Edson Mata History Through Film: World War II World War II left a variety of perspectives to people all around the world and it even knocked on the door of the movie industry. Through the five movies shown below, a different story and battle happens which were all connected to the second World War. The first movie we saw was Pearl Harbor, but we only watched the part of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. From my opinion, the movie captures with great detail the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese since they used the date and showed how all the Americans stationed were caught of surprise. Although in the movie, they show Rafe and Danny, the movie still describes the strategy the Japanese used to bypass the radios without detection because of the …show more content…
mountains. The second movie was Red Tails which was about the Tuskegee Airmen and some of their missions in Italy 1944.
The movie goes on about the lives of the African Americans group like “Lightning”, “Easy”, and the others but overall depicts the racism they faced on the military because of their skin color. It displays how whites didn’t want to give the Red Tails important air based missions because they believe they were mentally inferior. At the end, the Red Tails have successful escorts and other missions and are recognized by the military because of the missions they accomplished. Hacksaw Ridge is one of my favorite war movies which shows the story of Desmond Doss and his medical influence in the Hacksaw Ridge that would led them to the Battle of Okinawa on 1945. In the movie, Doss saves countless of lives as he did in real life and at the end of the movie there is footage about the real Desmond Doss and how he received the Medal of Honor. Alone in Berlin reveals the story of Otto and Anna Quangel challenging the Nazi regime after they lose their son to the war. They begin to write postcards and spread anti-Nazism in their city to illustrate the rage many parents should feel against Hitler and the Nazis. Many Nazis feel hatred against them because they are disrespecting
their nation as a whole and should be punished. The movie was set in Berlin in 1940 and even after the postcards we all know it had to be five years later until the war was over. The final movie we saw was Saving Private Ryan that is displays the actions of The Normandy Invasion aka D-Day and the days that followed it as Captain Miller is sent on a mission to retrieve Private Ryan to safety, so he could be sent to his home. The movie shows the grief many families had to endure when they received the bad news that their children had seen their last moments at the battlefield.
...he movie is deep into getting the point across in the discrimination between the black soldiers and the white commanders, it addresses the audience with the issue that everyone was going through. At the end of the day, the Massachusetts 54th wanted to win the war white or black, friends or not. The audience gets a look into a reenactment of the Civil war and the look at how difficult it was to train the black soldiers. They also get to see their dedication and how these African American men wanted in any way to serve their country.
The Battle of Pearl Harbor was one of the most atrocious events that happened in U.S. history. On December 7, 1941, Japan made a surprise aerial attack on the United States naval base and airfields at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than two thousand Americans died and a thousand two hundred were wounded. Eighteen ships were badly damaged, including five battleships. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt with the support of the Congress, declared war on Japan. It led United States’ official involvement in World War II. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because of a deteriorating relationship with the U. S. The “New World Order”, expansion and resources, and economic sanctions were factors that conducted to another disaster on the Second World War.
Pearl Harbor carries on with books and even in the movies from generation to generation. The United States suffered defeat at Pearl Harbor, but united together to pursue victory. The film stays exceedingly accurate to the history of Pearl Harbor in comparison with Prange's book.
The Tuskegee Airmen, also commonly referred to as Red Tails, were a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. These airmen were renowned for their fight against racial prejudices through their exploits in WWII. Despite of their struggles against racism they managed to prove whites mindsets wrong with their great achievements such as, never losing a single bomber under their escort to enemy fighters. Regardless of their skill, these black aviators returned to their country to find white attitudes were unchanged and joined another battle in pursuit of desegregating their military. Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of peaceful, but persistent confrontation, influenced the way Tuskegee Airmen’s challenge to confront racial barriers within the American military. Tuskegee Airmen, while simultaneously gaining the respect of whites, they also reformed of the black the image in the military.
