War movies abound. They are everywhere. What is their appeal and why do we go in flocks to see them? I have seen many movies about war over my lifetime. I have watched war through the news in my lifetime. To say that film captures war is not for me to say.This week, I want you to watch two war movie clips on YouTube. Choose from this list of films below and then you can choose the YouTube clips you can watch. (By can, I mean you are able to watch emotionally.)
1. Unbroken
2. Lone Survivor
3. American Sniper
4. The Hurt Locker
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Born on the Fourth of July
7. Platoon
8. Courage Under Fire
9. Band of Brothers
10. Forrest Gump
While you are watching these clips take notes on the following things:
- What is the language of war?
- What kinds of relationships develop during war?
- What conflicts or struggles are had during war?
- How are emotions dealt with during war?
When you post, briefly describe each clip you observed. Then choose to answer the questions above about your two clips. After you have answer the questions, explain what this tells you about war. You are looking at about two paragraphs. You should cite specific details about the clips to reinforce your arguments.
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The first movie that I chose to write about was Unbroken. Unbroken was about Louis Zamperini’s fight to become and Olympic athlete but instead WWII happened and he had to join the war. Soon after joining the war he became a POW. The language of war were the codes they used to fly the airplanes. The relationships that develop over war and ones that stay with the protagonist forever. In Unbroken, Louis made friends through the war but he also made enemies with The Bird. Friendships that would stay with him forever, and relationships that would haunt him for many points in his life. The conflicts that Louis went through was being a prisoner of war. His emotions were dealt with alcohol, rage and hurt.
The second movie that I chose to write about was American Sniper. This movie was starring Bradley Cooper, in his journey of being an American Sniper in the military. The language of war was the codes that Bradley Cooper used to reach his command to give him the call. Relationships that develop over war in this movie is long term bounding with the men that you serve with. Conflicts that are had during war is to make the right call in possibly cleaning innocent people. Bradley’s emotions are dealt with during war by reflecting back on his family and his life at home.
Both of these movies tell me that war has permanent effects on their lives. A person will build relationships with both friends and enemies that will have possibly good side effects or horrible ones.
The first clip I chose was Band of Brothers. Band of Brothers is a mini-series of real life events told from the perspectives of survivors from those battles. The language of war is the language that can shape a nations consciousness. Relationships that develop are authentic, and end abruptly due to death. Conflicts are between friends and enemies. War articulates the best and worst of people. In Band of Brothers, Joe Toye is wounded and is welcomed back by the entire squad. No person reveals an emotional response for him as war institutionalizes individuals into collectives. The second clip I watched was from Lone Survivor. In this clip, Michael and Matthew, Navy Seals, are attempting their last stand to call in allied support so they can make it back home. Intense emotion is displayed and built-up as both men are shot down by enemy hostiles, but not before they call in the support. This clip shows the kind of courage and discipline necessary for war, and shows the ending of Marcus Luttrell's relationship with his brothers-in-arms. The conflict is personal, as the four SEALS must fight for their own lives and lives of each other.
The first clip i watched was American Sniper. American Sniper is about one of the most deadly sniper's in US history. The movie is based on Chris Kyle's time at war and the ways he dealt with what happened while he was at war. The language used in this movie was a ton of military language. The way they communicated with each other over walkie talkies. The way they communicated with each other in person. They were all mainly very serious and they would sometimes try to lighten the mood with stories or jokes. During the war each soldier kind of established a brotherly bond with one another. They were all very close, and they were all willing to do whatever it took to try and save each other. The soldier's always had each others back. Many of the conflicts in this movie was based on either kill of be killed. There were many points when Chris had to decide if a person was trying to kill an American soldier or if they were innocent. He came across many people including kids who he had no choice but to kill because they were going to try and harm the team. Many emotions come during war. Killing other human beings is never easy. Many soldiers kind of kept to themselves to deal with the pain, they never wanted to talk about it or show any weakness. As that slowly began to build up the soldiers could become broken and when they got home they would have to visit a therapist that way it would not go too far. The second movie clip i chose to watch was Unbroken. Unbroken is about a war hero who was an olympic athlete and then he became a prisoner of war when his air plane was shot down. The language used in Unbroken was some military terms but it was often more inspirational. He always used the saying "If you can take it you can make it" and that seemed to be what kept him going. He had bad relationships with the Japanese soldier's. They liked to beat him and make an example of him, because Louis was so strong willed. The other prisoners looked up to him and they all were somewhat friends. His main conflict was staying alive. He had to overcome so many different styles of beatings, but he never gave up. He never let that stop him he always kept going. His emotions were dealt with by his strong will power. He never let anyone get the best of him and no matter what he never gave up. This tells me that war is not only physically hard but it is also emotionally hard. If you survive the actual war, when you get home everything can feel like its changed. But it has also showed me to never give up. You have to always keep fighting to overcome hard obstacles and that it how you will survive in this world.
The clips that I watched on Youtube were a war scene from Forrest Gump and American Sniper. In Forrest Gump, it was the scene where Gump went to look for Bubba in the forest and saved some of his men on the way out. In American Sniper, it was the scene where Chris Kyle snipped the enemy on top of the roof.
The language of war is very vague and to the point. They tend not to have a filter when they speak, and in my opinion, they don’t need one. War is a scary place, so language is the last thing on their minds, I’m sure. Very close relationships develop during war. For example, Gump and Bubba. Gump and Bubba were very close considering Gump went back into an attack to look for Bubba. Also, in American Sniper, Chris Kyle became very close with Mark Lee, another well-known snipper. Struggles such as sand storms, like Chris Kyle experience on the roof tops, wearing heavy armor, sleeping in uncomfortable places, fear of losing a loved one or your own life, and so on. Emotions really aren’t dealt with during the war. In the clips i watched, they put aside their own feelings to worry about others. In the little time they had, however, they reflected on their emotional trauma and had time to grieve.
In conclusion, those two video clips have told me that war is a very serious, very dangerous place to be. Only the bravest and loyal people stuck their necks out to save us as a whole, and they will be appreciated forever.
The first movie i decided to write about is saving private ryan. Saving private ryan is about a solder that a group of soldiers need to get and bring back to the united states. This is one of the first war movies i have ever seen and is my personal favorite. The language of the war is that there is a lot of passion in when the soldiers do. The relationships that develop are the soldiers help each other but sometimes can get on eachothers backs. The conflicts that everyone face is losing a loved one as the parent of the last living son in saving private ryan three brothers died during the war and only one was left alive. The emotions are trying to deal with losing someone. The next movie is lone survivor. In lone survivor 4 men go into a place heavily guarded with soldiers and have to battle their way out of it. They also have to make a choice to kill a child or let him go. The language portrayed in lone survivor is an urgency to get the mission over with. The relationships that develop during war is almost a brotherhood like bond that is very close. The conflicts of war is to stick together and not give up like the four soldiers did throughout the missions and make tough choices. Though these to movies they both show the struggles of war and how hard it is on the solders and their families.
