Gallipoli is the 1981 war movie directed by Peter Weir that depicts the failed seize of the pennisula in the Ottoman Empire by Australian Soldiers. The director uses exact details to accurately portray the unfortunate event‚ along with including minute details that help further the plot and the characters. The director made a choice to put this battle in the perspective of the Australians. It is shown at the end of the movie that the remaining Australians are sent onto the battlefield die before
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History Summary Notes – Semester 2‚ 2012 Australia to 1914 * How people lived at the turn of the C20th * Housing * Lower Class Housing * Unsanitary‚ overcrowded‚ dangerous (poorly built‚ cheap materials) * Many didn’t have sewerages or standard water supplies * Bad ventilation and poor lighting * Upper Class Housing * Lived in the eastern suburbs/north shore * Employed maids and servants * Houses were old‚ not built securely‚ no heat
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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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Gallipoli was only ever going to be a pointless struggle. World War 1 was a world war between the triple entente i.e. Italy‚ Austria-Hungry and Germany and the triple alliances – United Kingdom‚ France and Russia and all their alliances. It all started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand who was the Royal Prince of Austria-Hungry was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip who was Bosnian Serb and a member of a group called the Black Hand a secret society led by Serbian Military Intelligence. This essay aims to
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What was life like for the soldiers at Gallipoli? Soldiers in Gallipoli during the First World War had it very hard‚ they were badly trained‚ badly fed‚ had horrible living conditions and were led to a massacre within the first few hours after landing. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at ANZAC cove during the First World War faced such problems as lack of food‚ not enough clean water and no proper shelter. During the Gallipoli campaign at Anzac Cove a lot of troops were almost starved
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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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There are some moments in life where you can sacrifice your life for the greater good but sacrificing your life for ww1 was a huge mistake in which talented young men lost their life for an impossible mission which was the Gallipoli campaign. At the start of the movie it shows Archie running against the man on the horse. This shows that Archie is willing to take risk but also have fun at the same time. Also through the start of the movie Archie shows roar talent and speed at the carnival where he
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the First World War‚ which made them the Anzac’s rival. It was decided that soldiers needed to land and fight in Turkey. This is where the famous battle of Gallipoli happened now known as ANZAC cove because of the horrific losses of the Australian forces in a so seemed futile and pointless battle. This essay highlights why the Gallipoli campaign was a failure. Winston Churchill was the head of navy and Lord Kitchener‚ was the general commander of the war effort‚ who persuaded the attempt on the attack
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THE DAILY MAIL A feature article on ... Daily Life at Anzac Cove War correspondent Mark Smith reports on the two days he spent in Gallipoli So far all the information the public received on Gallipoli has been positive. It has been said that our soldiers live comfortably and we are showing no possibilities of defeat. But what is life really like in Gallipoli? The food and water are of a bad quality and insufficient‚ the medical facilities are primitive and hundreds of Anzacs die each day‚ their
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the First World War‚ that made them the Anzac’s enemy. It was decided that soldiers needed to land and fight in turkey. This is where the famous battle of Gallipoli happened now known as ANZAC cove because of the horrific losses of the Australian forces in a so seemed futile and pointless battle. This essay highlights why the Gallipoli campaign was a failure. On April 25th 1915 the Anzac’s arrived at the Anzac cove‚ after an element of confusion which cause the landing to take place two kilometres
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