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Actors: Robert Taylor, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell, Robert Walker, George Murphy
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Bataan |
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Based on an original screenplay by Robert Hardy Andrews, BATAAN is a movie directed by Tay Garnett in 1943. Without a doubt, this picture is a milestone of the war thriller genre.
In the Philippines, a dozen American soldiers must prevent the Japanese army from crossing a strategic bridge. The men will die one by one, overcome by the Japanese snipers and the malaria.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Bataan |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
Specific to
- WW II
POW movie?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- Invisibility
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Jungles?
Yes
Air?
Yes
Air:
- warplane
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mission to destroy something
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- hanging
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Check here if B&W
Yes
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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