I think most hate the ad. It does take away emotion from the film reaction. I do understand that it helps with your future reactions. Keep doing what you're doing. People will watch.
@@joeweeden39A lot of his scenes were deleted. Go watch the deleted scene of him portraying one of the best PTSD scenes with War Daddy in cinema in a long time. He's a broken man traumatized by the 3 or 4 years they have been in the war.
@@S1D3W1ND3R015 Yeah usually hate deleted scenes as they always make side characters lose a lot of character building for audience and the cuts then make the character be different compared to if you had seen those deleted scenes.
@@S1D3W1ND3R015 He was smacking Norman around in the girl's house a minute before it blew up, he didn't protect him from anything, just wanted to get him moving to the tank.
Shia’s character is religious not just because of the war but probably due to the fact that most American soldiers were raised in religious households.
The German soldier in the end was just another person like Norman who wanted to show compassion. It wasn’t just a movie trope, of course things like this really happened. No matter which country you fought for, the vast majority of soldiers on hated being in the war and only fought for the sense of duty and their own survival.
There is a story where a German fighter plane saw a badly damaged American bomber and saw a lot of the crew was killed and posed no threat and the German helped escort the American plane to safety
_Will not speak for any others, our family has a long history of military service - I was raised on a military base in Australia, while my father was in both the Army and later the Air force (RAAF) seeing active duty in war zones. My family members did not fight for a "sense of duty"... _*_But to protect our loved ones from invaders._*
I call complete BS on this. Absolutely crap! They were all rabid racists, they HATED the Jewish people, hated the poles and the Slavic people. They fully were on board with hitler and his maniacal plans. Many many studies have been done on this topic and the vast majority of germans soldiers knew exactly that there were mass killings, gas chambers, concentration camps and mass graves from territory they captured. To sit here and give a moral equivalence between the Allied and Axis side is ridiculous. One side was good, the other side was EVIL and deserved complete destruction. Go watch a few holocaust films and then get back to me. Go watch any documentaries on TH-cam involving the Einsatzgruppen killing squads that followed the german armies into Russia to murder over a million at gunpoint over mass graves. Ridiculous comment.
They had to fight at the cross roads. That SS battalion would have destroyed their supply convoy. They were tasked with holding that position so the Nazis couldn't hit the unguarded cooks and mechanics. They saved hundreds of lives by fighting and dying in that spot
It really fucking drives me SO FUCKING crazy that EVERYONE critiquing or watching this movie forgets about this plot point. Thank you for spreading the good word.
@@crazychase98 bruh, they were lured in, and it was a fanatical SS battalion. In what reality would they just be like “nah leave em be” after fury initially takes out dozens on their guys? Nonsense.
@GhostManPRO the one where they don't wanna lose 500 guys to a broke down tank. Because it's the smart basic millitery tacketic to do. Is also late in the war an the ss where there only still highly trained troops left
Fun fact: The Tiger tank the squad took on in the field is Tiger 131, the last operational Tiger 1 from WW2. She was captured in Africa intact, and currently resides in the Armor Museum at Bovington, England. The Museum has open houses every so often, and Tiger 131 and other rare veterans get to crank up and stretch their legs in the open. The Museum also owns 'Fury', the American Sherman tank used in the film.
Yep, every time there is a WW2 or cold war movie that features tanks or attilery or other heavy vehicles from that period they give the tank museum at Bovington a call and get to use the real deal. It's a source of revenue for the museum. I've never visited but I'm a big fan of their TH-cam channel.
@@FelixTaylor-lu5lmYes. While early in the war they were painted Panzergrau (light grey), but later in the war they used Olivgrün (olive drab), Gelb (sand/yellow) or Rotbraun and Grau Grün (Reddish brown and dark grey). When they returned from other fronts they didn't have time to repaint them, just serviced & sent em back out.
Most of the soldiers I have talked to would rather be on the ground than in a tank. Tanks were and are "bullet magnets" and everyone and their uncle would shoot at tanks with whatever they had. Infantry and armor always work together to protect each other. The tanks take care of machineguns and heavy weapons to protect the infantry, and the infantry keep the anti-tank weapons suppressed to protect the tanks.
