Endurance:

BRAINSTORM

Movies:

Lone Survivor- endure being attacked by the taliban and escaping the warfare, also enduring their friends deaths

Schindler’s list- Jews endure being hunted by the Nazis, Oskar Schindler endure the pressure from the nazis and having to hide his motives.

Novels:

Alive- Rugby players and people on board the plane have to endure the crash, harsh environments (cold), avalanches and eating their own companions.

Lone survivor (film)

Director- Peter Berg

Main characters- Marcus Luttrell: Mark Wahlberg

Lieutenant Michael Murphy- Taylor Kitsch

Danny Dietz- Emile Hirsch

Matthew Axelson- Ben Foster

Plot: they are a four man seal reconnaissance team that are based in afghanistan, the four man team set of to recon a village and locate a target (Ahmad Shah) a taliban leader who is killing over 20 U.S Marines as well as anyone who was trying to help the Americans. To get to the village the four man team have to journey down steep hill forest country where eventually they run into three so called farmers, as duty they take capture of these so called farmers, they try to contact home base but the comms are down so they decide their mission is compromised, they release the “farmers” not knowing that one of them would run down to the village and warn the taliban of the unwanted visitors. The U.S seals decided they would journey back the way they came and would try reach comms to get back to their home base, as they journey on they realise that their is over 100 taliban chasing them, unfortunately they still do not have comms so they began to fight the taliban, outnumbered and outgunned they decide to retreat off a cliff face, they jump down. As they fall they smash all sorts of body parts on rocks and trees, but they survive, danny has been shot many times, when they get up Marcus picks up Danny, they see that the taliban are still attacking them so they fight back, without any option they decide to retreat further down another rock face but Danny is left up there because Marcus trips over and drops him and then falls down the face, again the same thing, they smack their heads, arms, legs and heads on the rocks and trees. When they reach the bottom they are still fighting off the taliban, the remaining three (danny has been captured up the top) have bullet wounds, broken bones and bruised bodies. The squad leader Michael Murphy (Murph) decides that the only way they will survive is if he goes upto a rock that is very exposed to the enemy to calls back to base for help, he does this with the help of suppressing fire. He makes the call back to base but is unfortunately shot during the process, he dies looking at the sunset. Marcus and Matthew Axelson (Axe) are left to hold their ground. The gunfight carries on for a while, Axes injuries are too serious to move on so stays fighting, Marcus and Axe are split up now and cannot contact each other. Axe runs out of ammo and is killed, Marcus decides to go down further into the bush and hide from the enemies. At this time two chinooks (military helicopters capable of taking 30 soldiers) arrives, one of the helicopters is just starting to unload it’s mean when a bazooka shoots it out of the sky, the other helicopter decides to return to base because it is not safe enough. Marcus is now alone on the mountain with very severe wounds he sleeps through the night without being seen and finds a pond to wash off when a farmer sees him, Marcus is threatened by this but the farmer is their to help him and takes him back to his village where they look after him. They treat his wounds, the next day the taliban arrive to kill Marcus but the locals tell them to leave by showing them the barrel end of their guns, they say “you will regret doing this, helping an American soldier.” they take the risk, the taliban leave only to come back later with more forces and another gunfight takes place, finally U.S. helicopters come in and attack the Taliban scaring them off. Marcus returns to his home base on life support, he has survived three gun fights, two cliff falls and lost three brothers. What navy seals endure, their is no compromise their is no quit, no giving up.      

Two perspectives- Marcus Luttrell (the real survivor)

Actors- having to portray the event that took place.

injuries that Marcus Luttrell had to endure- being shot numerous times, broken pelvis, broken back, broken nose, shoulder being torn, knee destroyed, his tongue bit in half, had shrapnel hanging out his legs from bazookas and having all skin off back and legs off. paralysed from waist down, he had to crawl 7 miles to a village.