The Monuments Men

Characters:

George Clooney as Frank Stokes Jean Dujardin as Jean-Claude Clermont

Matt Damon as James Granger Bob Balaban as Preston Savitz

Bill Murray as Richard Campbell Hugh Bonneville as Donald Jeffries

John Goodman as Walter Garfield Dimitri Leonidas as Sam Epstein

“You can wipe out a generation of people, you can burn their homes to the ground, and

somehow they’ll still come back. But if you destroy their achievements and their history, then

it’s like they never existed. Just ashes floating.”

The said movie has a good message about arts and its essence. Being one of the active

participants of war, and having men dying because of saving arts, they can’t help but ask, “Does

a piece of art worth a man’s life?” Of course in the beginning they are in doubt about it but, as

also one of the brave men says, “From the beginning, I told you that no piece of art was worth a

man’s life. But these last months have proved me wrong. This is our history and it’s not to be

stolen or destroyed. It’s to be held up and admired.”

And as for Hitler who’s the reason behind everything, he is smart, I can say. But not

smart enough to win the war. Heil Hitler!

Such kind of movies are must watch. They’ll bring us back in history and heroes of

yesterday which seems to be forgotten are introduced, and in a button, they are alive again.