Hacksaw Ridge: A Historical Non-Fiction Film Mel Gibson

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 movie directed by Steven Spielberg about World War II Invasion of Normandy. This film, was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won many other awards among the cast, picture, and so forth. Spielberg did a great job on getting a lot of things correct to what happened in real life. Although, the movie isn’t entirely correct with certain scenes and topics.

The 1992 film, Thunderheart, directed by Michael Apted and written by John Fusco, portrays young FBI agent, Ray Levoi, who is a quarter Sioux Indian, investigating a homicide case on a Native American reserve. The movie incorporates themes of self-acceptance and discovery as Levoi reflects on who he is and discovers not only himself and his culture but the ugly truth about the reserve.

“Hacksaw Ridge” represents one of the movies from last year that I was most curious about. I love Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart,” and the story here seemed interesting. Plus, I was curious to see how Hollywood would react to Gibson’s return to directing after his incendiary past. I finally caught up with the best picture nominee, and it’s certainly a good, but not great, movie.

In his book, More Than a Movie: Ethics in Entertainment, F. Miguel Valenti examines nine “hot buttons” of violence – “creative elements that filmmakers use to manipulate viewers’ reactions to onscreen violence.” (99) These elements, posited by researchers conducting The National Television Violence Study (Valenti, 99) are “choice of perpetrator, choice of victim, presence of consequences, rewards and punishments, the reason for the violence, weapons, realism, use of humor, and prolonged exposure” (Valenti, 100) .

With Hollywood producers jumping all over the idea of making historical wars and battles come to life on the big screen, many times fabricated and over-the-top details are added to enhance the overall plots. Keeping this in mind, I analyzed the movie Gettysburg, directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, for historical accuracies. The battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle in American history, many movies have been made to re-enact the horrors that unraveled within those days; however, many of them are incorrect. The movie Gettysburg, directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, seems to be mostly accurate with the historical events. The defense of Little Round Top was a pivotal moment within the battle of Gettysburg, the winner of this skirmish would decide

On a warm summer’s day in August of 1992, a police sniper’s bullet pierced the body of Vicki Weaver who was cradling her 10-month old daughter in her arms. She lay mortally wounded on the floor of the cabin as her husband, Randy Weaver, scrambled to safety after being hit by another bullet from the sniper’s rifle. Thus, the legacy of Ruby Ridge was forever etched in the minds of the American people.

Living in the Bronx, he attended a private school, where he would always be reminded of him being one of the only two blacks in the ‘white school’. Therefore, as his grades start to slip, his mother becomes more alarmed about the next step she should take regarding him. Because his family did not want Wes Moore to fall into any illegal trouble in the Bronx, they managed to fund his career at Valley Forge Military School. Not knowing the sacrifices his family made for him to be able to attend military school, Moore started to think of ways to escape. He trusted a stranger at Valley Forge to give him directions to escape, but there he stood tricked, “Bastard, I thought. The directions he had given me were fake.They’d led me nowhere but to the middle of the woods.” (93). After being caught and talking to his mom back home, Wes started to realize the importance of why he was there. This incident is explained very clearly to prove how one wrong decision can change and destroy a life forever. In this case, Wes was saved from falling into that trap which could have ended his life just like the other Wes Moore’s. Soon enough, Wes started to train to become a paratrooper. “An excited nervousness overwhelmed me. It had been a little more than a year since I decided to make the Army a fundamental part of my future.” (130). Due to the confessions made by his mom about the sacrifices, Wes

Every war will have those who support the war and those who are against the war. In 1965, those who were against the Vietnam War made their views known by many forms of protesting such as forming organizations, rallying, and anti-war protest music. Anti-war protest music was an opportunity to put people’s perspectives into song to hopefully spread their message. Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote the song “Universal Soldier” in 1962 and her message was that “Universal Soldier is about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal thinking kills us all” (Boulanger). The song “Universal Soldier” was used as a protest anthem during the Vietnam War and attempts to untangle one of the paradoxes of life that war never leads to peace through

To what ends do the illusion of free will, the mention of war and the key motif of “so it goes” contribute to the novel?

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.

“Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you’re going to get” (Hanks). Many times when books are changed into movies they are done incorrectly. Forrest Gump is one of these examples. Forrest Gump, the novel, was written in 1986 by the author Winston Groom. The movie Forrest Gump was created by Paramount Pictures in 1994. Tom Hanks stars as the main character Forrest Gump. The movie portrayed Forrest Gump in a different way and as sometimes more innocent than his character in the book. This is shown in three different ways: Jenny and Forrest’s relationship, Characters’ drug use, and in the book Forrest is involved in more activities and adventures.

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2. Altieri, C. 2003. The particulars of rapture: An aesthetics of the affects, Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press.

Topic sentence: Throughout the film the 5 major themes change drastically, with life generally improving for Spartacus the themes all change drastically except for the nation of Rome.

start he is a very strong man and he was quite emotional as well, but