The first clip was of a suicide bomber from the movie The Hurt Locker. This was an innocent man who had the bomb forced upon him. The American troops do everything they can to remove the bomb from him, but they cannot do it in time and the bomb goes off, killing the man and sending debris everywhere. The language of war is understood by everyone. The suicide bomber and the American troop spoke different languages, but when the troop told him that he was sorry that he did not have enough time to disarm the bomb, the man understood. Relationships are forced upon people during war. The soldier will remember the 2 minute relationship that ended with the innocent man for the rest of his life. The conflicts during war are life or death. The American soldier had an internal conflict - whether to try and disarm the bomb and possibly be killed, or to run away and let the innocent man die. The emotions are often dealt with by screaming and tears. This tells me that war is ruthless and spares no man from the horrors it brings.
The second clip was of prisoners of war from the movie Band of Brothers. A soldier gave about 20 prisoners of war cigarettes and then killed them all except one. The language of war is the different renditions of the same story. The relationships that form are from people who lived through the same experience and know what other people went through. The conflicts of war are whether or not to follow orders, especially when it involves killing other people. Emotions are often dealt with by cigarettes and talking to fellow soldiers. This tells me that war forces people to do things that will scar them for the rest of their lives.
To say film captures the true essence of war would just simply not be true. Often the good guys win against all odds, the protagonist survives to come home, and you leave the movie theater with a sense of national pride. Reality would remind war movie cynosures that the good guys are no more bullet proof than bad guys, in life there are no protagonists everyone will eventually die, and while you may feel national pride many veterans have silence for what was seen and done. Watching Saving Private Ryan which is noted for its graphic and realistic portrayal of war, if this was the best Hollywood has to offer then what is the unwatered version of war like? The true language of war is silence, because what can be said when all around you is death. 141 swear words are repeated, soldiers using the worst language society has to offer to when reacting to battle, and still many are at a loss for words for what they see. The crucible of pain melts away many differences, forming the strongest bond between comrades. Men and women come together from different cultures, homes, and backgrounds helping each other on a tough journey. The question of what is ethical and what is not is also tested. In American Sniper the stress alone of trying to survive is heavy but killing other humans has a weight of its own. The faces of friends and enemies dying imprinted in the brain leave many teetering on the edge of sanity. Why did I survive while they died? Why did i survive and my brother die? Safety is not guaranteed even when home, questions always in the back of Chris Humphrey's head eat away at him. Disrupting Chris's family life, causing him to be angry and aggressive the emotional struggle was everyday even until his death. With all these negatives many wonder if the cost of war is to much but someone will always have to fight for freedom. When many turn to alcohol, drugs, or other forms of abuse, energy should not be on war wasted on debating if war is bad or good. We know war is bad, but that energy should be on helping men and women who served acclimate with normal life.
The first clip that I chose was from American Sniper. The scene I chose was when Chris had to make a choice whether to shoot the enemy that was over a mile away and risk the life of his men or watch as the enemy take out his men. Chris's relationship with his men are very strong. They always look out for one another and are willing to lose their life for a part of their team. The emotions Chris deals with while at war are with his team and about his family back home. His wife is worried about him but Chris feels that he needs to be where he is at. The next scene I chose was from Lone Survivor. I chose the ending scene of this movie because I felt that it had a powerful message. Marcus is being held hostage with the enemy when his team comes in to save him. When Marcus comes out and sees the enemy he says that they are with him and wants them to come with him. He thanks them for not killing him and the little child gives him a hug and Marcus is having tears of joy thanking him. The emotions Marcus deals with in this movie are strong. When his men died up on the mountain where he was the only survivor. He feels like part of him died but part of him is still here. Both of these movies show how one is faced with many conflicts and decisions to make whether they are good or bad. These also show how one's home life with their family is affected because of war. Some people today will never be able to comprehend what those men and women do over seas. They are putting there life on the line every day for us. This is why I feel that these two movies did a great job showing all of those qualities. They both showed the strong long lasting effects that war can have on the individual.
The first clip I watched was from Saving Private Ryan, at Omaha Beach. The clip shows people crying and death all around, it shows terror which can be seen as the voice of war. It shows conflicts and struggles in this clip as people are watching their own men die and there is nothing that they can do about it, as well as have their own personal struggle being the fear of death. Lastly these emotions are tried to be dealt with by just shutting them off and continuing on. The second clip I watched is from Band of Brothers in the Battle of the Bulge scene. It shows fear in the men, but you can also see the emotion that they put behind it in trying to save one of their own, they care about their men who are on the front line. You can see they try to keep their emotions clear but can not always just hold on and sometimes lose it. You can also see the struggles of these men because of the fighting that is going on and trying to take care of the men and trying to make sure that everyone gets out alive and safe.
Unbroken was my first clip. Unbroken, was about a boy named Louie Zamperini a troubled kid who was picked on. fought, and was on a destructive path. He was told if he would keep on this path of getting into trouble he would become a bum on the streets. Louie cleaned up his act by joining a running team. Louie later joined the military where he was a part of a tragic plane crash, he believed that he could survive with courage, hope, and strength. He would not give up he pushed himself to survive, Louie ended up being rescued. Then Louie was sent to a camp were he was picked on by others. Louie couldn't control their action only his but the one thing that helped him through, was a girl he meet and fell in love with.
Forrest Gump was my second clip. Forrest was a very unique, different, and challenged boy. Forest was also picked on and made fun of by kids his own age, but it never stopped Forest from doing what he wanted to do. Forrest fell in love at a very young age with a girl named Jenny. Forrest had a talent when he was a young kid, and it was to run. He would run like the wind, he would run from anything and everything. This talent got him into sports and got him to do many things, like get him into the U.S. Army. He believed he could do great things, which he did. Forrest Gump had a special gift and that was to protect the closest ones to him and save their lives. During the war when he was afraid, Forrest still would risk his own life to save others that he loved. Forrest got through this with his love for Jenny, they loved each other very much. Forrest and Jenny eventually got married later in life.
Unbroken is about a boy named Louie who goes to war. His plane then crashed in the ocean, leaving him and his team abandoned. Eventually, they are captured by the enemies and are put into a prison camp. War is a scary place, and the movie is portrayed as death or life. The conflict in this movie is when their plane is shot down and are then found and put into a prison camp. During this time, relationships develop in a way most people have never experienced. In this camp, the soldiers had nobody to trust. They only had each other, and they had to help each other fight and stay strong because they had nobody else watching their back. The emotion is strong enough to remember why they want to fight for their life. They want to go back to the life they lived.
The Hurt Locker is about a bomb disposal team who trains to dispose bombs in Iraq so other soldiers are safe. It is a very dangerous job in war. The movie states every time a soldier puts on their uniform, it is a life or death situation; rolling the dice. This movie appears to be more comical than Unbroken, but it still portrays war as a scary and unpredicting place. Relationships are made between soldiers because they have to work together. Eventually, they rely on one another in a life or death situation. Soldiers hold true friendships during war, and that is why it is devastating when they do lose a friend in war. The greatest struggle in war is fighting for oneself and others. Most soldiers will do anything it takes to save others because it is like saving a family.
