There are a great deal of outstanding movies about historical events. While watching these movies, people don’t usually think about the historical accuracy of the film. They are just drawn into the action, plot, and how well the actors play their roles. The truth behind these movies is somewhat accurate, but writers tend to add in a lot of fiction to capture the audience’s attention. The same goes for the award winning film Cold Mountain. This film starts out showing the Union soldiers placing bombs under near the Confederate lines. While the Union soldiers continue to lay down explosives, the scene redirects the focus on the main character, William P. Inman, who is looking a picture of a girl. Once the Union soldiers detonate the bombs causing mass chaos on the Confederate defense, they charged into the crater caused by the bombs. At this point the scene cuts, and we are shown the first time Inman meets Ada, the girl in the photo. Soon after …show more content…
Inman was in fact a real person. Although his story is quite different from the one portrayed in the film. He lived in a Mountain town called, Waynesville, North Carolina. He and his five brothers enlisted the army. Two of his brothers, Joshua and Lewis, ended up in the same Company as William. While enrolled in the army for several years he would leave and come back, each time given a pardon (Peuser, and Plante). In about 1862-1863 he married Margret Henson, and in 1864 they had a daughter. Soon after she was born was when Inman was shot in the “Battle of the Crater”, and that was when he left the Confederate Army for good (The Real Story of Cold Mountain). It is thought that his brother Lewis was the one who made the journey home with him (Peuser, and Plante). After leaving the army he joined up with Samuel Massey, who worked as a recruiter for the union army out of Knoxville, Tn. One day he was sent to break out prisoners, but was chased into the mountain where he was killed (The Real Story of Cold
During the Talladega 500, Cal Naughton Jr., Ricky Bobby's former best friend, pulled ahead of Ricky, allowing him to slingshot around his car and pass Jean Girard. Though Cal and Girard were teammates at Dennit Racing, Cal disregarded this and jeopardized his team's success to aid Ricky in the movie Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. This moment was crucial to Ricky, he having fallen from grace, going from NASCAR's top driver to being let go by Dennit Racing. The love Cal exhibited was a selfless form of love that was centered entirely around Ricky's happiness, not his own. Because of this selflessness, Cal compromised his own agenda, winning for Dennit, and disregarded personal consequence in hopes that Ricky would win the race. If you truly love someone as Cal loved Ricky, you must sometimes compromise your own interests for their benefit.
In the novel Shiloh, historian and Civil War expert Shelby Foote delivers a spare, unflinching account of the battle of Shiloh, which was fought over the course of two days in April 1862. By mirroring the troops' movements through the woods of Tennessee with the activity of each soldier's mind, Foote offers the reader a broad perspective of the battle and a detailed view of the issues behind it. The battle becomes tangible as Foote interweaves the observations of Union and Confederate officers, simple foot soldiers, brave men, and cowards and describes the roar of the muskets and the haze of the gun smoke. The author's vivid storytelling creates a rich chronicle of a pivotal battle in American history.
The novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara depicts the story behind one of the bloodiest, and highly significant, battles of the American Civil War, the battle of Gettysburg. The battle consisted of 51,000-casualties between the Union and Confederate army forces. Mainly focused on letters, journal entries, and memoirs, Shaara tells the story of Gettysburg by using characters from both sides of the war. The characters chosen grasp the divergent views regarding the impending days of the war, and countless numbers of those views develop throughout the novel. Such views come from the Confederates own General Lee and General Longstreet, and the Unions own Colonel Chamberlain and soldiers from both sides. From those depicted
The novel Cold Mountain is about two peoples’ independent journeys through different struggles and situations at the same time. One of these people is Inman, an injured soldier who is trying to find his way home after deserting from the fighting. He meets a lot of strange people along the way. Some of them help and some of them hinder. However, they all teach him something about himself, or something that he can relate to himself. There are some characters that are more significant in this respect than others and they have more of an actual influence on Inman’s journey.
