The Anzac Stories, a film festival designed to celebrate and commemorate the true place of Australian Servicemen and Servicewomen in Australia’s great History. The humble approach to this film festival is to appreciate the contribution that has been made by this victorious young war veterans to our nationhood by acknowledging and honouring them by viewing their great memories. Every Australian has been affected by war in this great century. their service to the nation will help the next generations to come be aware of and understand what these Australian servicemen and servicewomen have done to their great nation and help them to appreciate the hard earned victory which made by them by creating the society much safer and bright to live and …show more content…
The following response proves the Australian films that fall under the genre of ‘war’. These war films fulfil the expectations of an ideal war film through the genre’s identifiable strong narrative structure and how each film represents being Australian and promotes the good qualities that define an Australian national identity through different characterisations.
Gallipoli and Beneath Hill 60 are one of the Australia’s more significant war films that make up only a handful of great Australian war films ever made to screen. Which is a surprising fact when considering Australia’s rich history with military engagements, crucial and legendary battles with favourite wartime characters like Archy Hamilton (Gallipoli) and Oliver Woodward (Beneath Hill 60). Which the films are dramatizations of real war situations and incidents of Australian participation in each of the world
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The film plot is very novel and interesting which the film focus on aftermath of the Gallipoli Anzac war which tells the story of a father’s determination track down each one of his presumably deceased three sons who served in the Gallipoli as Australian soldiers in the war. In order to bury all of them at home which is a unique plot. The film came as an essential mix of tactical Hollywood elements and an accurate respectable portrayal of both the Turkish army and culture. Audience would find this newly released film as a blast from the past as its touchdown as more of an experimental film between sides of war stories and leaves the viewer to observe the characters carefully. It’s an important element that combines some powerful Hollywood emotional scenes that make up for a very enjoyable and extraordinary viewing experience. However some scenes in the film the Australian soldiers express regret in relation to the Gallipoli war, the film cast some interesting mysteries to the viewer as to think why the soldiers were in the Gallipoli? And what they achieved? The whole aim on what is to achieve? Which is very interesting as to analyse all these films the question “what have we achieved “in the war? Was it just the deaths’ of countless Australian’s, Vietnamese, Japanese, Turkish soldiers? Film is a medium
Hypothesis: The Australian public made a significant contribution to the war efforts from 1939 to 1945, through sacrifices on a personal and national level. The determination of the Australian people in bringing their loved ones home safely, created strong relationships between the community, which in many cases, are still prevalent in Australian society to this day.
The soldiers are remembered for maintaining courage and determination under hopeless conditions. The ANZAC legend owes much to wartime correspondents who used the Gallipoli landing to generate a specifically Australian hero. Among the many reports, which reached Australia, were those of Ashmead-Bartlett. His Gallipoli dispatches described Australians as a 'race of athletes ... practical above all', whose cheers, even in death, 'resounded throughout the night'. Ashmead-Bartlett helped in...
Since the beginnings of cinema in Australia from around 1896, Australian films have charted a range of views of the Australian identity, most specifically Australian Rules directed by Paul Goldman and Sapphires directed by Wayne Blair. Movies like these two gems deserve to be recognised and put into “The Hall of Fame” along with all the other masterpieces produced.
Good morning, Ms Dowdeswell and 9b, today let us have a look at how much have contemporary historians challenged the ANZAC legend, my hypothesis is some contemporary historians do challenge the ANZAC legend to a great extent. Wait, what is ANZAC? ANZAC is the acronym formed from the initial letters of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. This was the formation in which Australian and New Zealand soldiers in Egypt were grouped before the landing on Gallipoli in April 1915. Everything started with WWI. But, how WWI began? Well, the direct cause of WWI was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. However, historians feel Militarism (Main),Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism are the main factors which contributed to the rivalry between the Great powers that allowed war on such a wide-scale to break out. As we know during WWI, Europe was divided into two alliances — Triple Entente (Britain, Russia and France) and
The Anzac Legend is the source of the Aussie Fight and bravery that will live on for future generations to understand and to acknowledge their courage and bravery.
