...Inglorious Portrayals of World War II Research Background More than seventy years since it ended, World War II is still viewed as a great historical event. This statement is supported by the high number of the movies made based on the war. Since the beginning of 21st Century alone there are over 200 WWII-themed movies had been released all over the world. Some of the monumental movies in this century are: Saving Private Ryan, The Monuments Men, Stalingrad, Fury, and Inglorious Basterds. Not only that, even this year another WWII-themed movie starring Brad Pitt entitled ‘The Walk’ will also be released. It’s intriguing to know why such ‘war’ genre is still popular and have high demand even after decades since...
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...Star wars is a mighty film in this industry that has overcome many obstacles throughout history. One of the main issues that has come up time and time again would be the issue of World View. George Lucas the director and creator of the movie Star Wars a New Hope, is constantly questioned if he put religion into the mix when he created the movie. Lucas has claimed “That the Force is not an alternative religious option, and certainly not the religious option, but is instead little more than a plot device to allow certain aspects of the fantasy to develop,” as stated from bethinking’s article on the force. As people watch the movie, are there any hidden messages that could be found guiding one's world view? Some say Buddhism is very prevalent while others point out the many parallels Christianity has with the creation of the Force. Analyzing both viewpoints, Christianity has more examples and support, as the worldview over Star Wars a New Hope. The Force is a religion that is created in the movie that Lucas molds from major religions including Christianity. For example the movie molds Christian sayings like “May God be with you” to “May the Force be with you” as pointed out from John McDowell in his article for Bethinking. They also treated the force like it was the almighty comforting grace. Just as if Jesus is the rock that all Christians stand on. The force has also come to have a good side and a dark side. We can easily view that as a representation of our entire religion...
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...attacks on 9/11 and this was inspired by the movie, American Sniper, and the backlash and the response that the movie got and it begs the question why did people react the way they did and way they did it. After the movie came out, the people who saw it had a strong opinion about it, either that it was a patriotic movie or that it was offensive to Muslims. Many Americans have grown up in a post 9/11 world and don’t remember what the world was like before that fateful day and as a consequence have grown up with the “War on Terror” and trying to find the people responsible for the attacks on that infamous day in September. After...
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...Shekhar Gahlot (ICS Hitotsubashi, Tokyo, Japan) Leadership Analysis: The Bridge on the River Kwai The year: 1943. The place: Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma. In the setting of World War II, a defeated unit British Soldiers is marched into a Japanese prison camp in western Thailand, with the purpose of constructing a bridge over the River Kwai to carry a new railway line to invade Burma. The camp is run by a dutiful commandant Colonel Saito and his men. The British troop is led by a stiff-lipped Colonel Nicholson. Nicholson is highly revered by his men, he is their friend and confidant; he can do them no wrong. So begins the classic World War II movie The Bridge on the River Kwai. In the August of 2009 during a humid Sunday afternoon I happened to stumble upon this English classic. I presumed it to be just another vintage war movie. However, on careful inspection, it became an excellent treatise for understanding various forms of "leadership" paradigms, which are not only useful in the Army but can be easily observed in contemporary corporate world. It is one of those few war movies which focus more on building its characters rather than the war itself. It portrays two very different leadership styles, which are intensely portrayed by its characters Colonel Nicholson and Colonel Saito. The movie starts with difference of opinion and clashes of ego between the two leads. Saito is persistent that all men should work irrespective of cadre, while Nicholson...
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...Avatar, a movie directed by James Cameron takes us on an adventure away from the real world into a place where beautiful colors and creatures call home. The purpose of this film was to touch base on the political issues going on in society today such as Imperialism and Anti-Americanism. As I analyzed the film, I focused solely on the plot, visual effects, characters, and sound quality. I realized that without a good plot, viewers would not engage too much into the film nor has no interest in it. I also tried to understand the science fiction and fantasy aspect of the film for it includes both genres. With both genres put into the film, Avatar blends the two by exploring a new world where things just seem so perfect and having to choose whether...
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...Instructor’s Name Course Date Visual Analysis of World War II in Multiple Mediums Abstract During this Visual story telling class we learned ways to visually analyze different mediums. We learned about John Berger who introduced people seeing things in a new way. This is paralleled with the way the Holocaust has been portrayed in different mediums. He also introduced the idea of “seeing” depends on a person’s habit and their environment. I will be comparing elements in the mediums of Reflections and Echoes, Maus, Life is Beautiful, and Inglorious Bastards as well as the methods in the perceptions of the author and the lenses through which they see, and then go into detail about the readers perceptions. Introduction The medium through which an artist chooses to express their message or ideas has an effect on the way it is perceived by the viewer. Imagery has deeper meaning that artists tend to hide their message through the use of several representations. The type of image that an author decides to use has an ultimate effect on the perception of the audience. Members of the audience decode varied meanings from an image in the text. The World War II is among issues that have been represented in texts and movies through the use of imagery. It is upon the audience to have extra skills so that they decipher the intended meaning of the author. In this analysis, the focus will be on how different texts and films have portrayed World War II. However, the guiding argument for...
