Glory
Glory captures the heroism of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the first black
regiment in the Civil War, the Massachusetts "Fighting" Fifty-fourth. An
extremely talented cast and crew earned three Academy Awards (cinematography,
sound and supporting actor) and five nominations for their work in Glory. The
outstanding cinematography, sound, score and acting recreate the events leading
up to the Union attack on Fort Wagner on July 18th 1863.
Matthew Broderick portrays the young Bostonian abolitionist Col. Robert G.
Shaw who takes command of the Fifty-fourth, following the Emancipation
Proclamation. Shaw along with Cabot Forbes (Cary Elwes) leads a band of ex
slaves, servants and other black volunteers including a rebellious runaway slave
Trip (Denzel Washington), Shaw's educated childhood friend Thomas Searles (Andre
Braugher), and a former grave digger Rawlins (Morgan Freeman). Together these
men face the adversity of a racist Union Army, struggling to prove themselves
worthy of their government issued blue uniforms.
After months of training and exploitation for physical labor, the Fifty-
fourth gains the opportunity to fight in an attack on Fort Wagner on the beaches
of South Carolina. Poised to dispel the belief that blacks would not be
disciplined under fire, the Fifty-fourth leads the almost suicidal attack on Ft.
Wagner. There Col. Shaw valiantly falls and the Fifty-fourth, suffering great
losses, displayed the courage that persuaded the Union to enlist many more black
soldiers.
Matthew Broderick delivers a noteworthy performance in the role of Col.
Shaw, which Leonard Maltin calls his most ambitious part. In an interview for
the New York Times, Broderick spoke of his method acting,
"The first step [in preparing for the role of Robert Gould Shaw in Glory]
was to try to learn as much as I could about the real person. That was mostly
from letters, photographs, descriptions and a poem by Emerson. The thing I had
to do was bring myself into that situation. I didn't want to be an imitation of
what I thought Shaw must have been like."
Broderick's acting talent has been noted on Broadway as well as in films.
Broderick won a Tony Award for his performance in "Brighton Beach Memoirs" in
1983, a year after his film debut in Max Dugan Returns. (Maltin, 102) But it was
his role as a computer hacker in War Games and his role as a handsome young teen
touring Chicago in Ferris Bueller's Day Off that alerted moviegoers to his
talent.
Denzel Washington has received critical acclaim for his role as Trip (as
well as an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor). Denzel commented on the role of
Trip in an interview with the New York Times.
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Robert Gould Shaw was a son of wealthy Boston abolitionists. At 23 he enlisted to fight in the war between the states. The movie opens by Robert reading one of many letters he writes home. He is captain of 100 Union soldiers most of whom are older than himself. He speaks of the spirit of his men and how they are enthusiastic about fighting for their country just like the men in The Revolutionary war only this time they were fighting to give blacks freedom and to live in a United country where all can speak and live freely.
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The Civil War was America’s bloodiest war, the conflict of the Civil War in 1861-1865 against the Confederate States of America resulted in the death of more than 750,000, and millions of soldiers injured. The American union was broken as soldier fought soldier in a Civil War that remains in our nation's history. 4,000,000 were freed, 750,000 dead, and 1 nation saved. The movie Glory is a 1989 American drama war movie directed by Edward Zwick and starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman .The Movie was based on personal letters of Colonel Shaw and, the story is based on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal unit of the US Army to be made up entirely of colored men, as told from the point of view of Colonel Shaw, he is the commanding officer during the war. Robert Shaw the officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As the officer he commanded all black, 54 Massachusetts, to enter the war in 1863. Officer Colonel Shaw is the main subject of the film.Private Trip is a trouble maker; he usually breaks the rules and messes with everyone. Major Cabot Forbes, childhood friend of Colonel Shaw, he is in charge of commanding the 54th. The American Civil War although it’s often referred to as the war to free the slave, No one ever thought colored were in the war.
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The movie “Glory” tells the history and the story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. It became the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War. The Regiment was made up of black soldiers – some were Northern freemen, some were escaped slaves. The leader was General Robert Gould Shaw, the son of Boston abolitionists. The men of the 54th Regiment proved themselves worthy of the freedom for which they fighting, and the respect of their fellow white soldiers.
Many times people are blind to the truth that is right in front of them. The solution to their problems may have been blatantly obvious, however, they could not actually “see” their answer by their blindness to the truth. There have been instances where being blind is not actually a handicap, but more of a tool to see things to a deeper meaning. Although the blind may not have physical sight, they have another kind of vision. In Sophocles’ play, Oedipus the King, Tiresias, the blind prophet, addresses the truth of the prophecy to Oedipus and Jocasta. Oedipus has been blind to the truth of the prophecy of killing his father and marrying his mother his whole life. Once Oedipus discovers the truth, he loses his physical vision by blinding himself. Within these cases, the central theme of blindness can be expressed by Oedipus’s ignorance to see the higher vision- the truth