Hacksaw Ridge

For this assignment I have chosen to focus on the film Good Will Hunting primarily because I have seen the movie prior to this course and I feel it is one of the best films I have gotten a chance to see. Will Hunting's profound genius was as much a burden as it was a gift. Initially seeing the film I enjoyed it but viewing the film in the scope of all that I have learned in this course made the viewing experience much more meaningful, as I now had a deeper understanding of Will's internal conficts, and how they directly effected his relationships, beliefs, and actions. The film is an excellent example of the issues involving interpersonal communication and how they play a part in either making or breaking our

I have since heard the book and its message described as fascistic, provocative, irresponsible, unpalatable. This it may well be. Yet I found reading his book to be an amazingly sobering and dispiriting affair. One can really drink up the spirit of a man in reading his prose, and I fear Heinlein to be not someone with whom I want to share a beer or be friends. I read later that he was a career military officer who developed tuberculosis and was invalided out of the fleet to a literary career. There hangs about this book a severe and cynical air of wounded world-weariness, as if life is a dreary and dangerous affair requiring toughness and discipline to survive. He nearly models Sparta in his apotheosis of rigorous military training as

There were many events that caused the bombing that could have been prevented by the federal government. One of the main events that was turned into a motive for the bombing was the raid on Ruby Ridge. As Gunn said, the raid on Ruby Ridge was started when federal agents went to the home of Randy Weaver, a notorious white supremacist leader, to arrest him for failing to report in court for a weapons charge (647). The agents were met with much resistance by Weaver and his son. As Gunn states, Weaver’s son started a shootout with the agents on August 22, 1992, which lead to a week long standoff between the agents and Weaver’s family (647). Marcovitz states, the standoff ended on August 31, 1992 leaving Weaver’s son and wife dead, one federal

And I will be comparing the movie to the story and the story to the movie.

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During the first attempt at Hacksaw Ridge, Desmond was acting normally, saving the freshly wounded and remembering the freshly killed. He gave plasma and blood and might have even given morphine to Japanese soldiers (In the movie adaptation of Desmond Doss’ story, he gave some wounded Japanese soldiers Morphine, saying that it was “good”). During and after the retreat, Desmond still helped and save his fellow soldiers. As Hacksaw Ridge is about a 350-foot fall, according to the Wisconsin Public Radio, he would have to lower his friends and those who thought he would die in minutes.Even though the Japanese would never surrender, the Americans would not, either. During the second and more successful attempt at Hacksaw Ridge, Desmond Doss saved even more, which gave him one of 431 WWII Medals of Honor.In accordance with the Seventh-Day Adventists Church’s article about Desmond Doss, during the second raid on Hacksaw Ridge, one of the people, Desmond Doss’ commanding officer, Jack Glover, was shot and injured. Desmond saw him lying on the ground, bleeding to death. Even though earlier when Jack Glover tried to get him off the squad, Desmond did not hold a grudge against him, and saved him along with many others. In the movie adaptation of this battle, the soldiers, after realising what Desmond Doss did, they showed him more respect for what he did on his Sabbath. After the entire squadron waited until Desmond Doss finished praying for their safety. He finished and they pushed the Japanese into a position of surrendering; However, one the officers pulled a grenade on most of the American soldiers. Desmond, being a savior more than a killer, blocked the grenade, and took most of the grenade, nearly killing him. Desmond soon recovered, and even though he had a bad leg, he would not stop saving

High Noon, a western film mostly respected by conservative viewers, and endlessly ranked over by critics. This was an exciting movie considering it was a black and white film. The whole movie was about the loyalty of a town marshal named Kane and the betrayal of the town. After watching High Noon, there were a lot of fallacies that were depicted through out the movie such as begging the question, ad hominem, slippery slope, and Inconsistency. The characters in the movie do a great job at portraying each of these fallacies.

When deciding what movie to do for this particular paper I faced a few issues. I knew what the requirements were, but I wanted something different and something I could have fun watching and writing as well. So, after looking around and pondering movies for weeks I finally decided on a perfect choice The 60's directed by Mark Piznarski?

He’s ran 200 yards into the front lines to rescue a soldier. Later he saved four men who had been been blown up by grenades while trying to take a fortified cave. He saved an artillery officer who had been shot, dragged him somewhere safe, and performed a plasma transfusion while mortar shells were being dropped. There are many more cases of Desmond going above and beyond to save his fellow soldiers. Desmond was wounded while rescuing a soldier and was sent

They were honest men sitting tall in the saddle high up on my ridge so I wasn’t fearful of them as I had been of many. There’s a fine line between honor and contempt but even at a distance you can get a good feel for a man by the way he sits in his asddle and any jury would have agreed with me, they were honest men.

The visuals used in the film definitely made it easier to understand the messages from the book. One example is the contrast between what the civilians saw every day and what the soldiers did. In the shots of the town where Paul grew up, you see happy people walking around enjoying their day; even after the war had been going on for some time, people still carried on as before. When it came to showing the soldier’s experience, there were a lot of wide shots of destroyed buildings and ruined land scape. The soldiers carried on like nothing was new, the destruction had become their day to day lives. It was only the new recruits seeing this for the first time that were stunned. It acted as transition for these young men. Once boys willing to do whatever their nation told of them, and now they were war hardened men robbed of their

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.

The main character of this story is Desmond Doss. Desmond Doss is a Conscientious Objector and he decided to join the Army to serve his country. But since he was a Conscientious Objector he promised to himself that he would never touch a gun. While in boot camp he was mistreated by his sergeant and fellow soldiers for his belief. He later trained to become a Combat medic to help his fellow soldiers because he did not want to carry a gun. Before he got deployed he met Dorthy were he got married to her before going to Japan. While over there they attacked the ridge of Okinawa known as Hacksaw Ridge. Most men that were deployed of there were killed trying to take the ridge to gain a foothold in Okinawa, Japan. He was most well known for his action upon the ridge. He saved over 75 lives while not touching a single gun. After he saved another man he would say “Please lord let me get one more.” He ended up gaining the respect and adoration of the men he served alongside. At the end of the movie he was awarded the first purple heart for a Consensus Objector. Also because of his work inspiring the other soldiers they were able to take the ridge.

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The film I picked for my critique is Red Tails, a historical World War II drama. The movie starred Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and Gerald Mcraney, was written by John Ridley and Aaron McGruder, better known as the creator of the comic strip “the boondocks”, from a book by John B. Holway, directed by Anthony Hemingway and produced by George Lucas . In this paper the author will show how all elements of filmmaking