Oh, hell no. Tanker here. There's a reason we say Death Before Dismount. Very few jobs have the destructive capability of a single tank. 50 tank rounds, thousands of rounds of .50, .762, .556, and if you run dry, you can always just knock a building over by driving into it (I have). We are bullet magnets because we are terrifying. We command respect from everyone on the battlefield. And there are few bonds greater than the one between the 4 men who live and fight 15 months at a time inside a metal cocoon. When they made us use Humvees and do grunt work during my 2nd deployment, I was incredibly disappointed about how insignificant I felt and how little we affected a hostile area.
@@TenTonNuke I 100% appreciate tanks and there crews don't get me wrong. But no thanks on being stuck in a tank. God speed to you and yours and thank you for doing it so I don't have to. But I'll stick with my boots on the ground being human killing machines with my brothers any day.
@@TenTonNuke I was mechanized infantry in the 80's and 90's and I feel the same. Every single "crunchie" that I met who came out with the metal coffin joke was the one to jump in our track when showed up to pull them out of tight spot.
They use tracer rounds, (looks like Lazers) a type of ammunition designed to help shooters visually track the path of fired bullets, especially in low-light conditions or during nighttime operations.
Really appreciate your intelligent commentary Colette. When Norman was playing the piano and Emma was singing, Wardaddy could see they obviously had an attraction to each other and they were both innocents, that's why he told Norman to take her into the room so they could have some time together and he knew Norman wasn't going to abuse her. He didn't mean it when he said he would do it if Norman didn't, that was just giving him a little push to step up.
Cool. I never thought of it that way. Definitely a solid insight. Thanks for sharing. Seen this movie many times, including in theatres and hadn't thought of that.
i mean you seem to be right, but also in times of war there is no such thing as consent or legal age. Unfortunately, in wars there is no age limit. And also back in that days there were no such thing as woman rights. i am not justifying that, just pointing that if enemy army coming to city you just know that you as a parent need to hide your very young daughters
Yeah one of the best scenes of his was deleted. When he was having a PTSD breakdown with war daddy in the tank. If they'd left that in. A lot of people would have been more sympathetic to him for his actions. Yes he treated people like crap but he was a broken man.
You are right Colette, at 42:39 they all *could* live, but if you remember the mission briefing, that SS battalion is heading straight for an Allied medical and transportation camp, full of wounded, medics, cooks, and mechanics. Probably more people than the two to three hundred in that German battalion, and without a doubt those cooks and doctors will all die if the SS battalion is not stopped or at least crippled. Wardaddy knows this, so thats why he stays. And tells his crew there is no shame if they want to save themselves. As Wardaddy said, "a lot more people gotta die" and as you predicted, he is now including himself in that count.
Also if you know what happened to war daddy before war the lore...he know that was his chance to make up for things he screwed before war....check it out
Acts of kindness and compassion do happen in war. First story that pops into mind is "The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident" The German pilot, Stigler, had the opportunity to shoot down a badly damaged bomber piloted by Brown, but decided instead to fly alongside it as to stop other Germans from targeting it, and escorted the bomber to safety. The two men were reunited decades later
In the meal scene, the crew was resentful that Warddady was coaching norman and giving him "special treatment and attention" That those two went on their own to "play house" with those german women. They were basically saying "we are broken, eventually norman will be broken like us as well. Nothing will change. Even if you try to act normal with norman and these women, you will never be normal again."
It is also supposed to make us uncomfortable, we get to judge WarDaddy and Norman. Then with the entrance of the other three we see how bad it can get. And then with the death of the women the horrible pointlessness of it all.
Exactly this. That’s also why they told that D-Day story. War makes different things out of different people. Some of us are lucky, and we become better versions of ourselves - men who can handle anything. And for some of us, when all the decency and genteel of society has been stripped away, the only way to survive is to embrace the lack of humanity.
