WORLD WAR 2 MOVIES The movies we have been watching in class were: Alone in Berlin, Red Tails, Saving Private Ryan, and Hacksaw Ridge. All of these films were based on 1900s events, especially wars. However, the movies tend to add real and fictional events. Therefore, these motion pictures were not completely historically accurate, but they do help in spreading the principle idea of history. The first movie, Red Tails, is based on the Tuskegee Airmen in Italy during WW2. It provides visuals of what problems this group of colored airmen faced. For example, they were only given used, hand-me-down flying equipment from the white airmen. In addition, they were barely permitted to be hands on in the fighting of the war, so they were given jobs to protect lands. Finally, the end they are able to fight next to the white men and triumph the war. These were the true historical facts about them; however, the dialogue used and how they act unmoved when a pilot goes down is fictitious. …show more content…
The dialogue plays an important part to understand what was happening, but they do have to change some of it because it’s impossible to know everything that was said back then. However, some of that communication between characters did happen even if it wasn’t in those exact words. For example, in Hacksaw Ridge, one of the soldiers Desmond saves says “I thought I was blind” after Doss cleans him up, and he always said “Lord, please let me get one more” each time he went back up making an effort to save another soldiers life. In addition, in Saving Private
In 1939 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People started to target the military’s segregational policies. Civic groups and negro newspapers began a campaign around the country to integrate the armed forces. In 1941 a student of Howard University filed a lawsuit to force the air corps to accept him into training. The corps answered to this by creating a segregated unit to train black pilots. The Corps created segregated group called the Tuskegee airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of african-americans who volunteered to become america's first black military pilots. My opinion of whether or not the movie Red Tails was historically accurate is that I believe it was accurate up to a movies . It shows how the blacks were
Have you ever seen “The Patriot”? If you have do you know the truth behind it because some parts really happened and some parts didn’t. Meaning that “The Patriot” is somewhat historically accurate. The Patriot is somewhat historically accurate because the main character Benjamin Martin was not a real person he was based on Francis Marion, the Battle of Cowpens was exactly the same because the colonist had extra help to fight off the British, and the surrender of Colonel Cornwallis was somewhat alike because his army could not get around the French and the colonist in history and in the movie. So “The Patriot” has many differences and similarities to history.
"Red Tails" describes the tremendous amount of plights that many African-American pilots had to go through during World War II. It demonstrates the extreme amounts of segregation between those involved in the American Airforce and those involved in the Tuskegee Airmen. "Red Tails" demonstrates how only the African-Americans were segregated, they were forced to train differently, learn differently, and be on separate bases. As the movie clearly showed the Tuskegee Airmen were given many hand-me-downs and very little respect for protecting their country. One example of this behavior in the movie was when one African-American pilot went to a saloon that was filled with white pilots. When he walked in the room went quiet for a second, but was then filled with hateful words and phrases being thrown at him.
The movie has some historical accuracy. In the movie, the scenery and the clothing worn by the characters is historical accuracy during the Revolutionary period in American history. The events, battles and people are represented in “The Patriot” are historical accuracy. The Cornwallis’ army was real. The Continental Army
Have you ever wondered if the movies that you watch are really historically accurate? If not, how does it change the story? In the film, The Four Feathers, directed by Shekhar Kapur, there are various historical accuracies and inaccuracies. The first paragraph will be an overview of the film. The second paragraph will talk about what was historically accurate in the film while the third is about the historical inaccuracies in it. Finally, the concluding paragraph is about the film's general portrayal of events.
I think that the movie “The Patriot” is somewhat historically accurate because there were many differences between the movie “The Patriot” and history. “The Patriot” is a movie based on events that happened in the Revolutionary war. There were details added into the movie and they were very graphic. Such as when the gun shot were fired when the people fell of their horses. There was a lot of blood in this movie, I do believe that there were lots of graphic moments, but I doubt there was that many.
The reader could assume how they were feeling, or what they were thinking regarding an event that just occurred, but never hear the voices of the characters themselves. One could say that dialogues can make you see the different viewpoints of the different characters, however, I would disagree because one would not hear the character’s inner thoughts. As a result, one would have to guess about what the characters were thinking. For example, with Maureen’s character we would not see much of it, if it was in other books, unless she was the main character and the writer would only focus on her. Maureen is shy and she does not converse that much with others.
