New York Times Article about “Flags”

The New York Times has posted a nice article about “Flags of Our Fathers” along with some background on how the film started, why they chose to cast unknown actors, using Iceland as the battleground stage and some insight into Haggis’s (screenwriter) point of view of the current War in Iraq and how it relates to the film. Lots of interesting little tidbits available in this article: “Mr. Haggis said he had made certain in his script to subvert any one-dimensional depiction of the politicians and generals as unfairly exploiting the returning marines. So in a crucial scene, a politician tells the surviving flag-raisers that their crass re-enactments of the flag-raising, however unfaithful to the memories of their fallen comrades, were vital in rallying the nation at a moment when the government was nearly broke.”

More at the New York Times article.