The Lost Battalion Film Analysis

In Caryn James’ NYT review of the miniseries “Band of Brothers,” James states that the series manage to capture and recreate the setting of World War II with the world’s “devotion, bravery, and terror,” comparing it to films such as “Apocalypse Now” and “Saving Private Ryan.” The reviewer was able to get a grade scope of what Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks had visualized, and how that creates an “enduring place” of war films. James does emphasize HBO’s production value, and describes this show as an “expensive” and “enormous” miniseries, and also mentions the “powerful stylistic influence” of “Saving Private

World War I was one of the greatest tragedies in modern European history. According to History.com, 16 million people were killed – both soldiers and civilians – and many of those killed did not have a quick, painless death. While the majority of the deaths in the film happen off camera, most of those that are shown are quite tragic. Franz Kimmerich's death ends over a day of suffering, an unnamed member of the platoon breathes in mustard gas after dropping his gun in a pit, and Katczinsky, Paul’s platoon leader, dies while Paul carries him to the hospital tents. The horrors of mustard gas and the realities of battle are accurately depicted especially since so many soldiers died, and no one dies in this movie doing anything greatly heroic. However, back home there was a great deal of information that was not shared.

Army staff found them to be powerful messages of why it was necessary for the U.S. to fight in the war. The series is widely considered a masterpiece of war documentaries and won its own Academy Award in 1942 for best documentary feature.

It also seemed that the film did not do a great job of portraying the deplorable conditions of the veteran’s hospitals. Sure they showed some of the crude parts, but for the amount of the book that was dedicated to exposing what was going on in the VA hospitals the film did not seem to express it.

Though just because it's about war or war photography doesn't mean it's all action, it can be like American sniper where producer Bradley Cooper says, "It's really a character study more than a war movie,” In the end, I am not against having action in the film and understand why people would want action as a big focus when adapting this memoir, but think people should think about the positive and negative points in this, just as well for those in character

WWII and the war in Iraq were two vastly different wars, due to the time period, differences in technology, which countries were involved, and their purposes. However, the soldiers who fought in these wars share the fact that they chose to spend their youth bravely fighting for their country. The difference in the documentaries created about these wars is eye opening. The filmmakers and photographers during WWII put their lives at risk to document the battles and bravery of the U.S. soldiers. They were on the frontlines of the war, whereas the other documentary on Tortuga explored what happens on the every day, daily life of the soldiers who are not on the frontlines. This seems much safer for reporters. Viewers got and inside look at what goes on in the soldiers’ minds and what their lives were really like in both films. Due to the time period of WWII, the working conditions veterans described seemed much more brutal. My impressions of what it means to be in the service have not necessarily changed; rather, my appreciation and knowledge of what it means to be a soldier have deepened. It is one thing to understand and it is another to truly sympathize and put oneself in a soldier’s shoes, to feel the adrenaline, fear, loneliness, and courage that are his daily regime. Documentaries have a special effect that other films simply cannot achieve, and that is the reality of the story. Nothing has been dramatized and hearing these people’s stories, hearing it come from them with

Band of Brothers is considered one of the most vivid, detailed descriptions of the ground-level horrors of World War II, told

The movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” can provide us with a lot of insight about the soldiers experience in World War I. The movie and what we learned in class can help us out with this. In the movie there were a lot of kids and just by looking at their face you could tell what they were thinking. Some of them were very scared of what might happen to them, some of them were determined to come home well and alive, and some of them looked excited to be serving the Fatherland and doing their duty. Back in Germany they told the students over and over that it was their duty to fight in the war and that is what men do in Germany. They were told they were serving the Fatherland and bringing glory back to

World War II is unarguably one of the most destructive, deadliest, and bloodiest war throughout history between the Allies and the Axis Powers. It involved over 100 million people from more than thirty countries, and were met with fatalities exceeding 60 million people. 22 to 25 million of those people were said to have been soldiers, including 5 million of them dying due to the horrible conditions they faced whilst being held hostage in various camps in the opposing side as prisoners of war. and Angelina Jolie’s debut film, “Unbroken”, she focuses on the life of World War II hero, Louis Zamperini. In

it showed the brutality of war and death, it really had an emotional response to others. People

However if the question is only talking about the “war movies” in general as American popular culture, Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. explained that the existence of ‘war movies’ is essential to unify the country under the same aims of war. The earlier movies mainly focused about telling the Americans on who was the enemy, why they fought, and why they had to be defeated. Thus it is intriguing when we see that there are so many “war movies” produced up until now and that they still has high demand among the audiences. Apparently, this phenomena emerged from the fact that even the people in 21st Century who watched the war genre could also feel these senses that the producers trying to share; how they are able to obtain lessons from the past and of course, learn the importance of patriotism.

The way the story this story is told through following the outlook of a child soldier is a truly matchless experience, the view scenes of the movie that will remain fresh in my mind because they were directed in such a perfect way a terrible view of war that will stay with me for many years.. That is the way this story needed to be told, and I thought it was very moving, very powerful, and one of the most haunting films that I've ever seen, and possibly will ever see, in my

The statement, “The Hurt Locker is one of the greatest war films ever made” is a loaded comment that forces the viewer to consider several things. First, it requires the viewer to identify what makes a good war film: is it the action, the heroism, the filming technique, sound effect etc.? All these things are important to consider when determining the quality of a war movie. I argue that The Hurt Locker is one of the greatest war films ever made because the film reveals war’s brutal side, how it removes the mundane, and its destruction of innocence, while also portraying a realistic hero that one could hope to emulate.

Throughout history, we have always wondered what it was to be back in time. World War II is one those events that many people wonder how it was back then in that time period. There have been movies that have done a good job in replicating these past experiences.

Overall the movie was very inspiring and affected the people who watched it. This movie will make the true event is remembered