Defamiliarized reasons for battle

Troy and 300, two of my favorite films, are great examples of films that should be considered recent works of art due to their ability to defamiliarize our sense of the idea of war and why somebody would go to war in the first place. For the most part, people go to war because they have to or they need to fight for their freedom. The majority of war films depict war as a violent thing that should be avoided unless it has to be carried out. I think about films like Saving Private Ryan as an example of a film that prtrays war this way. Although a great depiction of brotherhood, the film really showed a lot about the horrors of war. Other films like Gladiator or Braveheart are meer depictions of war being a means to another end, like freedom. However, very rarely is there a film that glorifies war for the sake of the glory that can come from fighting in a war. I mean very few films really show war as being almost an end in itself: the ultimate pursuit of glory being found in dying on the battlefield for your country. Even further, few films depict war as being the passion of a particular person or a particular culture. However, two films that I can think of do just that. One example of a society that is depicted this way is the Spartan society as they are depicted in 300. Really the entirety of the film reflects this mindset. An example of a film that depicts an individual person this way is Troy through the depiction of Achilles in the film. Beginning with Troy, look at this scene and the way that Achilles talks to the little boy concerning his reasons for fighting. I mean, in the film, it shows him being totally indifferent to the advancement of the Greek culture. In fact, he hates Agamemnon the King. At a heart level, he has one reason for fighting. Glory. His character in the film can be viewed as a technique that the director ultimately used to defamiliarize the audience to its habiltualized ideas concerning war, being a soldier, and going to war.
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