Compare and Contrast of The Great Escape The film, The Great Escape, shows just what it was like to be a prisoner in a German camp during World War II. This camp was filled with people who had already escaped from previous camps, because the Germans had decided to put them all in one place. Using mostly materials they could gather from inside the camp and gifts sent from the Red Cross they were able to construct three escape tunnels. After months of digging and keeping the tunnels a secret from the Germans one of the tunnels was finally used to aid in the escape of 76 prisoners. The film, The Great Escape, very accurately portrays the real life event of prisoners of war during World War II and their attempt of escaping from Stalag Luft III, …show more content…
For example, shortly after the escape actor Steve McQueen uses a motorcycle to escape pursuing Germans and tries his best to cross the border. But, according to Emma Mason, “Of all the scenes in The Great Escape, that of Virgil Hilts, played by Steve McQueen, trying to jump over the border wire on his motorbike while being chased by hundreds of Schmeisser-toting Germans is the most memorable. It’s certainly a thrilling sequence, but it has no basis in truth. None of those who escaped from Stalag Luft III even used so much as a bicycle to get away “ (Mason). One big difference between the film and real life is that it portrays American POWs escaping among the other 76 prisoners. But as it turns out Americans only helped dig the tunnels and did not take part in the actual escape, as said by Jane Warren, “However, perhaps one of the greatest liberties taken is the suggestion that members of the American armed forces were among the 76 escapees, of whom 73 were recaptured by the Gestapo. In reality, while American officers had worked on the construction of the tunnels, by the time of the escape all the American prisoners had been moved to a separate compound .” Even though there are a few differences between the film and real event, Sturges does an excellent job and showing what the people in that prison camp did to get out of
Up to six million Jews, seven million soviet civilians, and around three million soviet prisoners were killed in the concentration camps according to the encyclopedia of the holocaust. That is still not all of the people that died in the camps. The main character in the book time travels back into the concentration camps to fight for her life. In the movie and the book there is similarities in the allusion, the characters and the conflicts. There is differences in the characters and the scenes, and there is also similarities in the themes.
While many believed that a large number of prisoners remained in Vietnam, the media, pop culture and Hollywood Movies only helped to foster this belief (Appy, 245). Popular movies such as
To convey the terrible truth that the Allies lost 10,000 men on June 6th, the director had to recreate the gruesome blood soaked waters and beaches and the piles of dead and dying soldiers. The scene when Miller’s men go rummaging through the huge pile of dog tags is surreal.
To Begin, on the story Night many themes were developed like “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”. Inhumanity was the major one in both the movie and the novel because of the horrible things each of the characters experiences while in the concentration camp and even outside of it. For example, while Elie was in the concentration camp he experienced things like starvation and horrible beatings. He was on the level of extreme mistreatment. This especially shown when Elie was forced to go on a death march and says, “Cursed and prodded by the SS and whipped by the wind, the prisoners march. The guards yell at them to go faster and they begin to run. They hear explosions from time to time: the SS have orders to shoot anyone who can't keep up the pace.” This is similar to the movie because while Bruno was in the camp
After seeing the film and reading the text I learned a lot of information on what a Jews life in hiding was like. Both impacted me deeply but seeing the film was more impactful for me. In the film you could see what their living situation was like so you could get a better understanding of what being in hiding was like, it might not have been a exact replica of what it really was like but you still got a good idea of it. Also you could see the characters feelings and emotions. This helped the viewers know what they were feeling in a certain moment in time. So while both were very interesting I was more in favor of the Film over the Text, it add more elements to the story for me.
Women are portrayed in three distinctive ways in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. Some are appeared as great, moral, upright people, while others are the opposite. Miller is not a feminist, his intentions are not to make women appear to be spotless, however, he is also not a misogynist, he does not condemn all women for the sins of their sex. He demonstrates a balance between various individuals, with a specific end goal to make the story more believable. There are three distinct women in the play with three different personas.
In the film, the soldiers fought very hard. They went through a lot in this war. They had to defend themselves and their territory. Often times they ran low on food and water. A ton of men died everyday when they were fighting. The soldiers had to deal with orders that were not necessarily smart orders. They had to protect themselves against Germany.
Yet again, it becomes evident that no one can be trusted when the prisoners are being marched from the concentration camp due to the Nazis fear that the United States and allies soon would discover their operation. The Jewish prisoners arrange a plan with some of the German guards marching alongside them. The prisoners pay the guards with the agreement that when they try to run the German soldiers will fire over their heads and not kill them. When the time came to run, the prisoners break away from the pack and start towards the woods, however, the same soldiers that promised not to shoot them shot them in the back as they ran (Maus V II 82-83). The Germans that were supposed to be the friends of the Jews and help them escape took their gold and did not hesitate to shoot them in the back as they ran.
“The effective war film is often the one in which the action begins after the war, when there is nothing but ruins and desolation everywhere…”
The Film to be shown for Future Generations If Leon Cooper were to watch the film The Thin Red Line, he might actually be moved to tears at how closely accurate the war was portrayed. The film shows perfectly the destruction of the islands that once were inhabited by peaceful locals into a place that is unrecognizable. Not only that, it flawlessly demonstrated the breakdown of soldiers and how they felt towards the war.
A realist film that shows great accuracy is the war film All Quiet on the Western Front. The storyline incorporates just enough action to inform viewers that it is a war movie and at the same time it also embodies many other aspects such as the politics, emotions and hype involved with the war (Ronald, R. 2013). This gives the viewer a more accurate view as all aspects of the war are covered. Throughout the film we see that real locations have been chosen to enhance the realistic vision and accuracy of the film.
Slavery is an issue because it was very wrong in general because of how bad these slave are treated and how many slaves there are in America.people treated slaves like property instead of an actual person , slaves didn't have any rights. When a slave has a child they usually get separated from each other and work a different slave farm. There were a lot of people trying to end, but thanks to gag rule that can bring up slavery in debate or they will be punished.
The Holocaust is the world’s most dehumanizing incident that occurred from the years 1933 to 1945. It was a racial injustice in which Jews, along with people seen as inferior, were persecuted by the German Nazi’s. Author Elie Wiesel and director Steven Spielberg both do excellent jobs at educating an audience of the horrors people experienced during this time. In Wiesel’s novel Night, the Holocaust is shown from a Jewish boy’s perspective as Elie struggles to survive the torment of several concentration camps. Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List shows the Holocaust from a German Nazi’s perspective, as Oscar Schindler faces an internal struggle while attempting to protect several Jews. The stories share numerous similarities along with differences, however, when it comes down to which is a better representation of the Holocaust, Night will come out on top due to Wiesel’s first hand experiences inside the camps.
In the book survival is portrayed by telling of how violence between the Jews would be and trades they would make to get extra rations of food. On the other hand survival in the movie was different for the reason that Schindler did not struggle as much to survive and to survive at first he took all of the money the Jews had to start his business and tried to not go bankrupt near the end of the movie. In the end the movie and the book have very different forms of survival.
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