If you are like me, born in the 1980s, do you remember the first American movie or American TV show you watched? Do you still remember the scene that caught your eye, that memorable line or that one The first soul-stirring music? Do you still remember that long unforgettable ending? One hundred people have one hundred kinds of answers, my first film, the 43rd Oscar Best Picture "General Patton".
Turn on the fashionable 21-inch convex-screen color Panasonic TV of that era, turn on the power button of the video recorder skillfully, gently insert the video tape into the slot, and press the play button of the remote control switch.
An unprecedented huge star-spangled flag stood in the center of the TV screen. Accompanied by the high-pitched rallying trumpet (trumpet? tuba? Orchestral? Musical illiterate), a man with a helmet stood in the center, handsomely facing the The TV salutes, the gold ring on the little finger of the right hand, the baton and the leather glove in the left hand, the medals are glued to the chest, the white ivory pistol hangs on the waist, the corner of the mouth is slightly raised, the eyes are looking forward to the left, this series The Pose, in one go, even if I revisit this segment today, can be said to be the originator of today's product launches and talent shows for entertainment programs.
If you like passionate music, have you heard of an American imperial conscription song "The Warrior Song" in the 2010s? If not, I suggest you listen to it. There is a lyric in it that quotes General Patton's first act speech lines in . ” We are not just going to shoot the bastards, we are going to cut off their living guts and use them to grease the tread of our tanks.” When I had memories since I was 5 years old, I saw this for the first time and totally listened I don't understand what the old man in front of the TV is talking about, but as I can't take my eyes off of me, there is only one thought in my mind, this old man's way of speaking is quite "tone"~ To sum up Barton's speech, it is: Brother Guys, we Americans have the best equipment in the world. People stop killing people, Buddhas stop killing Buddhas. Follow me while you're young and fuck her mother~
With the passionate theme song (Jerry Goldsmith), the movie began to enter the topic. In 1943, after the Battle of Catherine Pass in North Africa (please search for the background of the battle on Baidu), Bradley, who was already a two-star general at that time, stayed when he inspected the battlefield. The dazed look on his face, his twitching face seemed to have traveled through a time-space tunnel, General Bradley bought 601,857 PetroChina in China's A-share market with the $1 million he had finally saved up after retirement. Watching it fall from 48 yuan to 6 yuan, helpless, want to cry without tears.
The Catherine Pass in Tunisia was smashed by Rommel's Afrika Korps. After Bradley and his adjutant returned to the US military station, they looked around at the American soldiers who participated in the African battlefield of World War II for the first time. They were all beaten thoroughly. Lost the will to fight, the clothes are ragged, the military discipline is slack, and the military spirit is disorganized.
Bradley knew that there must be a strong big heart figure at this time to save the current crisis. When his subordinates asked whether Patton would come, Bradley still answered "Possibly" very modestly. Answering "God help us?!" brings the movie directly to the topic of the story. The No. 1 protagonist of the story is riding in his handsome convertible armored car, whistling his flute and racing in the endless deserts of North Africa.
The most awesome, this M3 half-track armored vehicle has no license plate, only two flags fixed on both sides of the engine compartment, one is the flag of his two-star general, and the other is WTF? Could it be the legendary What the Fuck?! Whenever I see this paragraph, I always think that it is so handsome to drive a car in the desert with a loudspeaker. It turns out that "a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier" It came from here.
After arriving at the barracks, he chatted with his subordinate Bradley and analyzed the root cause of the defeat at Catherine Pass and the state of the troops.
1. The breakfast time for officers is changed from 6:00-8:00 to 6:00-6:15.
2. Chefs and doctors must wear steel helmets to work on a daily basis. The lighter ones will be fined, and the severe ones will be dismissed.
3. The hospital does not take in non-combat wounded, and soldiers who are war-weary and mentally ill are kicked out of the hospital (there are Easter eggs here)
4. He ruthlessly rebuked the Royal Air Force for being unfavorable to the air support in the previous battle. When the enemy suddenly attacked, he jumped from the third floor of the office and took out his pistol to shoot the plane regardless of the danger. messed up).
These strict systems and measures are still open to question even from today's point of view, but they are indeed a good medicine to turn the tide and stabilize the morale of the military in a wartime situation.
The performance of the U.S. military in the following Tunisian campaign confirmed the sentence, always let the giant fall asleep. If you accidentally wake him up, I will teach you to be a new person in minutes.
From North Africa to Sicily, from Italy to France, Patton's Legion has always been the most capable team in the Allied army.
Even when the Germans counterattacked on a large scale in the Ardennes and the entire Allied army was in chaos, Patton stepped forward and turned the offensive direction with a surprise 180° turn. He was the first to break through the blockade and enter Bastony to rescue the famous 101st Airborne Division. Until the end of the war in Europe, the 3rd Army under the command of Patton had reached 540,000 troops, but Patton himself would still go to the front line to greet the ordinary soldiers and learn about the actual situation on the battlefield.
Of course, I don’t think Patton won the highest honor in the U.S. military in the end, the rank of five-star general, which is inseparably related to his temperament. His abuse and beatings against war-weary soldiers happened so many times that he was directly confronted by reporters after seeing them in person. In the papers, so much so that Eisenhower had to ask him to apologize to the soldier.
In Italy, in order to compete with Montgomery, they refused to follow the originally planned offensive route of the Allies, and had to go to the side, so that the troops suffered serious losses; in France, it was still to compete with Montgomery who could advance faster. Farther away, the armored units were ordered to squeeze the last drop of oil out of the tank until it could no longer be fired, and finally became a living target for the Germans. As soon as he succeeds, his bones will die, and this famous sentence of the ages also applies to the strongest four-star general in history. After the war, in the face of the Soviet Union, an ally in World War II, he showed great contempt and criticism of communism. He even contacted Eisenhower many times to ask for war with the Soviet Union, and it was only natural that he was deprived of command of the Third Army.
Just like the German captain who studied Patton for N years at the end of the film said, "The war is over, and Patton is also over. He is a pure warrior born for the war." In my memory, for this scene I have read it countless times. As I grow older, I think about the deeper meaning behind this sentence. If I go through the time tunnel of 73 years, Barton, as a professional manager of a famous brand enterprise in charge of hundreds of thousands of people, relies on his own The extraordinary ingenuity and courage have made great contributions to the company. The honor and reputation are known to everyone in the company. The name is reverberating in the Quartet, but it is such a corporate executive with outstanding achievements and strong execution. , so sharp-edged that he was ostracized by the surrounding, for the long-term stability of the company, the boss will eventually abandon the car and protect the handsome, reluctantly to give up his love.
As Patton himself said, " How I wish I could be killed by the last bullet in the last battle ". An inexplicable car accident ended Patton's life, what an artistic, dramatic and dramatic end to Patton's life, who was born for the war.
An artistic movie must have an artistic ending.
At the end of the film, Patton led his favorite German Shepherd into the distance, the music sounded, and the poet Patton said, "A thousand years ago, the victors of the Roman legion came back triumphantly, enjoying the glory of victory. , and a frenzied parade of trumpeters brought back from the occupied territories, musicians, exotic animals and carriages laden with treasures and weapons, the victor riding a victorious The chariots, the soulless surrenderers walked ahead with shackles on their feet, and sometimes the victor's children in white coats stood beside him in the chariot, and some children could ride on horses in the procession two Wandering sideways, a slave stood behind the victor, holding a golden crown, the victor's ears always echoed with a voice that reminded him all the time, all the glory is fleeting..."
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