The first clip I watched was from Forrest Gump showing a battle scene where Forrest saved everyone and brought them out of the woods. Forrest and the other soldiers, in the clip, were walking through the woods and were suddenly attacked. They took cover but than decided that they need to run away from the chaos. Forrest kept running and realized that he was the only one that made it out of the woods. He went back in to look for his friend, Bubba, but while yelling his name, he heard other soldiers say " help me forrest" so Forrest ended up saving many of his comrades lives. The language of the war was nothing that you would not expect because war is a different place. Swearing is not filtered and it really should not be, so you get the full effect of war and see the emotion of some of the soldiers while they fight for their lives. When Forrest became a member of the U.S. Army and was deployed to Vietnam, he became best friends with one of the soldiers, Bubba. He also met a girl named Jenny and they eventually got married. Forrest protected these too though everything ad risked his life, to saves theirs. Forrest was different from everyone else for example having a low IQ and wore braces on his legs. Since he did have these differences, conflicts occurred like being picked on by many kids, but that did not stop Forrest from chasing his dreams. Forrest also struggles with staying in touch with his childhood friend,Jenny, as the movie continues but end up reuniting. His emotions stay high and believes his life will get better with time.
The second clip I watched was from American Sniper. The movie is about Chris Kyle's time at war and how he had to overcome it. The clip i watched was when Bradley Cooper had to shoot a women and a child because they had a grenade and were trying to harm him men. The language used are codes and talking through walkie talkies. The relationships developed was a pack between Kyle and his men. They had a bond that could not be broken and would die for each other in any situation. The struggles faces were how war effects the individual and the difficulty of returning home from war and be able to come back to family life. Also throughout the movie, Chris had to decide if people were innocent or trying to harm his men. Emotions are very high during the movie because many children, men, and women are killed which is hard for someone to wrap their head around of killing a human being. Both of these clips tell me that war is a place that is hard to understand but you are there for one reason and that is to protect your country, family, and the men beside you and to not let anything get in your way.
The first clip that I watched was American Sniper. The clip I observed was when Chris Kyle ended up killing a man. The man ended up dropping his weapon when a little boy came and decided to pick it up. This weapon was very deadly and dangerous, Chris Kyle had to come up with a decision whether to kill the boy or wait to see if he would drop it. Right when Kyle was about to shoot the little boy dropped the weapon and ran away leaving Kyle relieved, catching his breath and coughing from feeling sick to his stomach. The language or war during this time was that everything going on was bad, that things should be looked at twice. The relationships that develop during these times is friendship, even hatred. Chris kyle had many fellow soldiers that he was close with during his time when he was on several tour. These friendships lead to something feeling like a family due to being so close. Conflicts for Kyle during the war was his state of mind. Kyle always had an internal conflict with himself when deciding if he should take a kill or not. These conflicts he had messed with emotions causing him to become numb and not feeling anything.
The second clip that I watched is from The Hurt Locker. In this clip a taxi comes flying through the streets where the soldiers are they are all yelling for the taxi to stop but the person driving wouldn't listen. Finally one of the soldiers runs and gets in front of the car, the driver then stops due to a gun being pointed at him. The soldier then tells the driver to back the vehicle up and the driver wouldn't do so. The soldier starts firing at the ground by the tires to show the driver that he isn't scared to shoot. Then he shoots the window to scare the driver. Finally he gets close enough to the driver to point a gun at his head and then yet again says to back up. Finally the driver listens and then other soldiers got him out of the car. The language of war is to be careful here. The relationships developed are all off of trust with fellow soldiers. The conflict here is with the soldier that had the gun at the driver leaving an internal conflict whether to shoot or not. This conflict affected the emotions of the soldier because he didn't know what to do. His emotions aren't really dealt with at this time. Due to these two clips that I watched it tells me that war takes a toll over you.
The first clip I watched was the Omaha Beach Scene from Saving Private Ryan. In this clip there is not much talking or dialogue going on, it is mostly action. If there is any interaction it is all screaming. The scene is very detailed with the fact that you see a large amount of death, limbs falling off, people on fire and gore. The only sounds you hear are gunfire, explosions and screaming. At one point the sound scales down to what seems like a loss of hearing and you just watch the events unfold. This clip would point to the language of war being all of the horrors that happen around you. It’s not something that you can explain, only something that you experience. The second clip that I watched was from American Sniper, the Ambush and Drill scene. The scene starts out with Chris getting a call from his wife telling him that she learned that their child will be a boy and immediately after this the group is under fire from an enemy sniper and Chris drops the phone. His wife is now forced to listen to the sounds of war where she thinks that her husband has died. The rest of the scene involves Chris unable to help a child from being killed by a drill to the head because he is still under fire from the sniper. Again this is a very detailed scene in sowing the horrors of what goes on in war. This scene depicts the struggle of having a family back home while being sent off to war. Their is a very big contrast between talking about your future child one moment and being under fire the next. It creates a highly emotional setting setting filled with anger and sadness.
Both of these clips show that war a very brutal thing to experience. Both being highly detailed give a little insight to just what goes through these people's lives on a day to day basis in these situation. Both also heavily use the use sound to show that war isn’t something that you can just talk about and get what goes on, it’s a large amount of things that convey the emotions that are brought out in high stress situations like this.
The first clip that I watched was American Sniper. The clip I observed was when Chris Kyle ended up killing a man. The man ended up dropping his weapon when a little boy came and decided to pick it up. This weapon was very deadly and dangerous,Chris had to decide whether or not to shoot the child, the child the dropped the weapon and ran, catching his breath and coughing from feeling sick to his stomach. The language of war during this time was that everything going on was going wrong, things should have been looked at twice. The relationships that develop during these times is friendship, some hatred as well. Chris Kyle had many fellow soldiers that he was close with during his time when he was on several tour. These friendships lead to the feeling of family amongst soldiers due to how close they are. A huge conflict for Chris was of course his state of mind, Kyle always had an internal conflict with himself when deciding if he should take a kill or not. These conflicts in his mind lead to the numbing of his emotions.
The second clip I watched was from Forrest Gump showing a battle scene where Forrest saved everyone and brought them out of the woods. Forrest and the other soldiers, in the clip, were walking through the woods when they were suddenly attacked. They took cover but decided that they needed to retreat, Forrest kept running and suddenly realized he was the only one that made it out. He went back in to look for his friend, Bubba, but while yelling his name, he heard other soldiers say " help me Forrest"leading to him saving many of his comrades. The language of the war was blunt and full of fear or no emotion at all. Swearing wasn’t filtered, this gave the feel for what was going on during this moment in time. When Forrest became a member of the U.S. Army and was deployed to Vietnam, he became close friends with Bubba, another soldier as well as meeting a girl named Jenny and eventually marrying her. Forrest protected these two through everything and risked his life for his comrades. Forrest was deemed different that his IQ was lower and he had braces on his legs, these differences lead to some bullying from kids. These obstacles never seemed to get in Forrest’s goals and dreams. Forrest also struggles with staying in touch with his childhood friend, Jenny, as the movie continues though in the end they reunite happily. He remains in high spirits in hopes that the war will get better.
The scene I chose from American Sniper was the scene of the woman and the boy. The woman and the boy were walking out of a building, and he observed that she was holding onto something. The guy on the other end of the walkie-talkie seemed skeptical since it was a woman and a kid, but told Kyle that it was his call. Kyle first shoots the boy, because he was running with the object that was said to be a grenade. The woman shrieks in terror, but takes the object from the boy to use herself. Kyle shoots the woman and the grenade blows up. Chris Kyle deals with his emotions when he goes back home and he often sits in silence with his wife.
