It's not on the cinemagora list, and it's pre-Ryan: Braveheart



Some websites discussing it regard it as unintentional.



Ernest Mathijs



On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Dumas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



> Brian DePalma's CASUALTIES OF WAR (1989) has a scene in which blood

> splatters on the lens (a character standing in a rice paddy in Vietnam is

> shot from behind).  This instance may be particularly relevant to the

> inquiry b/c DePalma and Spielberg were close friends, and Spielberg was

> apparently deeply impressed by CASUALTIES -- Spielberg had recently

> foundered with a couple of attempts at "serious" filmmaking, and he felt

> that DePalma had succeeded where he had failed.  There is an interview in

> which Spielberg talks at length about how good the film is, although I

> don't

> remember where I found it.

>

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