The film Patton was created in nineteen seventy and the director to the film is Franklin J. Schaffner the cast has many of talented actresses and actors such as George C. Scott, and Karl Malden and Stephen Young, along with Michael Strong, and Karl Michael Vogler with many more. The film depicts the story and career of a general named George Patton who is also a tank commander of world war two. The film correlates to our textbook chapter seventeen, “The United States to World War two” and section two “The War for Europe and North Africa” in particular. Both the film and reading material depict George S. Patton's career and achievements throughout world war two. Patton takes place during nineteen forty-two till nineteen forty-five. The film …show more content…
The reason I believe there are no differences between the film and text is simply that the director Franklin J. Schaffner was trying to relay a story of General George S. Patton which it had done properly in a way that was true to the actual event. Due to this, however, the movie wasn’t able to make really any changes that were significant enough and noticeable, and that would’ve have deviated from the truth and the main purpose of the film itself because they are trying to allow you to gain an insight into how George Patton really was and the achievements he had acquired throughout his lifetime. Had director Franklin J. Schaffner created some differences and bend some of the truth for entertainment he would not have created the movie he wanted to make because it would be something he didn’t care about. The overall purpose was to relay the events that had happened in Patton's life. To conclude the film further enhanced my knowledge on D-day and about who really saved the Americans it was all thanks to George Patton and without him, we would have lost hundreds of
To write a true war story that causes the readers to feel the way the author felt during the war, one must utilize happening-truth as well as story-truth. The chapter “Good Form” begins with Tim O’Brien telling the audience that he’s forty-three years old, and he was once a soldier in the Vietnam War. He continues by informing the readers that everything else within The Things They Carried is made up, but immediately after this declaration he tells the readers that even that statement is false. As the chapter continues O’Brien further describes the difference between happening-truth and story-truth and why he chooses to utilize story-truth throughout the novel. He utilizes logical, ethical, and emotional appeals throughout the novel to demonstrate the importance of each type of truth. By focusing on the use of emotional appeals, O’Brien highlights the differences between story-truth and happening-truth and how story-truth can be more important and truer than the happening-truth.
Martin Blumesfield's writing of this book is a very interesting book. His way of writing really gets the point across and makes you think like you there. He uses many rhetoric devices to enhance his writing and get what he's trying to do. He uses many similes and figurative language to back up his point of him being there. He has many of Patton's paper and he actually can relate to whats going on through his interpretation of the "Patton Papers." Many say this is the greatest Patton book out there and I agree. The way Blumesfield makes you feel is so real, you can appreciate a good writer when you find one like Blumesfield.
Atkinson argues that the North African campaign was a "pivot point in American history, the place where the United States began to act like a great power militarily, diplomatically, strategically, and tactically" (3). More importantly, he believes that World War II was the "greatest story of the twentieth century, like all great stories, it was bottomless, [and that] no comprehensive understanding of the victory of May 1945 is possible without understanding the earlier campaigns in Africa and Italy" (655). He supports this argument well in over 500 pages of material.
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Frustrated by the commissioning programs of the time, Sledge begins his journey by resigning from the officer candidate program in an effort to more quickly reach combat. He subsequently volunteers to be a sixty millimeter mortar-man and joins Company K, Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment (K/3/5) of the First Marine Division. It is within this command framework that Sledge experiences two of the bloodiest campaigns of the Second World War...
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A true war story blurs the line between fact and fiction, where it is neither true nor false at the same time. What is true and what is not depends on how much you believe it to be. In the chapter “How to Tell a True War Story” from the novel “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, the author provides various definitions to how the validity of a war story can be judged. The entire chapter is a collection of definitions that describe the various truths to what a true war story is. Unlike O’Brien, who is a novelist and storyteller, David Finkel, the author of “The Good Soldiers”, is a journalist whose job is to report the facts. Yet in the selection that we read, chapter nine, Finkel uses the convention of storytelling, which relies heavily on the stories the combat troops tell each other or him personally. Finkel attempts to give an unbiased view of the Iraq war through the stories of the soldiers but in doing so, Finkel forfeits the use of his own experiences and his own opinions. From O’Brien’s views on what a true war story is combined with my own definitions, I believe that Finkel provides a certain truth to his war stories but not the entire truth.
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One in the movie that I think really sets the stage for Patton’s personality and military success is when Eisenhower calls in General Patton to take command of II Corps and whip them back in to fighting shape (Yeide). Patton shows relentless discipline to the troops. The cook in the Mess Hall walks in without a uniform or helmet and addresses General Patton casually. Patton then commenced an intensive training and discipline program. His men were required to wear their uniform, shave every day, and even wear a tie to battle. Patton’s soldiers without a doubt complained about Patton and his techniques but, it all paid off in 1943 when his forces played a role in the German and Italian surrender in Tunisia (Sturgeon,
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The film, which is set in 1968, is structured in two main parts. The first takes place in a Marine boot camp, while the second shows the situation on the battlefield in Vietnam. The movie is quite atypical. In fact it does not homologate to the convectional conception of the classic war film. This particular aspect is evident once that the stylistic elements, both aesthetic and thematic, are analyzed. First of, it is pretty much impossible to identify a single protagonist, the hero whose