“Tracer rounds” are true and realistic. 1 out of 5 shots fired from machine guns are tracer rounds to illuminate the target. You can’t see your bullets you are firing but you can see the tracer rounds. By the way, an amazing war movie that was a true story is “Unbroken” I hope you can react to it.
Yeah, there are other types of ammo too like full metal jacket, armor piercing, armor piercing incendiary, etc. I know soldiers who used to open different ammo boxes and mix and match. Like they would fire 5 round bursts (you have to burst fire on many to not overheat the barrel) where it was like AP, AP, incendiary, incendiary, tracer, and stuff like that.
At night you can't see iron sights hence tracers can help. On the downside they draw a bright line right to your position. When I was doing the soldier thing if it was too dark to see our sights but there was enough ambient light to see bullets impact the ground we'd intentionally fire low and then walk the rounds into the target (only works at short range).
It's important to remember that this movie was filmed in 2013 and that was when Shia was in the midst of all his troubles and addiction. He has lost himself and went off the deep end, then ended up with those assault charges that totally destroyed almost everything he had left within 2 years of this film wrapping. I watched his appearance on real ones podcast with Jon bernthal and you can tell from the way he talked about it how much it hurts to know how far he had fallen before getting clean.
At around 10:45 when they are telling Brad Pitts character to stop because there are MPs around.. MPs are military police. They are soldiers first and police second so they probably do some fighting but mostly they stay in safer areas like assembly areas and whatnot. Their job is to keep their own sides troops in line. The weapon used to destroy the tank in the ambush by the young German soldiers is called a panzerfaust. German for armorfist. It is what is known as a shape charge. The projectile is essentially a nose cone for keeping the payload aerodynamic, and the back half of the cone/projectile is lined with copper kind of like a funnel. Behind the copper is an explosive charge linked to the tip of the nose cone. On the back of the projectile is a rocket that allows it to be fired from a tube. When the nose cone strikes the tanks thin side armor the explosive charge detonated and caused that copper cone to invert and melt turning it into a jet of molten copper that can slice through quite a bit of steel. When that jet of copper contacts the tanks ammunition and ignited the propellant it goes up in flames very very quickly. Shape charges first showed up in World War Two and are still very widely used today. This movie takes place in 1945 towards the end of the war in Germany. D-Day was June 6th 1944 and was the initial successful invasion of Europe by the US, Britain, and Canada. By landing in France the allies were able to push the Germans out of France and Belgium on their way to Germany, so yes this film takes place after D-Day. The movie Saving Private Ryan depicts the first beach landings in France followed by the pushing into France in the days after. The TV series Band of Brothers (which you will most likely be begged to watch) follows the Army Airborne troops that parachuted into the land behind the beaches several hours before the beach landings depicted in Saving Private Ryan. In fact I believe you see troops from the unit Band of Brothers follows in Saving Private Ryan.
The end of the movie where the nazi let Norman live is to symbolize that there were good guys on the German side too, some were forced to fight just like how we drafted young men to fight even if they didn’t want to go they had to. That last scene was basically showing the Germans version of Norman
Considering it was an SS division is VERY TELLING. Most likely that soldier was around Normans age. May have been part of the Hitler youth and was probably heavily indoctrinated into Nazism but regardless near to this point he STILL let Norman go. It’s interesting because you’d think from any of the other American soldiers they would’ve killed the German if it was the other way around. But Norman was one of few exceptions. Even then he was shown the mercy very little people were afforded to on both sides in this war. It shows that from the worst of people and no matter how small a gesture it still counts and matters even in soemthing as hopeless as a war.
53:41 - I see that german with a flashlight as being the same version as a Norman, but serving the other side. An innocent person who isn't yet tainted by the horrors of war. I'm sure you, Colette, as you go and watch more and more war movies, you'll come up with further examples of how this type of exchange does indeed happen. Take "All quiet on the Western Front" movie, for example (an entire story told from the perspective of german soldiers on WWII). Its not just because its the enemy side that all soldiers are evil. Some still have good in their hearts.
