Historical Inaccuracy In The Film Fury

The movie Fury is an American war film which was produced in the year 2014. The movie revolves around the events that transpired in the last days of World War 2. It was developed based on what the director (David Ayer) learnt about the kind of service that his family who were now veterans of World War 2 offered to the United States and the Allies as a block. During its production, Ayer who now had some touch with some of the participants of the war tried as much as he could to make the movie as accurate as he could with regards to the military attacks, weapons, uniforms and maps. However as much as it has been said that most of the events in the movie reflect the real experience of World War 2, not everything in the movie really resonates the

The commanders in the film that is Brad Pitt and Jason Isaacs served in positions that they would have been allowed to serve during World war 2. For instance, Brad Pitt's position in the movie as Don "Wardaddy" Collier; a hardened Army staff sergeant who commanded a Sherman tank against the German Nazis was a misinterpretation of the military age of soldiers who were supposed to participate in world war 2. Brad Pitt who is displayed in the movie as a 50-year individual reflected a historical inaccuracy since in the US during world war two the average age for any US commander by then was between the age of 21 to 37 (briefly to 45 years) . Thus, when Brad Pitt is assigned the role of a commander in the film, it is indeed inaccurate of the permissible age that a US commander was supposed to be during the

Brad Pitt who now acted as Don is seen to force one of his crew members by the name Norman to execute one of the German soldiers who had been captured. Don forcefully pushes Norman to pull the trigger and shoot the German soldier as the others clapped and watched. However, this was not the case in world war 2. As much as hundreds of thousands of soldiers were held captive during the war, they were never supposed to be executed the enemy. There existed rules and regulations that governed how the prisoners of war were supposed to be treated, and these rules were contained in the Geneva Convention. Hence treatment of prisoners of war by the Allies was substantially based on what the Geneva Convention stipulated and in this case, it wanted those held to be put into custody but rather not dealing with them through brutal shootings. Therefore, it was historically inaccurate for the movie to show that one of the Allied soldiers despite being commanded to do so killed one of the prisoners of war. All that happened in real life was holding them and not killing