Mel Gibson Film(s) Analysis
In Mel Gibson's recent Hacksaw Ridge, he is shown to have an eye for action and story depth like no other director. In the early stages of the film, it shows the life of Desmond Doss, whom is played by Andrew Garfield.
Gibson chooses a very sad entry point to the life of Desmond, showing him getting into a fight and the hardships of family life with an abusive father who had came back from war not long ago. The story takes a very heavy turn when Desmond meets the love of his life, Dorothy Shultchz who is a hospital nurse. Desmond sits by and watch all of his friends and family enlist into the current war (World War 2), and decides to enlist as his brother did. A critic from the IndieWire States “As he’s proven
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The pure ability to establish a connection between the viewer and the story, all depends on the actor’s performance shown in the film. Desmond is a conscientious objector, who does not believe in the act of firing bullets in the fog of war, only worrying about saving the lives of his men and protecting them from the Japanese onslaught that will occur on Hacksaw Ridge. Gibson’s ability to determine an actor’s performance, pre-film makes him a valuable director, almost outmatched in this category and deserves proper acknowledgement for it. Although in movies such as “Braveheart” he chooses himself as the lead role. In which case he thought he was the only one who could truly perform the vision in his head. Had turned out to be one of the greatest films of all time. Almost labeling Mel Gibson as the best, if not the second best director for his award winning …show more content…
Why should we give him another chance at being a phenomenal director? It is quite simple, everyone deserves a second chance at doing something. Gibson has came out and said the following “Ten years have gone by. I’m feeling good. I’m sober, all of that kind of stuff, and for me it’s a dim thing in the past. But others bring it up, which kind of I find annoying, because I don’t understand why after 10 years it’s any kind of issue. Surely if I was really what they say I was, some kind of hater, there’d be evidence of actions somewhere. There never has been . . . I’ve never discriminated against anyone or done anything that sort of supports that reputation. And for one episode in the back of a police car on eight double tequilas to sort of dictate all the work, life’s work and beliefs and everything else that I have and maintain for my life is really unfair.” obviously stating he does has moved on, passed all of his long forgotten issues in his head and moved on to greater things. If you happen to be a film critic, would you judge the film based on the director and his talents, or base it off issues and social media and remarks? Being biased, while going into a movie theatre to watch a film, is no good critic at all. Infact, good critics watch the moving based on performance and changes
Dieter, a fifteen year old German soldier, is going into war even though his parents don’t want him to. He has no idea what real war is going to be like and he thinks that Germany has done no wrong no matter what the other, elderly soldiers tell him, he doesn’t believe it. The other boy, Spence, is sixteen and he drops out
They become part of the regiment proudly known as General Barlow’s Boys. The war turned out to be nothing like they expected. All ...
Charley is the main character in the book Soldier's Heart, He is going into the war at Fort Snelling. Charley was very young especially for war, he enlisted to the union at the age of fifteen. The war needed more soldiers, so Charley lied about his age and enlisted. Once Charley got in the war he completely changed his mind.
Spencer rushed into the joining the war without thinking about what he would do if he survived and came back from the war because he dropped out of high school so he would have struggled if he got back to even get the simplest job. You also see this when Spencer is talking to his dad who from personal experience severed in World War I, he said that many people go to war not knowing the consequences that are to come.You also get a glimpse of this in Dieters perspective, when he gets his first taste of action and he stands up shooting, trying to be a hero but schafer ends up bring him down and lecturing him over how he should never try to be the hero because that how you end up dead. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone and i thought it was a fantastic book. What I liked most about it was reading from two different perspectives and how those different perspectives met through the
The story takes place through the eyes of a German infantryman named Paul Baumer. He is nineteen and just joined up with the German army after high school with the persuasion of one of his schoolteachers, Mr. Kantorek. Paul recalls how he would use all class period lecturing the students, peering through his spectacles and saying: "Won't you join up comrades?"(10). Here was a man who loved war. He loved the "glory" of war. He loved it so much as to persuade every boy in his class to join up with the army. He must have thought how proud they would be marching out onto that field in their military attire.
He arrives back at his town, unused to the total absence of shells. He wonders how the populations can live such civil lives when there are such horrors occurring at the front. Sitting in his room, he attempts to recapture his innocence of youth preceding the war. But he is now of a lost generation, he has been estranged from his previous life and war is now the only thing he can believe in. It has ruined him in an irreversible way and has displayed a side of life which causes a childhood to vanish alongside any ambitions subsequent to the war in a civil life. They entered the war as mere children, yet they rapidly become adults. The only ideas as an adult they know are those of war. They have not experienced adulthood before so they cannot imagine what it will be lie when they return. His incompatibility is shown immediately after he arrives at the station of his home town. ”On the platform I look round; I know no one among all the people hurrying to and fro. A red-cross sister offers me something to drink. I turn away, she smiles at me too foolishly, so obsessed with her own importance: "Just look, I am giving a soldier coffee!"—She calls me "Comrade," but I will have none of it.” He is now aware of what she is
Tim O'Brien especially expresses how he felt during a dire war situation. "For a long time I lay there all alone, listening to the battle, thinking I've been shot, I've been shot: all those Gene Autry movies I'd seen as a kid. In fact, I almost smiled, except then I started to think I might die." This quote helps contribute to the overall theme of the book because it demonstrates O'Brien's thought process in thinking he was about to die.
...rtist and just like any artist O’Brien wants to change your mind. He wants you to see the world the way he sees the world. This is his intent to have the reader believe that this collection of memories, feelings, and actions is actually real and in some parts of the story he has the reader believing that they themselves were once a solider in the Vietnam War. Life itself is a lot like how O’Brien describes war. He says “War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is drudgery. War makes you a man; makes you dead” (O’Brien 76). Any well written novel will intrigue a reader because when an author is able to bend in emotions of a real life event with a fictional standpoint of things a story has been written.
After entering the war in young adulthood, the soldiers lost their innocence. Paul’s generation is called the Lost Generation because they have lost their childhood while in the war. When Paul visits home on leave he realizes that he will never be the same person who enlisted in the army. His pre-war life contains a boy who is now dead to him. While home on leave Paul says “I used to live in this room before I was a soldier” (170).
The three character perspectives on war are interpreted entirely differently. Tim O’Brien is illustrated as the most sensitive soldier out of the three. “His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole.” (124). Tim’s sensitivity is revealed when he shows how bewildered he is as he stares at the lifeless Viet Cong body.
... to be human and the limitations we a human being has, have been demolished in the world William Gibson has created.
Director Peter Berg based this movie off of Marcus luttrell the survivor of Operation Red Wings. This powerful war film features actor Mark Walberg who portrays the real life situation of Marcus Lutrell. The movie is centered on patriotism and the struggles that the soldiers faced. Peter Berg displays the mental and physical suffering that soldiers go through during battle. The film begins with troops training preforming exercises, drills, and tests that regular individuals could not imagine. The beginning of the film is an important part in setting the tone that is seen throughout the movie. The producer sets the film up in a realistic manner that showcases morality, brotherhood, and honor.
These commentaries point towards the melodramatic emotional tone of the film overwhelming the film's more nuanced character performance of Tilly. The length plot and melodramatic style of performance obscure representational practices, relating to the spectacle of
despite him being my favorite director and I just watched it few weeks ago. By watching that film you can see his unique style and the technique he used to shot that film which is amazing.
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