A Brief History Of Alternate History
While watching 'Sardar' (1993), a biopic on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel by Ketan Mehta and written by Vijay Tendulkar, a thought occurred: what if Sardar had become the first prime minister of India? But this is not a rumination on that possibility and its consequences but of the concept itself. That of alternate history films.
Alternate history, also called, allohistory (other history) is a genre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events do not pan out or do so differently from how they actually did. A well created alternate history can help us to understand that what seems inevitable might not have been so, that everything we do or do not do has consequences, and that free will exists,
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The film is focused on a group of American high school students, which include Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen, who call themselves Wolverines and resist the occupation using guerrilla warfare.
'Der Dritte Weltkrieg' (World War III, 1998) is a German mockumentary by Robert Stone that attempts to show what could have happened had the Soviets attacked demonstrators in Berlin in 1989, resulting in World War III. The film uses archived and news footage of global leaders as well as world events and mixes it with actual footage that was shot for the movie.
Amongst other such interesting films is 'The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald' (1964), a film by Larry Buchanan. It was made a few months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as well as Oswald, who was to stand trial for Kennedy's murder. The film is a courtroom drama and explores what could have happened had Oswald not been killed. The prosecution tries to prove that he was working for the Soviet Union while his defense pleads
The film mainly takes place in a Japanese concentration camp. The main charter of the movie was an Italian American named Louis Zamperini. Louie also was a member
The film starts with an uprising after a white storeowner kills a black teenager. This incident Highlights Prejudices. The teenager was labeled a thief because of the color of his skin and the unjustifiable murder causes racial tensions that exist as a result of the integration of the high schools.
August 27, 1963-A man claiming to be Oswald visits the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City.
This film tries to show that these young people are under influents of American movies and culture. They don’t really obey their parents, because they’re blaming their parents for anything that happened during the world wars. But at the same time the movie doesn’t try to blame everything on them. It wants to show that with pushing the young kid too far, nothing is going to get fix.
More than fifty years ago, an event took place that will linger within the minds of all American historians and scholars around the world for decades to come. Even for those who did not experience it, the assassination of John F. Kennedy made an impact on every American's life and was felt across the globe. November 22, 1963 marks the day that shocked America and changed perceptions of our country. On this day, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated, leading many to distrust the federal government, initiating the dawn of the conspiracy era, loss of hope in America, and the presidential security system being permanently altered.
America’s well-being was shattered on November 22, 1963, the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Although authorities arrested Lee Harvey Oswald as the president’s killer, a multitude of citizens in our country believe a conspiracy was involved, and that Oswald was not the lone assassin. The film JFK encompasses facts that support conspiratorial actions being part of JFK’s assassination. These facts support a disparate opinion and gives viewers and movie characters the chance to formulate their own opinions instead of blindly following that of another. In JFK, Oliver Stone displays certain events in different perspectives in order to prevent blind following from inattention.
John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a convertible limousine in a motorcade going through Dallas, Texas on Friday November 22, 1963. Two hours after the incident Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of a policeman J.D. Tippet and the next morning he was arraigned for murdering the president. Jack Ruby a night club owner shot and killed Oswald as he was being transferred to county jail. Immediately there were suspicions of a larger plot in regards to the shooting. Several books have been written about the JFK assassination however Thomas Buchanan’s book “Who Killed JFK?” has been called the first book published that alleged the conspiracy theory.
Higher Learning - Film Analysis Exposition: The Establishing Shot of the film is a full screen American Flag, the camera zooms out and points down, revealing a large crowd of people in a rally, being very patriotic. As the camera zooms off the flag we come across a statue of Columbus- indicating it to be Columbus University. The speaker on the stage gives us another indication of the setting by Shouting'Columbus University'. They are in front of a stage with Band music playing and chants rising out. Whilst this continues in the background three characters are established:
Instead of choosing to harden up and resolve it, they decide to continue the war started by their own ancestors. Disappointed. I am not a fan of adolescents. The integration of ‘90s pop culture references such as Hawaiian shirts, cigarettes, drugs, and Radiohead also makes it way more interesting for younger viewers. The casting of both Leonardo DiCaprio and fresh-faced Claire Danes influence how the film is viewed.
In the movie, people are kept from the truth. The characters grow up in a futuristic world where everyone dies at the age of thirty. Logan is a Sandman and his job is to kill the runners, people who try to run away instead of
This movie is based on changing the lives of Mexican Americans by making a stand and challenging the authority. Even when the cops were against them the whole time and even with the brutal beatings they received within one of the walk out, they held on. They stuck to their guns and they proved their point. The main character was threatened by the school administrators, she was told if she went through with the walkout she would be expelled. While they wanted everyone who was going to graduate to simply look the other way, the students risked it all and gave it their all to make their voices
The year of 1963 would be the year that would forever be remembered as the time when President John Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. On a warm Friday afternoon in downtown Dallas, perched on the top floor of the Texas School Book Depositary, Lee Harvey Oswald set aim on one of the more popular presidents of all time. This event impacted the history of the United States, and is one of the most talked about killings of all time.
For a long time, when anyone thought of a war movie, they immediately thought of Darryl F. Zanuck’s, The Longest Day. Cornelius Ryan, who was the author of the book by the same name, and happened to be a D-day veteran himself, wrote the movie. The book meticulously recreates the events preceding and during the invasion. It is filled with detailed descriptions of multiple occurrences during the invasion. It explains everything from mass attacks on beaches and towns to humorous anecdotes. The book wasn’t exactly a story involving characters, and neither was the film. The Longest Day is more a story of tragedy, glory, and courage surrounding one very important day. And even though mainly American and English filmmakers produced the movie, the movie and book both portray the Germans fairly. But the film added so much to the story that the book could not. Without some of the stunning visuals that the five (Zanuck went unaccredited, but was said to have directed over half the movie) directors put in the film, it would have been impossible to comprehend the scale of it all.
This film is set during the Vietnam War. It follows a group of friends from a small, industrial Pennsylvania town. Half of the men of the group goes to war, while the other half stays home. Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage) and Nick (Christopher) are the three men who go to war. Stan (John Cazale) George Dzundza (John) and Chuck Aspegren (Axel) are the three who stay home, along with Nick’s girlfriend Linda (Meryl Streep) and Steven’s new wife Angela (Rutanya Alda). The film chronicles how war changes those who experienced it, including how they interact with their friends once they return.
South Korea has come to make its own mark not only in their home country but also across the globe breaking cultural, religion, traditional and linguistic barriers. This Korean-pop music, Korean culture and dramas became a global fad, catching the attention of all ages all around the world which became a part of people, especially those fan's lives.