The scene I chose from Forrest Gump was a battle scene. Forrest talked about how it kept raining, and then one day the sun came out. When the sun came out, war broke out. In this clip, Forrest doesn’t seem to be showing much emotion. He was being told to run, but he seemed to be in so much shock that he couldn’t get himself to get up and run. The language of the war is almost silent. They don’t say much until they’re under attack, then it is all swearing and shouting. They don’t filter themselves, and I think it shows people a greater reality of war. When people live their everyday lives, they aren’t waiting for somebody to come out and attack them and that is why they’re constantly shouting and swearing. They also seem to show that they have a close friendship, and no man gets left behind. When they had to run away from the attack, and Forrest wasn’t running, they waited until he got up and ran. People like war movies because the protagonist is always the winner, and even though that isn’t reality, people just like to think it is anyways.
The first movie clip that I chose to watch is American Snipe, The movie is about Chris Kyle’s time at war and how he dealt with it, and how he had to overcome it. The movie clip I watched was Max one of the people Chris Kyle saved came up to him at a store and thanked him for saving his life. The language of war is focusing on helping others that need it and get them home to their families.The relationships during the war is showing they care for each other. conflicts and struggles is watching other people die and wonder if that’s supposed to happen to them, or when is it going to happen to them. The second movie clip I chose was Forrest Gump The clip I watched was when Gump found bubba in the woods shot, and he carries him out while running from bombs At the end of the clip he talks about how Bubba was his Best friend. The language of war would would be helping others when needed. Forrest and Bubba’s relationship shows their relationship at war, which was that they were best friends. The conflict and struggle was carrying his friend out of the woods to watch him die. He was able to talk to his friend before he died.
The first movie clip that I watched was from Unbroken. This movie is about Louie Zamperini, an Olympic runner who joined the military. His plane is shot down and he is caught by the Japanese, who keep the American soldiers as prisoners in different camps. The clip was at the point in the movie when Louie is being punished and has to hold the log over his head. He lifts it straight up and shouts in defiance and stares to Japanese commander of the fort in the eyes. The commander keeps yelling, "Don't look at me!" and then beats him for his disobedience. This shows the language between opposing sides of a war and how if one side is defenseless, the powerful one may do horrible things. Some relationships formed in this movie were between all the soldiers who were captured and living in the prisoners of war camps. In the clip you see them encouraging Louie when he must hold the log on his back and their happiness when he lifts it straight over his head in defiance. An obvious struggle is fighting for one's life on a daily basis. Emotions are released either on the enemy which is seen when the Japanese commander snaps and attacks Louie for his defiance.
The second clip I watched was from Forrest Gump. This movie is about the life of Forrest Gump, from his childhood, college football, the war in Vietnam, to making millions as an entrepreneur by starting a shrimp business. The clip I watched was when Forrest finds his best friend Bubba on the ground bleeding. He picks him up and runs him to safety, but Bubba still passes away while they talk. Forrest not only carried Bubba, but had taken multiple trips before him to save fellow soldiers, including his lieutenant Dan. Here you see the language of war as helping out your comrades and those who you are able to help. Forrest met his best friend through the war and this is an example of a relationship which formed through the war. Forrest and Bubba always had each others back. The conflict in this part of the movie is Forrest loses his best friend and has to move on without him. Forrest deals with his emotions through running, which the audience sees when he runs back and forth across the country multiple times.
The two clips I viewed were Forest Gump and Unbroken. From both the films, I observed that in war there can and are very unexpected relationships that develop among very different people. People who wouldn't normally converse expect to form bonds with certain types of people. But when fighting and put in the same situation with the same common goal, people learn to come together and put aside their differences and work as one team. Such as Forest Gump and lieutenant Dan or Bubba, and in Unbroken Louie Zamperini and some of the other prisoners of war in the camp with him. Struggles that can be seen in these clips include Louie and his decisions and his choice to stand for himself while being a prisoner of war and having to deal with the severe consequences with his actions. In Forest Gump, struggles would be when Bubba passed and he had lost one of his very good friends and then having to deal with the emotional side of that and learning how to deal with the passing of someone close, which also leads to another point. The other point being the emotional side of war. In the clips it can be seen that war really takes a toll on ones soul and leaves deep pain that can't truly be captured on screen or understood unless one has really gone through such an experience in ones life. But everyone can infer that it's hard for someone to move on from such traumatic events they may have seen and witnessed. Even if they were to eventually find peace and move on the memories are still there and are rooted deep in someone. Its always and ever changing idea and state of mind that people who serve in war go through
The first movie clip I watched was Saving Private Ryan. In this movie, a captain played by Tom Hanks, sends his troop to look for Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. All of the soldiers face the brutality of the war and find their own personal strength. The language in this movie is between the men and the men's strengths. They could become their own enemy or realize what they can do for others and themselves. The troop all bonds together looking for one soldier. During a part of the movie, the troop comes in on boats up to shore in Germany with no way to turn back and men dying right and left. Their only move is to go forward through the gun fire. The overall emotion of the movie is sad and depressing. The men grow a bond together and get very sad when they lose a soldier, and also, when Private Ryan finds out that his other brothers are killed, it shows a strong passion and sadness from Ryan and also connects tot he audience.
The second movie clip I watched was Band of Brothers. In this movie series, it takes on the experience the soldiers had during their time in the war and the relationships they all build together in dangerous conditions. The language of this war clip was between the band of brothers on their journey through war and the enemies they face. The band of brothers start out not knowing each other and eventually can't leave each other's sides and building connections between their troops. Throughout the series, some men die that played a big role in other mens' lives and some of their camps get destroyed by their enemies' weapons. The emotions when these men die are so powerful and even the audience grows a connection with the band of brothers so not only are the soldiers upset but the audience is too.
The first clip I watched was from the movie American sniper. The movie is about Chris Kyle who is Americas most deadly sniper. The movie shows his progressive deterioration as a person. By the end of his tours, Kyle was a completely different person from who he was before. The end of the movie focuses on the adjustment soldiers have to make when returning back to the states. In American Sniper the main character has problems adjusting back into society and is very unemotional. The social effects of war are clear in this movie.
The second movie I watched was an older movie called Full Metal Jacket. This movie shows the emotional wear of soldiers during the Vietnam war. This movie follows a company of Marines as they complete basic training and go into war. The stress of training camp for the marines is shown through the emotions of the company members. One of the characters, Pvt. "Pyle", is tormented by his drill instructor. He is tormented to the point that he kills his instructor and then turns the gun on himself. This film really emphasizes the mental stress of war.
In both of these clips, language is very vulgar. Soldiers become accustomed to swearing in every sentence. During war, men and women rely on each other and their lives depend upon it. These relationships develop into a bond that is second only to blood relation. During war people struggle to stay sane. Men have internal conflict in keeping their head straight. During war, emotions are bottled up. Most soldiers swallow their emotions till they crack. That is why many soldiers are emotionally unstable when they come home from war.
The 2 movie clips I chose were from American sniper and The hurt locker. In American sniper, the relationships shown to be the most affected by war are those between Chris Kyle and his family. This is especially apparent in the scene with the dog. Chris kyle has been gone long enough that the war made him more alert and threatened to things that would not normally be a threat. His wife and friends are mortified by his actions and even he himself is scared of what he almost did. A major conflict made during the war is between Chris Kyle and the Butcher. He becomes emotionally attached to this villain and is willing to do whatever it takes to kill him.