So glad you watched this film. It has a special place in my heart. Not only is it a Great War film but also some great lessons in it. My father passed away when I was 18 just after I graduated high school. This was one of the last movies I remember going to watch with him in the theatres. Bringing back great memories watching this and also some emotions. Glad we can share them together. Thanks for posting and creating content Colette.
Inthe original script, Norman was the name of War Daddy's younger brother, but that part was left out. Which explains the look on Pitts face when he first meets Norman.
Retired as a tanker. The crew becomes like a family. Everything is done together and your crew determines how good you are. The conversations you have are some of the craziest things. Best job I ever had.
Bernthal's character while extremely hard and seemingly cruel actually displays heart when he grabs Norman after the loss of Emma and lets Norman swing on him and struggle physically.
“It’s so honest and genuine” that’s the perfect words to describe the writing in this film. That scene in the apartment with the eggs is one of my favorites. One of the purest scenes. Just wanting a moment of piece from the chaos. Glad you reacted!
Good war film, the tank battles aren't realistic, but it's good cinema and it progresses the story. The relationships between the guys though is spot on.
There are multiple depictions in this movie of how the Germans were vastly outnumbered but caused a lot of casualties with their superior engineering. Their planes, their tanks, and their guns all outperformed ours.
what i love about your channel is that you look stuff up. other react channels will always say "tell me in the comments blah blah blah" but you see something you dont know and you look it up. Thats so refreashing
I view the Norman and Wardaddy scene in town similarly. I don't think Wardaddy actually was gonna go into the room with the girl. He obviously knew Norman was a gentle soul at heart and wouldn't touch the girl if she didn't want it. The other 2 would have done god knows what to her. It's an odd family dynamic in the movie. Wardaddy is daddy obviously and the others are brothers. He treats Emma like a daughter in law(?) when he swaps eggs with her and tells everyone not to touch her. The town scene with the women was like a little family time away from war. The jerk guy was kind right when he said they were playing house. Wardaddy wanted some normalcy. He just shaves and eats, and the "mom" understandably stress smokes in the kitchen. Very ambiguous but war blurs those lines often. If it was anybody but Norman it would be really bad. We gotta remember he very well was probably a virgin as well. That on its own doesn't make it ok, and Emma very well could have consented out of fear, but it seems like she genuinely liked him especially when they sat down after. TLDR: Wardaddy wouldn't have touched Emma if Norman didn't. He knew Norman was sweet and not alike the others.
"Best job I ever had" line speaks to the feeling troops get at the end of hostile action. Massive adrenaline from the excitement, loud blasts and gunfire, then things slow down when contact is done. Can't help but feel on top of the world after surviving a fight.
You are one of the few reactors to openly voice how good we have it here in America present day, and you always manage to thank those that went before us. I very much admire that about you. I understand that you aren’t old enough to remember this, but President Reagan wants famously stated that America is only one generation away from losing our freedom. Like I said, I think you’re one of the few reactors that truly get it.
Another thing about the tracers is that not every bullet is a tracer, in the movie one of the guys says every fifth round is a tracer, so when you see one flash, five bullets have already been fired.
The true story this is based on is actually incredible. The real crew mostly survived the war. And war daddy became an instructor till he passed away after desert storm.
Fun fact: Audie Murphy practically did the same thing the crew of Fury didn’t the end by himself, wounded and on a burning tank and lived to tell the tale, he got a Medal of Honor for it
Hey cherry as an active duty service member thank you for reacting to these war films. It brings awareness and it helps us have purpose to defend our people. Thank you cherry
38:03 Wardaddy is indeed the tank commander. Most tanks had little glass lookouts that faced each direction, but the commanders would frequently open the hatch and stick their head out to have a better view. This was obviously dangerous, but the Sherman tank's hull wasn't particularly powerful, so when facing a Tiger tank, it didn't make much of a difference. At the beginning, the first ambush, you also asked what they hit on the tank that it flamed up so much. The Sherman tanks were well known for catching fires when hit. It was one of the worst tanks of the war, actually, and not really that powerful compared to German and Soviet tanks of that era.
