Character Analysis From 'Gallipoli'
Gallipoli is the remarkable story of two Western Australian mates who are sent to Gallipoli in 1915. Frank and Archie are both very successful sprinters and Archie wants adventure, while Frank wants to stay in Australia, but signs up for the inventory anyway.
This story brings back some harsh truths about warfare, and explains why so many naïve young men joined up, only to suffer deaths well before their time.
The troops were headed for the Gallipoli peninsula and the Dardanelles Strait, in southern Turkey, to attempt to take the peninsula. The war was between the Allies (mainly Britain, US, France, Russia, Italy, Japan, and Australia) and the Central Powers (mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey)
I found the recruitment drives that …show more content…
One reason why the men were signing up was apparent to me when Snowy, Barney and Frank etc. were talking around the fire about signing up. One of them was pushed to sign up with the line "The girls go wild over a uniform". Archie joined up because he wanted an adventure, and to travel. Frank said to his father that he was signing up because he would "Keep my head down, learn a trick or two, and come back an officer." We don't know how this turned out for Frank, as we never saw him any …show more content…
Even more horrifying for Frank was witnessing Snowy on his deathbed naïvely saying, "I wonder why they aren't giving me any food or drink?"
When the Anzacs were in Egypt, they thought that the Gypos' were a bunch of thieves. The lecture one of the officers gave before the start of the exercises in Cairo probably didn't do much for respect towards the Egyptians.
I thought that it was amusing to see the state rivalry during the football game, as it is so reflective of what still happens today in modern day Australia.
Perhaps the most awful thing that I found about the movie was that the commanders knew that they were wasting so many young lives, but still decided to push on with the attacks, despite losing virtually all of those Anzacs. They wanted the British to be ensured of a safe landing on shores further away. The Australians were a mere diversion so the superior' British soldiers could comfortably land and take
This story brings back some harsh truths about warfare, and explains why so many naïve young men joined up, only to suffer deaths well before their time.
The troops were headed for the Gallipoli peninsula and the Dardanelles Strait, in southern Turkey, to attempt to take the peninsula. The war was between the Allies (mainly Britain, US, France, Russia, Italy, Japan, and Australia) and the Central Powers (mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey)
I found the recruitment drives that …show more content…
One reason why the men were signing up was apparent to me when Snowy, Barney and Frank etc. were talking around the fire about signing up. One of them was pushed to sign up with the line "The girls go wild over a uniform". Archie joined up because he wanted an adventure, and to travel. Frank said to his father that he was signing up because he would "Keep my head down, learn a trick or two, and come back an officer." We don't know how this turned out for Frank, as we never saw him any …show more content…
Even more horrifying for Frank was witnessing Snowy on his deathbed naïvely saying, "I wonder why they aren't giving me any food or drink?"
When the Anzacs were in Egypt, they thought that the Gypos' were a bunch of thieves. The lecture one of the officers gave before the start of the exercises in Cairo probably didn't do much for respect towards the Egyptians.
I thought that it was amusing to see the state rivalry during the football game, as it is so reflective of what still happens today in modern day Australia.
Perhaps the most awful thing that I found about the movie was that the commanders knew that they were wasting so many young lives, but still decided to push on with the attacks, despite losing virtually all of those Anzacs. They wanted the British to be ensured of a safe landing on shores further away. The Australians were a mere diversion so the superior' British soldiers could comfortably land and take