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WHAT
ABOUT THE EROTICISM OF THIS FILM?
Subject: Enemy_at_the_Gates
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001
From: Marty Haas
I'm
amazed that the review doesn't even mention the love story that
evolves during the movie. There is a scene in which the Russian
hero and his girflfriend engage in the most erotic sexual scene
I have ever witnessed in a movie. The scene showed very little skin,
but it succeeded in being more erotic than most films that show
everything.
Marty Haas
REVIEW
FOR MEDIA STUDIES CLASS
Subject: Enemy at the Gates
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001
From: Jamie Stewart
Enemy
at the gates if one of the better films I have seen this year. however
that being said I haven't seen a really good movie yet. the one
thing that set this movie above some of the other war movies I've
seen was the gripping storyline intnse action. But most importantly
th the fact that it does not try to glorify war at all. There is
one scene that jumps to mindand shows us how horrific war can be,
the scene takes place when the Russians were counter attacking the
Germans, and they are told that if any ones turns back they will
be shot. We see later on that it wasn't just an open threat when
the Russians opened fire on there own troops. The one thing that
ruined the film was the fact that they decided to through a love
story in the middle of the war. Other than the sappy love story
the film stays pretty historically accurate and the special effects
are out of this world if I would have to rate this film, I would
probably give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars. It would of been rated alot
higher if it didn't try to imitate titanic. However I would definitely
recommend checking it out.
Jamie Stewart
ENJOYED
IT
Subject: Enemy at the Gates
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001
From: Michael
Enemy
at the Gates is a good movie. I think that it shows what war is
like. It has a good story line and it keeps you hoping that Vassili
doesn't get killed. It is like you are there in the battle. The
movie starts out with the soldiers on a train going to war. Only
half of the soldiers have guns and the ones without the guns have
to wait for someone with a gun to be killed. The main character
[Vassili] gets a gun and kills five nazis. Vassili becomes a very
good sniper and the Germans send in a man who is an excellent sniper
to come in and kill Vassili. A battle starts between these two people.
They both concentrate on killing each other. I think that some of
the parts weren't nessesary for the story. They were just put in
to make the movie just like other movies. I think that the movie
showed what war really is like and it was true to history. This
movie is more realistic than some of the other war movies. I enjoyed
it.
STALINGRAD
Subject: To: Enemy_at_the_Gates
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001
From: Wayne
Is
Enemy at the gate a good movie? Well I am going to have to say it
is a pretty good movie; it has everything you could want and everything
for everyone. It has your violent action pact parts for action lovers,
your love scenes for the hopeless romantics, and your slow parts
for who ever likes them.
Some
good parts to the movie are the beginning where all the soldiers
are running out to fight, but only half of them have guns. This
leads to part where Vassili gets a gun a kills five nazi guards.
Some other good parts are where Vassili gets promoted to sniper
unit; he gets to sneak around and snipe nazis that are not careful.
The best parts of the whole movie is when Vassili goes head to head
with Konig (an amazing nazi sniper), there are many exciting parts
where Konig and Vassili try to out smart each other, or try to anticipate
each other. So I don't spoil the ending I will just tell you it
is a great ending, it is one of my favorite parts also.
Some
of the dumb and pointless parts of this movie is the sex scene,
it is totally unneeded. You are watching all the soldiers sleeping
in the dugout, then in comes Tania who lays beside Vassili and well
you know what happens from there, it is totally pointless. The movie
was very drawn out also, there was a lot of slow parts, such as
Vassili sitting at a post for a few minutes seeing nothing, and
then he leaves, it was unneeded, it just made the movie longer.
All
in all the movie was pretty good the pros out weighed the cons making
it a okay movie. I must say it was a very entertaining movie that
was very informative. It portrays the battle of Stalingrad very
well.
FOUR
SNORE
Subject: Enemy At The Gates
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001
From: Michael
This
movie gets my "Four Snore" award. It put me to sleep in record time!
KONIG
IS NOT A NAZI
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001
From: Darren
I
really enjoyed this movie.
First
of all, it must be said that Konig (Ed Harris) isn't a nazi. He
is a German soldier, and a good one at that with a reputation. His
superiors, however, are Nazis. There is a point in this film when
Konig is stripped of his medals and dogtags-because the Nazis didn't
want him to be killed and some Russian boasting of the victory.
We also learn that Konig had a son -a German officer-who was killed
there at Stalingrad.
And
while we root for Vassili (Jude Law) we realize that his superiors
are no better. You cannot retreat. Anyone coming "back" would be
shot. He is sent into battle without a weapon. And when the soldier
dies in front of him, the gun is stolen by another Russian officer.
When he kills five Nazis/German officers helping out the pinned
down Danilov ( Joeseph Fiennes) he is Propergandized by Danilov
(an early form of Media?) and Vassili is promoted to sniper unit,
and is good at what he does.
However,
I have to take serious issue with what I read. I feel you give away
a lot of the film, way too much. For the sake of future readers,
I will not say specifically what they are, but I am somewhat taken
aback of what you give away.
*Furthermore,
I did not really see the death of a certian character "dispicable".
I was under the impression that he was working double duty, telling
some things to Koing and some things to Vassili, with a slight favor
to Vassili. Koing found out of the spy, he followed the rules of
war. I know that's a tough thing to say, but Koing did warn the
spy, (*it can also be said he already knew of the spy; he was simply
setting up a place for the Wargame, if you will. He exepected Vasseli
to show up in a certian area about a certian time.)
Again,
I take serious issue with your spoilers.
Response:
You are right about the spoiler comments. I put a warning in. Thank
you for reminding me to let people know. -David
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