THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

The Blue and the Grey is mini series. It showed the horrors of war and showed how.some families were broken up by the conflict where in real life brother fought brother.The American Civil War or the War for Southern Independence, but here puts as war between colours Blue and Grey.
The main cause of the war was slavery. Southern states, including that formed the Confederacy, depended on slave to support the economy. Southerners used slave labor to produce crops, especially cotton. The main debate between the North and the South was whether slavery should be permitted in the Western territories recently acquired during the Mexican War.
“The Blue and the Gray” is a movie that point on military. I think that the movie same as the long gray line movie. And I can learn somthing about their life, So the movie give me about life at that time.It focused on the trials and conflicts of the Civil War as seen through the eyes and sketches of artist John Geyser, whose own family is torn apart by conflicting political sentiments.
I think that the movie try to show what they do and the position that they do. I never see this kind of movie because, it the cause to make me feel bad. So the movie that I like and I looking for is the kind of historical.
All of the main characters show the sense of duty in militaly. what the position and what is true or untrue. the people at the time knew that they had to defend their ideas, their land, and their family. and all citizenship must aware themselve how to take care of and protected.

Longest Day

Longest DayTells the story of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in WWII. There are dozens of characters, some seen only briefly, who together weave the story of five separate invasion points that made up the operation.
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, the US, Britain, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The longest day."
The longest day movioe is the movie that talk about the war between German &(US, France,England).In this movie you can see the strategies of the army.The movie shown the planing of each army how and when day will start the war.This movie is serious movie But, its cam tell you about the managment team of the army. Some dies Some find the way to get The Germany.In the movie the opposition try to get Normandie and the other parts of Germany beach.The movie show the lack of management of German,they think the opposition just a few navy but realise they have almost 5000.So finally they can get German and succeesful with the war. So I never saw this kind of movie but I think that it can give me some idias about How to win the other...

The Long Gray Line

The Long Gray Line (1955)
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
I love this movie because, it come from the ture story.Marty is the person who become the US Army,so the movie can tell me about the life style of military Acadamy.and a lot of thing to do if you would like to be the military. I also know about the best military Acadamy is West Point.
The movie tell the life of marty that spent his life to be the good military and at the end he can be the trainer of new military student. From the movie Marty happy with the boy that he hope to be the good military and then he so pound in that boy.Marty have a chance to standing on the th parade of military student and this is the highest of his dedicated and enthusiastic that he received...

The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai
Japanese samurai warriors were ranked at the top of the Japanese social hierarchy for hundreds of years until 19th century. Shogun were the most powerful samurai who ruled Japan at the time.

The last samurai is the movie to performing of Japanese culture that I ever heard it before.Smurai is the fighting art of Japaness and The movie started from 1876, Captain Nathan Algern was contracted by Mr. Omura, The man who gets benefit from contracting with American-traitor. Omura wants Algern to teach his new modern troop. Omura is the person to linked with American that brought about railroad, western clothing, cannon and telegraph line. Those things threaten values and tradition of Japan. This includes the samurai because Japan receives the american cultural. So manything in Japan was changed starting from clothing, army and the wepons.And the group of Samurai, leaded by Katsumoto-the last leader of an ancient line of warriors, was against these things from America. They fight with modern troop to retain their culture.After Algern lose Katsumoto, He was brought to Samurai’s village. He sees and learns many things about the way of living of Samurai from there. He learns to use sword and the culture. He learns Japanese language. He considers that these Samurai fight for country. They don’t want American culture dominant.Then he dies and he still strong belive in the way of Samuri.
Thrust now into harsh and unfamiliar territory, with his life and perhaps more important, his soul, in the balance, the troubled American soldier finds himself at the center of a violent and epic struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his sense of honor to guide him.

