Battle and technology
| SHORT DEFINITION | These pathos scenes, by showcasing weapons technology, convey the experience of the all-powerful. |
| CONSTELLATIONS | The cinematic staging of this revolves around two complexes. The first is the merging of human bodies and machines. The use of weapons is staged in this complex as the experience of weapons technology as bodies that have become infinitely powerful. This goes hand in hand with the dissolution of the individual body and its adaptation to the group body. The latter is in these scenes itself connected to the technological body. The cinematic staging of battles—the explosions of grenades and bombs and striking artillery—is portrayed as the merging of organic bodies and weapons technology; as the triumph of unlimited potency of the self which takes the form of a frenzied fantasy of destruction.
The second complex of this type of pathos scene focuses on the special relation of weapons technology and cinematic technology. At the fore is a specific form of viewer pleasure that stems mostly from their perspective, which allows them to experience and enter the perceptual and affective/emotional space of a filmic battle without getting as much as a scratch. Everyday perception is expanded by the technological capabilities of cinema. |
| AFFECTIVE DIMENSION | The affective dimension of these pathos scenes lies in the illusion of creating both complexes—the experiences of the protagonists in battle and the cinematographic military action—as an image of a triumphant desire to meld. |
Apocalypse Now
Attack
- First battle on the hill
- Storming the village
- Retreat under fire
- Impotent authority
- Battle with the tank
Band of Brothers - Episode 1: Currahee
Bataan*
- Attack on the refugee trek*
- Bridge demolition*
- To the weapons and battle*
- Cook versus airplane*
- Battle and failed flight*
- Kamikaze*
- Close combat*
- Last man fighting*
Fixed Bayonets
Guadalcanal Diary
- Landing
- Battle on the sea
- Back to the battlefield
- Attack from the air
- Reinforcements and battle at the caves
- Attack at night
- The great offensive
Gung Ho!*
- Confinement in the submarine*
- Briefing in the submarine*
- Jungle battle and the machine gun nest*
- Radio station raid*
- Departure and evacuation*
- Victory speech and commemoration of the victims*
Objective, Burma!
- Preparations for take-off
- Taking the radar station
- Exchange of fire in the village
- Ambush
- Fight at night
- Landing
Sahara*
- Ordered retreat
- A new troop
- Tank journey
- Air attack
- Preparation and first battle
- Second battle - Guiseppe and Tambul
- Negotiations 2 - Leroux's fall
Sands of Iwo Jima*
The Steel Helmet
Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Roll call on deck
- Torpedos
- Strategy meeting and full alert
- War game and flight practice
- Departure of the Japanese
- First attack
- Enemy on the radar
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Second wave
- Starting counterattack
- Burning boats
- America's heroes of air battle
- Two facets of the enemy