The Sherman actually had quite decently thick armour as was stated in German tank manuals on engaging Allied armour. It was thicker than the T-34's. It was thicker than the Panzer IV's. In fact, it was almost as thick as a Tiger's and some models of Shermans had thicker armour than a Tiger. At the stage of the war that this movie is set Shermans had very low burn rates, much lower than German tanks. German tanks turned into balls of flames when hit.
@21:35 the actual translation of that sign is even a little darker, in the audio they say "I'm a coward and refused to fight for the German people", but "Ich wollte meine Kinder nicht kämpfen lassen" just means "I didn't want to let my kids fight"
The bullets you are seeing are called tracers. They have magnesium tips so they glow bright when shot so you can see where they are going. Generally there are a certain amount of rounds between tracers, usually 4 for the .50 caliber machine guns. So basically every 5th shot will be a tracer. That's why it sounds like it's shooting faster than what you are seeing. You cannot see bullets that are not tracers, they are too small and move to fast.
16:38 those bullets are tracer bullets. The bullet has an incendiery material in it and it glows like an ember when it flies through the air. It helps you aim machine gun style guns. Basically one every 4-6 bullets is a tracer, so for every tracer you see, another 3-5 invisible bullets fly.
Colette don’t be heartless if you never been to war. You can not tell another person how to react when it’s a lot harder and stressful than what you can say on a movie
My dad fought in that war. You are right about the PTSD effect. His nightmares returned for a while after we took him to watch it. He said it was the sounds. Spielberg's team got them almost exactly right. Dad fought in Europe with the Airborne against the Wehrmacht. His job was the same as Ryan's. Both were paratroopers. Dad was finally wounded the day before we retook St. Vith in January 1945. His unit was the 517th Regimental Parachute Combat Team. They entered the war at Anzio, jumped in Southern France and fought the Maritime Alps campaign and then were thrown into the line at the onset of the Battle of the Bulge. I'll leave it to your Google skills to fill in the vocabulary meanings. Good video. Glad to see a young person who appreciates history and can attach context to it. Well done.
The SS tended to exhibit different behaviors. Documented in committing the worst atrocities against civilians and prisoners of war. However, when the British 1st Airborne Division surrendered to the SS at Arnhem in 1944, the British paratroopers all expected to be executed. Instead, the SS honored them as heroes because they regarded them as fellow knights for their brave defense. The British had held out out for several days against German tanks at incredible odds even without many heavy weapons. That's the story told in the movie, "A Bridge Too Far."
34:15 -- RE: "Like, that's just PTSD I guess..."; One of the aspects of World War 2 which this film does not address is that, as was indicated in the narrative a few moments ago, these men had been fighting for 8 or 9 months nearly non-stop from France into Germany, with a "shortcut" through Belgium which went Kaput. The only way that this was possible was through chemical enhancement, sometimes in the form of "pep pills" like benzedrine and sometimes after they'd been taken to a medical station and given some psychiatric treatment as first aid. They're also self medicating with alcohol. They're not properly into the "Post" phase of the trauma yet, and that's why they're anxious to bust up the party with War Daddy and Norman.
Your love and appreciation of and for men is evident in all your war movie reactions. It's a refreshing and extremely welcome break from the norm. Never lose that beautiful trait.
The far majority of both men and women love and appreciate the opposite gender. It’s only a toxic small minority of men and women who don’t, we shouldn’t. Exggerate that.
Those laser-looking bullets are called tracer-fire. Usually used by burning phosphorus of some kind, they help see where you are shooting. they're generally saved for machine guns, as the recoil tends to make aiming hard. As well, for tanks, there are different types of rounds to deal with different things. HE, or high explosive is generally used to blow holes in walls and buildings, and to take out enemy infantry or gun emplacements. Armor piercing has several subtypes, but the whole overarching category of AP is used to destroy vehicles. I hope this helps!
