The Nek Gallipoli

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 climax of the film is the battle of the Nek on the 7th of August 1915.
Gallipoli provided the viewers a faithful insight on the lives in Australia during the 1910, he captures the ideals and characters of those who joined the War. He showed the soldiers views of war, with the thought of honour and bravery, however those soldiers slowly start to lose that purpose of self deputy, when they contribute in the battle of the Neks. The Nek is a thin strip of land stretching up the range with a steep drop on either side. The ANAZAC took place on the 7th of August. However the element of surprise of the battle was that the Barrage ended 7 minutes earlier than planned. Time in the film and the war is crucial for the soldiers, so that the war won’t continue forever. The Battle of the Nek was again the Turkish. The film showed a very accurate representation of the 8th light horse attack on the Turks. It gave a ver unsightly view of who the trenches were cut down so easily in half a minute by the rows of the machine guns shooting everyone of the Soldiers in sight. Same goes for the following wave of soldiers charging towards the turks. Continuing the horror of dead piles of bodies near the lip of the ANZAC trenches.
By the of 4.45am the 10th light horse charged to their inevitable death. One of them was Wilfred Harper, an Olympian sprinter charging towards the enemy. Harpers death was an inspiration for Peter Weir’s film. The film depicts a British Soldier who keys the sending of