MOVIE: Glory

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April 9th, 2006 at 05:40pm
Glory is an excellent movie. I suggest you rent it for a day.

I looked online for reviews and came across this particular one... "Glory" is a modern film classic that highlights a little-known chapter of the Civil War.

I recently purchased the DVD, and was just as moved (if not more so) as the first time I saw it.

Broderick, Freeman, and Washington, along with a stellar cast play it faultlessly. I still remember the brouhaha over the casting of Matthew Broderick as Shaw, and I see that even now some IMDb posters single him out for fault in "Glory." Sorry, but I disagree. One should remember that the real Col. Shaw was a young man in his mid-20s - hardly a grizzled old veteran - despite his high rank. Broderick actually does bear a resemblance to Shaw, and shouldn't be criticized for his boyish looks. I felt every nuance of the burden he carried, and thought Broderick did a wonderful job.

Denzel Washington's powerful acting may never again have a showcase like it did in "Glory." His beauty, rage, and pride scream in every frame. His Oscar for this break-out role was highly deserved. Trip's character is really the distillation of what this film is all about: the black man's heart-rending battle for worth, recognition, and dignity. As far as I'm concerned no one BUT Washington could have played Trip. Thank God for Denzel!

Morgan Freeman is the film's human core. His quiet compassion and leadership keeps the soldiers focused. His one angry confrontation with Trip proves he has the goods to back up a field promotion to Sergeant Major.

Freeman (an appropriate reminder of where surnames come from) is the father figure the regiment desperately needs in a time of death and crisis. The men look to him for his calming wisdom and reasonable, fair demeanor.

Films like "Saving Private Ryan" raised the technical bar for battle scenes.

The fighting scenes in "Glory" are, unfortunately, it's weakest element. The staging and choreography are mediocre at best. And other than a scene where the 54th Massachusetts is given a hero's flanking onto the battlefield beaches of South Carolina, these shots don't emotionally engage the viewer. Still, in the end, "Glory" isn't about big, noisy battles. It's about the transcendence of the human spirit in the face of bigotry, bad treatment, and almost certain death. It's about a watershed moment in our bloody history that elevated us all and must never be forgotten.

"Glory" is, indeed, glorious.


Here are some memorable quotes throughout the movie:

John Rawlins: Where about you from?

Trip: I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

Sharts: What ya doin' since then?

Trip: I've been running for President. I ain't winning though.
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Rawlins: He's just a boy.

Trip: He a weak white boy, and beatin' on a nigger make him feel strong.

Trip: I ain't fightin' this war for you, sir.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: I see.

Trip: I mean, what's the point? Ain't nobody gonna win. It's just gonna go on and on.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Can't go on forever.

Trip: Yeah, but ain't nobody gonna win, sir.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Somebody's gonna win.

Trip: Who? I mean, you get to go on back to Boston, big house and all that. What about us? What do we get?

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Well, you won't get anything if we lose.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: So what do you want to do?

Trip: Don't know, sir.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: It stinks, I suppose.

Trip: Yeah, It stinks bad. And we all covered up in it too. Ain't nobody clean. Be nice to get clean, though.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: How do we do that?
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Trip: We anty up and kick in, sir. But I still don't want to carry your flag.
[Trip and Searles are about to fight when Rawlins steps in]

Rawlins: Look, goddamn it! The whole world gotta stomp on your face?

Trip: Oh, I see, white man give you some stripes, you start hollerin' and orderin' everybody around! Nigger, you ain't nothin' but the white man's dog!

[Rawlins slaps him]

Rawlins: And who are you? So full of hate that you have to fight everybody, because you've been whipped and chased by hounds. Well that might not be living, but it sure as hell ain't dying. And dying's been what these white boys have been doing for going on three years now, dying by the thousands, dying for you, fool. And all this time I keep askin' myself, when, O Lord, when gonna be our time? Gonna come a time when we all gonna hafta ante up and kick in like men, LIKE MEN! You watch who you callin' nigger! If there's any niggers around here, it's YOU, just a stupid-ass, swamp-runnin' nigger! And if you not careful, that's all you ever gonna be!
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Jupiter Sharts: [praying aloud] Tommorrow we goes into battle, so Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the Good Book in the other. So that if I may die at the muzzle of the rifle... die on water, or on land, I may know that you blessed Jesus almighty are with me... and I have no fear.

Trip: See the way I figure, I figure this war would be over a whole lot sooner if you boys just turned right on around and headed back on down that way, and you let us head on up there where the real fighting is.

Heckled Union Soldier: We got men dyin' up that road.

Trip: And there wouldn't be nothing but rebs dyin if they'd let the fifty-fourth in it.

[Soldiers from the 54th Massachusetts marching through Union soldiers, they will soon attack Fort Wagner]

Union Soldier: Give 'em Hell, 54!

All: Give 'em Hell, 54!

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Never, question my authority in front of others

Major Forbes: Well I is sorry, mas'sa. You be the boss-man now and all us chill'ins must learn your ways.

Trip: Let me tell you something, boy. You can march like the white man, you can talk like him. You can sing his songs, you can even wear his suits. But, you ain't NEVER gonna be nothing to him, than an ugly ass chimp... in a blue suit.
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Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Sgt. Mulcahy!

Sgt. Mulcahy: Sir!

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: I have no doubt you a fair man, Mulcahy. I wonder if you are treating the men a little hard.

[Sgt. Mulcahy pauses]

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: You may speak freely.

Sgt. Mulcahy: The boy is a friend of yours, is he?

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Yes, we grew up together

Sgt. Mulcahy: Let him grow up some more.
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Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Glory hallelujah.

