For our Big Blog topic this week we have to watch a movie Nick Petsche, Austin Euchner, and I watched Enemy at the Gates.
Enemy at the Gates is about two snipers, very good snipers at that and how they are trying to figure out each other’s next move so they can kill each other. Major König is interesting in Zaitsev because Zaitsev is in the newspaper that a fellow soldier is writing and publishing. Zaitsev does not like the newspaper because it gives him more credit than he should get, and this is how König finds out where Zaitsev has been and where his next move might be to. König manages to find Zaitsev no matter what but never pulls the trigger because he never gets the chance to shoot at him. König shots many of Zaitsev’s friends or allies. König bribes the young Russian boy with meat, bread, and chocolate. König finds out that Zaitsev is very smart and is expecting König’s next move and Zaitsev does just that. Enemy at the Gates is very gory, but very amusing at the same time. Besides all the death and blood squirting everywhere this movie will keep you guessing for just about the entire time and just makes you want to watch it over and over.
Enemy at the Gates begins with the Russian army leaders send many soldiers on a suicidal run with one in two men having a weapon and if those soldiers retreat they get shot by the Russian leaders. Zaitsev, the Russian sniper, survives this charge and finds a weapon and hides from his fellow Russians shooting at him. Zaitsev hunted for most of his life and managed to hide in a fountain that had no water in it. Zaitsev meets a man hiding from the Germans who was driving a car until it rolls. Zaitsev learned how to shoot at a very young age from his grandpa and his first time he had to kill something was when his grandpa tied up his horse trying to get a wolf to be attracted to it, and kill the wolf before it killed the horse, but Zaitsev missed the shot when he was young and his grandpa took the gun, quickly, and loaded another bullet and then kill the wolf. It was to late though; his precious white horse was killed by the tearing of the wolves’ teeth on its neck. His grandpa forgives him, but is very upset that his horse was killed. Although he was the only one who survived the suicidal run, he meet the newspaper man who rolled his car, hid, and then picked up a gun with no ammo thinking he could shoot some people, but he was wrong and then Zaitsev took the gun loaded the ammunition, and shot. So when the newspaper man finds that he and Zaitsev are the only men alive, he tries to shoot five men but is shaking too much, and Zaitsev takes the gun from him, waiting for a bomb to hit covering his shot, waits patiently, then when his chance comes he takes his first shot, killing a man taking a shower. He waits for another bomb, takes out the man guarding the man taking the shower, then a shoots a man who lay down to take cover because he thinks he sees Zaitsev and the newspaper man. Then with the next bomb dropping he takes out the guard with another guard with his back to the guard he just shot. Then he gets an epic headshot on the last guard with his last bullet in his magazine in the gun. What I thought was ironic, was that the last guy he shot, another bomb dropped and hit the ground exploding just as he pulled the trigger. This occurrence was very uncommon if you ask me.
I do believe that the German sniper, Major König, was a magnificent sniper, killing one of Zaitsev’s fellow soldiers while he was in mid-air, and he even got a headshot on him. This scared Zaitsev, but he continued on his sniping missions, killing nobody because König was the only German on the battlefield in Russia. Zaitsev loses many allies because König is an amazing sniper, and he is very awesome in how he figures the moves out and how patient he is. Zaitsev, towards the end of the movie, is talking to the newspaper man, who made him famous, about how him talking about how good at sniping he is caused this German sniper, König, to come and try to kill him. So, since the newspaper man, knows that Major König is watching them, he places his face in the open and König shot him square in the head. Then, König believes that he has killed Zaitsev, so he leaves his hiding place with his sniper in hand, and goes out into the open, so Zaitsev left his and hide in another place and when he sees Major König, König stops in the middle of the train tracks, and thinking he will be able to work something out, Zaitsev shoots him in the left eye, takes his gun and lays it on the dead newspaper guys body.
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Source:
- Netflix for the movie “Enemy at the Gates.”
Personal Thoughts and Opinions:
Enemy at the Gates was a very interesting movie. I really enjoyed watching it. The whole two snipers get information from each other about the person’s next move or where the one person will find the other because of a previous day’s move. Enemy at the Gates was probably one of the better movies that I have seen in the past couple years and it just keeps you guessing and there is a ton of foreshadowing going on during this entire movie and it just makes the movie even more interesting each and every time it happens. The Russian sniper, Vassili Zaitsev, is against the German sniper, Major König. Both men are really interesting in how they both use the same source to gather information about the other.
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