Do you think that a film, which illustrates an historical event or the life of a personality from the past should be based only on facts?...Doesn't this come into oposition with the notion of cinematografical art?
2006-10-07 02:00:30 · 12 answers · asked by alex 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
For sheer intensity and accuracy, I don't think you can top Steven Spielberg's treatment of D-Day in Saving Private Ryan. Anyone whose been in combat will tell you, Spielberg got it horrifyingly accurate.
2006-10-07 02:05:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No one can depict an accurate concept of a battle. If there are 20,000 men fighting each other, you have 20,000 different view of the battle. Spielberg's SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was about the stupidest movie that I have ever seen. First, the scenario is totally fiction and is more based on something that happened in the Navy during WWII when five brothers went down on one ship than anything that happened in the Army. No one would send a small detachment into the battle grounds to find the remaining son of a family.
No one could depict what goes through the mind of a group of soldiers leaving a landing craft and finding that they had machine guns firing directly at them and no one could figure out what happens in the mind of a person when his best friend's head is blown off.
All you can get is personal recollections of many individuals and portray them separately. They can only tell you what they saw, not the other men.
All of the movies that came out during WWII and afterwards only glorify things. John Wayne is perceived by most people as having been in the Marine Corps, but in reality served in no branch of the service.
Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier, could not take it when he was starring in those movies and killed himself.
As for war, I have been there and done that, it cannot be glorious.
2006-10-07 03:49:51 · answer #2 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
#5: Battle of Stirling Bridge - Braveheart
Massed heavy cavalry against armed footmen, screaming Scotsmen, weapons flying, arrows descending on the ranks of men, inspired speeches, vast armies running across fields - no matter what you think of the movie as a whole, the large battle scene in the middle is certainly dramatic.
#4: Opening Battle against barbarians: Gladiator
#3: Red Army Attack at Stalingrad - Enemy at the Gates.
#2: Attack by Tiger Tanks - Saving Private Ryan, most pick the initial D-Day landings, which was realistic, but the final battle with Tigers was far more intense.
and the #1 Battle Scene:
Longstreet's assault on Cemetery Ridge led by Pickett - In the movie Gettysburg, the use of re-enactors and actual locations contributed to its feeling of accuracy, the long battle lines with battle flags tipped forward as they advanced...splendid! Gushing holes of humanity from the Union artillery, the noise and smoke, and still they came...a handful reaching the copse of trees in the center....
2006-10-07 08:32:58 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since this is a matter of opinion, I'd have to go with either the assault on the fort in the film Glory or the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan.
They show a much more realistic perspective of what battle is like, as opposed to the John Wayne sort where no one ever bled.
2006-10-07 08:27:24 · answer #4 · answered by Chrispy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd have to agree with the D Day scene from "Saving Private Ryan", frightfully realistic, sickening, and overwhelming, just like the real battle that day, June 6, 1944. I respect highly the men you stepped out of those landing craft that day. They were all heroes.
By the way, Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in the US Army in World War II, did suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and petitioned Congress to recognise that as an illness so veterans would be treated. He preferred making Westerns to War movies but did play himself in his autobiographical movie.
Audie did not kill himself. He died in a small plane crash near Roanoak Va with five other people in 1971.
2006-10-07 04:55:39 · answer #5 · answered by David B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
most of the battle scenes in the movie "Gods & Generals" were very well planned out and historical accurate as well as it could be made with only letters from the men and women of that time
2006-10-07 02:28:21 · answer #6 · answered by Tim and Linda B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The D Day beach landings in Saving private Ryan, harrowing but accurate im sure
2006-10-07 02:10:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Among well-read historians there should be NO DEBATE:
The invasion of the beaches of Normandy in the opening scenes of "Saving Private Ryan." The American historian who knew more about the D-Day invasion than any other human (Stephen Ambrose) commented on that scene after seeing it for the first time when he said, "Finally somebody got it right."
2006-10-07 03:48:15 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. Curious 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
North and South.I think all historical movies should be based on facts in order to give the audience an accurate view of what really took place then!!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-07 02:06:00 · answer #9 · answered by Ali.D 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If they would've done it right, the Trojan War would've been awesome to watch in "Troy". However, they didn't... so no gods intermingling with men and shooting arrows at them.
For what we have though, I think the battle in Braveheart was pretty awesome. I don't know how historically true it is however.
2006-10-07 02:03:43 · answer #10 · answered by bibliophilejmv 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