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Film: Galliipoli - ANZAC analysis.

The film Gallipoli depicted Australian soldiers in the unique sense that they were, from battling the bush to battling a war. To this day these Aussie battlers are recognised for the quality that history regards them for, through Gallipoli these uniquely Australian qualities are portrayed although not always in direct accordance with written history they are accurate.

Australian lifestyle was a rugged one, a life which hardened a roughneck bushmen through which he endured natures fierce throttle. The bushman's fighting spirit springs to life in the opening of Gallipoli as the unseemingly arid landscape of the bush is worked by the battling bushmen. Mustering cattle in this dry, hot landscape is a battle in itself let alone duelling one to a race across this harsh land on barefoot and bareback (horse). As the film progresses Frank and Archies mateship is introduce and later endured through the desert like lake when the battle against nature peaks in a daring race for survival as the ...

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