Imagine being on the borderline of not being able to sustain your children for lack of money or making the money you need through an illicit way. Frozen River, a film directed by the Grand Jury Prize winner, Courtney Hunt, and released in 2008, takes place during a cold East Coast winter. The film focuses in the stories of two single mothers, who go far and beyond in the search of financial stability, to be able to make ends meet, and offer better living conditions to their sons. Single mothers, Ray and Lila, everyday lack money to support their family, leading them to work as smugglers of aliens, disregarding the consequences this work can bring. Hunt shows through the cinematography, the script, and the scenery that Ray and Lila—as single
I am first going to focus on the lack of historical accuracy in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller composes a note of historical accuracy before the
The regiment marches for several days until they are finally faced with a real engagement by the enemy ( confederate soldiers). Henry is surrounded by his fellow union soldiers, so he begins to fire his gun as the other members of the regiments but ultimately he scared in the midst of battle. Eventually the union soldiers prevail over the confederate soldiers as the victors and begin to congratulate one another, shortly after Henry decides to take a nap. Henry is awaken by the sound of the confederate soldiers attacking his regiment and fear ceases him and causes him to run away from the battle. While walking across the fields Henry tries to reason with himself and convince himself that there was no way that his regiment could have won so he was right to run away and save himself, because staying would have been like committing suicide. After a while Henry encounters a commander talking to a general and overhears that his regiment was able to hold back the confederate charge. This comment further depresses Henry but he still tries to console himself by holding on to the belief that all he did was preserve himself.
Rodman Philbrick used many historical facts to create a realistic adventure that took place during the civil war. One of the many historical facts incorporated into thew book was... "Then Colonel Chamberlain's voice booms out, louder than the crack of artillery. "Charge!" he commands, lifting high his sword". This has a few historical facts woven int6o it. One, Colonel Chamberlainm was the leader of this regiment, and two, in the battle of Gettysburg the leader shouts "charge"! from the top of the hill. That is shown in this quote. Overall, Rodman Philbrick did a fabulous job using historical facts to make this a realistic, and fictious story.
As I read these articles further as well as many others I found more and more to call out from the movie. Though all of my sources of information I have come across seemed to follow each other very well. As I expanded my base knowledge of the topic I found an endless stream of background information. At this point I forced myself to stop my search and came to the conclusion that around sixty percent of the movie was historically accurate.
The novel, “Shiloh” by Shelby Foote is a fictional recreation of the bloody battle. The story begins with the soldiers of the Confederate Army heading towards Pittsburg Landing. The men are marching in terrible conditions. It is pouring down rain and they are dragging their tired legs through the mud. The troops come to a halt so the commanders can talk to General Johnston. General Johnston says the only way they might have a chance is if they plan a surprise attack. As the sergeants hand the men their guns, they are told to check the powder in case it got wet in the rain. A group of soldiers test their guns out on a deer running close by. At the same time the shots were fired, the sun came out and the soldiers started to scream and cheer. These noises combined were more than enough to alert the Union soldiers of the Confederates advance. Palmer remembers what his life was like before going to war. He attended the Louisiana State Military Academy when the Confederacy seceded from the Union. One of his professors predicted the south did not have a chance of winning the war. That night Palmer dreams of holding Sherman at gunpoint making him admit that he was wrong. Prior to the battle, the commanders create a battle plan. Palmer is assigned a part in this process. When the plan fails, Palmer learns that planning a battle is more difficult than it seems because the commanders on the ground face challenges that do not exist on paper.
...al events. Some events that happened in the film, didn't actually happen in history. Especially the whole romantic theme, though the scenes with romance helped develop the plot of the film, and to elaborate on the film's themes and message. Although the film seems to be mostly inaccurate, it still held some historical accuracy.
Social commentary comes in many forms. From light-hearted political cartoons, to hip-hop culture in the 1970’s, all the way to current mainstream films, almost everything has a basis of social commentary. Snowpiercer, a film released in July 2014 originally based off a French graphic novel, had a premise of class warfare and governmental population control based in a dark dystopian future.
The problem with a story like this is that it's almost too perfect. It tends to break out of the boundaries of the typical sports movie, and undermine those easy cliches that are so reassuring to sports fans. The Olympics have fostered a cult of excellence in which athletes become superhuman, and victories are measured in a tenth of a second. If a bunch of guys can get there by practicing in a bobsled with wheels, nothing is sacred.
In literature, the word “hyperbole” is used to describe an extreme exaggeration. The tactic of using such excessive exaggerations for entertainment purposes is one often exercised by the “fame and fortune” hungry movie makers of Hollywood. Sometimes, historical accounts may need just a little (or a lot) more flare to bring them success on the big screen. Whether it come in the form of an especially evil villain or a strong female lead whose behavior would be considered inappropriate in the depicted time period, historical inaccuracies often replace fact to help roll in the big bucks. However, this does not justify using a movie as one’s main source of knowledge surrounding certain historical events. For example, watching the movie The Patriot
Mise en scene is a French term that is defined as the overall point of view of a movie or the "placing on stage". In other words, it refers to the combined experience of what the viewers hear, see and think of when they watch a movie. The mise en scene of a movie catches the attention of the viewers’ moods as much as lighting, props sounds, and smells do. It alerts their emotional response system to a real-life setting, which is conveyed in the movie.