gallipoli The Film

Reflection

Some Features of the Film

• Training in Egypt• Arrogance of British Officers• Lighthorse – Nice uniform, feather in hat• Death in the trenches• Making of bomb from Billy beef cans• Runners for communication• Whistle as cue to get out of the trench • Opinion back home – respect for soldiers,

disrespect for those not willing to fight.

Characters

• Archie • An optimist, young and longs for adventure• He doesn’t know how the war started, but blames the

Germans and fears the takeover of • Australia – says ‘You gotta be in it’• Enters into the Lighthorse men – He is good on a

horse. In Gallipoli the light horse had no horses

• Frank • ‘Not our War, it’s an English war’• Anti-English, his dad is Irish• Not treated well at home when he says he is not going

to fight

Red = KilledBlue = Wounded, dies from woundsPurple = Lived

Characters

• Barney• Goes for the ladies

• Snowy• Is religious and moral – It’s the right thing to do• Enlist into the Infantry

• Billy• Appreciates the differences in cultures, in Egypt• Fight at Lone Pine

• Lance • A guy that Archie works with, Archie meets him in the

trench

Red = KilledBlue = Wounded, dies from woundsPurple = Lived