![]() Not being able to leave him there he climbed on the back of our tank and we gave him a lift into the town. We trained our browning machine gun on him and were just about to shoot him when he laid down his weapon and surrendered. I looked at him and he must have been at least 55 and his hands were shaking uncontrollably. ![]() We came around a corner and there was a member of the Volksstrum armed with a Panzerfaust. This brought back memories for Bill of the end of his own war, spent in the German port of Kiel. The prisoner pleads for his life and shows both of them a photo of his wife and children. One scene from Fury shows Wardaddy attempting to toughen up Norman by forcing him to shoot a German prisoner in the back, against his will. The tankīill revisiting the beach where he was shot on D Day. It was only because we could call up air strikes and had many more tanks than the Germans that we eventually won. So, like in Fury, we always had to be one step ahead. I remember a very near miss where an eight cm shell from a Tiger tank went within inches of our turret and we decided not to stay around too long after that. A Sherman provided you with protection against most enemy fire but against a Tiger it could easily become your coffin. For Bill, the scene in which this Tiger tank takes on three US counterparts was the most realistic part of the film.įury accurately portrays how superior the German tanks were. Though Oxfordshire doubles for Germany in terms of location, Ayer was able to use a real German Tiger 131 tank, the only working model in the world, captured from the Germans on the secret orders of Winston Churchill (and currently housed at Bovington). Photograph: Giles Keyteĭirector David Ayer has spoken of the lengths gone to for maximum verisimilitude, with computer graphics eschewed save for the laser beams used to show tracer fire. The start of the Hayfield Battle in Fury. Ours was called Beverley and her name was written on the turret. We didn’t write the name of our tank on the barrel like they did in Fury or plaster the inside with photographs but we were just as proud of our tank. We fought along side the Americans in their Sherman tanks and I found them to be very brave. It took us a while to get along but then I trusted them implicitly with my life. I was in the Essex Yeomanry, a territorial regiment. But they were better disciplined than those in Fury. Much of the movie tracks the evolving relationship between Wardaddy and Norman “Cobb” Ellison (Logan Lerman), a fresh recruit shocked by the reality of war.Bill was also the youngest in his tank and had a very close relationship with his crew. Set over 24 hours in April 1945, Fury follows the fortunes of a Sherman tank commander called Don “Wardaddy” Collier ( Brad Pitt) and his crew as they find themselves behind enemy lines, outgunned and outnumbered, in a desperate last pitched battle to the death. Don takes Norman under his wing in order to teach him the skills of warfare – kill or be killed, he tells him – and the question of whether or not Norman will become a sophisticated Nazi-killer who deserves a nickname of his own almost does not need to be answered.The cast of Fury. An actor whose exterior does not immediately announce his stereotypical essence might have added some complexity to “Fury,” but then he would not have served the filmmakers’ vision quite so well. In this case his name is Norman, a role for which the filmmakers unfortunately cast Logan Lerman, whose delicate face and wide eyes just drip sensitivity. These four are joined by the movie’s most stereotypical hero: the rookie, the inexperienced young soldier frightened and horrified by war, whom we’ve seen in “All Quiet on the Western Front” and countless other war movies. “Bible” (Shia LaBoeuf) is religious (“Fury” is generally filled with religious allusions that enhance its evident conservatism) “Coon-Ass” (Jon Bernthal) is a Southern redneck, who sometimes reminded me of the rapists in John Boorman’s “Deliverance” and “Gordo” (Michael Peña) is a Mexican American. They, meanwhile, are the contemporary spin on the soldiers of different origins and personalities who populated the war films of earlier times each of them, like the sergeant, has a nickname. He breaks down only when no one can see him, and his subordinates’ faith in him is complete. Don is the tough, sensitive, eccentric commander, whose men idolize him and forgive his bluntness because he is their leader and father figure, a brave man who keeps his cool under fire. It is loud and extravagant, but at heart it might actually have been made during World War Two or just after it. “Fury” is directed with skill and benefits from every possible technological capability. ![]()
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