Tatum Zumpano Professor Whitton October 28, 2014 Movie Review All Quiet on the Western Front I thought that All Quiet on the Western Front was an incredible film that showed the realistic side to what war really is like. The scenes portray the absurdity of war from the point of view of young German soldiers fighting on the front. The perspective of the film is completely from the view of the young German soldiers that ended up joining the war by propaganda. At first they believed joining the
The life changing effects of war can be felt by all people who are both directly and indirectly involved in war. This ideology can be found throughout various text types such as films, novels, poems and even songs. Specific examples of these text types include Randall Wallace’s “We were Soldiers”, Alfred Tennyson’s poem “The light Brigade” and Andrew Wright’s poem “Goodbye Brave Soldier”. In these various text types the creator has used a variety of techniques to create their different texts in which
In the written texts All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway and the visual text Saving Private Ryan directed by Steven Spielberg an accurate idea of the war genre can be comprehensively ascertained. Certain aspects constituting this genre are the horrors of warfare, comradeship which forms between soldiers with common aims and ultimately survival. These strands are intrinsic attributes of
Rene Acosta Ms. Harrell Eng. 3 10 March 2015 1920’s Film Industry The film industry reached its highest point of production between the 1920’s and the 1930’s. Reaching an astonishing average of 800 films a year, this time period’s production exceeds that of modern times. Major improvements to film production including the shifted focus to feature film as opposed to the shorts that were popular previously. Not only were the films themselves different from today but the movie-going experience differed