THE GREAT ESCAPE

The Great Escape

Assignment

Introduction

The film, “Great Escape” is a movie, produced in 1963, which is based upon escape by Allied prisoners, who were captured during the Word WWII (WWII), from a German POW. Paul Brickhill has made a non fictional explanation of the throng escape from Stalag Luft III in Zagan and has based this movie on the book of the same name. The characters are a reflection of real men who were involved in the WWII (Leonard 1999, p. 22).

This movie describes the depiction of one of the greatest escapes that occurred during the WWII. A huge majority of this film was filmed in at Stalag Luft III, which was a German camp for war prisoners. Germans had built that camp to keep Allied Airmen who were in the WWII and thought that this was more certain as compared to other prisoners. Prisoners at the camp were mainly British pilots and few American pilots.

Discussion

The boasting is that every detail in the movie, "The Great Escape," has described things in the way it happened. The moviemakers have made a statement that each occurrence in this flashy report of a huge jailbreak by American and English pilots from a high-security German camp for prisoners during the World WWII is made on facts that was depicted in the original book.

That may be. I have no way of proving that a few of the wilder episodes in this over-long melodrama, which opened yesterday at the DeMille and Coronet, are so far beyond plausibility that they could not have happened anywhere. Moreover, since I have seen most of them in other pictures about cheeky prisoners of war three or four in the past year, I must assume that they are derived from traditional lore.

James Clavell, Walter Newman, and W.R. Burnett adopted the story of the movie from the book, “The Great Escape,” which was written by Paul Brickhill. Paul Brickhill was among one of prisoners of war, who had suffered imprisonment during the WWII (John 1997, pp. 89).

The writers of the movie managed to maximize the role of prisoners of war from America, as in the original escape; no American prisoner had managed toe escape. British prisoners of war had organized and managed the whole escape. The role of American prisoners in the whole affair was a bare minimum, and American prisoners of war was separated from British well before the time when the tunnel was completed (Smith 1968, pp. 89).

Movie summary

After wasting a huge amount of resources and money in the process of re-capturing Allied war prisoners, The German army moves the most addicted prisoners to a new and high-security war prisoner camp. The commander, Luftwaffe Colonel Von Luger, inform the senior British officer, i.e. Group Captain Ramsey, that they will not have a chance to manage an escape from this prison because of the amount of security measures. However, Allied Prisoners make numerous efforts manage an escape on the first day and after failing every time, they decide ...