A of Heroes: Apollo 13 - Movie Review Example

Insert Apollo 13 Apollo 13 movie is a movie of heroes. Apollo 13 movie begins when astronaut Jim Lovell hosts a party at his home. The party was full of friends, and they all sat down calmly to watch a movie where nail Armstrong steps on the moon, it was named “Armstrong on the moon”. This was during the Apollo 11. I realized that immediately after the party, Lovell was fixated with going to the moon and walk on its surface as Armstrong. Outside his house, he watches the moon with much enthusiasm. The text chapters reveal much about the historical account of aspects that surround human life like corruption, crime, justice and the struggle to deliver humans from this bondage through heroic actions. Lovell had been promised to fly Apollo 14 but his boss Deke Slayton informed him that his team would fly Apollo 13 instead. Lovell and his team Ken Mattingly and Fred Haise had to embark on the mission at hand came out as a cooperation affair. The launch was to take place, but one of the teammates Ken Mattingly was diagnosed with measles attack and immediate replacement was inevitable. In conjunction with Carpenter and Carl’s ideas, I perceive that this was to show that humans have no power to fight the evil in the society with nature and all that is available within the environment. Jack Swigert replaced Mattingly, but Lovell looked as not happy about it, but he gave into it because he was threatened by Slayton, his boss that he might lose his position as a commander. In the movie Marylyn Lovell’s wife had nightmares about the trip his husband was to embark on, but she gained courage and went to see him off to Cape Kennedy the very night before the launch. The flight director Gene Kranz on April 15, 1970, gave permission for the launch from the Mission Control Center in Houston. I like how the launch began with the release of the rocket Saturn V to the sky, the engine cuts off prenatally at the second stage, but the craft eventually reaches the Earth Orbit. The third stage was the actual sending of Apollo 13 to actual entry to the moon was particularly captivating. Swigert anchorages the command service module with the lunar module and later jerks it from the expanded phase. This was the start of testing the heroes as mentioned by Carpenter and Carl. I did not understand why the crew tried to send a live broadcast after three days from the command module, yet there was a network failure. It is during this normal cleaning process done by Swigert, tank-carrying oxygen explodes leaving only one tank with liquid oxygen for the crew, which was also leaking. I acknowledged why the craft began to tumble forcing the crew to terminate their moon-landing mission. According to the concepts set forth by Carpenter and Carl in the World Almanac, this failure forced them to prepare for a return journey as soon as possible. Lovell and Haise speedily powered up the lunar module, which was the “life boat”. The control room is shut down by Swigert since battery power was about to run out. Down on earth, Kranz and his team tried to save the crewmembers. I felt bad for Lovell who was so sad since his chance to step on the surface of the moon was lost. Their journey back to earth in my view was hectic, because they had to conserve the battery thus were in the freezing environment. The carbon dioxide level in the Aquarius reached a dangerous level, but the mess was corrected when lunar module engine was ignited. The pursued for the adventure men follow was a set back as stated by Carpenter and Carl yet does not make man’s spirit low. The team on earth was able to transmit procedures to Swigert that will enable him power up odyssey and it was a success. I fully understood the reasons why acquires was released for re-entry to earth with odyssey. The crew came out as a body to communicate of their safety, and they landed on to the Pacific Ocean safely. They were given a hero’s welcome as they alighted from the ship USS Iwo Jima. According to the text chapters, the idea of heroism is an instinct one pursues different from the others. The movie ended when Lovell was narrating on what transpired on space but wondered when people will return to the moon ones more. However, a hero, Lovell was sad of not accomplishing his dream sending a chilling feeling in the audience of the movie. The untouchable The movie covers the theme of crime and corruption combined. This is a cop versus robber’s movie. I saw Al Capone as a supplier of illicit liquor in Chicago and Eliot Ness as an agent from the bureau of prohibition that was appointed towards stopping Al Capone. I realized the motives for giving Capone the tips by police officers to keep him off from Al Capone. To do away with corruption and deal with the illicit liquor supplier, Jimmy Malone appoints George Stone with Oscar Wallace, who they felt would deal with the rampant corruption yet in my view was not in the right frame to accomplish the same. From the text chapter, it is evident that men steered a successful invasion on the illicit liquor which gave them the name “the untouchables” since they were able to come out unhurt. I do not appreciate why Capone kills the man in charge of the cache after the raid to show his preserve the hard-earned respect from other men working for him. As Wallace, the accountant, discovers that Capone had been evading tax and was to file a case for this, I begin to understand the flow of events. To drop the investigation, Ness if offered a bribe but refuses to end the corruption menace which led to the threat for his life from capons assassins. Ness is forced to move his family to a more safe area. I could not at first see how this threat did not deter him and his team; they flew to the border to stage a raid on the illicit liquor shipment, managed to kill capon’s gangsters operating the shipment, and captured George, the bookkeeper. According to Carpenter and Carl, this shows that to wipe out corruption completely, the people involved must be wiped away. George accompanied by Wallace is both killed to completely silence George from spilling out their secrets. When Malone advises Ness not to drop charges against Capone, his quest to track killers of George and Wallace lands him to death, I grasp the depth of the rot in the society they live in. He is short by tommy but refuses to die before telling Ness about Payne Capon’s chief bookkeeper. It is at this point that Malone dies, but Payne is captured thanks to Malone’s word yet in a scandalous fashion in my view. Payne became a witness at Capon’s case since he knew more about the syndicate. Like the notion set forth by Carpenter and Carl concerning crime, the director achieved the theme of crime is depicted even in the courtroom. It was here that Nitti carried a gun hid under his jacket, which was noticed by Ness this led to commotion as ness wanted to intercept the gun, which was a tool of crime, and intercepting it could mean end of crime. This led to the discovery that Nitti killed Malone and was paying off judges to end the capon’s case. Nitti ran to the rooftop of the courthouse, ness had an opportunity to shoot him dead but not to use his gun. He threw Nitti off the roof where he died. I acknowledge and agree with Carpenter and Carl that in life evil is paid with evil. I can confidently say that Death is paid with death comes out as a concept detailed by the movie and appreciated in the text by Carpenter and Carl in the world almanac chapters. He felt how Malone felt, a slow death full of pain. Corruption starts slowly without notice but in the end it is painful since resources are wasted no development will thrive in an economy full of corruption and crime. I agree with Carpenter and Carl in their insinuation that from the encounter, the court comes out as corrupt as evident in the movie. On the other hand, it is dealt with by changing the jury team with the new jury. Capone receives an 11-year imprisonment in a manner satisfying the audience with reason for the sentence after all he does to deserve. Ness retires happily because of good completion of the crime and corruption. He says proudly “I think I’ll have a drink.” Both movies and the text chapters represent the U.S history, the development of science and the immoral nature of the society. “The untouchables” talks about corruption and the way to keep corruption working in the society that is through crime. Use of guns as a tool of crime and possession of the tool by the bad and the good people. Carpenter and Carl connotes that those who want to end crime and the criminals have a huge task at hand provided the current situation in society and as depicted by the two movies setup. Apollo 13 shows how the united States have developed in discovery and science. Like the records in the chapters of the world almanac, the heroic nature of its people and their quest to live despite challenges they must try. The Apollo 13 crew and the team on earth show this. Works Cited Carpenter, Allan, and Carl Provorse. The World Almanac Of The U.S.A.. Mahwah, NJ: Funk & Wagnalls, 1993. Print. Read More