This film is actually based on a play by Neil Simons and what makes this a decent reproduction is that Neil Simons also wrote the screenplay. As such the movie was written along the lines of the original intentions of Neil Simons rather than the interpretation of a third party. Even so, I quite enjoyed this movie namely because of its wit and decent characters.
Biloxi Blues is about a young man in 1945 who is going to boot camp to train to fight in the war. This is in the closing stages of the war so moral is very high because of the fact that they are on the winning side. The war is only in the background for the focus of the movie is not the war but the relationship between the platoon and the main character's entrance into adulthood. During the movie the main character sleeps with his first woman and also falls in love for the first time. It is his first time out of home and enters the boot camp as a naïve boy, but he leaves a man.
Sergeant Tooley is the most interesting character in the movie. When he first walks onto the screen one immediately notices that he is different. The stereotypical sergeant walks on yelling while Tooley walks on greeting his platoon. He rarely raises his voice, and actually uses other cadets to dish out punishments, with the intention of turning the other cadets onto him. Thus he uses peer pressure to keep people in line. Yet as with most sergeants the cadets hate him, though after he is discharged they realised how great a sergeant he really was.
The main character is very witty, and of course this angers the sergeant no end. His first comment on Mississippi is that it is "hot, Africa hot, not even Tarzan can stand this hot." Or when he is asked what he would do if Japanese were marching on him, he would surrender simply so he could get a decent nights sleep, or even his religious holiday simply to get out of eating a horrid meal.
I guess what made this movie really lively is that the narrator claims that it was based on his own experiences. Most probably it was, though Simons does not use his own name in the movie, but rather creates another character that is him. This film is actually based on a play by Neil Simons and what makes this a decent reproduction is that Neil Simons also wrote the screenplay. As such the movie was written along the lines of the original intentions of Neil Simons rather than the interpretation of a third party. Even so, I quite enjoyed this movie namely because of its wit and decent characters.
Biloxi Blues is about a young man in 1945 who is going to boot camp to train to fight in the war. This is in the closing stages of the war so moral is very high because of the fact that they are on the winning side. The war is only in the background for the focus of the movie is not the war but the relationship between the platoon and the main character's entrance into adulthood. During the movie the main character sleeps with his first woman and also falls in love for the first time. It is his first time out of home and enters the boot camp as a naïve boy, but he leaves a man.
Sergeant Tooley is the most interesting character in the movie. When he first walks onto the screen one immediately notices that he is different. The stereotypical sergeant walks on yelling while Tooley walks on greeting his platoon. He rarely raises his voice, and actually uses other cadets to dish out punishments, with the intention of turning the other cadets onto him. Thus he uses peer pressure to keep people in line. Yet as with most sergeants the cadets hate him, though after he is discharged they realised how great a sergeant he really was.
The main character is very witty, and of course this angers the sergeant no end. His first comment on Mississippi is that it is "hot, Africa hot, not even Tarzan can stand this hot." Or when he is asked what he would do if Japanese were marching on him, he would surrender simply so he could get a decent nights sleep, or even his religious holiday simply to get out of eating a horrid meal.
I guess what made this movie really lively is that the narrator claims that it was based on his own experiences. Most probably it was, though Simons does not use his own name in the movie, but rather creates another character that is him. This film is actually based on a play by Neil Simons and what makes this a decent reproduction is that Neil Simons also wrote the screenplay. As such the movie was written along the lines of the original intentions of Neil Simons rather than the interpretation of a third party. Even so, I quite enjoyed this movie namely because of its wit and decent characters.