World War: Ground Warfare and Akira Kurosawa

world war: But if Sturges's earlier The Magnificent Seven bound itself just a bit too tightly to the structure of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, The Great Escape builds its own distinct style and thematic preoccupations, even as its influences remain clear, according to Rabble. The absence of brutal ground warfare in The Great Escape reflects Struges's personal experience during World War The director served as a captain in the Army Air Corps and spent a large portion of his time shooting documentaries and instructional films for the military. The filmmaker's treatment of the massive POW escape from a camp in Nazi-occupied Poland alludes to a similar and iconic sequence from Grand Illusion Illusion, Jean Renoir's no less furious and eloquent articulation of the faux civility of warfare. In The Great Escape, the filmmaker largely evades the action and horror of war, instead focusing on an immense creative process the building of the tunnels that will help a group of prisoners, led by Royal Air Force squadron leader Roger Big X Bartlett Richard Attenborough get out from under the Luftwaffe. This tactic allows for members of the uniformly excellent cast to highlight their personalities through their respective characters' varied areas of expertise, from James Garner's fast-talking and resourceful Scrounger to Steve McQueen's incorrigible Cooler King to Donald Pleasance's mild-mannered Forger. Each member of the dedicated team of soldiers, who come from various Allied Forces, provides a skill that helps the effort to build the tunnels, conceal the activity, and ultimately execute the thrilling escape. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.