Michael Cimino's Film The Deer Hunter

This was the first war-type-emergency to hit the United States since the Cold War. The platoon specifically participated in the “Operation Desert Storm” which was a “a 100-hour land war, that expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait” (history.state.gov). “Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait” (history.state.gov) where oil was a major factor. If Iraq were to win in Kuwait, they would be close to Saudi Arabia and Iraq could easily have controlled at least 1/5th of the world’s oil supply. President Bush gave Saddam an ultimatum, giving him the option to either leave Kuwait by January 15th, or he would implement all the military forces (history.state.gov). At this time, the United States troops were stationed in “Saudi Arabia in case of an Iraqi attack on the Saudis” (history.state.gov) under the operation name of Desert Shield. When Saddam did not evacuate his Iraqi troops by January 15th, President Bush engaged the Operation Desert Shield into Operation Desert Storm. This is where the 2004 Manchurian Candidate picked up the narrative. The platoon was involved in Operation Desert Storm when they were captured and brainwashed. This is significant because it was the first war since the Cold War and it was a war with previously known terroristic countries. This war was appropriate because it left most Americans feeling “confident in their military and technological edge once more” (history.state.gov) which is what Raymond Shaw aimed to do with his campaign of “Secure tomorrow today.” These major historical differences did reshape the movies, but again, it did not take away from the overall theme of the fear of terrorism or the fear of communism, it only customized the themes to their time

Therefore, the Vietnam War not only holds the basis of the film but also gives it its historical accuracy. (Appendix D) The comparison of the civil rights movement in the United States and the fight for indigenous Australian peoples equality help the movie flow. The use of these historical events allows the film to give itself credibility without the negative effect of

Could the cruelest, most punishing soldier and a peaty chaplain’s assistant be at all alike? How are they different? When reading Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim and Roland Weary are some of the first characters you will meet. One is a no-life and the other a die hard army man. The characters are different yet very similar. Billy and Roland are similar even if they don’t realize it.

Chris McCandless was a man who had everything to have a successful life. However, Chris McCandless decided to leave it all behind. Chris thought that he was going to go leave all society behind to go live in the wild. Chris thought that it was going to be very hard. Krakauer He was arrogant and ignorance toward the nature and society. In Into the Wild Chris leaves his life behind to live a life alone in the wild. In Into the Wild Krakauer’s message from Chris’s journey is for people to never get too ignorant or too confident because anything can go wrong at anytime.

In the movie Platoon, the author, Oliver Stone, tells us a story about an American soldier in Vietnam during the war. The story is mostly based on his own experience when he went there. Even though the story is fictional, he keeps it really realistic and the more close possible to what was reality in Vietnam. He shows how that war was hell for the soldiers we sent there and also for the local population. Oliver Stone produced Platoon to show his disapproval of the war in Vietnam, because that war harmed the American soldiers that went there and also the population that they were supposed to protect. To deliver his political message, Stone used different elements of a movie like the structure of the plot, cinematic techniques and

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

In Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, I believe the movie's design has a unified feel. By understanding Anderson's approach to cinematography, we can tell that the costume and visual designs ensemble a true Wes Anderson's film. In fact, he is indulged with patterns and lively colors. His plot mainly reflects an old- fashioned, nostalgic feel and he is a bit playful with camerawork. On the other hand, the Grand Budapest really feel like a lively, happy hotel. The use of colors and contrasting hues made the setting almost looks like a painting. For example, the frame narrative where the Grand Budapest Hotel became the setting, the mise-en-scène and the lighting of the film become almost too symmetrical and mannered, especially during the

Blacks had to deal with many discrimination issues throughout their experiences in Vietnam. “The armed forces were dominated and controlled by whites, and more often than not the cultural needs of African American were ignored” (Young 339). Dr. King described the Vietnam War as racist stating: “ a white man’s war, a black man’s fight”. However, personal racism was the most noticeable, as stated by James E. Westheider.

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behaviour, nor restrain men from doing things men have always done” (O’Brien) Platoon is a movie that is free from the chains of an overarching sense of morality. There are no morals to be found in this movie, and it’s nihilistic depiction of war allows no room for morality to come to fruition. One way that Stone accomplishes this is by not establishing a clear “us” (Americans) and “them” (Viet Cong) throughout the entire movie, and instead we see the confusion, anger, hatred, and fear that overcomes the American soldiers sent into a war where the enemy is never fully known. There is a scene in the movie Platoon that is based on the My-Lai

The film, Confessions of a Sociopath, was made by the critically acclaimed director Joe Gibbons. Joe Gibbons is famous for his experimental films, and this film is perhaps his best project to date. The film is an hour long and takes the viewer through real life events that have occurred in Joe’s life. In the film, Gibbons acts as a fictional version of himself where he finds a room full of footage from his life with events that he can no longer recall. The film describes his earlier film experiments, his descent into constructive behavior and his bottoming out on drugs and alcohol. It is intriguing to see a side of a well-known film maker that no one would have thought existed. The film is also greatly intriguing because it is not made in the traditional professional way. The viewer is taken through a series of events that seem normal and completely unscripted. It is also clear that most of the events in the film were shot without the assistance of professional cameramen and directors save for Gibbons himself.

Not only were American soldiers "well muscled" and "athletes," (191) but some of them were black. Whites were not particularly strange, as Vietnam had been under French rule, but blacks must have been something of a frightening, unfamiliar novelty. This too is reflected in the text. When Kien and Hoa encounter an American platoon in the jungle, the blacks in the platoon are the first thing Kien describes, after describing "what was not a man, but a tracker dog as big as a calf." (189) And when the soldiers smoke rosa canina, one of the things they hallucinate is "groups of headless black American soldiers" right along with hallucinations about fantastic creatures and extinct animal species. With these counterpoints to the American views of Vietnamese soldiers, an American certainly gets a different picture of the war.

never find those things because they are too ignorant or selfish to look in the

In fact, it did just the opposite. It showed the atrocities that occurred in the war and caused many pro-war advocates to question whether or not we should have been there in the first place. However, it only showed atrocities done to American troops, but it didn't show atrocities that American soldiers did to the Vietnamese. That didn't happen until the release of the 1986 film, Platoon.

The 1986 Oscar winning film Platoon (Stone) is a classic example of this genre and why it is so popular. As such, Platoon is a fictional work that follows Chris Taylor, a young American who gives up college and volunteers for combat duty in Vietnam. Following Taylor’s tour of Vietnam, the film’s main focus is not only his life during the war, but also the mortality issues he must find a way to deal with. Furthermore, Platoon includes all four of the narrative elements necessary to fit into this genre.

One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War is The Deer Hunters an old movie which the audience can notice at the beginning. The two principal events are the wedding and the deer hunt, this movie opens with an Italian celebration wedding, which is very unusual for today’s wedding. They have distinct cultures and it is very emotive.