Both Pearl Harbor; A day of Infamy, the survivors story, and Pearl Harbor by the History Channel. Each movie goes through the details of the day, step by step, and the events leading up to December 7th. Both movies express the patriotic viewpoint. They emphasise that Pearl Harbor was the event that lead the U.S. into World War Two. Both movies are factual and stick to the true story of that fatal day.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the most atrocious attacks to have ever happened on American soil, starting with disagreement on the Potsdam declaration. Japan’s greed for more land and industrial materials led the Japanese to make a plan to keep the United States out of the war, which consisted the use of kamikaze pilots and bombs to destroy our aircraft carriers and boats in an attempt to control the Pacific. While leaving the drowning, and dead bodies of thousands of American seamen and battleships at the bottom of the sea, seemed to be a good idea to the Japanese; America joined World War II and introduced the first nuclear weapons as reprisal for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Had the Japanese agreed to an unconditional surrender and end to militarism during the agreement on the Potsdam declaration, the introduction to nuclear weapons and the death count wouldn’t have been so high and devastating on both the American and Japanese sides.
...oung American men had to endure from the time that they had joined back in their boot camp days, and the brutality of war that showed them no mercy. To me the importance of the movie was to show what truly went on over in Vietnam through the eyes of a soldiers eyes of what happened, as the film created a very disturbing yet a real picture of The Vietnam War.
There is a scene in this movie where the coach takes the team on a long run in the middle of the night. They end up at the break of dawn at a cemetery. The coach tells the young men of the battle that was fought on that ground. He told of the blood shed on those grounds that turned the whole area red. This can help many people that want to make a difference in this world. They had to stand up for their new knowledge to people that they love and trust.
The attack on pearl harbor . It was the most dramatic effect of the World War II for the UNITED STATES . The pearl harbor attack gave the Japanese the advantage of the war . They attacked out American fleet at Pearl Harbor . This made UNITED STATES very angry at Japan . Here are some facts about the Pearl Harbor attack . 18 ships were destroyed at Pearl Harbor . Around 2,400 Americans were killed . The Japanese forces were 6 carriers with 400 aircraft .
This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.
In the film, ‘Hacksaw Ridge’, there are many displays of concepts that we recently learned in sociology this year. The film is about a Christian, named Desmond, who decides to join the army during World War II. However, he has a very specific and socially unaccepted request of his time in the army. Usually when fighting in the army, the soldier carries a gun. In this film, Demond refuses to carry a gun during war due to his Christian faith and declaration against killing others. He decides to join as a combat medic, and is highly challenged and discouraged by other military members and officers during his training. This is a true story.
In essence, this film is an entertaining history lesson. It is my belief that it attempts to stay close to the actual story while making it entertaining. For example, when he rips apart the quartermaster’s office for his men, which was most likely added for dramatic effect. The story covers the major aspects throughout the war for the regiment, including the forming, training, battles, dates, and places. The language, scenery, and costumes in this movie are all accurate. For example, some of the racial words during that period are present as well as the correct military jargon. Another powerful illustration is the bruised and diseased feet from the lack of shoes. Also, when the Colonel of the other chaotic black regiment shoots one of his soldiers in the arm in order to stop him from harming a white woman seemed to increase the dramatic affect. Simply, it just is to show the treatment blacks received.
My thoughts on the movie Hacksaw Ridge would be well judged and fair criticism because it was a timeline of a marvelous boy's life that one moment would tell the future of his whole life. The movie started when a boy named Dalton had seen this beautiful nurse and he was just staring at her for the longest time. Then he finally had the courage to walk over the and he was five feet from here just staring and the nurse said can I help u and he said: “ I need my belt “. In that moment in the movie, he knew that he had found that one girl that he was going to spend the rest of his life with. In life, it's hard to find that one and Dalton found her at a young age.To also be fine with her husband going to war where he could die and he was fine with
One of the more prevalent themes of this movie is racism, and how prejudicial mindsets ultimately lead to one’s own demise. The movie outlines how racism, among other things, can adversely affect someone’s judgment. After the father died, we see how the family gradually deteriorates financially as well as emotionally after Derek (the older brother played by Edward Norton) turns to a neo Nazi gang for an outlet, which eventually influences his younger brother Danny (played by Edward Furlong) to follow down ...
On December 8, 1941 which was the day after when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the Casablanca movie was produce the day after. The famous movie Casablanca, is considered one of the greatest movies of all time because of the time when the movie actually took place and also the characters. The movie was made during the time when the Nazi were reaching the zenith of their powers. This movie is actually real, the thing that happened in the movies were some of the most realist things that occur in those days. Ex patriots who happened to have left their countries not because they wanted to leave but because they were forced to by war that was going on. In the movie, I observed that there was so much history being told, the Germans