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    The Nek Gallipoli

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    Gallipoli is an Australian Film set made in the 1981‚ directed by Peter Weir. Starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee‚ as Frank Dunne and Archy Hamiton. The film depicts the two young athlete runners journey with being enlisted in the Australian Army during the First World war. They are sent to the peninsula of Gallipoli in Ottoman Empire‚ where they are involved in the Gallipoli Campaign. Throughout the Film Peter Weir demonstrates the young soldiers start to lose their true innocent belief of war. The

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    The Effects of Gallipoli

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    being part of the British Empire and was keen to join the military training scheme for boys of twelve and above. Jim enlisted at 14‚ giving a false age‚ and had not reached his fifteenth birthday when he died of typhoid fever in a hospital ship off Gallipoli in October‚ 1915. When war broke out‚ the Labor leader‚ Scotland-born Andrew Fisher‚ supporting the England-born Liberal Prime Minister‚ Joseph Cook‚ declared that Australia would stand beside the mother country to help and defend her "to the

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    The gallipoli campaign In 1915 ‚april ‚25th the birthday of the gallipoli campaign‚ the Anzacs prove to us that they are heroic soldiers and that they went through a lot of tough times.The report will be based on the Gallipoli campaign and will explain the following: Aim of the Gallipoli campaign which resulted in failure but showed the heroines of the anzacs‚battle of the nek‚the living conditions each anzac face‚heath of the soldiers and mate ship. Aim of Gallipoli Campaign The aim of the Gallipoli

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    Film Analysis of Gallipoli

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    Feature Film Analysis - Gallipoli (directed by Peter Weir) Gallipoli‚ as the title suggests‚ is a portrayal of the historical event in which thousands of Australian soldiers went off to fight for their country. Peter Weir‚ the director of Gallipoli has not simply presented the facts about the war‚ nor has he tried to relay the story of this time‚ instead he has attempted to convey the legend of Gallipoli through the Australian’s feelings towards the event using pre-existing myths to portray this

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    Australians. The Gallipoli campaign took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in Gelibolu in 25th of April 1915 to 9th January. The Gallipoli campaign was an allied attack to gain a direct trading route towards Russia. France‚ Britain and one of Russia’s allies launched a naval attack against the Gallipoli peninsula followed by an amphibious landing. The naval attack failed and the amphibious landing caused many deaths. The reason that Gallipoli was attacked is that it was needed in a plan proposed

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    Gallipoli Movie Review

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    The film Gallipoli takes place during World War I’s Gallipoli campaign in 1915. The two main characters in the film are Archy and Frank. Archy and Frank are from Western Australia and they both enlist to fight in Gallipoli. Archy is an extremely fast runner who meets Frank at an athletics competition. We can see from the beginning that Archy is eager to join the war. After being turned down because he was underage‚ he goes to Perth‚ anxious for someone to accept him into the light horsemen. Frank

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    Why Invade Gallipoli

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    CAUSES why invade Gallipoli one of the main causes to invade was the need to capture the Dardanelles straights to give the Russians the supplies and to help stall the advance into Russia from the Turks so they were to invade Gallipoli capture the Dardanelles straights and knock turkey of the war as an added bonus. cause of the first World War The immediate cause for World War 1 was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his pregnant wife Sophie. Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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    Gallipoli Film Analysis

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    The documentary Gallipoli by Tolga Ornak and the film of the same name by Peter Weir‚ are useful resources to stimulate middle school student interest in‚ and engagement with‚ the story of Galipoli and its context in Wold War 1. The 2005 documentary Gallipoli by Turkish filmmaker Tolga Ornek is a graphic examination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign told by both sides. The story is explored through primary resources such as personal diaries and letters. By using exerpts from the diaries and

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    In filmography‚ the setting is a key literary device which‚ if used effectively‚ can be the basis on which we‚ as an audience‚ can understand of the key ideas in a film. The Kimberley Gift Fair and the Gallipoli Peninsula are two important settings in the 1981 motion picture‚ ‘Gallipoli‚’ which enable us to gain an understanding of the key ideas of the film; which are‚ the destructive puissance of war propaganda and the brutality of war. Throughout the film‚ a plethora of cinematic techniques are

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    Gallipoli Film Techniques

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    FORMAL WRITING A relevant idea in the film Gallipoli‚ produced by Peter Weir‚ is that war is a tragic waste of life. Weir made this idea seem relevant in the world today by using film techniques including music‚ dialogue and symbolism. Gallipoli is the story of a young man who went off to World War One. This particular film narrates the story of an eighteen-year-old from Western Australia who boarded a troop ship bound for Gallipoli. These soldiers fought the Turks in a campaign to capture

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