Comparing the styles of 2 films

This paper compares styles of two films The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Pork Chop Hill (1959). The Korean War lasted from 1950 to 1953 and led to the partition of the Korean peninsula into a communist north and American support "democracy" in the south. There were very few films about the conflict and many, as The Manchurian Candidate, war only as a backdrop to the plot. On the other hand, The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is a Cold War political thriller film adapted 1959 by George Axelrod from the novel by Richard Condon was directed by John Frankenheimer and starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury.

The central concept of the film is that the son of a distinguished, far-right political family has been brainwashed as an unwitting murderer of an international communist conspiracy. The Manchurian Candidate at the national level was published on Wednesday, October 24, 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. The best-known film about the fight would be against the bridges of Toko-Ri, while M * A * S * H dealt with life behind the lines in a hospital. In my opinion, the best film dealing with the war is a Samuel Fuller The steel helmet, made in 1951, while the conflict continues to rage. Pork Chop Hill are also among the best in this group. During the last days of the war, as the Americans and the Chinese conducted peace negotiations, the Chinese have managed to take a hill known by the code name of Pork Chop Hill, because of its shape. To get a better negotiating position at the negotiating table, the High Command of the United States has ordered the Company-King of the 7th Infantry in hill resume. What have you done with heavy losses, as evidenced by the brutality of this movie.

The film was designed as a vehicle for Gregory Peck, whose production company made the film. Peck plays Lt. Clemons, commander of Company King, who led his troops into a bloodbath. Instead of playing the hero, Peck wisely used a script that deals with the person and to minimize the heroes of the battle as a terrible struggle that nobody really wins. Great pain has been taken to make the film realistic, even in a position to use real-life Clemons as a consultant on the film. The fight scenes are ...