In the world during the 19th century many wars marked history, people chose to die for their country and their religion. The two movies chosen were "No Man's Land" and "Gallipoli." The first movie was "No Man's Land" which took place in Bosnia, which was about the Serb-Bosnia conflict. The second movie was "Gallipoli" which took place in Austria, which was about the trench warfare in Gallipoli
The movie "No Man's Land", the main characters are Ciki and Nino, a Bosnian and a Serb, are soldiers stranded in no man's land-a trench between enemy lines during the Bosnian war. They have no one to trust, no way to escape without getting shot. Also a fellow soldier is lying on the trench floor with a bouncing mine set to explode beneath him if he moves. When a Serbian soldier puts a mine under a dead body, this portrays how much hatred Serbs had for Bosnian's. Even though one is dead it is not enough but for the enjoyment the Serbian set the mine regardless. In the movie the two main characters strip to their underwear to show their helplessness while standing at the top of the trench wa...
Kokoda was arguably Australia’s most significant campaigns of the Second World War. The track crosses some of the most rugged and most isolated terrain in the world, and is only passable by foot. Being poorly equipped, and having not developed effective jungle warfare tactics, troops had to manoeuvre through the rough terrain. “In these moss forests, where you couldn't see the sun, the roots of the trees are all covered in moss and the track was only root from root. Further along, where it was not quite so high, you would spend three hours climbing up a small pad through the jungle.” (Simonson, 1995) Australia’s involvement through this jungle-enclosed pathway was the last resource Australian troops needed to conquer to defend the mainland from dire threat. Through nightmare conditions like torrential rain, leeches, malaria horrific fighting and more Australia managed to push the Japanese back to where they came from. Despite the relatively small size of our armed forces, Australians fighting in the Kokoda campaign made a significant outcome to world war two.
The film “Slaughter in the Trenches” shows us a big part of how terrible the World War 1 was. Men, who signed up to serve in the war, were signing up for their death. Thousands of men fought in the war, but only few hundred survived. Many of these men who did survive, became pieces of evidence of the warfare to show the world what a war does to people. The film introduces us to the trench warfare and does a great job of portraying the war, the lives of the men, and the countries that participated in it.
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.
The Importance of Success of the Gallipoli Campagin It was important for the Gallipoli campaign to succeed for several important reasons. There were important military reasons, important political factors which had helped persuade the British and French cabinets to approve the plan and there were important personal reasons for those who planned and backed the campaign. There were many important military reasons for the campaign to succeed. The campaign made strategic sense because if successful it would break the military deadlock on the Western Front. It would also knock Turkey out of the war.
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.
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.
It can be traced back that Thomas Hobbes first formulated the idea of deterrence. Advocates of deterrence theory “believe that people choose to obey or violate the law after calculating the gains and consequences of their actions” (Onwudiwe, Odo, Onyeozili). Essentially, as stated above, individuals will engage in crime when the benefit of the crime outweighs the cost of committing the crime (punishment). Personally, I believe that individuals that are part of the Operation Ceasefire end their “street days” because they are mostly scared of the harsh consequences that will follow if they continue to engage in a life of crime. Operation Ceasefire may align well with theories such as deterrence theory, but maybe not so much with others. When
Gallipoli was released in 1981, developed and filmed in the post-Robert Menzies, post-Vietnam War period when Australia sought to reconsider and artistically represent its post-colonial tension. In a reflection of anxiety about Australia’s so-called national identity, the film is deeply rooted in the local mythology of the nation, and “is redolent with the overt rhetoric of nationalism. The film emerges from a historical period of Australian film-making when funding was newly available for films that dealt with explicitly Australian content and themes”. Gallipoli embodies and projects a now...
1. I think the place of the movie is very important because even though World War 2 was happening it wasn't happening everywhere. I think that the setting of the movie was supposed to mean something to people of other countries, especially in America. If it had been set in America, it wouldn't have made much sense or as much as an impact because World War 2 wasn't a huge thing to Americans yet. The culture was also so different as well and I think it makes people look at that differently as well.
"...no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."
Films are necessary in our time period because the human eye can articulate the message intended through sight allowing visual imagination to occur. In the book, world 2 by Max Brooks, he creates a character by the name Roy Elliot who was a former movie director. Roy Elliot manages to make a movie titled “Victory at Avalon: The Battle of the Five Colleges” and some how it goes viral. Similarly, Frank Capra’s film, “Why we Fight” expresses a sense of understanding the meaning of wars. Films do not inevitably portray truth because they display what the film director views as important and beneficial for people to know.
Before the Second World War began Hollywood’s purpose lied within entertainment for the American people. After the war started, the main focus shifted to wartime propaganda. Film was used to display the war in a way that did not show its true colors—including the censorship of soldier causalities and other negative connotations that are a simple fact of war. There was even a time in which some actors became better known to America than politians. Through films, Hollywood began to make a statement of their anti-Nazi beliefs. They began to make motion pictures for American recruitment into the Army as well as many that supported the war effort, and intended to make other Americans more aware of the war’s effect on the United States, and how people can get involved. Many European countries banned these Hollywood films, as they began to affect not only America but many other countries that were involved in the war as well.
While the soldiers are trapped in the tunnel, they make jokes with the opposing side, over music and entertainment, and the stereotypes placed on both groups. The quote ‘My sister can’t afford mourning clothes’ is repeated twice. Death seems almost inevitable, and the soldiers find themselves joking about finding a practical reason not to die. The reason given also shows the state of the economy, one of the leading reasons for the collapse of
Introduction The Gallipoli Campaign was one of the greatest military failures during World War One. Not only did the Allies fail in achieving any of their objectives to capture the peninsula and provide Russia with resources, but it cost the lives of many men who were eager to serve their country. Soldiers who didn’t die were haunted with psychological trauma of the battle which would remain with them for the rest of their lives and affect the society as a whole by ______. This impacted Australia and New Zealand significantly as it caused the formation of national identity independent from Great Britain and also united them as a community. Therefore, the Gallipoli campaign was unsuccessful but became the tragic tale which moulded the national
Trench warfare was introduced in order to bring a barrier between forces. They were dug by soldiers and were very lengthy, but very cramped. Soldiers crouched down for extended periods of time to keep their heads blocked from being a target for the other side. They sat their watching their friends die from disease and from being shot, bombed, or poison gassed while they waited to fire their weapons at the enemy.