In The hurt locker, the language shown is extremely foul. But, even though they dont need to use that language, it is made understood why they did. The Men in that movie have watched friends die, and they dont need to impress anyone. The main relationships that develop during the war are between the main character and those who watched their squad leader die at the beginning of the movie. The bomb defusing guy is kind of a jerk at the beginning, and arguably becomes more of a jerk near the end. But he is only a jerk because it is all he knows how to be. He doesn't enjoy his home life, and he is only really himself when defusing bombs.
The first clip i chose to watch was a war scene from Forrest Gump. The scene shows a group of soldiers walking through the woods in the rain when suddenly the rain stops and the sun comes out. The soldiers think this is a good sign, until they are attacked. There is a lot of profanity used when the soldiers in this video talk to each other. The men in this scene seem to have very close bonds with each other and look out for one another when something bad is happening. In this scene they tell Forrest to run when they are being attacked. He does not know whether to run or stay back and help his fellow soldiers. He ends up running but continues to look back and check on his friends.
The second clip I watched was from American Sniper. In this scene Chris Kyle is watching a woman who passes a grenade to a little boy. The boy begins to run with it, so Kyle shoots him. The woman then picks up the grenade and throws it. Kyle shoots the woman and kills her, but it is too late. During this scene Kyle is talking to another man through a walkie talkie, trying to figure out what to do. The man tells him that it is his call, showing that the soldiers trust each other. After killing this little boy and the woman, Kyle faces many emotional struggles. From both of these scenes we can tell that war changes a person in some good ways and some bad.
The first movie clip I chose to watch one of the first "war" scenes in American Sniper which I think is one of the most emotional and important scenes in the entire movie. In the clip Chris Kyle is faced with a tough battle that is entirely up to him. Chris sees a woman and a child, the woman is hiding something under her outfit. Chris sees the woman hand what he suspects to me a grenade, to the child. Chris calls in to his men and asks if they saw it and what he should do. His men tell him that it is his call because they could not tell if what the woman handed the child was actually a grenade. Chris sits there for a few minutes and you can tell that he is contemplating what he should do; if he should shoot or not. The woman and child start to walk away and Chris makes the decision to shoot the child. The child falls and the grenade falls out of his jacket. The woman runs towards the dead child, but ignores him and reaches for the grenade and takes off, as she is about to throw the grenade, Chris shoots her as well, but the grenade hits the ground, and goes off. The emotional impact that this had of Chris Kyle's life was not small. You can tell by the look in his eyes, without him even saying anything that it was hard for him to do. Not only was he over at war killing soldiers, he was forced to kill civilians as well, as they were the bad guys too. It took a tole on Chris Kyle's life, and it was something that he could never forget, not even when he went back home. This war haunted him until the day he died.
The second movie clip I chose to watch was when Bubba died in Forrest Gump. This scene is hands down one of the most life changing things to happen to Forrest in the movie. Bubba gets shot, so Forrest carries him to a place they can safely be together. Forrest is holding him and Bubba asked Forrest why this was happening. In the movie Forrest says that if he knew it was going to be the last time he ever got to talk to Bubba, he would have said something better to him. Forrest just lost one of his best friends in his life, and he even makes a comment that Bubba was his best friend, and what they had is not easy to come across in life. This is incredibly emotional to Forrest, as he has lost one of the only people that would truly ever understand him. He had a bond with the men that he fought with in the war, some of them died, and Forrest had to deal with that for the rest of his life.
In Forrest Gump, the main war scene that viewers see is the Vietnam scene, when Gump describes how it had been raining for three months, then it stopped and the main ambush on the American soldiers happened. Gump carried many of his platoon members, including Lieutenant Dan, to safety. Dan is reluctant to let Gump help him because he feels he needs to stay back with his men, but he doesn’t have much of a choice as Gump is carrying him. In the third episode of Band of Brothers, entitled Carentan, Easy Company attacks at the Battle of Carentan, where they lose many soldiers. Both of these scenes involving two different wars show many similarities in warfare.
There is a certain language that war speaks. Not one like English or Portuguese, but one involving diction and word choice. The language of war is not polite. Not often is it spoken softly. It has a harsh tone to it. Often involving vulgar language to get straight to the point in certain situations. Especially Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump used profanity to get to the point about what he needed to keep his men safe. The language is not at all soft and easy-going, and it is often spoken fast to get everything out as quickly as possible. If something was unclear, you just had to move on and hope you connected the dots in the right order.
Many different kinds of relationships are also developed during war. Many find that they become close to those they serve with. Others many find no difference in their relationships during war. It depends mainly on who you let in and let yourself get close to. If you don’t let yourself open up a tiny bit to others, then they won’t get close to you. Forrest and Bubba Blue, his friend, opened up to each other and got to know each other very well. Which is why Gump feels obligated to go back and find Blue during the ambush, though encouraged not to be Lieutenant Dan. In Band of Brothers, Private Albert Blithe suffers severe shell-shock during the battle, and the other soldiers don’t exactly know what he is going through, but they can see on his face that he’s in such a state and doesn’t know what to do with himself. They stick with him as they’re leaving the battlefield, encouraging him that he will be okay and that they’re going to help him through it.
There are different types of conflicts, also, that are expressed through war. The obvious conflict is the differing of opinions between sides of war. If everyone always agreed on everything, there would be no war. But life would be boring and we wouldn’t exactly get anywhere. So conflict is necessary. Between levels of power, there may be some conflict. This mainly varies between platoons and soldiers. In Forrest Gump, one of the main conflicts is that Lieutenant Dan tries to let his pride get in the way of letting Gump help him get to safety.
A whole kaleidoscope of emotions are present during wartime. There are happy times, like when an ambush goes successfully. There is fear, like is present in the family's faces in Band of Brothers, when the soldier knocks open the door to a house and finds a family of four sitting together in their living room, scared as can be. Anger is present, like when things don’t exactly go how they were imagined to go. Confusion, when something is a little unclear, but due to the language of war, you have to go through with the action to the best of your ability. And more often than not, they are combined. Rarely does someone feel solely confusion or only happiness. There is usually some sort of combination of emotion that makes this new emotion that is indescribable. But it is important so that these vital tasks can get done.
The first clip i watched was Unbroken. Unbroken, was about a boy named Louie a kid who was picked on and who was lonely. If he kept acting the way he was.. he would wind up on the streets with no life to live. Louie slowly became more friendly by joining a running team. Louie went into the military and survived a horrific encounter (A plane crash). Louie would continue to get picked on. One day he went to a camp and met a girl. He then fell in love with her.
My second clip was Forrest Gump. Forest was very challenged with the problems he faced.. like Louie he was also picked on and made fun of by the kids around him. Forrest had a very motivational mind and kept his mind on the goal that someday he would walk freely. Also like Louie.. he fell in love with a girl. Her name was Jenny. Forrest loved to run. It was his goal and he never gave up. He went into the military and did what he loved to do. Run. He later married his childhood love Jenny and lived the rest of his life.