@Colette, a lot of military ammunition that is designed to be fired in rapid succession will have what's called a "tracer" round among them. What that means is every 5th bullet you fire (for example as it could be every 10th or every 3rd) is coated in chemicals that burn brightly when fired from a gun so the round actually lights up when you fire it. The point is to see where the bullets are going so you can adjust your aim as needed. Most of the bullets you can't see because they are traveling so fast, but the tracer rounds interspersed among them are the red lights you see that look like laser shots. The disadvantage can be it also shows the enemy where you are firing from since the tracer bullet lights up as soon as it leaves the barrel
I'm not sure how many but it's called a tracer round maybe every 10 bullets or so a tracer round will go out so it gives you an idea of where you are firing.
🤔 Yes, There is a bit of weirdness in the dinner scene. It's wholesome but at the same time scary because it is two men with guns in these women's apartment😮 But it's also norman, Who's the least corrupt(in terms of war) But it feels like it's War Daddy trying to find his humanity but can't(At least not to the fullest😬) And as for the other guys that come in later, Yes, it's pretty obvious they're suffering from PTSD(Which wasn't a medical term back then😮) but They are also angry that they're seeing War Daddy choose Norman to "play house" And leaving them out. That's why that whole scene becomes so Intense, even though they're close with each other😮 Something to think about
I served 2 tours in Iraq. The soldier, above all others, prays for peace. It's the civilians that derive joy and pleasure from the games and movies of war. In real life, "Call of Duty "isn't fun,... just a reminder of lesser times. God help us please.
theres actually some backstory for war daddy those scars on his back are from a car accident back home he was drunk and had his girlfriend and brother in the car. they died and he lived and had the choice of either jail or the military. its part of why he feels so protective of norman he reminds him his brother and when he say this is my home referring to the tank he actually means it. he felt dying was the only was to gain redemption for what he had done
i'd recommend looking up some of the heartwarming moments from the war, there is one about a german officer that sacrificed himself trying to help a wounded enemy soldier among many others.
Also its insanely wild to me that you said them fighting that SS battalion at the end was so unnecessary, like as if you weren't actually paying attention to the plot and you were just watching an action movie. They were protecting a ton of supplies and people that could not have fought that battalion. Thats why those medics called Norman a hero, because they saved so many people.
13:05 the thing they shot at the tank was called a Panzerfaust. It’s an anti tank RPG (rocket propelled grenade). It went through the tanks side armor then blew up, causing the fire and explosion. 21:07 when there are a lot of planes moving into the not so many planes, it is probably b17 flying fortresses’s or b24 Mitchell bombers that are the “lot of planes,” and the “not so many planes” are German Messerschmitt Bf109 fighters or Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighters try to intercept the bombers attacking Germany. These bombing runs happened all the time, especially towards the end of the war. All the times you saw kids fighting for Germany, it was probably the Hitler Youth. These were kids who either signed up to be part of the program or were pretty much forced to sign up. It was a program who taught kids how fight in order for them to be future soldiers. They had them do things like manning AA guns ( anti air guns) when the allies would have bombing runs on Germany or German occupied territory. And especially towards the end of the war they would have the hitler youth fight in many places, even the front lines 37:00 the reason that Wardaddy wanted to move towards the German tank was to flank it. The German tank in this movie is a Tiger tank. It had very think frontal armor, but its side armor and rear armor were not so strong. But in this movie, the tank Fury ( the one that Wardaddy, Norman, and the rest of his crew are in) is depicted as having a 76mm cannon. Unlike many other Sherman tanks, ( Sherman’s are the American tanks in this movie) which had a 75mm cannon, the 76mm cannon could fire a shell that was capable of penetrating the frontal armor of the Tiger. Shooting a tiger from the rear was always an easier way to kill it if you could get around it easily, but the way they rushed the tiger they could have penetrated its frontal armor and taken it out that way too. The tiger had strong frontal armor but weaker armor on the sides and rear. 37:26 the tiger had a larger gun than the Sherman tanks, having an 88mm unlike Sherman 75 or 76 mm cannons. Depending on the round the Tiger tank fires, its shells could move up to 930 meters per second, which is a little over 2000 miles an hour. Sherman tanks could fire a round about 792 meters per second or lower, which is 1771 miles an hour.
