The Accuracy Of The Movie Alone In Berlin

The first movie that I have selected for this assignment is Gallipoli. The story begins in Australia and revolves around a few young men who join the army and then find their way in the World War I battle at the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. The second film selected by me is ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’. It is a story about men who were the part of the Japanese defence of island ‘Iwo Jima’ against the US attack in World War II. The stories are set decades apart at different times and in very different cultures and yet it can be argued that they have very inherently similar tales with strands glory, a bloody struggle and an end of many precious lives all intertwined to showcase the bitter reality of wars.

It’s entirely contrived” (LaSalle). Historians and military experts had differing opinions about the Pearl Harbor movie. One historian’s reaction to this film is that “we should embrace it! Yes, embrace it. The film has inspired a new interest in this history in many of its viewers” (Sarantakes).

Could it be due to artistic license, which is, their freedom to create a piece of writing based on their interpretations of history? Do we take into account how much knowledge we have of the historical piece prior to watching the movie? With this in mind, it allows for the above stated questions to be answered, but does this artistic license harm or help our understanding of history? For example, in “Saving Private Ryan,” the author explains that the movie depicts the German army as a uniformly expert and professional force. However, the reality was, “Due to the loss sustained by the Soviet Union, the Normandy defense was made up of old men, boys, or conscripted Soldiers from Poland or the Soviet Union,” but why would they change these facts? The reason: many of these Soldiers would simply surrender as soon as they encountered the American Soldier. Does the historical inaccuracies harm or help our understanding of past events and historical figures? In my opinion, it does not. As the Author goes on to explain, “Saving Private Ryan is not a fully accurate representation of the attack on Omaha Beach, but it depict – realistically and memorably – how Soldiers conferred meaning on the heedless calculus of modern warfare.” The screen writers or director took artistic license of a pretty historic moment and altered a few things to pay honor to those who served World War II. I don’t

Implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) began on January 1, 1994, and is one of the United States’ most significant regional trade agreements. The final provisions of the NAFTA were fully implemented on January 1, 2008. With full implementation, the last remaining trade restriction on a handful of agricultural commodities such as U.S. exports to Mexico of corn, dry edible beans, nonfat dry milk and high fructose corn syrup and Mexican exports to the United States of sugar and certain horticultural products are now removed. As you can see this agreement will have the potential to remove most barriers to agricultural trade and investment among the United States,

As World War II was ending, the film industry saw a surge in the production of combat films depicting what unfolded in the war. These films usually displayed the fighting as either patriotic or anti-war. However, some movies were produced which took a more neutral stance on the violence and focused more on historical accuracy. In The Longest Day, directed by Darryl F. Zanuck, the Allies plan and execute landings on several beaches in France such as Normandy to enter the European theater at the start of the second World War. It also shows the events of D-Day from everyone’s point of view, even including Nazi Germany and the French Resistance. The Longest Day asserted itself as an extremely successful film because of the more neutral approach it took on the fighting, the historical accuracy it possessed, and it’s depiction of ethnic relations.

First of all Hollywood is an over dramatization of everything depicted in the big screen;therefore, all the movies were based on true events but the events margined away from the true outline. The movies do contain facts, but are very minimal in the wholesome of their composition. Hacksaw Ridge was an almost perfect example to depict the uttermost importance it was to serve for your country was at the time. Although, the war scene are over dramatized in the senses they are too gory with blood squirting in ways never deemed possible. On the other hand, Pearl Harbor was an almost accurate representation to how devastating the event of December 7, 1941 were.

The debate over cinematic history still remains, and it will continue to challenge Hollywood, constantly forcing the industry to make the best possible movies, producing historical epics on the big screen, making history a universal and personable subject.

“The movie did in fact fit the standards for its time and date for the original warfare films. ”(Basinger) What i’ve learned from lectures, reading books, and watching movies from the WWII makes me understand it much more. Yes, movies do not exactly show detail for detail like articles, history books and personal memories. Saving Private Ryan and Bataan can give the audience a visual experience of what combat was like back in the 1940’s.

The war movies show a lot of Professional historians normally focus on military affairs that had a major impact on the societies involved as well as the aftermath of conflicts, while dabbler historians and hobbyists often take a larger interest in the specifics of battles, equipment and uniforms in use. In the following paragraphs I will be talking about how historical occurrences portray significance in the real world. In the first movie “Pearl Harbor”, it’s about the importance that ignited the fury of the United States' access into World War II. This film to me doesn’t show accuracy in history. Many like me go based on what I see in movies and this film to me shows no accuracy.

During the time of 1930-1950 there had been a lot of change with the Hollywood movies that had been made. As the U.S slowly shifted into the great depression as the 30s’ came around, it had affected the Hollywood film industry through economic crisis putting the movies into low budgeting films. But as the great depression seemed to be a major crisis for those living in the U.S another crisis soon followed as the great depression had ended, and that so happened World War II. When the U.S officially entered the war the whole Hollywood film industry changed drastically. Some of the usage from the film industry had been the type of propaganda used from it whether it had been formal or informal as well as official or unofficial. Many of the movies

The first thing I would say about the movie is that almost everyone watches the movie. People watch all types of movie including action movies, adventure movies, comedy movies, and many other categories, but when it comes to the history movies, people do not think if the story of the history movie is a truly based on our real history or it is just filled with bunch of fiction. People usually guestimate that every history movie is a part of a real history but the reality is that almost every single history movie contains at least little bit of fiction in it to make it great story and to keep the audience's attention. Moving on to the main point, to prove it wrong that not every history movie is truly a part of the real history, I watched the movie called the Patriot and in this paper I will compare the story of the Patriot with real history to figure out if the movie contains a true story of history or is just a filled with fiction.

Over the years of war, propaganda was often viewed to be on artworks, magazines even the radio. However, there are cinematographic films that have been produced that placed the audience to glorify war and view the previous events to be harmonious, or on the contrary to be a social event, “sometimes propaganda is awful and insidious in that it lies to the viewer about important facts or histories” (Rico, 2017). Not all films, have portrayed war in a matter of righteous light, however these films lack of human compassion and empathy of the soldiers who contributed their life to the battles

American media can be said to have reached its peak during WWI due to the movies based off the battles and suffering happening in Europe. As new methods of film came out and more people went to see them the shock factor ingrained itself in the minds of many. Thus, an opportunity for war propaganda arose and films shaped the popular public opinion on the war. The American film industry greatly influenced the American view of the war, as it gave people a visual of the occurrences overseas;consequently, this also allowed stereotypes and negative thoughts to be formed about the enemy, which influenced active participation in the war.

Films made during World War II provide a unique insight into the relationship between film and society. Frank Capra’s Why We Fight series, produced from 1942 to 1945, emphasises the use of film by government for the purpose of propaganda. The representations of war within similar texts promote an incomplete understanding of popular conceptions of life during the period. Consequently, the issues with this film as a historical source stress the overt influence of the director, and by extension, the government. This underlying intent behind the film is seen through the distinct purpose of propaganda strategy. The purpose-based production highlights the reciprocal relationship concerning popular conceptions of the war between society and film. Accordingly, study of these texts demonstrates how the ability of film to foster social cohesion in war complements its function as a shared cultural event.

Throughout history, we have always wondered what it was to be back in time. World War II is one those events that many people wonder how it was back then in that time period. There have been movies that have done a good job in replicating these past experiences.