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    War in American Cinema War has been present since the beginning of human history. Likewise, war movies have been present since the movie industry began. Just like most other genres of film, war films have been created as a form of entertainment to profit a person or organization. More people are willing to spend their money and time on a feeling of action, excitement, heroism, and patriotism than gruesome and horrid images of real and common human destruction. Propaganda has been used by…

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    As Kyle is sitting in his living room he hears the sounds of gunshots and helicopter completely dazed on the thought of war, all sure symptoms that he is facing PTSD. When his wife tries to talk to him as he blocks her out while focused on a kid playing with a dog. While Taya continues to try and have a conversation with him Kyle jumps up and believes that the dog is trying to attack the child. He rips the dog off the child and nearly beats it in the head until Taya stops him. “This scene shows…

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    The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara was a truthful, but limited, account of the major events--events ranging from the Great Depression, World War 2, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, and the Cold War--that the United States took part in during the twentieth century (Fog). These events are seen and told through the eyes and first hand experiences of Robert S. McNamara. Robert McNamara served as the United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968, serving under…

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    Under the influence of war, soldiers become intoxicated by the chaotic environment and seize the opportunity to commit immoral acts. However, several factors including politics, the participants, and the concept of war itself, allow for this dangerous environment to exist; this is especially true in regards to the United States’ experience during the long and brutal Vietnam War. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photographs from the war, and the film Apocalypse Now convey the nonexistent boundaries…

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    Narrative structure is an important aspect of a film and its analysis provides answers to many questions concerning the story and the plot. First of all, there are three kinds of narratives described in Screen Media Analyzing Film and Television: fragmented narratives, multi-strand narratives and classical narration (157). The last type can be found in a war film Platoon directed by Oliver Stone. By definition, classical narration consists of a protagonist, whose actions can be seen as they…

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    Star Wars Film Analysis

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    story is the story of Star Wars, but not just the movie, the story of how a ragtag team of film makers made an amazing classic still alive today. The story of star wars begins in the California home of George Lucas where he began to capture the romance and adventure that he saw in old movies that he watched as a young boy as well as the heroics of the great Flash Gordon TV series. so george began to write the script for a screenplay that would one day be known as "Star Wars" Before George…

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    Star Wars Film Analysis

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    We can again see this in Star Wars games like Jedi Knight and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic where the player starts off as a normal person and slowly rises in fame and importance till they are the center of the galaxy's attention. This occurs similarly to the films, as in the films Luke Skywalker turns out to be Darth Vader/Anakin's son, in games like Knights of the Old Republic, the player character turns out to be a famous Sith lord thought dead and lost. (Schellenberg) While again…

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    The Vietnam war is a war between the United States and Vietnam in response of the Vietnam 's support of communism. Truman was afraid that if Vietnam was left communism, more countries will join communism and the domino theory will become true which will cause major problems for the United States. The people who paid the price of this war were the brave United States ' soldiers in which they got affected by this war in different ways whether by losing their life or by beliefs that their life is…

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    The Fog of War is one of the best documentaries that tells the story behind the superpower conflict during Cold War years and how the world came to the brink of war due to misperception and uncertainty created by the possession of nuclear weapons. In the documentary, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara was interviewed and narrated the story from the American perspective. He specifies 11 points that he considers significant lessons about war even though at that time, they were not able…

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    World War 2 Film Analysis

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    1) World War II had profound effects on the national cultures and politics of, both, the United States and Italy, though in very different ways, leading to national cinemas that addressed the realities and consequences of the war in ways that were unique to each nation’s condition. The films of these post-WWII national cinemas did not focus specifically on the results of the war, but their most prominent genres, noir in the US and neorealism in Italy, produced narratives that contained the…

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