Frank Russell Capra's It Happened One Night

For my history assignment, I viewed the movie, Sergeant York. Sergeant York is a film about the life of Alvin York. Alvin York is one of the most decorated American soldiers of the World War 1 (Birdwell, M., Dr. (n.d.). It was released on July 2, 1941. This film was directed by Howard Hawks starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Joan Leslie. This film has been nominated for many awards and has been ranked 57th out of 100 for the most inspirational American movies (Sergeant York, n.d.). This movie is a great portrayal of Alvin York.

In the play, As You Like It written by William Shakespeare, as well as the short story “Let Me Promise You” by Morley Callaghan, both playwright, and author are trying to convey the idea of a strong emotional bond between certain characters. In Shakespeare’s play, we see how Celia and Rosalind, two cousins, have been inseparable ever since a young age and will do anything for one another. In Callaghan’s short story, Alice has strong feelings towards George, waits restlessly by the window, and despite their differences, she still tries to please him. The theme that these two works show is unconditional love. The playwright and author are trying to illustrate what one will do for another even though the situation and conditions might be though.

Green portrays the war as a symbolic event for men to show their duty as an American to protect their own country. Green’s choice of words such as “honor” and “justice”, “glory” and “heroism” served as a motivator for his audience to show that partaking the role of being in the Union forces will

On December 7, Pearl Harbor was raided by the Japanese. This shook the fear away from the dormant american people. Almost instantly after Pearl Harbor, the support to go to war sky rocketed as the american people rallied to war. Many young men dropped out of school in order to join the military. Roy was one of these men. Roughly a week after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Senior Roy Duncan dropped out of high school and joined the navy. Roy was quickly trained to be a signalman and gunner, tasks that he would serve on several ships including “The Mighty” S.S. Obanion, the Alabama, the Lexington, and the Mount Vernon. Roy saw plenty of action during the war, including being part of the bloodiest battle in the pacific, the Battle of Okinawa. Roy was heavily disturbed by the battle and doesn’t like to speak of it. Roy took part in many scrimmages with the Japanese during the war and survived four separate Kamikaze attacks on the ships on which he

Saving Private Ryan is a theatrical masterpiece that incorporates many universal themes that almost all people can relate to. The movie follows a squad of U.S. soldiers as they battle through the trenches of World War II. Directed by the great Stephen Spielberg, the movie is claimed by many to be the most accurate presentation of war in any movie to date. The movie includes several themes that helps captivate the audience and truly help people understand just how horrible war is. The idea of losing loved ones frightens even the toughest of us, and being lost in a foreign land scares many others. Both of these themes are thoroughly explored and propelled onto the audience to experience. The extremely accurate depiction of war, the universal themes that everyone can relate to, and the film being a theatrical masterpiece are all reasons why everyone should watch Saving Private Ryan.

In Soldier's Home, Ernest Hemingway paints a vivid picture of Harold Krebs return home from World War I and the issues he confronts while trying to shift his way back towards the ordinary life he once lived. After his battling over seas took place, it took Krebs over a year to finally leave Europe and make his way back home to his family in Oklahoma. After finally finding the drive to come home, Krebs found that it was difficult to express his feelings towards all he had seen during his tour of duty, which must be attributed to the fact that he was in the heart of some of the bloodiest and most crucial battles mankind has ever seen. Therefore, Krebs difficulty in acknowledging his past is because he was indeed a “good soldier” (133), whose

This attack on American territory was a destructive and relentless bombing by the Japanese which took thousands of lives from soldiers and annihilating the Navy’s warships and carriers docked in the harbor, an act that is depicted well in the excerpt of the film, Pearl Harbor. This was both an enormous insult as well as a call for war that kick-started the American war machine, which is understandable due to the violence and feeling of hopelessness stricken into the hearts of the helpless soldiers with no option but to die in their watery grave. It is somewhat ironic that the Japanese did not give these men a chance to die an honorable death when the Japanese culture at the time was heavily influenced by the idea of honor. When Japan attacked the United States, it was not long before they realized that they would have to declare war on the now hostile country; however, what they did not know was that this declaration would anger Japan’s ally, Germany, beginning the American war in Europe on the western front alongside the allied powers