The first movie clip I watched was American Sniper. This movie is about a sniper,Chris Kyle, played by Bradley Cooper,who is the deadliest sniper in the U.S military, but struggles with his personal and family life as a result of the war. The language of war in this movie is how war affects the soldiers' lives by the choices they are made to decide and the things they are exposed to and how this effects them as an individual. In the trailer the sniper is forced to make the decision to shoot a kid that has a Russian grenade or let him live, meanwhile he sees flashbacks of his own child being born and holding it. A bond develops between the sniper and his fellow soldiers, there is a scene in a clip where he must defend a platoon of soldiers who are checking buildings for people. The struggle that the main character, experiences is between his job as a sniper and how it is affecting him personally along with his family. There is a scene in the clip where he must decided to kill a child that has picked up a rifle, later you see him in a bar on the phone with his wife who assumes he still in another country. When he tells her he's stateside she begins to question why he's not home and he tells her he needed some time and then begins to cry. He is emotionally hurt because he had to kill the child, a child around the same age as his daughter, and that burden of his decision is weighing on his mind. He deals with the emotions by drinking and then he begins to pull away from his wife. The scene of him in the bar, drinking trying to deal with his sense of guilt, instead of talking it out with his wife. What this clip tells me about war is how hard it impacts the individual on a emotional state. The sniper has to deal with the deeds he has committed that are justified by war, but in his heart he deals with the guilt of doing these things and is left with a tremendous burden that affects him personally and his family.
The second clip I watched was Forest Gump. This movie clip is about a man who is a little bit Autistic and the hurdles he overcomes in his childhood, his life as a football star, into the Vietnam War, and his success in the shrimp business. The language of war was more on the emotional side, dealing with being there for those around you. Forest Gump develops a relationship with a man called Bubba while deployed, he tells Forest about the shrimp business and they become like brothers. Until Bubba dies during the war. Forest Gump also has a relationship with Lit. Dan, but their relationship doesn't really start until after Gump saves him after his legs are blown off. Lit. Dan is angry with Gump for not giving him an honorable death, and now without legs he is confined to a wheel chair. Gump struggles with his on and off love with his crush since grade school named Penny. He writes her several letters while in Vietnam, none of which she replies, then he sees her at 'special' bar, then again at during a peace rally. Forest Gump deals with emotions by running, like when he runs throughout the country after war. This movie clip showed me that war destroyed lives, but those who were able to preserver and help others can overcome it's grasp.
War movies capture American citizens attention because they’re action-packed and glorify the idea of living in a nation protected by the selfless, heroic soldiers that show up on the big screen. These soldiers go through the toughest of the tough and are constantly faced with life-threatening challenges where they don’t just have to make decisions for them, they have to make decisions for the group or another person. In Forrest Gump, Forrest is in Vietnam when the Vietcong start shooting at the American soldiers. Forrest is told to run like he is supposed to do in time of danger but instead turns around and rescues fallen soldiers, including Lieutenant Dan. He then creates a relationship with Lieutenant Dan and later go on and start a boating company in honor of Bubba, his other military friend. Friendships are formed during these hardships. This concept is also displayed in the movie Ubroken as Louie Zamperini makes friends with Mac and other fellow soldiers to help the whole experience of being a POW easier. These friendships created are life long and it’s shown when Louie and Mac met up a couple years after they were released. These relationships are also the strongest because they both had to go through tough times and the only thing they needed was someone on their side to help them against the torture they experienced. Forrest and Louie both experienced conflicts during the war. Out of the war, it is shown in the trailer to display both characters as living extraordinary lives, both being extremely good at running. Louie goes to the Olympics and Gump is put on the football team because of their speed. During the war section of the trailers, there is fire and explosions in Forrest Gump and crashing and pain in Unbroken. There is intense music playing which causes the audience to feel an adrenaline rush and get goosebumps. There is a conflict between Louie in Unbroken and the concentration camp commander as he makes the other prisoners punch Louie, he makes Louie hold up a beam, and within first meeting Louie, punches him in the face. One of the major conflicts, especially in Unbroken, is continuing to live or to let the world crash on them.
Typical war movies have a tough commander who always yells and is there to teach obedience to the soldiers by scaring them. This is shown in Forrest Gump when he was assembling the gun and taking roll call and the commander came up and started yelling. His language consisted of yelling and calling the other soldiers female oriented names to make them feel weak. In Unbroken, the commander of the camp Louie Attended, known as The Bird, used harsh language to get his prisoners to work and fear him. The Bird knew power was important and he wanted to enforce his supremacy over the prisoners. The language of both movies is very serious because the movies are about war; war is not something to be joked around about. In Unbroken, the crew was up by the cockpit when the fighter planes started firing at them. The crew spoke calmly and luckily shot down the plane before they were shot down. There was no time for side talk or jokes, just time to focus on their job and survive another day. Every day during the war is a day spent surviving. In the Unbroken trailer it is said by Pete, Louis’s brother, “a moment of pain is worth a lifetime of greatness.” This shows up many times during Unbroken as Louie puts himself through difficult situations and he ended up living and becoming glorious. He broke down, he felt pain, but he dealt with them, got through everything, and now is perfectly fine. War is a very emotional time for everyone, but mainly for the soldiers who have to go through the pain physically and emotionally. This is shown in both movie trailers and is shown in real life. Soldiers have to take on a lot of tolls when they fight for their country and the image is shown through movies.
The first clip that i watched was from Unbroken. Louie, a world famous olympic runner, decided to join the military but his plane was shot down by the Japanese and was then stranded at sea. With that he then was sent to a Japanese concentration camp, where he is pushed to his limits. The Japanese commander intentionally picks on Louie but Louie rises above to all of the challenges that the commander forces upon him. With that, the language of this clip is that there will always be two sides of every situation no matter what it is. In this clip the two sides are a more strong, more powerful side and a side where theres no fight besides not giving up. The soldiers that were captured and placed into the same camps may have formed the relationships in this clip. They get excited to see Louie overcoming these challenges made by the commander just like any friend would so for someone. Emotions are created when the commander is forcing Louie to hold the log over his head or he'd shoot him, and he held it above his head all day. It really showed the strong character he was portraying and brought emotions to the audience.
The second clip that i chose was The Hurt Locker. In this movie a group of a bomb disposal team work together to dispose as many bombs as possible to save those soldiers fighting in Iraq. War anywhere is life or death which is the devastating part of going into it, Whether it makes or breaks you in the situation. Relationships are tough in war because trusting many is how you work together. With that loosing a friend in was could be very difficult because the bond gets so close. Emotions roll through when it shows the atmosphere of the war, the typical scary picture you would just get in your head thinking about war. The whole idea of this movie was to show how close you get with the people in war and how the bomb disposal team do what they do because its saving your closest best friends.
The first clip I watched was from the film American Sniper. The clip showed the main character Bradley Cooper who plays Chris Kyle having to decide whether to kill a women and a kid that the american soldiers believed was a threat. Within seconds he makes his decision to kill them because they held a bomb. The relationships in the war that are developed are very strong, soldiers need to look out for each other and trust each other, for example in the clip the guy on the other end of the walkie let Kyle make the decision to kill the boy and women. The emotions soldiers have to carry are immense , putting your life and also other peoples lives on the line is a heavy burden to carry for a person.
The second clip I watched was from the film Lone Survivor, it showed Luttrell and his crew capturing two enemies and are using them as hostages. They then have to decide what to do, let them go, keep them tied up and just leave them for dead, or to just kill them right then. This shows how hard yet crucial decision making is in the war, there tends to be consequences with all of them. If they kill them, they no longer have a compromise and if they let them go, the enemies will now know where they are stationed.
