Saving Private Ryan

Here it goes, were finally comparing the similarities and differences of Saving Private Ryan, Stripes, and 1941. To start off with, they all happen to war/military based films. However 1941 is a full blown comedy that is basically about the Japanese that wanted to attack Hollywood from inside a submarine out in the Pacific Ocean whereas in Stripes, as it was also a comedy, seemed to have some more serious parts in it and, in my opinion, was more interesting than 1941. Last, but definitely not least, we have Saving Private Ryan. Saving Private Ryan is definitely not a comedy; in fact it is very dramatic as it is intended to be. Saving Private Ryan also happens to be very gory due to the fact that it is a war movie. So, from what I remember seeing, these are the comparisons between these three movies.

                Of these three films, in my opinion, the more/most powerful one would definitely have to be Saving Private Ryan. I say this for many reasons and these reasons start with the fact that Saving Private Ryan is far more way realistic. As for 1941, the intentions of the characters in this film were very unrealistic. 1941 is unrealistic because of the whole idea of the Japanese’s intentions of attacking Hollywood from inside a submarine that is out in the Pacific Ocean. Once again, last but not least, we have Stripes a movie that was intended to be a comedy but had a few forms of being realistic. These few forms of being realistic include the part of the basic training. So overall, these are my ideas of these films and how I view them.

Racism in Film

Okay, here it goes, a topic we’ve been circling (like eagles) for a while now; racism in film. This topic within itself can be portrayed in two ways; realistically and unrealistically. Now, before I say anymore about this topic, I must say something that I believe I have said before in previous blogs and that is that I am not racist in any way what so ever and I never could be. So now, back on topic (if we look at this realistically), films take actors and stories and put the two together and BOOM you’ve got a film, and what I’m trying to say is that it’s like playing the telephone game, the film either gets the story right or wrong and either way, it gets put out in the open. So this is how it can either be realistic or unrealistic. The film can either be right or wrong and Hollywood makes it famous.

            So as for racism in film being unrealistic, it can either be over exaggerated or the opposite. As for it being over exaggerated, the n word might get thrown around like there’s no tomorrow and saying it is the only way to save one’s life. However, along the lines of the opposite, Hollywood might totally sugar-coat racism and portrays it as something that isn’t much of an issue and never was in the first place, but it is a problem and always has been as seen in all the films that we have watched recently.

            Now, for answering the prompt, yes, I do think that the stories would be different if they were told from a racially different point of view. I say this for many different reasons and some of these different reasons include the fact that different people have different experiences. As for the first question, yes, if Spike Lee was white, the story would be told from a different point of view there for making the story different. And as for the second question for the prompt, yes, I do think that the story would be different if it was told from a different point. I say this because, what I saw that was very evident in the film, the story of Schindler’s List only took on a Jewish standpoint and left out other details of the holocaust. And, last but not least, comes the third question to the prompt and, once again with my opinion, I think that Glory would also been told differently if it was told from a different point. And those are my opinions on what I think.