Rawlins: The town is clean sir. Ain't no rebs here, just some women.

Col. Montgomery: You hear that! Let's clear er out!

[His men begin looting the town]
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: What are you doing?

Col. Montgomery: Liberating this town in the name of the Republic.

Col. Montgomery: That wouldn't have been necessary if that sesesh
woman hadn't started it. They never learn. You see sesesh has to be cleared away by the hand of God like the Jews of old. Now I will have to burn this town.
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[Handing the journalist his letters home]
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Got some letters here, personal things. Also, if I should fall, remember what you see here.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: There's more to fighting than rest, sir. There's character. There's strength of heart. You should have seen us in action two days ago. We were a sight to see! We'll be ready, sir. When do you want us?

Trip: Hey, yo, nigger, that's my spot, see.

Cpl. Thomas Searles: If you don't mind, there's more sufficient reading light here.

Trip: Oooh, I like it when niggers talk good as white folks!

Cpl. Thomas Searles: I'd be happy to teach you.

Trip: Now, listen here, I ain't got nothin' to learn from no house nigger, you hear?

Cpl. Thomas Searles: I am a free man!

Trip: Oh, really? Then move your free black ass out my spot, see!
[Col. Shaw approaches Rawlins after having Trip horse-whipped for deserting]

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Mr. Rawlins... this morning, I... it would be a great help to me if I could talk to you from time to time about the men. That's all.
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[turns to leave]
John Rawlins: Shoes, sir.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: I beg your pardon?

John Rawlins: The men need shoes, Colonel.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Yes, I've been after the quartermaster for some time.

John Rawlins: No, sir. Now. The boy ran off to find him some shoes, Colonel. He wants to fight. Same as the rest of us. More, even.

Trip: [addressing the 54th the night before battle] I ain't much about no prayin', now. I ain't never had no family, and...

[they]
Trip: killed off my mama. Well, I just... Y'all's the onliest family I got. I love the 54th. Ain't even much a matter what happens tomorrow, 'cause we men, ain't we?

Trip: Nigger, is you an old man or is you an old woman? I forget.
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Major Forbes: Why do you treat the men this way, Robert?

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: How should I treat them?

Major Forbes: ...Like men?

John Rawlins: That's right, Hines. Ain't no dream. We runaway slaves but we come back fightin' men. Go tell your folks how kingdom come in the year of jubilee!

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: If this man should fall,
[points at the flag bearer]

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: who will lift the flag and carry on?

Cpl. Thomas Searles: I will.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: I'll see you in the fort, Thomas.
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Kendric, quatermaster: [Shaw enters the quartermaster's shop while some of his soldiers guard the door] Morning, colonel. Change your mind about that bottle?

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: I want 200 pairs of shoes and 400 pairs of socks...and anything else you've been holding out on us.

Kendric, quatermaster: I don't have any.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Not for niggers you don't!

Kendric, quatermaster: Not for anybody.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: I see. I'll just look around!

[begins to smash up the place]
Kendric, quatermaster: Now, you can't....!

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Can't I? I'm a colonel, you nasty little cuss!
[smashes the place even more]

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: I'm supposed to keep 200 Union soldiers without proper footwear because you think it's funny?

Kendric, quatermaster: Morning, colonel. Change your mind about that bottle?

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: I want 200 pairs of shoes and 400 pairs of socks...and anything else you've been holding out on us.

Kendric, quatermaster: I don't have any.

Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Not for niggers you don't!

Kendric, quatermaster: Not for anybody.]


Now, if you've seen this movie, you'll know the actors who portray these roles. For the people who haven't a clue, here you are:

Matthew Broderick .... Col. Robert Gould Shaw
Denzel Washington.... Pvt. Trip
Cary Elwes.... Maj. Cabot Forbes
Morgan Freeman.... Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins
Jihmi Kennedy.... Pvt. Jupiter Sharts
Andre Braugher.... Cpl. Thomas Searles
John Finn.... Sgt. Maj. Mulcahy
Donovan Leitch.... Capt. Charles Fessenden Morse
JD Cullum.... Henry Sturgis Russell (as John David Cullum)
Alan North.... Gov. John Albion Andrew
Bob Gunton.... Gen. Harker
Cliff De Young.... Col. James M. Montgomery (as Cliff DeYoung)
Christian Baskous.... Edward L. Pierce
RonReaco Lee.... Mute drummer boy
Jay O. Sanders.... Gen. George Crockett Strong




Enjoy folks. xD
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April 10th, 2006 at 06:36pm
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April 10th, 2006 at 06:41pm
I never saw it.

But Matthew Broderick is in it?

I must see it!
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April 10th, 2006 at 06:56pm
Fuck_America:
I never saw it.

But Matthew Broderick is in it?

I must see it!
Surprised Definitely. You should rent it at Blockbuster. xD
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April 10th, 2006 at 07:06pm
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Fuck_America:
I never saw it.

But Matthew Broderick is in it?

I must see it!
Surprised Definitely. You should rent it at Blockbuster. xD


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April 10th, 2006 at 07:12pm
Fuck_America:
Panagiotakos.<3:
Fuck_America:
I never saw it.

But Matthew Broderick is in it?

I must see it!
Surprised Definitely. You should rent it at Blockbuster. xD


I prefer Family video Retard

not to spam, but how are you?
Fine. Kinda sick.
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April 10th, 2006 at 07:13pm
Panagiotakos.<3:
Fuck_America:
Panagiotakos.<3:
Fuck_America:
I never saw it.

But Matthew Broderick is in it?

I must see it!
Surprised Definitely. You should rent it at Blockbuster. xD


I prefer Family video Retard

not to spam, but how are you?
Fine. Kinda sick.


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