The first clip that I watched was American Sniper. It starts off when Chris Kyle ended up killing a man. The man ended up dropping his weapon when a boy came to pick it up. Chris's relationship with his men are very strong. They always look out for one another and are willing to lose their life for a part of their team. The emotions Chris deals with while at war are with his team and about his family back home. His wife is worried about him but Chris feels that he needs to be where he is at.The guy on the other end of the walkie-talkie seems worried since it was a woman and a kid, but told Kyle that it was his call. Kyle first shoots the boy, because he was running with the object that was said to be a grenade. The woman is nervous, but takes the object from the boy to use herself. Chris deals with his emotions when he goes back home and he often sits in silence with his wife.The relationships that develop during these times is friendship, but even hatred. Chris kyle had many soldiers that he was close with during his time when he was on several tour. These friendships lead to something feeling like a family due to being so close. Conflicts for Kyle during the war was his state of mind. Kyle always had a conflict with himself when deciding if he should kill or not. These conflicts he had messed with emotions causing him to not have any emotions.
The second movie that I chose to explain about was Unbroken. Unbroken was about Louis Zamperini’s fight to become and Olympic athlete. Instead WWII happened and he had to join the war, after joining the war he became a POW. The language of war were the codes they used to fly the airplanes. The relationships developed over war and ones that stay with the protagonist forever. In the movie Unbroken, Louis made friends throughout the war but he also made enemies. Friendships that would stay with him forever, and relationships that would haunt him in his life. The conflicts that Louis went through was being a prisoner of war. His emotions were dealt with alcohol and anger.
First clip I watched was American Sniper, which was about an american hero who is followed throughout the movie. As the movie progresses we see Chris Kyle deal with the psychological issues that come with war. One particular scene being Chris' first kill, where he shoots a child, obviously can being very emotionally damaging. The public is very sensitive about war and the public view on children during war is almost ignored as it is a hard issue to swallow. The way he deals with human emotion is by blocking them out and trying to socialize back into civilian life after witnessing such atrocities would clearly be a very difficult thing.
Second clip i watched was from Saving Private Ryan, which is about a company during World War II that is on a search and rescue mission. The only thing left for Private Daniel Jackson is religion and as he is sniping, he begins to pray. Private Jackson in particular has an emotionally trying job as he knows he is going to die but continues to do his job, maintain his composure and keep religion close to him. The public had no view of the war and the only contact you had to the outside world was letters. Religion being a large value in many soldiers lives at the time as they it can be a very reassuring code of conduct.
First clip I watched was American Sniper, which was about an american hero who is followed throughout the movie. As the movie progresses we see Chris Kyle deal with the psychological issues that come with war. One particular scene being Chris' first kill, where he shoots a child, obviously can being very emotionally damaging. The public is very sensitive about war and the public view on children during war is almost ignored as it is a hard issue to swallow. The way he deals with human emotion is by blocking them out and trying to socialize back into civilian life after witnessing such atrocities would clearly be a very difficult thing.
Second clip i watched was from Saving Private Ryan, which is about a company during World War II that is on a search and rescue mission. The only thing left for Private Daniel Jackson is religion and as he is sniping, he begins to pray. Private Jackson in particular has an emotionally trying job as he knows he is going to die but continues to do his job, maintain his composure and keep religion close to him. The public had no view of the war and the only contact you had to the outside world was letters. Religion being a large value in many soldiers lives at the time as they it can be a very reassuring code of conduct.
The first clip i watched was from Forrest Gump. The clip I watched was a war scene near the beginning of the movie. It starts off with soldiers walking through the woods when suddenly they are ambushed. During this encounter, everyone is telling forrest to run as he is the only one not seriously injured. At first he is hesitant to run away, because he had a close bond with all of his fellow soldiers. But after they keep telling him to run, he eventually does. These connections were dealt with by running away, and the conflicts are watching your close friends die in front of you.
The second clip that i chose was from Saving Private Ryan, when they are going onto the beach. During this scene there is not alot of talking, but instead alot of dying, gore, blood and just sadness. The only thing you can hear is the sound of gunfire and screaming as they are being killed. This shows that in war you never know what is going to happen. You can either survive and not see much combat, or you can get killed all at once if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. It shows that you are never safe in a war.
The first clip I watched was from Saving Private Ryan when the men landed on Omaha Beach. In this clip the men can be seen throwing up, nervously shaking, looking at their personal items and are just visibly scared of getting off the boats. This is the psychological effect that war has, the men are anxious and are trying to deal with the fact their lives are about to be in danger. When the boats land and the metal doors are lowered bullets immediately start raining down on the men. People are killed instantly while others struggle to get off the boat and into the water. As the survivors of the initial attack struggle to reach the beach two men are sticking together trying to make it. One of them is shot in the heart and dies immediately. The other person who is clearly his friend is clearly shaken up by this and most likely wants to stay with him, but he has to move on, so he leaves his friend's body and keeps pushing forward. The men develop these relationships with one another but have to just keep pushing forward that is how they deal with the mental strain of lost friends, the thought of death and the physical pain as one man is even shown loosing his arm in an explosion and then picking it up and continuing.
The second clip I watched was the underworld smoke scene from platoon. Unlike the scene from Saving Private Ryan, this scene does not show the actual war itself, but it shows how the men cope with the stress of war. The main character who was just shot, was brought to an underground smoke lounge by his friend. All the men go to this secret place to relieve stress from the war, they smoke and just hang out. This is how they cope with the stress war creates and how they bound with one another.
The first clip i watched was from american sniper. In this clip the main character Chris Kyle shoots a man who had a weapon. Then a child comes and picks up the weapon. In this clip you can see the hard decision chris had to make whether or not he should shoot the child. You can also see the guilt and pain because he does not want to shoot him. Kyle also could have been thinking about his kids at home. Through the warfare Chris Kyle was still a good guy and saved many lives. This movie shows the real psychological struggles that men in the army deal with and what causes them.
The second clip i watched was from Forrest Gump. This movie is about a former football player who lives a normal life then gets called into the Army. When they are walking in the woods of vietnam, they are attacked and Forrest witnesses all of his friends die including his best friend Bubba. This also shows how soldiers deal with psychological pain during the war.
The first clip I chose to watch is from Forrest Gump. In this clip the American soldiers are under attack and there is lots of confusion and chaos, and Forrest Gump runs away in order to get to safety. Once in the clear, Forrest realizes that he is alone, and he knows this is wrong. So he goes back to get his friend Bubba from the chaos. On the way he hears many cries for help and saves many men from their impending doom, which shows that the language of war is to band together with your team and not leave anyone behind. Specifically he hears his leader Lieutenant Dan calling for help when he is looking for Bubba, however Lt. Dan does not want to be saved. Forrest saves him anyways and this creates emotional tension between them, but he’s facing a conflict between saving himself and others, and Forrest knows that the it was the right thing to do no matter what.
The second clip I chose to watch is from the movie Lone Survivor. In this clip there are only two remaining survivors of the special ops squad fighting al-Qaeda. One of them is already injured, Axe, and the enemy is firing at him. He already has been shot in the arm and it’s not long before he is shot in the torso and he knows he only has minutes to survive at best. But instead of giving up and not putting up a fight, he still tries to help his team mate and shoot at the enemy until he draws his last breath. Axe shows how much courage it takes to be a seal and how he is fighting for something bigger than his life, he is fighting for his country and if he doesn’t owe it to himself to fight until his last breath, he owes it to his country and to his fellow squad member with whom he shares a very close bond.
