Gallipoli Movie Review
The movie, Gallipoli, is about Australia's past and the beginning of the ANZAC tradition. Gallipoli, the movie was released in 1981. The movie demonstrates 'mateship'. The director Peter Weir took too very different Australian's, with two very different views on war and made a friendship from it, and the friendship grew throughout the film. Although Archy and Frank were both athletes, this is the only thing they have in common.
As a typical Australian film, a main or important character die. Australian films are unlike American film. Aussie films usually have a dramatic ending and are usually unpleasant but realistic to the story line. American films, even if a character dies, end on a happy note, one which people want the story to end on. Australian movies, Gallipoli shows this too, have a strange truth about them. They show the harsh environment of the true world and offer real circumstances and a likely outcome of these circumstances. American directors enjoy making movies full of love (life isn't really like that) or gore and unrealistic situations.
That was not a dig at the American films because nearly all of them are fabulous, I was simply comparing American films to that of Australian films. The last scene in Gallipoli was of Archy's "moment of death". This has a greater impact on the audience as opposed to what a American film would of had. The American film may of had Frank run out onto the Nek and hold Archy in his arms, crying. Yet Frank would not get hit/shot. That is why I compared the Australian way of making films to the American way of making films.
Gallipoli is a marvelous movie that demonstrates the beginning of the ANZAC tradition, a very important historical event in Australian history.
[->0]Gallipoli (1981): "Gallipoli" is a 1981 Australian film directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, about several young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during the First World War. They are sent
As a typical Australian film, a main or important character die. Australian films are unlike American film. Aussie films usually have a dramatic ending and are usually unpleasant but realistic to the story line. American films, even if a character dies, end on a happy note, one which people want the story to end on. Australian movies, Gallipoli shows this too, have a strange truth about them. They show the harsh environment of the true world and offer real circumstances and a likely outcome of these circumstances. American directors enjoy making movies full of love (life isn't really like that) or gore and unrealistic situations.
That was not a dig at the American films because nearly all of them are fabulous, I was simply comparing American films to that of Australian films. The last scene in Gallipoli was of Archy's "moment of death". This has a greater impact on the audience as opposed to what a American film would of had. The American film may of had Frank run out onto the Nek and hold Archy in his arms, crying. Yet Frank would not get hit/shot. That is why I compared the Australian way of making films to the American way of making films.
Gallipoli is a marvelous movie that demonstrates the beginning of the ANZAC tradition, a very important historical event in Australian history.
[->0]Gallipoli (1981): "Gallipoli" is a 1981 Australian film directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, about several young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during the First World War. They are sent