Please help me indulge this ghoulish "need."
November 5, 2015 5:45 AM Subscribe
I couldn't sleep last night, so I re-read Johnny Got His Gun, of course.
Ever since the movie was released, I've wanted to see the actual crater of Joe's injured head. I've searched the web and Images using several phrases/key words, but the results are only the novel cover art or the drummer of the same name.
Has anyone (a surgeon, maybe?) done an illustration/diagram/sketch of what the character's actual head-hole may have looked like? I can't be the only person who's been curious about this! If you unearth such a picture, please, please post.
Has anyone (a surgeon, maybe?) done an illustration/diagram/sketch of what the character's actual head-hole may have looked like? I can't be the only person who's been curious about this! If you unearth such a picture, please, please post.
I don't have the book any longer, but there are some photographs in Ernst Friedrich's "War Against War" that come extremely close. The book was originally published in 1924 as a reason to not go to or to listen to anyone wanting to wage war. It was reprinted by Amok Books in the 1990s, I believe.
Both links are NSFW. Graphic depictions of WW1 wounds and war casualties.
Review : http://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/07/10/ernst-friedrich-war-against-war-1924/
Google Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ernst+friedrich+war+against+war+1924&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=HLU7Vvn_Ncu5ogTmxq_IBw
posted by Zack_Replica at 12:00 PM on November 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
Both links are NSFW. Graphic depictions of WW1 wounds and war casualties.
Review : http://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/07/10/ernst-friedrich-war-against-war-1924/
Google Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ernst+friedrich+war+against+war+1924&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=HLU7Vvn_Ncu5ogTmxq_IBw
posted by Zack_Replica at 12:00 PM on November 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Whoa. Okay, I've got the gist of it.
I'm not curious now.
posted by BostonTerrier at 12:16 PM on November 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm not curious now.
posted by BostonTerrier at 12:16 PM on November 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
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I didn't really want to scroll through all of them because they're heartbreaking, but there are some incredibly significant injuries like this one [nsfw] that are close, and of the period.
These are, of course photographs not drawings, but the same search, or at least the same database, is a good place to find illustrations too.
posted by AFII at 7:09 AM on November 5, 2015 [1 favorite]