese→Ore wa...ugokuna.TOMARE!!! KOUFUKU SHIRO!!!
sentence→ 俺は...動くな。止まれ！！！降伏しろ！！！
meaning→I'm...don't move.STOP IT!!!SURRENDER!!!
I think he was a very kind person.Maybe war changed him.War is very cruel and very tragedy.
I want to pay respect to American soldiers and japanese soldiers.
This film should be watched by everyone. Especially the teens of today..who are getting more violent with each passing day.
1:38 Witt looked at something in this moment, like he was taken out of this world
It is 2017 but still know that this one is the best movie ever made.
Witt is a fascinating and tragic character. He has such a good soul and wants the best for people, but he's also a ruthless killer. I think he is supposed to represent the author's humanity, that kernel of goodness that he had to tuck away when he went to war. It's the dichotomy in this movie that gets me. The characters, the beautiful scenery mixed with brutality... For whatever reason this movie hits me hard
"I wondered how it'd be like when I died, what it'd be like to know this breath now was the last one you was ever gonna draw. I just hope I can meet it the same way she did (his mother), with the same... calm. 'Cause that's where it's hidden - the immortality I hadn't seen."
Well... Looks like he did meet death with the same calm... Just beautiful.
In his last moments, Witt has found the same calm as his dying mother. He can see the beauty of life in the midst of war. Even in death, the beauty resides. It's immortal, and so is he.
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I think Witt wanted to die, he finally felt the calm he wanted to feel about death (just like his mother) and he was prepared for that moment. What it really breaks my heart is Welsh, I think that if Witt would have come back with home he could have help Welsh with his anger and his "spiritual problem". But after Witts death Welsh probably felt more alone, more helpless and more resentfull towards the world.
Thank you my friend your translation made the movie even better than it was
This movie has so many layers
It took me damn near a decade of watching this movie and toting it as my favorite to realized this is the moment where it all come full circle.... where he finds the immortality of the calm his mother had when she died, because thats where the immortality was hidden, if you look up that scene and watch this after the orchestrated long play is masterful.... utter masterpiece
I guess you can say he was at Witt's end
YYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Doctor Kumala Ur fuckin hilarious
Lmao
Were you trying to hide the yeah????
NAILED IT
The sound of wind gushing through the grassy hills. This movie is not just a movie and definitely not a "war movie".
The character in the book is a rebel like in the movie. He's been busted down and promoted several times, is kicked out of the company and returns. He's the antithesis to the automaton soldier. Mallick makes him the focus whereas in the book it's more Fife (Adrian Brody's character), who in the movie says hardly a word. The movie Fife is more of a witness to the battle than a participant, which makes sense because Fife is loosely based on James Jones, the author of the book.
little did Edmond Dantes knew, he would sacrifice himself again in Passion of Christ but for the sins of all.
This was a tremendously Powerful movie and best scene of the movie
so powerful, so sad, so beautiful........................😪
Pvt witt one of the greatest characters in cinema (and literature) history
great acting..never says a word but his face and movements convey a young man slowly coming to terms with death and his desire to meet it with calmness (and thereby achieve "immortality")...I get emotional every time I see this movie.
Very few amy movies shows the humanity of the japanese soldiers, in this, we see how the japanese soldier gives every chance to Witt, to surrender
Törőcsik O'Connor the truth is that in war the Japanese weren't so full of humanity
nobody was
Törőcsik O'Connor You would find the Japanese were less humane, I'd rank them higher than the Germans based on just how cruel they were
the Japanese nation was cruel, actually they were fighting wars since hundreads of years. Dont ignore that, But they were human beings too. Dont compare the camp guards to frontline soldiers. If you want to ignore this, and think everybody was evil, but not the amies. Because thats bullshit, and you know it.
Törőcsik O'Connor the frontline soldiers of the Japanese would brutalize any American soldier they captured, every book by a Pacific veteran has at least one personal account about this. Even in this movie they showed it
Witt spoke about his mother's death. How peaceful and desirable it was to die on your own terms.
