The Monuments Men: Film Analysis
In 2014, a film called, “Monuments Men” was created based on a true story that is illustrated in, “The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History” by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter. This film was about seven men on a mission to recover the art that Hitler has stolen from all over Europe and hidden in Germany. This movie starred George Clooney as Frank Stokes, Matt Damon as James Granger, Bill Murray as James Campbell, John Goodman as Walter Garfield, Jean Dujardin as Jean Claude Clermont, Bob Balaban as Preston Savitz, Hugh Bonneville as Donald Jeffries, Dimitri Leonidas as Sam Epstein, and Cate Blanchett as Claire Simone.
The main characters were these seven men and one French woman. The seven men were renounced art scholars from around the Allied forces of America, Britain, France, and a Jewish German refugee, but also, included Claire Simone, who helped these men find the most famous pieces of art with her knowledge and records. Frank Stokes convinced President FDR that the art was worth saving, so he put together his group of the best and brightest, who were not already fighting in the war. …show more content…
This taught me that during this period of war that the fighting and the effort at home was not all of the war. Some of it meant looking for inanimate objects that did not seem worth saving considering the possible cost of a life. These men said that they never really felt like a soldier until they suffered the losses of one when they lost two friends. I think this idea put the war into a different perspective because this was a time when everyone was a soldier, even if they did not know it, and everyone was playing a part in the war, even if it did not affect them
The main characters were these seven men and one French woman. The seven men were renounced art scholars from around the Allied forces of America, Britain, France, and a Jewish German refugee, but also, included Claire Simone, who helped these men find the most famous pieces of art with her knowledge and records. Frank Stokes convinced President FDR that the art was worth saving, so he put together his group of the best and brightest, who were not already fighting in the war. …show more content…
This taught me that during this period of war that the fighting and the effort at home was not all of the war. Some of it meant looking for inanimate objects that did not seem worth saving considering the possible cost of a life. These men said that they never really felt like a soldier until they suffered the losses of one when they lost two friends. I think this idea put the war into a different perspective because this was a time when everyone was a soldier, even if they did not know it, and everyone was playing a part in the war, even if it did not affect them