King_Wah
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From: Halesowen
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What can you say about this film other than it is totally brilliant and is still moving 17 years after it is was made. There are so many fantastic moments.
The black troops talking about their past:
Trip: I ran away when I was 13, never looked back.
Sharts: What you been doing since then ?
Trip: I ran for president......I didn't win though.
Trip being whipped for going AWOL and staring Shaw in the face.
Shaw going to the store's office and demanding shoes for his men.
The moment when Shaw is ordered to torch the town. He doesn't want to but can see theat his disciplined men will be turned over to the rabble that the other general runs if he does not so he orders them to torch the town.
Shaw volunteering to lead the charge on the fort.
The black soldiers the night before the charge singing. Especially Denzel's speech 'I ain't much about no prayin', now. I ain't never had no family, and... 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?'
The white soldier shouting 'Give em hell 54 !!' and everybody else cheers, gives me goosebumps.
And finally when Colonel Shaw gets shot. The rage of the other soldiers at the falling of their leader. They storm the fort running to their death. With the final shot of Shaw and Trip being aid together in the same grave.
I remeber a review in Empire at the time when the reviewer said that he met an Arnie fan at the bus stop who told him it was the first film since Bambi to make him cry. I think the reviewer said that was high praise indeed. I can only echo that.
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