{"id":3425,"date":"2019-03-05T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2019-03-05T19:54:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:54:11","slug":"they-shall-not-grow-old-movie-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/2019\/03\/05\/they-shall-not-grow-old-movie-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"They Shall Not Grow Old – Movie Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The film They Shall Not Grow Old was an incredible movie that portrayed the lives of the men fighting in the trenches during WW1. The footage used in the movie was from archives in the Imperial War Museum in London, but was colorized and given audio to bring it into the 21st century. Peter Jackson, the director, put the footage together to create a cohesive, emotional and moving story. <\/span><\/p>\n

The movie began by showing the footage in its original form, of soldiers leaving home and heading off to war, but soon it transitions into the colorized, remastered version. I found the transition jarring as it shows how truly amazing what the producers of the film were able to do to that footage from more than 100 years ago. In order to make the footage more appealing and interesting to modern audiences, the production team had to add color and audio to every frame, which seems like a very laborious process but the final product was truly stunning. I almost couldn\u2019t believe that the modernized scenes were even based off of original footage. The colorization really allowed the scenes to seem very real instead of blurry and faded like it looks originally. Throughout the film, the soldiers in the movie were intrigued and confused by the camera filming them. At the time, film was a very specialized field and most people hadn\u2019t seen a camera before. In many of the scenes in the trenches, they were often staring at the camera in confusion and awe, which I found particularly interesting. The editing and colorization also allowed the faces to seem more vibrant and lifelike. I think it made the scenes more relatable and enables the viewer to get a better sense of what the soldiers looked like and being able to read the emotions on their faces.<\/span><\/p>\n

The spoken narration that was played over the film were from BBC interviews with WW1 veterans in the 60s and 70s. They had hundreds of hours of recordings that they sifted through and cut together to accurately describe each scene that we were seeing. The narration added a dramatic effect as it was like what we were hearing was foreshadowing what were about to see. Since the movie has no dates, no character names and no significant plot line, the viewer is left with the recounts of the experiences that these soldiers had. It portrays well the full range of what being in the trenches at that time would\u2019ve been like. From the initial excitement of enlisting in the army to serve their country, to the horrors they experienced on the front line, the combination of the narration and remastered footage accurately depicts the whole picture.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The film They Shall Not Grow Old was an incredible movie that portrayed the lives of the men fighting in the trenches during WW1. The footage used in the movie was from archives in the Imperial War Museum in London, but was colorized and given audio to bring it into the 21st century. Peter Jackson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[402585],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3430,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st235a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}