Richard Brody reviews Steven Spielberg’s 1979 film, “1941,” starring Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and Robert Stack—part of Film Forum’s retrospective of the director.
The premise of “1941” is, if not exactly offensive, cheerfully frivolous, in the vein of, say, the TV show “Hogan’s Heroes”: it’s a comedy about the entry of the United States into the Second World War , days after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
But Lewis’s inner child is a lost soul, browbeaten and disdained, a social outcast who is nonetheless redeemed by his steadfast sweetness and instinctive empathy. To which Spielberg’s response, more or less, is “Bah humbug.” He takes the anarchy unleashed by Lewis and Tashlin and strips its innocence of empathy. The Spielberg child is a wild child of ravenous desire and oblivious determination, willing to blow up the world to get his way.
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