Hacksaw Ridge Movie Report

The Lost Battalion is based totally on a real story of an American battalion that was sent out to battle during the World War I. Major Charles Whittlesey, a New York lawyer, who ends up in the trenches of France having under his command mostly young, unexperienced men. When Whittlesey and his battalion of five hundred men are ordered to advance into the Argonne Forest they find themselves surrounded by Germans troops when the other battalions instantly withdrew, leaving Whittlesey’s battalion on his own. Confined behind enemy lines, Whittlesey’s battalion turned into the only force in the German army’s plans to move forward. Trapped and with no other way to rescue, Whittlesey is given an opportunity to surrender, but chose to continue fighting and keep his men together. The following day, the battalion loses

The movie Glory is a story about white and black soldiers who are in the North fighting for slavery against slavery in the South and them learning how to love one another. It tells about the different privileges that the white soldiers had as opposed to the black soldiers and what they all had to go through during the war times. There were many racial conflicts that these soldiers had to go through and many people were prejudiced against the 54th regiment because they all had different colored skin. Back then many white people were used to people with different colored skin working as slaves. There were also moral differences and differences with politics that they all had to go through. The black soldiers still have to go through racism and their Colonel stood by their side through the

Movies and Hollywood have captivated our ideas of history whether it being movies such as 300 or my current topic Glory. Movies have profound impact on our historical perception and even though these movies try to stay accurate they still present major inaccuracy. Now in this paper I will be reviewing and detailing the historical validity of the 1989 Civil War blockbuster Glory, the movie is centered on the Massachusetts 54th regiment that was predominately made up of African American free men and their commander Robert Gould Shaw, who was the son of a prominent Abolitionist family in Boston. Shaw was originally was apart of the 7th New York who had aided in the defense of Washington and later join and rise up the ranks in the 2nd Massachusetts.

”Listen. We have to stay together. We have to try to keep each other safe. We are brothers, we are family” (95). With Jacob's words to Norman, after being beaten, we are shown in Sharon E. Mckay’s War Brothers, that war can solidify friendly relationships into a sense of family. Set in Gulu, Uganda Jacob, Paul, and Tony are excited to start a new year at George Jones Seminary for Boys. But that ends when they are awakened by gunshots, and forced to be soldiers by the LRA. However, these boys will do anything to protect their comrades, their family. Mckay uses the title War Brothers to reveal the forged through wars. The development of the relationship between Jacob and Norman shows us that family is more than who you’re related to. Family are those who can be trusted to stand by each other no matter the consequences.

There are differences and a few similarities between taking sides and McFarland USA. A different is McFarland hade a country team and taking sides has a basketball team. Another different is they take place in two different schools. The school in taking sides is clumbers and the school name in McFarland USA is McFarland. The same thing in both is that they both are in the same state that is California. McFarland is in the country of rural California and taking side take place in the city of San Francisco California. In conclusion, the book and movie shrouds people to never give up and keep fighting.

The Battle of Iwo Jima took place in 1945. The United States wanted to capture the island of Iwo Jima, which was controlled by Japan. This would mean a big step in the right direction for the U.S. in the war. On the date “of February 19, 1945, the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions invaded Iwo Jima after an ineffective 72-hour bombardment” (“History”). They planned to march in, and the soldiers were ordered to take control of Mt. Suribachi on the Iwo Jima Island. The soldiers “reached a line of Japanese bunkers defended by machine gunners” (“History”), and many of the front line soldiers were

It is very appropriate to describe the conditions on the Western Front in WW1 as 'Hell on earth'. The soliders were 'trapped' in a nightmarish landscape of trench warfare, freezing temperatures with mud and water all around and death waiting for them from either the enemy or the living conditions in the trenches. Many of the sources focous on the suffering of the men in the trenches, due to the physical hardship of the weather and the actual, living conditions of the trenches. The conditions were really shocking, as we see in Sources 1-11. It was not just the combat, it was the life on the battle field which is the subject of these sources. From studying the sources, it appears as though this would be the worst place to be- it truly was a living hell. For the

1. What were your thoughts after viewing scenes at Omaha Beach? Be able to give an overview

The three movies – Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and The Green Berets – are all movies based on the same historical event – the Vietnam war and US’s involvement in it. Yet, they all presented us with different and narrative point of view and authority figures in order to paint their individual values.

Off of an island of Japan, many landing crafts wash ashore dropping the doors as seventy thousand United States Marines storm the beaches while being shot at by eighteen thousand Japanese soldiers. This is the battle of Iwo Jima which occurred on Feb 19, 1945 and ended on Mar 26, 1945.

America’s war heroes all have the same stories to tell but different tales. Prescribed with the same coloring page to fill in, and use their methods and colors to bring the image to life. This is the writing style and tactic used by Tim O’Brien in his novel, “The Things They Carried”. Steven Kaplan’s short story criticism, The Undying Certainty of the Narrator in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, provides the audience with an understanding of O’Brien’s techniques used to share “true war” stories of the Vietnam War. Kaplan explains the multitude of stories shared in each of the individual characters, narration and concepts derived from their personal experiences while serving active combat duty during the Vietnam War,

The movie American Sniper follows the life and military career of one of the United States’ best snipers in history, Chris Kyle. Kyle grew up in Texas and joined the military as a young man, enlisting in the Navy SEALs. After the 9/11 attacks, Kyle served four tours in Iraq and amassed the most kills in U.S. military sniper history. After his tours, Kyle returned home to his wife and ran a program helping disabled veterans. In 2013, however, Kyle was shot by one of the veterans he was trying to help who was suffering from PTSD. The in 2014, a movie based on Kyle’s life was made. In telling Kyle’s story, the movie portrays him as an all American hero and purports traditional American values. The opening scenes of American Sniper (beginning to

Hacksaw Ridge is a war drama based on documentary materials; it was directed by Mel Gibson and first demonstrated in 2016. The film tells story of Desmond Doss, a man with difficult fate. The character does not want to interact with weapons because of his faith and negative previous family experience, like an assault on his brother with a brick or an attempted assassination of own father, which hit his wife, Desmond’s mother. But Doss decided to join the army despite of his believes; the main part of plot happened in Japan in 1945. His refusal of weapons’ usage created contentious relationship with officers and fellow soldier; Doss even fell for tribunal, but was saved by his father, who participated in the Great War. The character went to war and proved the soldier, or a military medic in this case, can be useful even without a gun. Desmond saved dozens of

In the movie, Hacksaw Ridge, the medic, Desmond Doss, is shown to be very confident. In one scene he is talking about a girl and is very confident saying he would get her, and had no doubts at all. Being confident is important, because it helps you stand up for what you believe in and you won 't back down as easily. I admired how much the medic stands up for himself and didn 't let anybody get to his head, and how confident he was and didn 't let anybody ever stomp all over him. The medic, was the only one to not pick up a rifle in the beginning of the movie, he didn 't let that stop him from standing up for what he believed in, even if others didn 't agree. While they were at basic, the leader tells them to all pick up a rifle, everyone does

1917—1960: the development of Hollywood film industry and characterized most styles to this day: biography, fiction, action, horror, animated, comedy, etc.