"General Patton" - a respectable real man and a real soldier

Sam 2022-04-21 09:02:07

At the beginning of the film, the picture shows an American Stars and Stripes, the snare drums sound, and Patton, in uniform, steps onto the podium in front of the flag. The camera recorded 6 minutes of Patton's speech in a slightly tilted way, and the lines were mostly taken from Patton's famous article "The Greatest American Soldier". In the speech, Patton walked up and down the stage, full of the spirit of a famous general.

His speech was full of words like this:

Americans have always liked war. Real Americans love swordsmanship on the battlefield.

I hope to see one day those bastards crap and whine, "Oh my god! It's that third army that got a thousand cuts! It's that son of a bitch Patton again!"

The red bottom on the front bumper of the jeep Bai Xing

's "Party A and Party B" once had Ge You, who fulfilled his dream for others, made a five-star general out of broken paper, imitating the scene in "General Patton" where he was sprayed with military rank. It can be seen that the white star on a red background on the front bumper of this jeep is inseparable from the rank of an American field general. And General Patton screwed his beloved red leather seat on the jeep, then installed the tweeter and siren, and drove from North Africa to Europe, all the way through the city, which is also unforgettable.

From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, it was a dark age in American history. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other political assassinations and the Watergate incident shook Americans' belief in the American political system, and the failure of the war of aggression against Vietnam It is a foregone conclusion that American youths have refused military service and burned their military service certificates in public. This was the first complete failure in the history of the American military, and even the war movie starring John Wayne, who played the American hero, was a box-office failure.

Against such a background, it is most natural to rediscover this film, which praises the military spirit of the United States.

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Extended Reading
  • Nikolas 2021-12-07 08:01:42

    George C. Scott's personal charm

  • Ernestine 2021-12-07 08:01:42

    [Exhibition at China Film Archive] A 3-hour epic war biopic. Such a shocking war scene could be photographed in 1970, and it is still not inferior to today, 45 years later. It's really amazing! Appreciation of the big screen, the look and feel is great! . George Scott has a superb acting, playing an old stubborn who only knows how to fight but not politics-General Patton.

Patton quotes

  • Patton: The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill *their* blood. Shoot *them* in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.

  • Capt. Oskar Steiger: [about Patton] The pure warrior... a magnificent anachronism. The absence of war will destroy him.