The theme mateship is proven through the relationship between Frank and Archy and also Frank and his three other friends. In Gallipoli, Peter Weir explores the idea of mateship all throughout the movie. For the duration of the film he uses running to draw Frank and Archy together but also his motion picture is wholly based on the theme of mateship between the two, Archy and Frank. Additionally, mateship is shown not only through Frank and Archy but through Frank and his three friends Barney, Billy and Snowy. This essay will examine these issues to explain how mateship is proven throughout the film.
Throughout the movie Peter Weir uses running to draw Frank and Archy together. It began in how they met, at a running race and that was the start
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These secondary characters give the viewer insight into what other young men were thinking about the war and how they acted together as mates. They were very important to the story and linked well with the main characters in Archy and of course Frank. At the beginning of the movie where we first meet these characters at the railway line where they worked, Billy was reading the newspaper and friendly jibes and plans followed. In the paper there were things about the war obviously and Billy said how he felt about it in this quote, “Bastards! That’s it, I’m gonna join up”. It was followed by a conversation between all four of them (Frank, Billy, Barney and Snowy). Snowy agreed on going, “Yeah, me too, we could all join up together!” and Billy was asking Barney if he wanted to but he wasn’t quite sure about it, “What about you Barney?” his reply, “Hmm nah”. This is where the friendly jokes came about, “Oh be in it, girls go wild over a uniform”. Now Barney isn’t one of the brightest ones so gets easily persuaded as you can understand through his response, “Oh really?” but then Billy came out with another joke at Barney’s expense, “Well in your case, I don’t think anything’d help”. They decided they wanted to join up together but Frank wasn’t up for it, “No thanks, if you blokes all want to go get yourselves shot, go ahead”. Throughout the film these four were …show more content…
From when they met, the impression of mateship was there and it continued to build stronger and stronger all the way through the film. Little thing they would say to each other or would do to each other just really represents the feeling of that theme. The catch phrase that you notice so many times during the movie, although getting serious each time, is when one would say “I’ll see you when I see you” and then the other would reply with “Not if I see you first”. These types of things drill into your mind that they are great friends and would stick up for each other no matter what. It’s the epitome of the theme mateship and these two characters show it the whole way through the movie. Near the beginning of the film when Frank and Archy are traipsing across the vast outback of Australia, you see both with a suitcase in hand because, like all young men at this time, they thought they were off on a great adventure together as mates. Of course when they get to Gallipoli that whole mindset changes but the mateship is always going to be there between them. You can’t take away good old Aussie mateship. So Frank and Archy really represented that theme. Obviously the reader of this essay can now see how this movie is wholly based around the theme
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The review here serves as a general discussion of mateship that provides the potential readers. with some basic understanding of the idea, and as background. information for the contents that I examine. I then briefly discuss the image of mateship in an Australian film. Gallipolis.
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