He stated that he wanted to know when he would die and perish if in peace like his mother.
This scene was a validation to Witt. He realized his inevitable death and could be at peace with it. That's why he didn't surrender. He saw it as fate.
He ultimately wanted to see his mother again since she died. Witt seemed to have a religious renewal or existential crisis after her death
Brilliant, essential film. "I still see a spark in you."
Where’s your spark now ?
If you get a chance read the book "The Thin Red Line". It is the second book in a trilogy written by James Jones. The first book was "From Here to Eternity" and the third was called "Whistle".
This movie was so underrated.
A very powerful scene from the greatest war movie of all time. Yes, that's a big call but I have seen a lot of movies in my 57 years on Planet Earth. Over 1000 of them in fact. Only movies I rate 9.0 out of 10 make it in my Top Ten. (There's only ten of them of course.) The Thin Red Line rates 9.8/10. I first saw it at a cinema in Melaka, Malaysia when Jackui and I were there in April 1999 during a visa stopover as part of our 12 months touring Indonesia from August 1998 to August 1999. I have watched it three more times since then. It is a philosophical tour de force made by a brilliant director. Everyone should see it at least once.
what are the other movies on your top 10 list?
I'v got to admit i welled up a bit first time i saw this. it's good that there no subtitles when the Japanese solder ask's him to surrender. You are clueless to what's being said if you don't understand Japanese, like witt.
michael swords
I can understand Japanese
The first guy to point the gun is just repeating
"俺はお前を殺したくない" which means "I don't want to kill you"
It is more touching when you can understand the Japanese soldier essentially begging Witt to not get himself hurt
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It's sad when you realize that even if Witt surrendered, he would likely have been tortured and killed. The Japanese took prisoners, but what they did to those prisoners, is grim. Their culture viewed POWs as subhumans without humanity.
Even if i dont speak japanese i was about right what he said. He showed him some respect for his bravery.
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It’s easy to demonise a people by saying they do this or that because “it’s their culture”.
Is it American culture to murder hundreds of thousands of women and children in a few hours?
@@NoLefTurnUnStoned. I know that this is an old comment, but the Japanese did treat their prisoners with severe barbarity, even to an extent where it was commonplace. I wouldn’t call it culture though
Witt, in the cast of differing archetypes of the US soldiers, represents the highest, the Christ, the one who sacrifices his life for his fellow man.
Caviezel deserved an Oscar for this.
Such an amazing scene which fits into the movie so seamlessly
The Japanese were appaling to their POW's, he made the ight decision. Great scene
The fascinating thing about the film was, among other things, the landscape shots and how the war pushed its way into nature.....(for example when at the beginning of the battle, in the midst of the explosions and screams, a butterfly flies through the grass and a bird chick from a egg hatches).
Witt si lascia uccidere volontariamente, per andare in quel mondo di luce e di pace... lui sa che esiste, non è solo immaginazione. magnifico film. ottimi attori ed una colonna sonora indimenticabile.. emozionante.
"Where's your smirk now?...."
So sad to see comments where some people are going on about "he wanted to die because he knew he would be tortured etc etc" - people like you are so confused that you clearly miss the point of the scene: Witt was ready to die for his own philosophical reasons that the movie is full of. You clearly shouldn't watch movies like this that have themes which go above your heads when all you can go about is generalizing Japanese as baby eating monsters (why aren't you going on about American war crimes that this movie shows - clearly you missed them).
He's in a dream world at the end. What he decides is irrelevant.
Andrew Kennedy-Reagan He’s in that world he told first sergeant about.
surely one of most bueatiful deaths scenes on print!!
People who rejected this film didn’t like this mystic , poetic approach but there is plenty of gritty realism in this movie . I was impressed with that scene of a young Japanese Soldier being captured after a battle and shivering with fear . That was an innovative cliche buster because our impression of the Japanese Imperial is of a stoic, brainwashed kamikaze soldier who has no fear of death and willing to sacrifice himself unwaveringly .