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KEEPING SECRETS.(two motion pictures)
Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage), the Marine hero in John Woo's square but emotionally satisfying Second World War film, "Windtalkers," is not a temperate guy in the style of, say, Tom Hanks's Army officer in "Saving Private Ryan"--an ordinary man who steels himself for war. Joe is steely to begin with, a natural fighter, a war lover even, morose, relentless, at home amid the pain of battle. In a chaotic prologue set in the Solomon Islands, Joe follows orders and refuses to abandon a hopeless position as his friends in the outfit get killed. When we see him after the battle, resting in a hospital, his hearing is shot, and he has guilty hallucinations--he's "a mess," as an ...
- `Windtalkers' director, stars reach to childhood for insight into film.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) June 6, 2002 700+ words
...prepare for his role as Joe Enders, a physically...to grasp the role of Ben Yahzee, the Navajo who helps...I like to think that Joe Enders, the character...some ways. I think if Joe Enders hadn't been...Beach plays Pvt. Ben Yahzee, who is wrenched from...
- `Windtalkers' director, stars reach to childhood for insight into film.(The...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Wuntch, Philip June 12, 2002 700+ words
...prepare for his role as Joe Enders, a physically...to grasp the role of Ben Yahzee, the Navajo who helps...I like to think that Joe Enders, the character...some ways. I think if Joe Enders hadn't been...Beach plays Pvt. Ben Yahzee, who is wrenched from...
- Windtalkers. .(Movie Review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Doherty, Thomas September 22, 2002 700+ words
...screenplay by John Rice and Joe Batteer; cinematography by...1943, where Marine corporal Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage, vacillating...toothsome Navajo kid named Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) bids goodbye...bullet in the head of the likable Ben Yahzee? More to the point: does this...
- Cliches defeat 'Windtalkers'.(Scene)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Verniere, James June 14, 2002 700+ words
...Scripted by John Rice and Joe Batteer, whose most notable...noble, stoic American Indian Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) playing tight...Southern California), Sgt. Joe, like the Lone Ranger, is...deafened in one ear by a grenade, Joe convalesces at an Army hospital...
- 'Whoosh' sound you hear is 'Windtalkers' deflating.(LIFE -...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 14, 2002 700+ words
...code talkers, Adam Beach as Ben Yahzee and Roger Willie as Charlie...and near-psycho Marine named Joe Enders, introduced as the sole...him fake a hearing test, so Joe is back in battle on Saipan...good, as a matter of fact. Joe's brooding hostility stymies...
- Codigos de Guerra: El lenguaje secreto de Woo.(Primera Fila)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) August 9, 2002 700+ words
...amistad entre el hosco sargento Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage, muy bien) y el soldado navajo Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach), quienes son...cdigo y si Ben cae prisionero, Joe no debe dudar en matar a su...amable enfermera que ayuda a Joe a burlar su examen mdico- est...
- 'Wind' is another war-film cliche.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 14, 2002 700+ words
...cliches. Nicolas Cage plays Joe Enders, a marine sergeant who...accompany a code talker named Ben Yahzee into battle and protect him...altruistic than it sounds, since Joe is also ordered to kill Ben...romance that blooms between Joe and the attractive young officer...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 24, 2002 700+ words
...to use their language as code. In 'Windtalkers', written by John Rice & Joe Batteer, Marine Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) -- a Navajo Code Talker(TM), the Marines' new secret weapon...
