Tolga Ornek’s GALLIPOLI
October 28th, 2005 by Andre Soares
"Of course, it’s not my goal to shock people," says 
Gallipoli director Tolga Örnek. "But it’s my goal to display the conditions and how horrific it was, and I want to take the glory and the polish out of war, because when we glorify battles, when we mythicise, like make campaigns into mythical stories, I think we really undermine the actual suffering that takes place, the actual horrors that take place. So I think the response, the overall response that we got in Australia in the preview screenings, where people responded to this, people got this from the film, people understood that war is not glory, war is not polished. As in the film, at the end of the film, it’s mud, disease, death, and fear." Örnek is quoted in Peter Thompson’s article on Gallipoli, a documentary partly narrated by Jeremy Irons and Sam Neil. (Not to be confused with the 1981 Peter Weir film that stars Mel Gibson, Bill Kerr, and Mark Lee.) More than 100,000 people lost their lives in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in 1915.
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