I will also discuss how the young, naive soldiers arrived at war, not knowing what warfare entailed. They were shocked by the conditions and the casualties. I will also discuss the bravery shown by the ANZACS in the most dangerous conditions. I will conclude with my reasons for why the Gallipoli campaign holds such value and importance in Australian history and ideology. Australian men were very keen to get involved in the war because they felt that it was their duty and if they didn’t go to war it would make them look cowardly.
Thesis: During World War 1, the amount of Australians enlisting decreased due to the realisation that war was not as it was portrayed to the public
The Australian Government has made many changes over the years to promote the memory of ANZAC Day. In regards to education, ¬¬¬programs included in schools were put in place whilst society’s view of ANZAC Day has also changed due to an emphasis in the community and wider media . Around 420,
Although, most of it is accounted by the war itself, the suffering of many Australian veterans had much to do with...
Australia is a relatively young country; only becoming a unified nation in 1901 (Commonwealth of Australia, 2012). A young country is no different from a young person; identity is an issue. Questions of who am I and where do I fit in the world are asked, and unfortunately not often answered until a tragedy occurs. National identity is a sense of a nation and its people as a connected whole. This feeling of cohesiveness can be shaped by many events in a nation’s history but none more so than war. War is a stressful, traumatic affair that changes forever, not only the people that go to it but the nation as a whole. Many consider the Great War Australia’s tragedy where we became a nation (Bollard, 2013) with our own modern identity.
Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli can in every sense of the phrase be called an ‘Australian classic’. The impact and effect this film has had upon the psyche and perspective of several generations of Australians has been significant. Whilst it can be argued that every Australian is aware of the ANZAC legend, and the events that occurred on the Turkish beaches in 1915, Weir’s film encapsulates and embodies a cultural myth which is now propagated as fact and embraced as part of the contemporary Australian identity. The film projects a sense of Australian nationalism that grew out of the 1970’s, and focuses on what it ‘means’ to be an Australian in a post-colonial country. In this way Gallipoli embodies a sense of ‘Australian-ness’ through the depiction of mateship and through the stark contrast of Australia to Britain. A sense of the mythic Australia is further projected through the cinematic portrayal of the outback, and the way in which Australia is presented in isolation from the rest of the world. These features combined create not only a sense of nationalism, but also a mythology stemming from the ANZAC legend as depicted within the film.
Good morning members of the Mt Gravatt show society. Did you know that World War Two is known as the most destructive war in history? It killed over 60 million people and had a lot more far-reaching impacts than any other wars. Published in 1988 in Inside Black Australia, an anthology of Aboriginal poetry, “The Black Rat” by a famous author and researcher, Iris Clayton, was a poem inspired by her father, Cecil, who fought in the war. The poem describes the depressing life of an Aboriginal soldier who helped off the German army at Tobruk at the time. The message in the poem is that the Aboriginal soldiers did not receive the benefits that European soldiers received, like farming lands after the war ended. This tells how unjust the European society was in Australia’s history.
Crocodile Dundee (1986) directed by Peter Faiman and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) directed by Stephan Elliott are two Australian films that have unique plots. The expositions of both films have various similarities and differences in the context of quirky ‘Aussie’ characters, stereotypical Australian language, themes and the vast outback setting. The exposition of each film reaffirms typical Australian stereotypes.
The film is based on true accounts of the war and pays special attention to the parallels between personal and national history. The protagonists, Frank and Archy represent what the majority of Australian soldiers that enlisted were like, young and inexperienced. In the first few scenes of 'Gallipoli', Archy's uncle, reads to him passages from 'The Jungle Book', where young Mowgli becomes a man. This is symbolic of what happens to Archy and Frank during their time at Gallipoli where they have to become men in order to survive., and also as the birth of Australia as a
The movie Gallipoli was directed by Peter Weir in 1981. It is about two young Australians who decide to go join the war for something exciting and new. The movie shows that Gallipoli was a great adventure for young Australians at the time. It displays this through the propaganda that encouraged young men to join. The ideas and thoughts these young men had at the time. Although it was a great big adventure it was wrongly advertised and some men found out it was not as great as it seemed.