... their start as raw recruits to battle hardened soldiers, and tells it from a very personal point of view. In the television series there is a reoccurring format, every episode having a lead character where the audience sees the war from their point of view. This way the audience gets to see very different representations. Recent war films such as Saving Private Ryan and ... how Hollywood invented the squad or other military team which was supposed to reflect American ethnic and regional diversity; the wise cracker from Brooklyn to drawling Southerner and the Midwestern farm boy, the Pro...

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... to build a rocking chair. Like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, we are introduced to the main focus of the film, but unlike SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, the focus is a character not a war. In addition, THE PATRIOT"S main character is first presented as a father and carpenter, while we first meet Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) already involved in the war. The difference between these films is that ... one uses characters to tell the story of a war, while the other uses a war to tell the story of a character. Characters are major literary elements and they, alone, illustrate the intent of each film. The British ...

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... his mind to waste . He remains the same sweet , sincere , generous person he was at the beginning of the movie through to the end . In fact , he is such a likable character , that you wonder if anyone but Travolta could of played the part . You will enjoy the scenes in which he shows his great personality , when he's setting his best friend ... up , and helping find a sick little boy . These scenes really connect you with his character . Travolta's character is similar to Tom Hanks's in Forrest Gump in that you cannot watch Forrest Gump without gaining a sympathy , and understanding of ...

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... ; gunfire, explosions, ricochets. They also share small moments of Internal Sound': small scenes where we hear the sounds that a character hears. Black Hawk Down contains a hearing loss scene (similar to the one in Ryan) where the sound mimics what Ewen McGregor's character hears (or does not) when he is too close to an explosion. Band Of Brothers contains a small scene in Carentan ... ' (Episode 3) when Marc Warren's character, Albert Blithe, is cowering in a foxhole unable to join the battle. His commanding officer orders him to fight. A hyper-real scene follows where the mechanics of t...

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... shoes,"" Gump quips in his southern twang. Even though one could consider Gump to be a simpleton, it is his innocence and naiveté that makes his character work so well. Hanks' ability to convey that to the audience is quite brilliant. I can't think of any other actor to pull it off so convincingly ... his mother, Bubba, Lieutenant Dan, and of course; his Jenny. We learn of his decency and become endeared and compassioned for the simplicity of his character. As Ebert eloquently puts it, "The movie is more of a meditation on our times, as seen through the eyes of a man who lacks cynicism ...

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... succeeding this movie. Tom Hanks is, as always, excellent, and offers the film with a beautiful and warm performance that does the script and his character justice. Meg Ryan is also convincing and gives her female audience a character that any woman can relate with. Ross Malinger is also believable and realistic in his portrayal of a boy who has lost his mother and refuses ... ...

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... grazes."" S/he is not invested in his/her life. This feeling is often experienced during transitional periods of life. Fowler used the movie Pollack to further explain this life. The character in the movie is without sense of inner-direction. He has a tendency towards cynicism, a sad agnosticism. He is unknowing about his potential or capacity. A person who lives this type of ... a sense of self-fulfillment as we do our best to create our own paths. The concentration focused on ourselves may or may not lead to grounded relationships with others. The character of Tom Hanks in Cast Away i...

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... grazes."" S/he is not invested in his/her life. This feeling is often experienced during transitional periods of life. Fowler used the movie Pollack to further explain this life. The character in the movie is without sense of inner-direction. He has a tendency towards cynicism, a sad agnosticism. He is unknowing about his potential or capacity. A person who lives this type of ... a sense of self-fulfillment as we do our best to create our own paths. The concentration focused on ourselves may or may not lead to grounded relationships with others. The character of Tom Hanks in Cast Away i...

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... Jima (1949) and Saving Private Ryan (1998), many similarities and differences can be found which can be linked to greater generalizations and concepts. Neglecting all differences in time period, perception, character depth, and special effects, these movies essentially are the same. They portray similar ideas of camaraderie, difficulties of war, intimate relationships, and importance of command. With the addition of technology ... amount of leadership, clutch decision making, and confidence in situations that other men would surely faulter. In that way, these men are the same. Through i...

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This movie is about an inmate, John Coffey, who has special healing powers. He is charged with killing 2 girls. While awaiting his execution he heals some kind of cancer from Tom Hanks character and heals the wardens wife who is gravely ill. He does this by touching them and then he coughs up the illness. He even heals a dead mice. After bringing back the mice, I assumed that he didn"t kill the girls but instead was trying to bring them back to life. It ends up another inmate in the next cell killed them. He shows Tom's character this by touching the other inmates hand then touching Tom's han...

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... -dimensional and lack introspection." The film is "very slow" and even sometimes to a point of boredom. She felt that the father and son relationship was weak and "noticeably dismal." The character played by Tom Hanks lacked supporting evidence in embracing his family values. She goes on to say that "the script forces Hanks to play Sullivan with no coloration." Alexander also ... ...

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In Analyzing Steven Spielberg's movie Saving Private Ryan, I realized that I can not base a movie only on realism. A good movie has to have some kind of character or formalism to carry the viewer through these realistic scenes. . In my critique I wish to point out some uses of realism, formalism, and stereotypes in the movie Saving Private Ryan. ... ...

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... click your heels together. You can not change the past. I once wrote a screenplay, and I still haven't sold it in case anyone here wants to become a Hollywood movie producer, in which a character said of the past. "Here's this moment in time. Ops, it's been, now it's gone, off to be with all the others never to be seen again. Wait a second, here ... ...

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