The film Glory is set during the Civil War, particularly in 1862-1865. The film's primary focus is the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first all-black regiment in the Union army. This film covers from their time of enrollment, to their attack on Fort Wagner, a major historical event that influenced African Americans all over the Union to enroll. The movie is depicted through the eyes of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the leader of the 54th. In addition, it introduces four side characters, each an African American man with a different history. A gravedigger, John Rawlins, A free man; Jupiter Sharts, an escaped slave, Silas Trip, and an educated African American identified only as Thomas. The film begins with the main character, …show more content…
The battle of James Island, South Carolina, on July 16th, 1863. They sustain casualties, but come out victorious. This achievement serves to boost the morale of the men and ultimately gets them placed on the front lines. They are chosen to lead the attack on the impenetrable Fort Wagner. As they charge the fort, they sustain major casualties and Colonel Shaw falls in the battle. While the heroic soldiers break the outside defenses, they are soon outnumbered and are forced fall back. Fort Wagner was never taken, and this is how the movie …show more content…
In essence, this film is an entertaining history lesson. It is my belief that it attempts to stay close to the actual story while making it entertaining. For example, when he rips apart the quartermaster’s office for his men, which was most likely added for dramatic effect. The story covers the major aspects throughout the war for the regiment, including the forming, training, battles, dates, and places. The language, scenery, and costumes in this movie are all accurate. For example, some of the racial words during that period are present as well as the correct military jargon. Another powerful illustration is the bruised and diseased feet from the lack of shoes. Also, when the Colonel of the other chaotic black regiment shoots one of his soldiers in the arm in order to stop him from harming a white woman seemed to increase the dramatic affect. Simply, it just is to show the treatment blacks received. The reason for this movie was first, to make money, as every Hollywood movie does. However, this movie is a tribute to the 54th and serves as a memorial of the regiment and the bravery each soldier showed to join and fight. Even though the regiment had no large significant battle in the war, it impacted the views of the Blacks and Whites. They influenced blacks to step up and become part of the war, and whites to understanding that blacks could do the same thing as whites. The effecting of that
The first scene takes place at Antietam Creek, Maryland Sept. 17, 1862 at The Battle of Tatum. The Union marches on foot lead by Shaw, only to be bombarded with cannon shots and gunfire. After the battle he was taken to a hospital where he heard Lincoln would be issuing an emancipation proclamation to free the slaves. At a house party afterwards, Robert sees Gov. Andrew and meets Fredrick Douglas who tells him there is to be an all black regiment of which he would like Robert to be colonel. He asks his friend Kevin to assist him in leading this group. On November 27, 1862, black volunteer soldiers are brought to Readville Camp in Massachusetts. There we meet the main characters of the 54th Mass. Regiment. Rawlins is the future Sergeant Major and is a father figure to the group. Trip seems to have an angry personality who takes his frustration out on others. Thomas, a childhood friend of Shaw’s, is well educated and has not been exposed to harsh reality of the slavery scene.
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.
In the beautiful Southern autumn days, a war was becoming bloodier and bloodier by the day. Howard Bahr’s The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War takes place in the most tranquil time of the year in 1864. Bushrod Carter, a young Confederate rifleman, leaves his Mississippi town to fight in the Tennessee Army under General John Bell Hood. The story follows Bushrod and a few of his fellow Confederates through the months leading up to the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. Bahr writes the story with great historical accuracy and vivid imagery. The story documents the fear, suffering, and close bonds created with fellow soldiers through every part of the battle including the eve, during, and its aftermath. Bushrod’s luck runs high as he has never once gotten seriously wounded or shot. However, he becomes wounded in one of the Confederate charges and he is taken to a makeshift hospital where he comes under the care of Anna Hereford. She has already lost two potential romances to the war, but Bushrod attempts to form somewhat of a courtship even though he is in the middle of a terrible war that will not be settled for sometime.
Zwick effectively builds the characters of the 54th regiment by portraying the grueling months of training and development. One prominent example of this is in the end of their movie when the 54th is given the chance to fight in an attack on the beach of South Carolina at Fort Wagner. Determined to dismiss the belief that blacks would not be disciplined under fire, the 54th is at the forefront of the suicidal attack on Fort Wagner. During this battle, the 54th displays the courage that persuaded President Lincoln to enlist many more black soldiers.
...oung American men had to endure from the time that they had joined back in their boot camp days, and the brutality of war that showed them no mercy. To me the importance of the movie was to show what truly went on over in Vietnam through the eyes of a soldiers eyes of what happened, as the film created a very disturbing yet a real picture of The Vietnam War.
During the Civil War, there were people who were extremely prejudiced against the 54th regiment because the soldiers were all different colored skin and the people where used to the idea that different color skinned people worked as slaves. In “Glory,“ Colonel Montgomery, the Sargent that trained and prepared them for war, and the colonel that was in charge of distributing necessities, served as the people who discriminated the African American soldiers. When he was teaching the soldiers how to march, some of them couldn’t tell the difference between left and right. He acted as if all African Americans were uneducated and they were hopeless to teach. Shoes were an essential part of training. Many of the African American soldiers didn‘t even have decent shoes when they enrolled for the war. Naturally, after all the training, their shoes wore down. If the 54th regiment were composed of white soldiers, the department that passed out shoes would already have prepared extra shoes for them. But since the 54th regiment was composed of all African Americans, the regiment was discriminated and there were no extra shoes for them. The other white generals thought the 54th regiment would never go on a battlefield and even if they did, they probably would all die. Therefore there were no extra resources for them. Another fact that there were some racist sentiments was that the African American soldiers only got a $10 pay while the white soldiers got $13.