ROBERT JOHNSON

Robert Johnson stands at the crossroads of American music, much as a popular folk legend has it he once stood at Mississippi crossroads and sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar-playing prowess. He became the first modern bluesman, linking the country blues of the Mississippi Delta with the city blues of the post-World War II era. Johnson was a songwriter of searing depth and a guitar playerRobert Johnson stands at the crossroads of American music, much as a popular folk legend has it he once stood at Mississippi crossroads and sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar-playing prowess. He became the first modern bluesman, linking the country blues of the Mississippi Delta with the city blues of the post-World War II era. Johnson was a songwriter of searing depth and a guitar player with a commanding ability that inspired no less an admirer than Keith Richard of the Rolling Stones to exclaim, "When I first heard [him], I was hearing two guitars, and it took me a long time to realize he was actually doing it all by himself."

Robert Johnson Born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, in 1911, Johnson was ill-suited for sharecropping and gravitated instead toward the itinerant life of the musician. He picked up the guitar in his teens and numbered among his tutors such esteemed blues figures as Charley Patton and Son House. During the Depression years of the early Thirties, Johnson lit out with his guitar and earned his keep as an entertainer - not only as a master of the blues but of the popular tunes and styles of the day. His travels took him throughout the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, where he performed at jook joints, country suppers and levee camps. He also saw the big cities, traveling with fellow bluesman Johnny Shines to perform in St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago and elsewhere. The entirety of his recorded output was cut in three days worth of sessions in November 1936 and two days in June 1937. His life came to a premature end when he was poisoned by the jealous husband of a woman he began seeing during a stint at the Three Forks juke joint in Greenwood, Mississippi. The poisoning occurred on the night of August 13, 1938, and Johnson died three nights later at the home of a friend.

Though he recorded only 29 songs in his brief career - 22 of which appeared on 78 rpm singles released on the Vocalion label, including his first and most popular, "Terraplane Blues" - Johnson nonetheless altered the course of American music. In the words of biographer Stephen C. LaVere, "Robert Johnson is the most influential bluesman of all time and the person most responsible for the shape popular music has taken in the last five decades." Such classics as "Cross Road Blues," "Love In Vain" and "Sweet Home Chicago" are the bedrock upon which modern blues and rock and roll were built.
In an eloquent testimonial included in the liner notes to the box set Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings (Columbia Records, 1990), disciple Eric Clapton said, "Robert Johnson to me is the most important blues musician who ever lived....I have never found anything more deeply soulful than Robert Johnson. His music remains the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice."
with a commanding ability that inspired no less an admirer than Keith Richard of the Rolling Stones to exclaim, "When I first heard [him], I was hearing two guitars, and it took me a long time to realize he was actually doing it all by himself."
Born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, in 1911, Johnson was ill-suited for sharecropping and gravitated instead toward the itinerant life of the musician. He picked up the guitar in his teens and numbered among his tutors such esteemed blues figures as Charley Patton and Son House. During the Depression years of the early Thirties, Johnson lit out with his guitar and earned his keep as an entertainer - not only as a master of the blues but of the popular tunes and styles of the day. His travels took him throughout the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas, where he performed at jook joints, country suppers and levee camps. He also saw the big cities, traveling with fellow bluesman Johnny Shines to perform in St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago and elsewhere. The entirety of his recorded output was cut in three days worth of sessions in November 1936 and two days in June 1937. His life came to a premature end when he was poisoned by the jealous husband of a woman he began seeing during a stint at the Three Forks juke joint in Greenwood, Mississippi. The poisoning occurred on the night of August 13, 1938, and Johnson died three nights later at the home of a friend.
Though he recorded only 29 songs in his brief career - 22 of which appeared on 78 rpm singles released on the Vocalion label, including his first and most popular, "Terraplane Blues" - Johnson nonetheless altered the course of American music. In the words of biographer Stephen C. LaVere, "Robert Johnson is the most influential bluesman of all time and the person most responsible for the shape popular music has taken in the last five decades." Such classics as "Cross Road Blues," "Love In Vain" and "Sweet Home Chicago" are the bedrock upon which modern blues and rock and roll were built.