While the movie’s interpretations aren’t perfect and parts of it are works of fiction, the core story and beyond are accurate. The representation of reasoning for desertion, the way that they achieved the Free State of Jones, and how even black members were put down after the war by the state government leads this film to being a true
Looking at the socially or culturally history of the United States, many historians use Hollywood films as a primary source. I also used many films such as Easy Rider (1969) or Dance, Girl, Dance (1941) to support my historical thesis paper and to make the topic more vivid by using the images of the film. Even though, some people think that films are accurate and authentic in its depiction, it is important to mention that films are still fictional. Directors and actors are responsible to make us believe their story, but this story does not have to be necessarily true. In that way, fictional films cannot be used as historical evidence in terms of how things looked like during that specific
I think that the movie “The Patriot” was somewhat historically accurate. I think that it was somewhat historically accurate because of Benjamin Martin, Colonel Tavington, and the Battle of Cowpens. Also because some things that were demonstrated in the movie; are true facts. Some things that happened in the movie are not, some things are fabricated by the producers of the movie. So the movie cannot be completely historically inaccurate, and the movie cannot be completely historically accurate. So I think that “The Patriot” was somewhat historically accurate.
Historic movies are often produced with the premise that they will tell an honest tale about the past, but how accurate are they really? The Patriot is a historical movie the shows the life of an ex-war hero, Benjamin Martin, and his life continuing on through the American Revolution. This includes his interaction with the soldiers and generals, his political stance, and his involvement through the towns. Because the Benjamin Martin is fictional The Patriot cannot be called 100% accurate, but that doesn't mean that other aspects shown were inaccurate. The Patriot demonstrates authentic knowledge of history militarily, socially, and politically.
Nearly everyone in the world can be classified with some sort of mental or psychological disorder, whether it’s a big “problem” or just something small and rather unnoticable. Since film making became possible, people have been producing movies with a character that has some sort of psychological or mental disorder. Within the last 20 years, American Psycho, Shutter Island, and The Black Swan, have all had strong in their message and meaning in the mental disorder community. American Psycho and The Black Swan deal with borderline personality disorders in both of the main characters, while Shutter Island is more about post traumatic stress disorder and dissociative identity disorder. Movies dealing with characters with mental or psychological disorders are harder to portray, but if they can be portrayed correctly, they are likely to be some of the best movies you have ever seen.
Advanced information technology is widely used in the millennium age. History is can be reprinted, re-edited and re-presented (Chan, 2013). Relatively, history can be shown in a more realistic way than before. Audience can spend few hours to have a brief understanding of history. However, I think the motivation of making historical movie is not merely for education but consists of other reasons. Seediq Bale will be taken as an example for elaboration.
The historical events that have occurred in the world have shaped the nation, and the culture. These events have been studied, and have been created into historical films. Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ is one historical film that has been created to depict the crucifixion of Jesus. Jesus’ resurrection is a historical event that has been studied, and is studied by Christians all over the world.
In the movie Hacksaw Ridge it did helped me understand to topic of the Battle of Okinawa in World War II. The movie helped me picture the historical portrayal of Private Doss saving each and every soldier that fought in the war. Is showed the way he was strong saving them and also for keeping his faith in God throughout his position in the military. Doss had enlisted as a medic and refused to carry a rifle. In reality there are men in the military that refuse to pick up a rifle due to them having a promise with God and/or obey the 10 commandments. I understand it better after the movie because of them showing how he did it saving the soldiers in the hacksaw ridge, the reaction of the soldiers when the captains ordered him to pick up a rifle, and how the Japanese quickly killed them as soon as they saw them. Throughout the movie I just thought first how strong he was to go back and save any soldier that was alive because nobody now a day has the guts to do that and second to keep his faith and promise with god. Also for his dad not accepting Doss and his brother to join the army, and the still joined to protect their country. The movie Red Tails showed me that it doesn’t matter what color, heritage, or male/female you can do anything. It was the Tuskegee Airmen that were African Americans that were servicemen during the World War II. Ever men had a hard time trying to do their job and to fit it even though there was hard times to do that in the same time. In today’s world