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...The Walt Disney Company: The Entertainment King Starting as a young boy from Missouri, farmer Walter Elias Disney set out to make a mark on society. After first joining the Red Cross in World War I, he came back determined to be an artist. After moving to Hollywood in 1923 with his older brother Roy, they founded Disney Brothers Studio. After diversifying as much as possible, Disney had a firm grasp on the global market share until the 1980’s where the company’s revenues began to slump in the film industry. Luckily Sid Bass invested $365 million in order to rescue the company and bring an end to all hostile takeover attempts. Disney’s billion dollar powerhouse status in the entertainment industry can be broken down and analyzed using the McKinsey’s 7S model. This model can be applied to Disney to analyze the company’s management and strategic policies. The McKinsey 7S model covers important strategic areas of operation including, strategy, structure, systems, style, skills, staff, and shared values. These seven elements need to be aligned and mutually reinforcing so that the model can be used to help identify what needs to be realigned in order to improve performance or to maintain alignment and performance. Disney Corporation has a hugely diversified strategy, that is to say, the plan devised to maintain and build competitive advantage over the competition. In 1928, after creating and losing the Oswald franchise to his distributor, Walt used a technique new to the animated...
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...Yolanda Williams The Cold War American Intercontinental University Abstract This essay is on the cold war and the major events that affected it. It will be analyzing 2-3 major consequences the conflict had on the United States. It will also explain how the war affected American sensibilities, including the way Americans viewed the war and themselves. The essay will also answer: if the war changed America’s role in the world? And was the outcome of the war beneficial or detrimental to the United States or was it a combination of both. The Cold War: Containment By the time World War II ended, a large majority of the American officials came to a conclusion that the best defense against the soviet threat was a strategy called “containment”. George Kennan explained the policy: The Soviet Union, he wrote was “A political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no permanent agreement between parties that disagree”, as a result the only chance America could make was the long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. This way of thinking would shape American foreign policy for the next four decades. The Cold War: The Atomic Age In 1950, a National Security Council report known as NSC-68 had copied Truman’s suggestion that the country use military force to “contain” expansionism where ever it seemed to be occurring. The report called a four-fold increase in defense spending. American officials...
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...three main destinations along its path. The first will be the protagonist’s relationship with the doctor. The second will be the protagonist’s relationship with the girl. The final will be the protagonist’s relationship with his crew boss and work crew as he attempts to leave the world of abortion behind. While these sequences overlap in the plot of the movie, they are separate and distinct relationships for the necessity of analyzing their meanings. Throughout these plot lines, we constantly see a struggle between consequentialist and deontological arguments; What is the right choice versus...
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...The Wizard of Oz- A Film Analysis ENG:225 Introduction to Film Professor Daniel Burrello April 20, 2015 The Wizard of Oz - A Film Analysis The 1920's and 30's marked the beginning of a new world for movie directors and audiences alike, prompting directors to challenge traditional American values and push the filming process to new boundaries. The early part of the 20th century was tainted with the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II, millions of Americans were losing their jobs, and security became a big concern for the people of the States. Although citizens struggled during these times, they remained hopeful as cinema became the drug of choice through the expensive use of color and sound to transfer audiences from reality to a fairy tale place. Director Victor Fleming's classic film, The Wizard of Oz (1939), gave the audience an 'identity', touching on social attitude and the way people play a powerful role in their own lives through escapism and symbolism throughout the film. In 1939, MGM director Victor Fleming, in collaboration with Harold Rosson as cinematographer, released the classic blockbuster fantasy film The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland as young and innocent Dorothy Gale, a young girl from Kansas who is swept away during a tornado along with her dog Toto. During her adventure in the land of Oz she kills The Wicked Witch of the West played by Margaret Hamilton, and embarks on a journey to find the almighty and powerful Wizard played by...
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...words this movie is pretty dang legit or as real as a con artist’s words can perpetrate. It’s evident that the nature of the film was to capture the Italian Neorealism yet other formal analysis played a vital role in the completion of the portrayal. Editing is literally the glue that holds the art piece [film] together. It is the most useful technique for deploying narrative time. Attempting the sentiment of “raw footage” the attributes of a self-made documentary needed to juxtapose the handheld camera’s limited line of vision which made for jumpy cuts, patchy storylines and ambient lighting to capture the...