21:30 the german luftwaffe only had a small amount of planes when this movie was happening, the allies would do bombing raids of dozens or hundereds of bombers at a time, and the luftwaffe couldnt only scramble just a small handful to do what they could. It just shows the desperation germany faced at the end of the war In regards to how the AT guns couldnt hit the tanks, same thing, alot of equipment was old, scopes could be damaged and unable to be replaced due to the factories being bombed, and most importantly the experienced troops are either dead or captured leaving inexperienced new conscripts to fight
Lets be honest though, if they'd actually been dumb enough to drive out into a huge open field the AT guns would've knocked all of them out before they even made it half way. Fury is a great film but a terrible war film.
That ending scene with the german not saying anything when he spotted Norman.. Stuff like that actually happened on both sides. You should look up that german pilot that saved 3-4 americans in a bomber plane. He could have killed them all but saved them instead. Pretty sure stuff like that happens all the time but we the public both now and history/future rarely hear about it.
People would be amazed how just the little bit of humanity is needed to have immense good impact. As a Christian faith in god allows us to have this spirit in us that has us do good. That’s able to have us withstand and persevere through the worst to then do immense good. In fury. Bible says the scripture and prays for the lord to call upon him to do his service. Christian’s want god to use them to do immense good when most of what humans do is immense evil. War may occur but in war individuals can have immense impact and do immense good in times when there maybe none. After all the only way we get to peace and not obliteration is through the semblance of trust and faith we have in one another
Bullets are grouped into regular bullets and bullets that have firework like mixture that makes them visible when ignited, its so a soldier can see where his bullets are going at high rates of fire. you can use different minerals, strontium gives you red color and barium salts give you green colors. preferably you would have bullets that used one type of color only so you can tell which side is firing. yes it will burn of hit by a tracer more so than a regular bullet.
The scene at the end with the german soldier who lets him go when he sees him under the tank was meant to represent Norman earlier in the film. He was a young soldier as well, who was still innocent. It also represents the goodness in humanity, and that stuff like that did happen in war, it was just rare. A real life example is in WW1 when Private Tandey from Britain encountered a wounded German soldier at the french village Marcoing wandering into his line of fire. He chose not to shoot him, and the german nodded and thanked him and continued on, its been alleged that German soldier was Adolf Hitler himself.
Good job Colette! These war films are never easy to watch, especially when you are young and "innocent." But sometimes life throws you a curve, and you just have to learn to "deal with it." I was eight years old when I saw the execution of a Viet Cong soldier as it was broadcast on CBS news. In that incident, a military officer walked up to a Viet Cong prisoner, drew his revolver and shot the prisoner in the head at point blank range. The camera man continued to film this act even as the VC prisoner bled to death for what seemed like one or two minutes. Those images took place in 1968 and are seared into my memory like it was yesterday.
Wasn't that the famous picture here in the us where the south Vietnamese soldier shot the north Vietnamese spy. Whi was also accused of abusing a small child which is why he was shot
this was the most honest movie I have seen in a very long time, the kid admitting he wanted to surrender, and then Brad Pitt telling him bluntly that he will be tortured and to NOT DO THAT., while also DYING? FROM BEING SHOT? a wonderful movie!! 52:02
My father was 7th armoured 207 signal squadron and I have seen what shells of men come home and some didn't come home, I can tell you alot resort to drinking or drugs to help alleviate pain I have much respect for those brave men. Rip aly a family friend who passed away after losing his arm and due to cancer gone but not forgotten rest easy big guy.
the ending is very plausible there would of been plenty of young soldiers on both sides that did things like letting other young soldiers go... germany especially as they new they were about to surrender and face some unknown judgment for losing
The reason for the men's behavior in the "girl room" is because they went through so much trauma, they know not to get attached to any semblance of civilized life, and it disturbs them when War Daddy lets go of the war, they feel the need to keep reminding him of the world they live in, because if he gets soft, they will die.
