their different mediums‚ contextual values and purposes. Christian Carrion’s feature film Joyeux Noel‚ and Nic Young’s documentary‚ The Christmas Truce‚ are both 21st century filmic responses to a 20th century event. The similar values of the texts are showcased through different forms‚ and techniques. QUESTION. Carrion has created a sanitizing version of the Truce‚ QUESTION‚ through the gripping use of characterization and film techniques. Modify Topic sentence to answer question. Through visual
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Social Changes Of WW1 “ Ready! aye‚ ready! “ the soldiers were to say as the call for war came‚ but were they really that ready? As well‚ was the rest of the world ready? “ Back by Christmas “ they promised their loved ones who were filled with such pride and watched in awe as their brave boys set off for war. Most including Henri Bourassa‚ thought that this was an opportunity to unite the Canadians‚ French‚ and English. Little did they know the battles they‚ and the whole world were about to
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The Christmas truce which was a not official truce. The truce occurred along the Western Front. The truce occurred during the Christmas of 1914. World War 1 had been going on for many months but the soldiers on both sides stepped out of their trenches. They walked across no mans land which is where they shook hands and agreed to have a truce so that any of the dead from either side could be buried. As well some of the soldiers also used the truce as a way to chat with each other. Some of them even
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from the war. One of the common misconceptions of the truce was its very existence‚ as there were some troops reporting normal wartime activity throughout the Christmas season. With each soldier’s experience differing‚ letters written by Captain Edward Hulse‚ other letters sent in to The Times
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The time is World War I and soldiers are stationed on the Western Front; bloody warfare occurs daily and death is consistently around the corner; but what about on Christmas? Will the fighting continue or will they stop for a ceasefire? This film focuses on that and is titled “Joyeux Noel” and was released in 2005. Christian Carion directed this historical drama‚ which features Diane Kruger‚ Benno Fürmann‚ Gary Lewis‚ Guillaume Canet as some of the leads and many other actors. Throughout the movie
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In source a it is discussing the trench warfare and it tells us that soliders did such as manning the fire-step . source b supports this by showing a British solider manning the fire step‚ source b also supported source a because in source a it says ‘night was the time of major activity’ … this shown in the photograph in source b because it shows that is quite light which indicates it is daytime and a solider is sleeping during this time because in the night most of the attacks happen . Source
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Joyeux Noel is a historical fiction that captures the Great War ceasefire on Christmas‚ this event pushed the boundaries of war and nationalism. On Christmas Eve 1914 a Presbyterian Mass the held on the night of the cease fire‚ it was given to everyone Scots‚ Germans‚ French they all climbing out of their trenches and sang Christmas song. Palmer the Scottish clergyman who gave the Mass said “I sincerely believe that Our Lord Jesus Christ guided me in the most important Mass of my life.” At that
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Christmas Truce Robert graves The young man Stan visits his grandfather. He wants the grandfather to join in the demonstration against nuclear bombs. The grandfather is a First World War veteran and has lost his foot in the war. He does not want to join in the demonstration because he does not believe that you can fight organized propaganda with amateur propaganda. The grandfather’s friend Dodger visits him meanwhile Stan is there. Dodger tells about the first Christmas Truce in 1914. He tells
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The Christmas Truce 1. The first Christmas Truce occurred on Christmas Eve or Christmas day in 1914 during World War 1‚ along the Western Front (Ypres). About 100.000 British and German troops were involved. They stopped fighting for one day to celebrate Christmas‚ some even stopped until New Year’s Day. Both sides sang christmas carols of their own and they exchanged small gifts like alcohol on No Man’s Land. There was a second one on Christmas Eve in 1915 between French and German troops
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Truce in the forest Title: Truce in the Forest Setting: A small cottage in the Hurtgen Forest near the German-Belgian border . Christmas Eve in 1994 towards the end of World War II in Europe. Plot: It was Christmas Eve‚ there is a knocked in the cottage of a mother and her son. They quickly blew the candle and the mother stepped on the door to open it and found two steel-helmeted men. One of the men spoke to the mother in a language they did not understand. There are three – Harry‚ Jim and
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