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...Term Paper Movie: District 9 District 9 is a film that takes us into a realm of a different world from the one we know now. It surrounds the idea of extraterrestrial life combined with immense science-fiction to illustrate a story we could only imagine to ever actually occur. Although made for entertainment purposes, this motion picture can be compared to literature studied in class including Thomas Hobbes Leviathan. Although not forwardly represented, District 9 displays many underlying concepts through its scenes. When studying and analyzing the plot and characters, these concepts then become more translucent to the viewer. District 9 is a flashback film that opens with a series of interviews introducing the basis of the film; an extraterrestrial ship hovering above Johannesburg, South Africa. As explained in the interviews, 20 years prior, the alien ship was making no contact with the humans on Earth so humans decide to cut into the vessel, only to discover severely malnourished aliens. It was decided that the aliens, now referred to as ‘prawns,’ were to live on Earth in government restricted camps, formally known as District 9. As the opening of the movie continues, it is explained how the prawns may never be able to go home due to an inoperable ship and have to live in unity with humans. Unfortunately, there was peaceful living among the two species and as humans began to riot, District 9 had no choice but to move the prawn’s location under the guidance of MNU, Multi-National...
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...INTRODUCTION This study entitled "Register Analysis on Philippine Movie Advertisements of Star Cinema" was conducted to have the following goals: first, to characterize linguistic factors such as diction and language variety and second, to characterize non-linguistic factors such as types of movies. This research is expected to be beneficial for the students, the advertisers and the other researchers. It shows a specific example of register namely the register on Philippines movie advertisement. This can be used as an additional reference for studying language and creating advertisements text that is considered to be efficient and effective for attracting and encouraging readers to make use of the company with its products and services. Moreover, the results of this research also can be hopefully used as a reference for those who are interested in analyzing language variety, especially the one in movie advertisement. Communication also happens in the business and industry. The most common form of communication in business and industry is between the manufacturers and the consumers. In business, someone will do everything to get the maximum profit and the success of his/her company. One of their effects is through advertisement. It represents pictures of life in daily life. Advertisements are identified as the texts that do their best to get people‟s attentions to make them turn toward them (Goddard, 1998: 6). The purposes of advertisements are to influence and motivate the public...
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...RLG101H Introduction to the Study of Religion Prof. Ken Derry Grading TA: Brian Carwana “Remember the idea, not the man” By: Karanveer Singh 998435304 Date: 12/2/2011 Word Count:1,488 James McTeigue’s V for Vendetta is an action packed film. It not only serves the purpose of entertaining the viewer but also has religious elements in it. The central belief of the movie is that an idea and symbol cannot be destroyed; it is impregnable. This belief in the movie is reinforced by Rituals that occur frequently in the film. I will draw on the concepts of ritual from Malory Nye’s Religion the basics and will argue that the use of the mask and the letter “V” in this film function as a method of ritualism and symbolism. Also, I will analyze ritualization and transformation through the stages of Rites of Passage and dispute that it transforms the character Evey’s life. The film V for Vendetta portrays the beliefs of idealism. The first few minutes of the film give a glimpse of the key message that is going to be depicted in the film. The prologue in the film shows that a man named Guy Forkes got caught and executed for trying to blow up the house of parliament in London England but his ideas and beliefs did not die, they fueled revolutions for generations to come. In the prologue of the film a narrator says “that remember the idea not the man, man can be killed and forgotten but the idea cannot be killed”. Towards the end of the film, when the thousands of common citizens...
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...Matt Smith Margaret Neff ENG 112-15 30 January 2012 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3: A Reinvention of the Shooter Since Activision’s last video game success “Modern Warfare 2” launched in 2009, violence has been used subtly to increase sales. The latest sequel, Modern Warfare 3 has used a variety of minor details to indicate that any gamer that plays it will have ultimate control of the world and what happens in it. The main advertisement was created by Activision’s own Infinity Ward subdivision, Raven Software and Sledgehammer Games. It is well known for reflecting the main idea of the campaign aspect of the game which is, “A single man can change the tide of any war.” This visual’s deep contrast between peaceful and violent aspects drew attention to the idea that whoever is the “strongest” will emerge victorious. This visual depicts a large, blackened soldier holding a large weapon standing in the foreground of a large, white city that also contains various types of military vehicles and personnel. The large silhouette in the foreground establishes a very demanding and overpowering presence compared to the remainder of the military in the image. This overwhelming stance suggests that every decision that is prompted throughout the game directly affects one person. Since the large character is filled in with black, the large weapon and the plethora of his side arms become clearly visible. This showcase of the soldier’s arsenal shows off his toughness and the brutality...
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