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Film · United Artists · 1980

The Big Red One

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Item: The Big Red One
Rating: 58
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58Watch it awake.

The war as a job that takes the new men. Worth an evening. He does not pretend it is a glory.

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The review

Samuel Fuller fought with the 1st Infantry Division and waited decades to make this. Lee Marvin's sergeant has no interest in being loved. Four riflemen follow him from Africa to Czechoslovakia. The famous scenes, a birth inside a tank, a child in a camp, are Fuller's way of saying the war kept interrupting life and life kept interrupting the war.

Adults and older teens. It is episodic because a campaign is episodic. Do not wait for a single battle to explain the movie. The explanation is the sergeant looking at another replacement and starting over. If you want the feeling of a veteran who will not tell the story as a highlight, this is closer than the later spectacles.

Journal

Keep The Big Red One in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Glory

70 instead of 58

Glory is still a war film, and it scores 70 instead of 58. What you gain is republic: A republic arming men it had enslaved, and still cheating them.

The eight

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Industry
The sergeant's competence is the only continuity. New men learn or they do not.
4
Household
The squad is a household that does not get to keep its members.
3
Piety
Hardened against speeches. A birth in a tank is the closest the film comes to reverence.
7
Courage
He keeps walking into the next country. That endurance is the courage on offer.
5
Republic
The Army is a machine that refills a squad. The film does not love the machine.
6
Temperance
Fuller's violence is blunt. It is not a dance.
7
Truth
Written by a man who was in the unit. The tone is a veteran's, not a recruit's.
6
Stewardship
What it hands on is the fact that a unit is a name, and the men inside the name change.

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Film · MGM · 1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

58Watch it awake.

The quiet is the point, and the computer still will not open the door.

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The review

Apes, a monolith, then a long quiet voyage to Jupiter. The slowness is on purpose. A computer runs the ship and kills the crew when they threaten the mission. One man survives the lie. People remember the computer refusing to open the door, and they are right to. That refusal is the scene the rest of the hush was walking toward.

I would not sell it as a thriller that forgot to hurry. The wonder is real. So is the warning inside it: a tool with a job will keep the job past the people, especially if someone on the ground did not tell the crew the truth. The bill is the men who are not there at the end. Watch it when the room can stand silence. If you need a bang every few minutes, you will fight the picture and miss the door.

Journal

Keep 2001: A Space Odyssey in the record.