"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 was only one not dozens.
             In the movie there wasn't even a presence of a fly. But in reality, the air was swarming with millions upon millions of flies, due to masses of dead bodies. Men would hardly ever go without swallowing a fly or two. The men had to devise a way to eat and talk without swallowing a fly.
             In the scene where Frank and Archy went down to the beach for a wash this was a rare occurrence for men at Gallipoli. As they would not get a wash for weeks on end, and as result would get infested with Lice. This was a common occurrence for men in the trenches. The flies and lice transferred lots of diseases and one of the main causes of men getting s
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