Tara Williams' Sahara Reflection
I really enjoyed watching Sahara it is was an interesting movie. I think it clearly is an American propaganda film but, has a lot of entertainment value as well. The movie follows many of the guidelines that the government suggested in order to make the movie patriotic enough. The German was shown as cold, arrogant, and conniving. The Italian was shown as blindly following the orders of his government and once he was put in the care of the “good guys” he saw the error of his way. This follows the Nature of the Enemy guideline, showing two ways the people who opposed us could act.
The group of soldiers that is gathered in the movie happens to be a widely diverse group that contains a people from half a dozen different countries. This completes the United Nations guideline and the Fighting Forces. The movies shows a diverse group puling together to defeat the enemy. There is even a Sudanese soldier. He is shown to be equal to the white soldiers and in the end is very heroic. In real life, he would not be fighting as an equal beside the white men. In the movie, the German shows disdain towards the African soldier who is then defended by Joe Gun. I think it shows a little bit of hypocrisy since in real life the African soldier would have been treated in a similar manner by the Americans as by the German in this film.
This film works very well as a propaganda film. It shows the Americans and their allies as noble men fighting heroically against the evil Germans. It was also a very entertaining film with an interesting storyline, so people would enjoy watching it.