Battleship Potemkin, From Here to Eternity, Saving Private Ryan

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Analyzing Movies of War
Even though the films “Battleship Potemkin”, “From Here to Eternity” and “Saving Private Ryan” are all movies based on military life during war time the variation in time periods and culture made each film very different. These differences did not take away from the impact the films had on their audiences at the time or the messages they were each trying to covey. The Horrific images and hear wrenching scenarios helped to evoke strong emotions and patriotic feeling from audiences allowing film makers to pass along their truths. Thru these films we are magically transported to several dark periods in the world history and left to experience the pain, fear, isolation and ultimately the triumph of these soldiers’ lives.
The film “Battleship Potemkin” was filmed in 1925 and was based on a fictional story about a mutiny aboard a naval ship during 1905 and it results. It is an amazing film if one thinks about and considers the time and atmosphere it was filmed in. It is definitely a film with a political message and agenda. It show how ordinary soldiers in the Soviet Union rose up to over throw the Czars Navy when they were being forced to exist in unlivable surroundings and deplorable conditions. It also shows how the people rose and took up the cause after the soldier is killed. As the movie continued we see how ordinary citizens were massacred by the Czars army. The scene on the stair were the little boy is trampled and then he had his mother are shot is very profound. There is no doubt that he filmmaker wants you to feel the horror of the situation. This film served the state by showing how the people chose the communist life. It showed how the rose up against the rule of the Czar and fought for the...

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...o thought to restraint. The tried to show us what happened exactly has the soldiers saw it. The opening scene on D Day was very gruesome. It was extremely hard to watch the violent death of all those men. In the early movies they had to try to convey the same emotions with our all the filming technologies that were available for the last one.
I think that the movies that portrayed World War I and World War II were different because in these films we had more pride. We knew what we fought for. People at the time supported their country and soldiers. It today the movies are all about blood and blowing things up. There is very little pride in our country. We don’t stand up for our soldiers the way that we should. We blame them when our government sends us to war. Our movies of resent wars have just been action movies and have lost the loyalty and pride we once had.

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