Sergeant York

Introduction

Sergeant York film is the story of American life, the hero of the First World War, Alvin C. York, who captured during the battle 132 German soldiers during the offensive Moise Argonne in France. After this feat as a soldier, was one of the most beloved heroes of America. The director starts the story in 1916, when New York was living in the hills of East Tennessee. The viewer learns how he fell in love with Gracie Williams, both fought for their land. Once in his rifle struck by lightning, York saw this as a sign from God, and becoming a pacifist, trying to avoid military service and participation in the war, but he got to the front and, using his experience shooting and smart, accomplished a feat for which thank the authorities of Tennessee gave him the ranch.

Discussion

The metal detector, in grazing, bawled a pile of leaves. Cowboy hat on his head shaved, Douglas masturbate, a spade out of his bag. He began to dig. Beep, beep, beep with the frying pan racing. "Wow!" At the end, of his boots, ball colt 45. The officer slips into a pocket. At the edge of the forest of Ardennes, where the sunlight slips through the oaks, a former hunter grumbled: "It seeks what, the American? This film is the story of three conversions. The first is that of love. Nevertheless, beware, not cutesy and passionate love, no love for country farmer who must enlarge his plot of land in order to claim his bride, apology of the work, construction of self through sweat. This part is very successful: Hawks built there before our eyes the character of a character determined. Alvin York must collect a certain amount of money to buy this piece of land, and the pace of small jobs will crescendo to be hung at a shooting competition at its dexterity facing the target. Second conversion: the conversion is to say divine revelation. It happens in the rain during a thunderstorm. Like St. Paul, there he falls from his horse, struck by lightning. Two consequences: the friendship with the pastor, who becomes for him as a father, and a slight alteration of his character Alvin is thereby more humble, less prevailed, third conversion the conversion of patriotism. It is through fellowship and by the discovery of large American models such as Daniel Boone, followed by a reflection on both the Bible and History the United States. Scene a little pompous, but that the evidence for it, which meditates Alvin York, in uniform, on top of a rock out of the fog (Cowan S. 2007, Pp. 85).

More than the ideological pattern itself - unique to the United States: work, religion and patriotism - it is the dialectical aspect of the web that interest. The aggressiveness of the fight comes out with the pacifism of the believer, who opposed himself to the voluntarism of the worker, the antithesis of the debauchery of the first Alvin York. Howard Hawks makes these ...