Analyzing The Vietnam War Film 'Lone Survivor'
Theater 102
Fall 2014
Lone Survivor
The movie I chose to view for the first time is the American war film Lone Survivor, written and directed by Peter Berg starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, and Erica Bana. It is based on the nonfiction book “Lone Survivor” by Marcus Lutrell and Patrick Robinson about a war in Afghanistan where the United States Navy Seals counter-insurgent mission Operation Red wings failed and four-men Seal reconnaissance and surveillance team were tasked to track down Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. Shah had killed over twenty United States marines, as well as refugees and villagers, that’s when four United States navy seals went on the their mission which was Leader Micheal P. “Murph” Murphy, …show more content…
With it’s dramatic tone and realism. The structure of the movie was started by the end but then flashback to the beginning, which plays out in a linear matter and then leads back to the end of how the movie started and it all ties in together. The movie aspires you to feel exactly how these four navy seals felt and their struggle to stay alive, showing us how brave these man our and how they go through hell and back. It definitely succeeds, it made me cringe watching them get brutally hurt and you even get attached to the characters hoping for them that it turns out okay for them. The emotional reactions are sadness by everything they are going through, and hope, hoping they make it out alive and safe, relief for when they finally have help and a bunch of emotions at the same time. An element that probably was slight unsuccessful was that I read how the Taliban man were portrayed kind of cartoon villain liked which can be an insult, in my opinion I didn’t see it that way, but from another point of view it did seem to like cartoon villain. This film is very successful with how everything was shot and edit, I see why it took six months to edit this movie. I read in an article that Berg shot with 3 different cameras at the same time so there’s a lot of coverage. His first cut was two-and-a-half hours and the final length came in at two hours. Lone survivor really grasps how these Navy Seals or in fact anybody in the military forces really sacrifice their lives to fight for our
Fall 2014
Lone Survivor
The movie I chose to view for the first time is the American war film Lone Survivor, written and directed by Peter Berg starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, and Erica Bana. It is based on the nonfiction book “Lone Survivor” by Marcus Lutrell and Patrick Robinson about a war in Afghanistan where the United States Navy Seals counter-insurgent mission Operation Red wings failed and four-men Seal reconnaissance and surveillance team were tasked to track down Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. Shah had killed over twenty United States marines, as well as refugees and villagers, that’s when four United States navy seals went on the their mission which was Leader Micheal P. “Murph” Murphy, …show more content…
With it’s dramatic tone and realism. The structure of the movie was started by the end but then flashback to the beginning, which plays out in a linear matter and then leads back to the end of how the movie started and it all ties in together. The movie aspires you to feel exactly how these four navy seals felt and their struggle to stay alive, showing us how brave these man our and how they go through hell and back. It definitely succeeds, it made me cringe watching them get brutally hurt and you even get attached to the characters hoping for them that it turns out okay for them. The emotional reactions are sadness by everything they are going through, and hope, hoping they make it out alive and safe, relief for when they finally have help and a bunch of emotions at the same time. An element that probably was slight unsuccessful was that I read how the Taliban man were portrayed kind of cartoon villain liked which can be an insult, in my opinion I didn’t see it that way, but from another point of view it did seem to like cartoon villain. This film is very successful with how everything was shot and edit, I see why it took six months to edit this movie. I read in an article that Berg shot with 3 different cameras at the same time so there’s a lot of coverage. His first cut was two-and-a-half hours and the final length came in at two hours. Lone survivor really grasps how these Navy Seals or in fact anybody in the military forces really sacrifice their lives to fight for our