The movie Glory is about Colonel Robert Shaw coming back from the fighting in the war and leads the first African American regiment in the Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts. The movie focuses on Captain turned Colonel Robert Shaw coming back from battle and training an African American regiment along with his friend Captain Cabot Forbes. The movie focuses on four African Americans, Sargent Rawlins, Thomas Searles, Jupiter Sharts, and Tripp, following their journey into a united division in the US military. The movie begins with Shaw in the Battle of Antietam, where he passed out due to his injuries and wakes up with the conflict over. Afterwards, he returns home in Massachusetts, showing signs that the battle had slightly traumatized him. Shaw meets Frederick Douglass there and is told that he will be the first to lead a colored regiment, the 54th Massachusetts. When he is told of this news, he asks his friend Cabot Forbes to assist him as his second in command. Shaw’s first volunteer for the 54th Mass. is other close friend Thomas Searles. After sending word of a colored regiment, many African Americans sign up, specifically Rawlins, Searles, and Tripp. However, Lincoln sends an order saying that any black person that takes arms in the war would either return to slavery or be put to death. Even though they face the threat of death, none of the soldiers-in-training leave. This scene is important since it demonstrates how much they are willing to sacrifice in order to get their freedom. The soldiers’ training begins and in order to train everyone correctly, Shaw brings in Col. Mulcahy. At this point of the film, some of the scenes can be viewed as Shaw being introduced to racism due to superiorit...
This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.
Rodman Philbrick used many historical facts to create a realistic adventure that took place during the civil war. One of the many historical facts incorporated into thew book was... "Then Colonel Chamberlain's voice booms out, louder than the crack of artillery. "Charge!" he commands, lifting high his sword". This has a few historical facts woven int6o it. One, Colonel Chamberlainm was the leader of this regiment, and two, in the battle of Gettysburg the leader shouts "charge"! from the top of the hill. That is shown in this quote. Overall, Rodman Philbrick did a fabulous job using historical facts to make this a realistic, and fictious story.
The movie Titus directed by Julie Taymor a well awarded director who has created many visual arts, made countless thought-provoking choices when directing Titus, a movie based off the book Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus is a tragedy highlighting Titus, a roman general that becomes obsessed with getting revenge with Tamora, a previous prisoner of his and the Queen of Goths. When Taymor directed the film Titus she incorporated many aspects from the present (when the movie was made) and the era the book was written in, during Shakespearean times, to relate to the audience at that time and still remain true to the story. She tried her best to stay as close to the book as possible and portray the characters as well as they could be interpreted. In some illustrations she was spot on and in others she was not.
Although this is true, I believe that there are many underlying themes in the movie. This movie shows that just by giving someone a chance to prove themselves can pay off in the end. It’s the whole “don’t judge a book by its cover” kind of deal. One of my favorite scenes from the movie that depicts the “brotherhood” theme, is when the night before the battle at Fort Wagner all of the soldiers sing and each one of them give an individual speech to motivate and encourage themselves as well as each other. Honor and bravery played a role in the theme because the men knew all of the racism and discrimination that surrounded them, but they never failed to push themselves forward. They all fought with bravery and demonstrated courage until their last breath, encouraging the Union to accept colored soldiers into
The story is about racism experienced by young girls but with a twist. The first fact that the author shows us is that the brownie troops at camp seem to be either an all-black or all-white, no mixed race troops. The black girls in the story were being raised in a racially segregated environment. “When you lived in the south suburbs of Atlanta, it was easy to forget about Whites. Whites were like those baby pigeons: rean and existing, but rarely seen or thought about” (page 5). Because they have so little contact with whites, the black girls seem to be extremely cautious about the differences between themselves. In the extent of racial segregation, although there were no doubts about if Brownie Troop 909 did make the racial slur or not, it is no surprise that the confrontation is full of misunderstandings between the two
I enjoyed watching this film. In my opinion, the film was very important because we were able to see the abolitionists point of view. This film showed us how abolitionists came to be and what they fought for. While watching the film, the scene about Anthony Burns struck out to me the most. This scene struck out to me the most because a whole army came to guide just one slave back to his master. Besides that, the film was significant because it showed us that not all whites were evil and some were even willing to risk their lives just to end slavery.
The movie Dogfight, by Bob Comfort, takes place in San Francisco, in 1963, a few weeks before the Kennedy assassination. Eddie a young Marine with his three friends arrived in San Francisco for the night, before shipping off to Vietnam. They decided to hold a "dogfight," a particularly cruel contest in which they pool their money, rent a bar, and have a competition to see who can find the least beautiful date. The Marine with the best "dog" wins the cash. They all went separately into the city to find their dates for the night. After a few women rejected Eddie, he went into a coffee shop, where he met Rose. Rose is young, shy and awkward girl who works as a waitress at her mother’s coffee shop. She was on her Break, practicing her guitar when Eddie noticed her; he went close to her and attempted to charm her by complementing on her guitar skills and talking about the song she was playing after which he invited her to the party, which she agreed to go. Rose is not particularly an ugly person, rather a plain person;
The movie I decided to watch was Glory Road. I have watched The Blind Side many times before so I wanted to watch something different for this project. Both videos have the same points in which they are involved in society. Both involve race and ethnicity. Both movies were based on real life stories.