Ryan Larkin

MOVIE: LEBANON SCENE: 55:30-1:00 War is bloody, violent and chaotic. However, the portrayal of war in cinema is glorified and romanticized on the silver screen. It is rare that we see a depiction of war for what it is; In the Israeli film Lebanon there are many scenes that showcase the horror of war and the fear that it brings. One scene in particular to me stands out above all else: For five minutes between 55:00 and 1:00:00 director Samuel Maoz was able to showcase human brutality, and how…

both of them are left with nothing. This is the cinematic way to cover the institutional racism. The US government very reluctantly was given recommendations for non-whites troops. Although, this system is used in many war movies ex. Saving Private Ryan (2002). Let me focus how those techniques are used in this particular movie: White hero receives a recommendation/a medal or trophy, which because of his past, he does not want, but after all he is highlighted whether he likes it or not (white…

as entertaining whether it be about a fictional or nonfictional occurrence. The journey to contain evil, both mythologically and realistically, requires sacrifice and courage in the face of fear, demonstrated in The House of Hades and Saving Private Ryan. One example of courage in the face of fear occurs in Rick Riordan’s The House of Hades. The novel entails a journey in which an ultimate containment of evil to protect the mortal world from being overrun by monsters and the Giants will come…

In a scene from “Saving Private Ryan”, a film directed by Steven Spielberg, Captain John Miller and other GIs approach Omaha beach in a landing craft. The scene begins with the soldiers all tightly cramped in the landing craft awaiting the landing on the beach. There is then a close-up of Captain Miller’s hand shaking and the camera then pans up towards his face and then slowly moves backwards to show the faces of the other soldiers in the landing craft. It shows some men throwing up and then…

Desmond Doss shows he’s a hero for his heroic action in Okinawa. Doss is man from lynchburg, Virginia (west). His mother raised him as a devout seventh day adventist. Desmond Doss deserves the status of a hero because he saved 75 men, never touched a gun and never gave up. Desmond Doss shows that he is a hero when he saved 75 men (American and Japanese). When he was in the battlefield the Japanese attacked his 77th Infantry by surprise. Instead of fleeing. He would lower them one-by-one with a…

Ed sheeran was cyberbullied in his lifetime so bad he got rid of twitter. I know this based on information also because i personally listen to his music. When ed started school he had problems socializing with other kids in school. Then he was getting made front of in school for his stuttering problem and his oversized glasses. He had the speaking and lazy eye because of a surgery that went wrong he was made front of because when he would speak in class he would stutter. So over time he…

This movie tells us a lot, it taught us about fighting and war in general It told us what soldiers had to go through at the young age they were, they had to drop out of school and give up their careers in their normal lives. The movie focuses on the main character whose name is Paul he's a German soldier and it shows us what does soldiers had to go through on a normal basis it showed us how many soldiers died from the most silly mistakes and how many could've survived if they would just follow…

Saving Private Ryan, Casablanca, and Inglourious Basterds are three different movies that were produced in different time periods and have different plots, details, and points of view, but all still revolve around one common historical event-World War II. This is an occurrence that happens not only in movies but also in literature. A literary example of this is the correlation between the flood story in The Epic of Giglamesh and the flood story in the Old Testament Bible. Giglamesh is an epic…

Jacob Detampel Mrs.Gauthier American Studies Lit/Comp 11 Date: 1-4-16 Saving Private Ryan (1998) This movie was directed by Steven Spielberg, a very famous Director of all sorts of Hollywood movies. Saving Private Ryan focuses on the final stages of World War II. This film shows the D-day invasion, combat in towns, and combat in the countryside. All with the added effect of human emotion as well as rational thought. To start, the accuracy of this movie is very high. Especially the first…

Worth-watching historical movie If anybody thinks historical films are all about boring and wasting time, this movie would change their mind. Bridge of Spy was based on a true story of U-2 incident in 1960. A Soviet spy, Rudoft Abel, was arrested, and James Donovan, an insurrance lawyer at that time, was chosen to be his defender. Francis Gary Power, a pilot of US army, was arrested by the Soviet Union after failing his misson. In the meantime, the young Frederic Pryor, an American college…