Tigerland: A Film Analysis

There is nothing better than watching a film and then being able to go to the location and relive the moments while standing there. It makes me feel like I am a part of it. The feeling I got while walking the halls of Alcatraz, setting in the same room Billy Bob Thornton filmed in Sling Blade, setting on the grass they actually played baseball on in Field of Dreams, hearing the ire tells of what went on in the Winchester House as you are looking at the stairs to nowhere, or hiding in the same foxhole created for Tigerland are unexplainable.
I really think films are one of the best ways to understand what happened in history and to tell the story in a way you will never hear come out of a textbook. A film can do so much for each individual and it can be stored to relive those moments, rather it be the first date with my now wife, the last film I watched with my grandmother before she passed away, or the first time my son feel asleep on me. Every time I watch these films I will get a rush of emotions from the past that I forget still existed. Feelings that can’t be recreated any other way.
Most of the audience will not think about how many man-hours were committed to making the film happen. Technology has defiantly changed way things are done with graphics, lighting, and sound. It’s still a challenging process with any film though. It’s amazing how in an old western they can make it appear night time with a lens cover, how much detail and work was put into the transition from sepia to color in The Wizard of OZ, and how they created a fire so big in the back lot of the studio creating Atlanta burning for Gone with the Wind, that the fire department was called. Even with animated films, getting all these actors to really be in the moment and get into character when just talking into a microphone. I appreciate films that much more when I can see the work put into