CIVIL WAR

From this movie Orry Main live in the southern part. His family has a slaves work in cotton field. when he went to the West Point, people were serve him. He is a polite guy. He had face of many problems in his life.
George Hazard, a South Carolina plantation-owning family, and the Hazards, a family of Pennsylvania steel industrialists. He is the one who help Orry while they are at West Point, and other people too. He try to show Orry know the new attitude about the worker (an employees).

Orry Main leaves family plantation in South Carolina and go to military academy in West Point. On his way, he meets beautiful girl; Madelaine Fabrey, whom he falls in love with. Late, on his journey, he gets in trouble in New York and a young man from Pennsylvania - George Hazard helps him. Then he become the best friend.Next two year, being on his leave, Orry learns that Madelaine is getting married and it makes him very depressed. But after graduation and a Mexico war (where Orry gets seriously hurt and is saved by George), they become secret lovers. Meanwhile, situation in a country becomes more and more complicated.
They also have a good friend & their family. George invents Orry and his family visited him at Pennsylvania. This is my favorite scene in the entire series happens in episode two when Orry and George tour the slums near Hazard Ironworks and Orry comments on the dismal conditions the workers live in. George replies that this is certainly better than slavery, and they can leave at any time. Orry does not like slavery but the message is that obviously the North had its problems as well as the South. This is the first crack in their friendship, and when Virgilia Hazard (George’s sister) she had strong ideal to oppose use a slaves. For me, I not agreed about this point but I’ll not show my feeling like Virgilia. She show did not hide feeling when she met Orry that is rude. She always show and said frank like she thought or. I think that is not good for every body.
The war was begun, South Carolina want leaves Union and the one thing is they want have a slaves system that North announced abrogate slaves (President Abraham Lincoln). The cause of the war and both of Southern and Northern people had face the terrible time. Husband and wife, farter and children had to separate ways, some of them will become an orphan. If I was born at that time I think I have to become very strong woman because I have to do everything that I never go it before like Brett and Madelaine had to plant for sustain life, and I have to careful of strange people. On that time we can not trust anybody even though that man had work with our before like in the movie the leader of slaves tried to revenge Main’s family, and one of slave came into Main’s house took some jewelry and run way . It so hard lives with afraid and suspicious everybody around me.
When war was over Northern won on this civil war, all more very people had a terrible time, every thing quite expensive and too many people became a homeless or an orphans or wisdoms and people were fact of the difficulty time because men had went to the war and people were kill each other. The importance thing I learn from this movie is the beginning of KLU KLUX KLAN group. On the movie, Madelaine and her friends had to face of the problems from people who hate the black people and those of people want to kill black people suck as hang them. They have to fight many problems they had a happy life.
I think an American history had to barter too many blood and had fact of so many problems was became a union. I had learn many thing also that why some of an American culture similar other countries because they mix culture from people who came from different countries become to an American culture like this day. I have no doubt any more why an American people are love the freedom and equal. I learn letter by letter about an American culture by saw the movies, listen song and so on.

MAN FROM COLORADO

The movie play step by step. It is a blitle bit completed but i can follow. i learn more two character in this movie, first of all Iwould like to talk about Owen ,he is a vilain. he is the hero of country because, he won the war. Everybody in countrysaid that the war is over because of him.Nobody know he isa villain. He look confusion after he won. he know himself but he never tell about this story of white flag to other. he keep in mind that make him a crazy man. he was effected from the war. he did every with passion without judgement. next Del, he is the good guy. he has judgement. he love Owen"wife but he still keep in mind.his charecter in appropriate to become a colone more than Owen. he do the good thing to his country thatsuitable to be hero from this movie.the war is one facter to make someome sick. although he coloned or soilder . whatever the violant is cover your mind and you will be crazyof you are a victim in the war.

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