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I’m not the first person to have this idea. I am planning a fan edit that combines Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.
I’m also considering using about 5-10 minutes of footage from The Pacific.
I plan to structure the new film in chronological order covering the events from the beginning of the invasion until the end. They’ll be no flashbacks or character exposition after the battle. I may use a couple of the flashbacks as a prologue and I may use the monument dedication as an epilogue.
The movie ends w/ the Americans securing the island.
This a very basic structure of the film:
-introduce the Iwo defenders (Saigo and Kuibayashi)
-introduce the Marines at Camp Tarawa (Bradley, Gagnon, Hayes, etc)
-introduce the Marines at Camp Pendleton (Basilone and his MG unit)
-Kuribayashi sends Adm Ohsugi back to Japan and is informed of the fall of Saipan
-Marines train for the invasion and ship out
-The Japanese prepare their defenses
-bombing and shore bombardment of the island
-The initial invasion and Basilone’s death
-The assault on Mt. Suribachi
-Suicide in Mt. Suribachi
-the raising of the flag
-Saigo almost loses his head
-Nishi is blinded
-Suribachi survivors escape the American crossfire
-Saigo and Shimizu agree to and attempt surrender (Shimizu survives and it not shot by the Americans)
-Strank is killed in an ambush
-Kuribayashi leads the final assault and is wounded
-Bradley is wounded
-Kuribayashi’s death; Saigo captured
-Bradley at the aid station
-Saigo at the aid station
-roll credits
Please let me know your thought and suggestions.
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