Some people watch the movie "Patton" and they think he's a really cool guy and not a creepy monster filled with all the bloodlust of a strange ancient god to whom you must sacrifice your children.
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Some people watch the movie "Patton" and they think he's a really cool guy and not a creepy monster filled with all the bloodlust of a strange ancient god to whom you must sacrifice your children.
And so I don't really like that film for it's ambiguity on the necessity of such men. It's not cute.
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Some people watch the movie "Patton" and they think he's a really cool guy and not a creepy monster filled with all the bloodlust of a strange ancient god to whom you must sacrifice your children.
And so I don't really like that film for it's ambiguity on the necessity of such men. It's not cute.
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@futurebird
Patton was killing nazi so everyone was like "he's our monster".I mean that's the cinematic conceit of the story. The big "it makes you think" question of the film.
Though I always thought it was a more clear story about how war is always hell, and anyone who loves it is nuts.
And that's not getting in to the "real man" who was not as ... honorable as the creature of symbols in the movie.
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Some people watch the movie "Patton" and they think he's a really cool guy and not a creepy monster filled with all the bloodlust of a strange ancient god to whom you must sacrifice your children.
And so I don't really like that film for it's ambiguity on the necessity of such men. It's not cute.
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FWIW, it was Black soldiers who made his reputation for him, not just the 761st Tank Battalion but the Redball Express. Without them he would have never reached so far east.
The real person and the character in the movie are kind of distinct figures.
Patton is the "Born in the USA" of movies in a lot of ways.
