#Band of brothers jokes

[serendipitysae]

band of brothers

”it’s the tiniest, smallest most minuscule everpiece of lint on one of my boots, what’s the worst that can happen ?”

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[itstheheebiejeebies]

[lesbiandarvey]

the first lady of easy company

[webstersdiary]

band of brothers + textpost i have saved 1/?

[kbsd]

bill hader ribs edit but it's band of brothers continuity/bts pics

[nafohcnis]

Oh what a day !!!

[cirr0stratus]

i’ve gotta know the context of this image. why did they give shane a gun

[wiltedprayers]

dick being the unofficial “iconic quotes you put under gifsets” sayer.... ‘we're not lost private we're in normandy’, ‘we're paratroopers lieutenant we're supposed to be surrounded’, ‘i thanked god for seeing me through that day of days’ etcetc. i mean it's almost like he's the protagonist or something

[ww2yaoi]

travelling back in time to september 2001 to stop it but I get distracted because band of brothers episode 1 curahee is on

[lamialamia]

WatchMojo: Top ten lies Dick Winters heard in his life

[sleepy-hyperfixations]

the bofb fandom abt Speirs: He was the best guy around!!!

what abt the the war crimes he committed?

the bofb fandom: What war crimes!

[webgottism]

every other clip i see of webster his mouth is hanging open. dude walks around like 😧😧😧😧😧😧😧 all the time

[lewis-winters]

you watch the series and you're like "wow lewis nixon was obsessed with dick winters, huh?"

and then you read the books and you realize it was the other way around.

[joe-fuckingtwice-toye]

babe about web: he's pretty. lieb : yeah, pretty annoying.

[sea-changed]

@selfconsciousfangirl replied to a post: I am so Jack Rackham 4.10 speech about Band of Brothers

How can I persuade you to write this essay

@sacrebloodybleu replied to a post: I am so Jack Rackham 4.10 speech about Band of Brothers

I would 100% read this essay

Well, this is not the essay, but these are something like notes for one section of the essay:

i. Of course, Band of Brothers positions itself so weirdly in regards to what is “true” in its story, given the way that they include the interviews with the real-life veterans at the beginning of each episode; it’s almost as if they’re setting up the meat of the episodes as a sort of documentary dramatization rather than a work of fiction. It’s the camera focusing in on the elderly Ryan‘s eye in Saving Private Ryan: if you could see into these men’s memories, this is what you’d see.

ii. That said, the mere fact that Band of Brothers is not accurate to the historical record is not particularly interesting to me; like, of course it’s not! (And I think overall it does a good job of deploying its accuracy where it counts, in the little details that make the world of he show feel real and lived-in.) To create a narrative out of real life, things have to be cut and changed; that’s how stories work. But I think what’s most interesting to me is the very fact of that narrativization, and if whether in the course of that process you lose essential truth about the war experience not in the negative cutting away or changing of documented facts but rather in the positive creation of coherent narrative.

iii. This is also one of the reasons I found reading Webster's memoir so interesting, because while it is a traditional narrative in the barest sense it never tries to make sense of what's happening by giving it greater symbolic meaning or explaining why. It's a series of events that never really coheres into a story.

(And, of course, it has to be considered that Webster never (to my understanding) "signed off" of the text that ended up being published as Parachute Infantry and that it is incomplete, but I think it's telling that the text that we have is fairly polished and shows no interest in this kind of narrativizing.)

iv. This is also closer to how I remember Leckie's and Sledge's memoirs reading (though it's been many years since I read either of them and may not be remembering clearly). I certainly think The Pacific benefits from the direct adaptation of their own accounts without the interlocution of an Ambrose figure. Indeed--though this is a whole different essay--I would argue that in some ways The Pacific is more successful as a war story because of one of its more frustrating qualities as a TV show, i.e., that the narrative is fractured and incoherent in the literal sense, lacking cohesion.

v. Reading/rereading Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five recently, one of the most interesting things about both of these novels is the way they fracture traditional narrative structure in a way that removes any greater justifying causality--nothing happens for a greater reason or results in a greater good, it just happens. These novels are of course much more sophisticated on a narrative level than any of the memoirs (or The Pacific), and they are both fiction with extra-real elements that in some ways place them outside the direct confines of this discussion, but I think they support the idea that resisting coherent narrativization is key to obtaining something nearer to historical "truth" than mythology in war narratives.

vi. Band of Brothers succeeds as a story in part because it fulfills our expectations for what a story should be, and is satisfying because of that. There is greater meaning to the war, the enemy is comfortingly evil but also comfortingly intelligible, personal character and meaningful friendships are created in this unique and special crucible. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive.

[bossboudicca]

dear tumblr ads: im on here making 5 note posts about my fixation with a 20 year old show about paratroopers and how i want damian lewis to plow me. do i really need the test

(as the same 5 songs play on loop in the background for the last 8 hours)