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Tank battles of wwii documentary2/22/2024 I expect, any day now, to be deluged with vets or experts in militaria correcting me. Still looks a lot more like a Pershing than a Sherman to me. The tank in the film the studio calls a Sherman M4A3E8 borrowed from a British Museum.Īnd even though I visited Danville Va.’s now-closed Tank Museum many times, I defer to their expertise. There are real Shermans in column with Fury in several scenes - shorter cannon, different turrets. After digging around, I ID’d it as a Pershing, a late-war American tank introduced because the Sherman tanks commonly deployed by the U.S. I, for instance, was puzzled by the turret, hull shape and profile of the tank named “Fury” in the movie. War movie conventions are something that we and Hollywood just don’t have the handle on the way we used to. Could you get in position to kill the other tank before it gets into position to kill you? That comes into play in one scene in “Fury.” The game’s strategies revolved around how slow a tank or its turret turns. He was playing video games on the set of “Tron,” the original film, and his favorite was my favorite, a primitive first-person shooter tank game called “Battlezone.”. It brought to mind my first-ever chat with Jeff Bridges. It is not “The Big Red One,” with, as my friend Matt Olien likes to say, Brad Pitt in the Lee Marvin (grizzled, gruff star a bit old for the Army) role, though again, lots of plot kernels seem to pop off from that one.įun movie, gory, with R-rated violence that seems suggestive of first-person shooter video games. It is not “Saving Private Ryan,” though it borrows plot tropes (“keep my men alive”) from that one. David Ayer’s new combat film “Fury” is, as I said in my review, a very entertaining B-movie, an old-fashioned WWII actioner of the sort Hollywood used to crank out for the generations that could never seem to get enough of WWII.
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