The Wave by Alexander Grasshoff
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DVD: Region Code 0Audio: English (Subtitled)
Format: NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-24
Studio: www.bnpublishing.com
DVD Reviews of The Wave by Alexander Grasshoff
DVD Review: THE WAVE
Summary: 5 Stars
Palo Alto High School April 1967.
Ben Ross a very gifted history teacher was showing his students a black and white film reel of Nazi Germany.
As the film ended the bell to signal the end of the lesson rang and everyone left the room.
2:40 am. Ben Ross lay awake, what disturbed him was he had failed to answer Lorrie's question.
If he could not answer a question then he was a failure.
If he was a failure he wondered if the students would still like him, if they would still respect him, and if they appreciated what he did for them.
THE NEXT DAY
The students entered the room and took their seats. Mr Ross explained to the class, today we will experience power ,control, and discipline.
The first demonstration that Mr Ross thought of was how to sit up straight while sitting still.
He wanted the class to place their hands on their lower backs and arch their spines.
His experiment was a success, but Mr Ross was not impressed.
Quote. (Mr Ross there are three rules that you must obey).
1 You must stand at the side of your seats.
2 When asking or answering a question your first words are Mr Ross.
3 When giving your answers make them as short as possible.
That evening Ben told his wife Christine about his experiments and how the class response was immediate.
She reminded him that their response was genuine but Christine was wrong.
Mr Ross entered his classroom, his students dutifully waiting.
He asks the class what they are feeling.
We feel disciplined was their answer.
Mr Ross gave his students a community, a salute, and a symbol.
He had gained movement direction and impact.
In the years to come they would be known as the Wave.
Palo Alto high school 1970
By now what had begun as a harmless idea had turned into a full blown school dictatorship.
All students and teachers were conscripted to wear pale blue uniforms, the symbol of the wave stamped over their hearts.
All usual school activities were band.
The male prefects were given permission to have gun licences.
If you were caught by a male prefect you were taken outside the school to be shot and killed.
The female prefects were given permission to use the sauna as a miniature gas chamber.
If you were caught by a female prefect you were to report to the sauna to be gassed and killed.
Some departments were still allowed to operate due to the Waves cause such as woodwork, metalwork, sewing and outdoor education.
The class assignment was to make coffins.
The metalwork class assignment was to make bullets.
The sewers were in charge of making and designing arm bands.
As for outdoor education that was narrowed down to three activities only.
Target shooting, an obstacle course and a military style march.
As for Mr Ross he had become a man driven by power, pride and self contemp.
On the last day of that year Mr Ben Ross was fired, and he never taught again.
In 1972 the school received word that their corrupted history teacher had taken his own life.
The Wave is the best short film ever made.
It also scored the most watched film in American TV. history.
I would rate this film one of the best films of my lifetime.
What happened to Ben Ross in 1967 could happen to anyone of us?
DVD Review: Good but not as good as the new UK version
Summary: 3 Stars
I really liked the book. It reminds you that you always have to be very critical towards any leader. Only a democracy in which people are willing to stand up against any misuse can last.
Anyway, the movie disappointed me a little. I think it fails to show all the drama that was going on in the class room back then. However, there is a new release from the UK which I liked much more. It has great actors and was made with a very high budget.
DVD Review: The Wave on CD
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased this CD to accompany the book for my English class. I was very disappointed to see that it was nothing more than a recorded version from a made for TV movie (including dead air spaces where advertisements would be inserted). One would think that in today's world with modern technology, a cleaner version would have been available. Shame on Amazon for charging $22.49 for it! As for the content, the video followed the book very closely. A few details were added to the CD while some minor ones from the book were omitted. DVD Review: disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
The movie is really like the novel, even some dialogues are the same. Moreover it is not so long, so it can easily be watched at school.
But this is not a real DVD : no chapters, no bonus, no choice for the language, and above all no subtitles. It is as if someone recorded the movie on a tape and decided to burn it on a DVD for sale. The image and sound quality is therefore not good !
DVD Review: A must see!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Please everyone, especially the younger generations, watch this movie---And be sure to watch it to the end!!!
In this day and age with the new "Obama Youth", this movie is a must see. Because if we do not continue to learn from history, this country will change...in a very, very bad way.
God help us.
Description of The Wave by Alexander Grasshoff
The Wave: The classroom experiment that went too far-----
The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, 1969.
The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students.
Before long "The Wave," with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action, " sweeps from the classroom throughout the entire school. As most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of "The Wave" and realize they must stop it before it's too late.
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