Movie Review: We Were Soldiers
We all like to take a time out and sit down with our loved ones, and watch a heart touching movie every once in a while. What we don't do is actually take time to really focus and understand completely what the point of the movie is or what it is trying to get across to the audience. I was able to take time and sit down, and enjoy and evaluate the movie, "We Were Soldiers." I was able to come to the conclusion that it is a very accurate movie, give or take a few facts. The quality of the cinematography is of great value. The film was indeed satisfying.
The movie was released in 2002. It was one of the most seen movies of that year. It won the ASCAP award and was nominated for three different awards. To be nominated is a privilege in itself. That means it was good enough to win but there was another that was superior in other viewers opinion. Randale Wallace was the writer and director of the film. The motion picture was based upon a book, "We Were Soldiers Once
And Young." The book was written by Lieutenant General, Herald G. Moore, and was published by Harper Collins. Due to their accreditation, the value of this picture is first-class. Since it was wrote by a General, it has facts from the real perspectives of war. It makes the movie more unique, because it is more realistic, and has facts from the first person's perspective rather than a second person's view.
The audience's reaction to the movie was that it was a must see picture. It was also commonly agreed that it was one of the best seen movies of its time. It is probably one of the best made films since "Braveheart"(1995), in many viewer's opinion.
In the movie, "We Were Soldiers," the Vietnam war is beginning. It starts off introd...
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...ie is at the end of Lt. Co. Moore's epic speech, "
I will be the first one to step on the battlefield, and the last to step off
" The reason I enjoyed the phrase so much, is because his primary goal in this message is, that he will not leave anyone behind, dead, or alive. He is taking the responsibility that this idea comes to pass.
If somebody asked my opinion on this picture, I would strongly and possibly forcefully suggest that they would also enjoy such a film. These are not just words written down on a piece of paper, I say that because I mean it. Hopefully you will be able to enjoy and get as much as I did out of this movie. Also, the next time you watch a film that is really touching, ask yourself, what is it about this movie that made it so likeable. In doing so and you will be able to see specific reasons behind the greatness of movies in your own opinion.
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of the soldiers on the front lines. He describes the Vietnam War from the point of
...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.
We Were Soldiers does an excellent job portraying the battles and everything from the Vietnam War. This movie has a scene towards the end where media surrounds and bombards all of the troops who were literally just fighting combat not even 20 minutes beforehand. It is all very accurate to what it was like at Ia Drang Valley. On the other hand, the officers in Casualties of War are portrayed as being hostile, mean and cowardly men. Because the movie primarily focuses on a terrible thing that these officers did to this woman, it does not show that the majority of American officers were decent human beings and good
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Many people question if Guy Sajer, author of The Forgotten Soldier, is an actual person or only a fictitious character. In fact, Guy Sajer in not a nom de plume. He was born as Guy Monminoux in Paris on 13 January 1927. At the ripe young age of 16, while living in Alsace, he joined the German army. Hoping to conceal his French descent, Guy enlisted under his mother's maiden name-Sajer. After the war Guy returned to France where he became a well known cartoonist, publishing comic books on World War II under the pen name Dimitri.
The book, We Were Soldiers Once... And Young, begins at a pivotal point in American history. The year was 1965; the year America began to directly interfere with the Vietnam affairs and send our young men to defend the notion of "freedom." During this year, Vietnam interested and concerned only a few Americans. In fact, the controversy of American involvement in Vietnam had hardly begun. But this all changed in November 1965 at the Ia Drang Valley in distant Vietnam. The Battle at LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany was the first major battle of the Vietnam conflict; a conflict that lasted decade and caused American turmoil for many more years.
In its best moments, the movie is a strong, anti-war documentary. It has truly moving moments of bereaved loved ones, mangled bodies in the streets, incredulous soldiers in Iraq, angry Iraqis and innocent teenagers being manipulated into enlisting. In this way, the movie presents a version of the war on Iraq that isn't shown much in the media. It improves our understanding of the war by giving it a human face.
The setting is June of 1965 at the beginning of America’s full military involvement in the Vietnam War, and is based on the book “We Were Soldiers Once… and Young” by LT GEN Harold G. Moore (Ret). The first location depicted in the movie is Ft. Benning GA the home base of the new Airmobile Cavalry. The second location shown is the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base at Plei Me. The Third location is somewhere in the Ia Drang valley northeast of Chu
Although I enjoyed the main portion of the movie, there were some obvious likes and dislikes in my opinion. I believe that I learned from this movie and it helped me understand more of what the people of that time were feeling.
Overall this film was exciting to watch and was good to help learn a little about the Elizabethan Era. Although the goriness is too much for someone who is sensitive to that kind of thing, you can still enjoy the movie. The costumes are eccentric, the set design is, although outdated, extremely detailed, and was a good movie if you were looking for something to watch and enjoyed a little bit of history in your life.
In my own opinion I think this film is great. I think this because it