I watched the Vietnam scene from Forrest Gump as my first clip, which gives a very interesting perspective on the Vietnam War. If the person reading this has never seen Forrest Gump, Gump is southern man who has a very low IQ. Gump's low IQ, however, does not lessen the effect of war on him. In the war scene of this movie, the raining season stops. Nearly instantly, an ambush starts after the season ends. Gump's group does fight for a bit but then Gump's leader tells the group to run. When someone tells Gump to run, he runs like the wind. However, after he finishes running, he notices that he is alone, which is not good. After rescuing most of his group, he goes to rescue Bubba, his best friend. Bubba has a wound that kills him, and right before he dies, he tells Gump that he wants to go home. This shows that even if someone has a low intelligence, war still instills a bond between them and somebody else that is very strong. This is shown later in the movie when Gump gives money to Bubba's mom from the shrimp place Gump opened in Bubba's memory because Bubba wanted to open a shrimp business. What this says about war is that it is something that brings out our humanity and loyalty to our companions while such inhumanity is taking place.
The second clip I watched was from Band of Brothers. I watched many clips, but the I one I am choosing to do is the Operation Market Garden scene. This battle, historically, was huge loss for the allies, which is a good example on how the loss of comrades affects the individual. In war, many people do die, and they become a part of a statistic. But to their fellow soldiers, they lose a companion, a friend, a human being. This is hard to hear about, but however, seeing is even worse. War that is at a loss brings out our humanity even more than war itself. That is why the losses are even worse; the language more rougher and unfiltered; and the side effects even worse.
I chose to watch a clip from American Sniper. In this clip, a man was seen looking into his scope and waiting to shoot someone. He ends up shooting a driver full of army men, and action ensues. A lot of words are shouted, and in them is a lot of slang. In observing this, one can conclude the language of war is not only abbreviations and codes, but slang. Those in the army use it often and in doing so can communicate effectively. There is also no filter on the mouths of the soldiers as they help each other out or deal with stress. For example, one soldier who is almost killed yells an obscenity at the sniper. Using language in such a way can sometimes help to deal with the psychological issues one must face when in war, as well, or to deal with stress. It is easy to deal with emotions when you do not have to filter yourself and can let the anger flow not through you, but out through language.
The second clip I watched was from Forrest Gump, and I chose this clip because after watching the first clip in american sniper I realized my tolerance for violence in film is extremely low. This movie is great for dealing with how relationships are formed within war. People are doing tasks they dont enjoy yet form friendships because not only does it keep you happy, but it keeps everyone happy and the bonds formed are lasting impacts on the person's life. Some struggles are personal in war, though, and having friends won't help them. For example, Gump tried his hardest and still couldn't fit in the right way with everyone else, and instead was slightly picked on. Other struggles include dealing with not only your drill sargeant, but dealing with taking orders and carrying them out correctly. this is shown when he is told to put a gun together and does so in a manner that is a record breaking time. This can carry over into the actual act of war because doing things with efficiency allows one to stay alive.
War is a very common theme in a lot of today’s movies, books, and other literature. It is often described as one of the most emotional experiences in the world. Many Americans don’t know what it’s like to be in war and this war based literature give people a visualization of what war would be like. American Sniper, a movie released in 2014 about the most deadly sniper in american history. His name is Chris Kyle and the movie gives us a good idea of what he went through in war. There is a scene in the movie where Chris is lying in his sniper position and aiming down the scope at two children who come out of a building. He then sees one of the children take out a bomb and run towards American troops. Chris had to make a very hard decision on whether he should shoot or not, because he is not sure if the children are a threat at first. It clearly takes a toll on Chris having to take the life of two children but he has to do it to protect his team. The language of war is much different than normal life. It is much more vulgar because of the harsh environments involved in war. The city they are in is a harsh environment due to the number of enemies in the area and the destruction the war has done to the city. Throughout the movie the war created a deep bond between him and the other members of his team. This movie is similar to another war movie Saving Private Ryan. The movie is basically about Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) and the soldiers he leads to find a soldier named Private Ryan. In the beginning of the movie his team and many others are deployed onto an enemy beach where many of them die or are destroyed by the agony of the environment. There is a lot of harsh language in the movie as the soldiers react to the even more harsh environment the were deployed into. At this point in the movie Miller’s team hasn’t had enough time in war to create the bond that Chris Kyle and his team did, but they are all still fighting to survive.
War is an experience that can’t be totally understood unless you experienced it first hand. It creates so many emotions at the same time while hyping the emotions up. In every movie the ways the soldiers deal with these emotions is different. Many other war movies today have themes and events similar to the ones in these movies because this is what people want to see. These two movies tell us a lot about the overall experience of war. It shows us how hard war is on the soldiers both physically and emotionally. It can cause lasting mental and physical damages to veterans who went through traumatic events.
The first clip I watched was American Sniper. The main character, Chris Kyle; wanted to express his real talent. He also wanted to help America and its fight against terrorism. He joined the SEALS in order to become a sniper. Chris Kyle struggles with war itself and the relationship he needed to have with war. Kyle’s accuracy saves many americans. One example of the language in American Sniper is when the boys and their father are sitting down at the dinner table and Chris’s father says.. “ there are three kinds of people in the world - sheep, wolves and sheepdogs. Sheep don't believe that there is evil in the world, wolves are predators who commit evil, and sheepdogs are blessed with the aggression and bravery to protect the world from evil.” The speech clearly makes an impact on Chris and the movie itself. In any war movie, there are rigorous training ethics, and hardships the character has to go through. One hardship may be the relationship Chris had with his new girlfriend. Being a SEAL, he would not get to see her as much. His wife, Taya go through the hardship of being apart. Meanwhile, she is pregnant and has to parent her child by herself for a while. At times, the emotions and conflicts Chris had felt, did not matter. He was only concerned with protecting his people and his country. When Chris comes back home he tries to adjust back to his home lifestyle. He begins watching videos of a U.S soldier being killed by a sniper. His wife Taya wants him to share his experiences with her, and he does not want her aware of the atrocities of war. Kyle goes through numerous tours, and cannot seem to adjust to his home life. War had this effect on him.
The second clip I watched was Unbroken. Louis Zamperini always managed to get himself into trouble. He was a U.S olympic athlete whose career was cut short when he joined World War II as a bombardier. From his previous career of running track, Zamperini always pushed himself to be the best he could be. Out-running the people he trained with and coming out on top. One major conflict in Unbroken is the plane crash which leaves Louis, and two other men in the middle of the pacific ocean. Hunger, dehydration, and exhaustion take a toll on the three men. Zamperini is captured after 47 days, and forced into a Japanese Prisoner of War camp. The sadistic guard, nicknamed The Bird; made Louis’s life hell in the camp. Pushing him until he breaks and testing his every ability. Zamperini’s strength made the other prisoners look up to him and respect him. The emotion and conflicts that Louis faces in the camp, follows him to his home life. He is unable to start a new career or run again, he dreams about going to kill The Bird very often. Louis reaches a low point when his wife finds him shaking the baby. She files for divorce.
The effect war has on an individual can last for a lifetime and comes with some very long term, life affecting side effects. Many are unable to reconnect with loved ones because of the trauma, and many can not adjust back to their home life, because they are in constant fear of the past.
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