In order to become a great director, Billy Wilder had to get his start in filmmaking. Although he studied law after high school, Wilder’s true passion was writing, so he began to write about a variety of subjects for a newspaper in Vienna. Wilder was writing a profile on Paul Whiteman, an American Jazz Bandleader, and because of this, he was offered a publicity job for the band in Berlin, Germany. This moved him one step closer to his film career in America.

This movie is about George s. patton, the general who served in the american army during world war two. But what was so special about patton that they had to make a movie after him? Was he influenced by his belief of having lived a heroic warrior a past life? Let us probe into this movie and see what made so different enough for this movie.

Background Patton is a film written by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H North and directed by Franklin J Schaffner (IMDB). This film was made in 1970 and the screenplay was based on the biography, Patton: Ordeal and Triumph and A Soldier’s Story (IMDB). The film’s primary focus is the professional life of general George Patton through his commanding positions in World War II. Patton was a unique character who often had a polarizing effect on people. You either love or hate Patton and throughout the film the writers did a good job of expressing Patton’s persona while allowing the viewer to decide how to receive him.

Desmond Doss is one of the most famous U.S conscientious objector in all of U.S military service history. Desmond Doss is known for his brave work at Hacksaw Ridge in Okinawa by single handily saving 75 men by means of carrying them and by manoeuvring them down with his unique rope technique which earned him the medal of honour in October the 12th 1945. Therefore making him the first ever conscientious objector in U.S military history to receive the award. Desmond Doss’s legacy has been shown throughout the ages in television, documentaries and now in the latest 2016 movie entitled Hacksaw Ridge after the real life spot in Okinawa. The movie depicts the true story of U.S serviceman and conscientious objector Desmond Doss in his journey to Hacksaw Ridge. At First Desmond Doss was not fond of people making films or being portrayed in any sort of media because of the inaccuracies that these films might would portray of him because he was deeply focused on his religion and as a seventh day Adventist. But an agreement was soon with him and his firm.

While watching this film you may find yourself experiencing some of the same emotions as the characters in the film this allows you to be in the movie letting you be a part of an important event in our history. This is what makes the film so unique. Its full of different scenarios that keep you wondering what is going to happen next. I think that this film is a very close representation of what WWII was really like.

“Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.” (Frankl 1995) This quote sets the book up to show that one cannot always be in conscious pursuit of trying to achieve happiness. One must live in the moment and know that the smallest acts can make a difference; a smile to a gesture can be an immense pick-me-up to a specific person. The book begins in the trains that are shuttling prisoners to a camp. They are all uncertain about where they are heading, this causes great anticipation. There are so many unknowns and they all negatively affect the prisoners.

Blake seemed to be trying to console Cassandra while she sobbed. She looked so sad, so hopeless. Becca’s heart ached for her as she could physically feel Cassandra’s pain. Just as Becca made a conscious effort to look at Blake, to try and take in as much about him as she could, the vision vanished leaving her sweating and disheveled on Caleb’s couch. For an instant her panic hit an all-time high thinking Caleb might be watching her.

I shall never forget that day. The fire in the hearth crackled as I sat upon a chair in my chambers, peering out a window to the cobblestone streets below, lit by an afternoon sun. I have had many days much like that one—dreary days filled with hours of nothing but pondering. After the end of the war, I had quite a lot of time to myself, a thing that aroused suspicion in the minds of certain citizens; when I roamed the streets of the town, I often heard people chattering to themselves about my accomplishments in the war like hens clucking in their nest. A retired military commander such as myself, surprisingly, is oftentimes not given the respect he deserves upon returning to society. There were those in town who