"Gallipoli" - Fact or Myth?
"Gallipoli" - Fact or Myth? Although "Gallipoli" is a fairly accurate account of the Why Australians enlisted to fight in the war, Conditions at Gallipoli and the Battle of the Nek. Some parts are changed in order to manipulate the audience into believing that the Anzacs' real enemy was the British. The reasons for enlistment that were portrayed in film were accurate in many respects. Archy's mates joined up because they wanted to have an adventure and get away and have fun. Some joined up because their mates were joining up, like Archy and Frank. Some women that Frank met did not think of him as sexually mature because he wasn't going to join up, so Frank decided that he would join so others wouldn't look him down upon. All these things were real and accurate reasons why Australians joined up. There were many more reasons but these were the most common. In the Movie the conditions in the trenches and at Anzac cove was downplayed. In the trenches the dead were just lying on the ground, unburied. It was hard for one not to step on a body when moving along the trenches. If someone needed a seat they would often use a dead body. But in the movie you hardly even saw a dead body, and when you did there wa
The scenes featuring the attack on the Nek have been heavily manipulated so that the audience would end up believing that it was the British's fault that hundreds of men were sent to their grave in vain. Upon arrival Brazier could only find Brigade Major, Colonel Antill, he then explained that task was beyond achievable, but Antill had received word that a marker flag had reached an enemy trench. What really happened was colonel Brazier again returned to Brigade HQ but is told to advance. This is not true the real strategy was the attack on the Nek was part of major attack on Sari Bair, the ridges dominating the peninsula. Although the attack on the Nek did become a feint, it was to protect the New Zealand assault on Chunuk Bair not Sulva. In order for Frank to be able to play his key role a runner, the field telephone had to break down and the Brigade quarters had to be shifted well to the rear. In the film it is suggested that the strategy of the attack on the Nek, along the battle of Lone Pine is, to draw the Turks down on us, so the British can get ashore at Sulva Bay. He then referred the matter to Brigadier Hughes who told him to get some men a save the fourth line, but like Frank he does not make it in time. Scriptwriter, David Williamson has taken bits and pieces from various points of reference such as soldiers' diaries and Bean's history, that are most likely to stir us. Men would hardly ever go without swallowing a fly or two. In the film, after the third line has been sent Frank is sent out with a message. None of this is mentioned in the film and you are lead to believe that the Sulva thrust was the main objective and the attack on the Nek was a feint to ensure its success. The flies and lice transferred lots of diseases and one of the main causes of men getting sick. But, because of a long way to run Frank does not make it back in time to save the fourth line, who were instantly met with their death.
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