My family is German it’s always funny to me people don’t know what sauerkraut is lol from the time I was a kid my cousins and I would play together at least once a year as our mothers who were sisters would get together to make and can it. It’s basically fermented cabbage usually served with bratwurst. The store bought stuff isn’t very good compared to actual stuff but I only have a couple jars left from when my mother was alive. German food is great
I think "best job I ever had" holds meaning in the sense that in the darkest of dark, you find the greatest light. War is mega lows, ultra highs. The feeling of coming out victorious. I just a liiiitle bit relate as a volunteer firefighter. There's a little bit of a culture of people with that "send me" attitude. They want that grind, they want the battle. They derive meaning from it. On some fire ground, it can be a real fuck fest, horrible things happening, in the end of it, you've fought a meaningful battle. The thing is, there are people they don't even get the chance to do that in their lives. So it is a blessing in a sense.
The coffe scene is easy to understand if you understand that the more society crumbles the more primitive we become and we adjust to less ethical values to survive.
“Is this even possible? To fight this many?” Audie Murphey - “Damn right it is” The tank last stand is based on Audie Murphey’s story from WW2. Dude was definition of a badass and a hero, got back home and played himself in movies about the things he did.
The scene with the German women and the main characters just showcases a facet of broken men during war. Before Norman came along, the tank crew of Fury have been through some shit together, but despite it all, they always looked to Wardaddy as their leader. As Bible said himself, "Ain't no crew that's stuck together like we have Norman. It's cuz of him." Now imagine being a part of this broken, traumatized crew and one day you see your leader enjoying a moment of peace and levity; with the newbie who hasn't seen the shit they have no less. You might think, "Well that shit ain't fair." So to put it simply, the crew was just jealous, so that's why they were snapping back at him.
I was an Armor Noncommisioned Officer for 32 years: crewman, tank commander, and platoon sergeant on M60s and M1A1s. I appreciate a story told about tankers.
This was a great review! Your take on the forcing of women is perfect. No other reviewer on TH-cam dared to even react to this scene. Good for you! I followed because of your honest and factual opinion. ❤
The movie is very accurate in portraying the grittiness of tank battles between American Sherman's and German Tigers and Panthers. There is much to be desired in the tactics employed by both the Germans and the Americans. For example the Tiger tank would never close the distance on the American tanks as one big advantage the Tiger had was its ability to enemy tanks at a greater distance. Why give up one of your big advantages. The American tanks attacking the German positions on an open field where the German guns had already taken out 2 half tracks is nuts. They had that field sighted in so all 4 tanks would have been destroyed in a real battle. But we don't watch movies to learn battle tactics. Movies are made for entertainment and for profit. Tank battles on the Western front show that it took 5 Sherman's to take out 1 Tiger. Fortunately, the Tiger was prone to breaking down and Germany was low on fuel. All the sacrifices of our bombers over Germany was paying off.
Yes, a Tiger would NEVER drive towards some shermans like they did in this movie, a tiger has better range and armor. they could just sit in a stationary position at that range and destroy ALL of the shermans, if it is some open field like that. One of my friends in real life is half german and half swedish, one of hes relatives was a tank commander in WW2 that took out like dozens of american tanks during hes day, there is even pictures of him shaking hands with adolf hitler. he never would have done like they did in this movie. he faught on the western front, hes last battle was around normandy before he gave up to the allies.
Another thing about the tracer rounds … tracer rounds are used so you can “call targets” essentially you can tell your platoon or “team” to follow your tracers that way everyone knows the direction of the target also helps you follow your round slightly
The reason it looks like lasers is because they are tracer rounds. There is phosphorus mixed into the gun powder and when it’s fired the phosphorus lights up so you can see the trajectory of the rounds. That being said what is shown in the movie is not realistic to how they work in real life. But it is a thing.
Fury is such a great movie with a fantastic cast. You check out 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, a really underrated film and in my opinion one of my Micheal Bay’s best work.
The reason they stayed to fight the 200-300 advancing SS is 'cause if they left, the SS would break through, whereas if they fought, they could cut down a chunk of them before dying so when they did break through, it's be easier for the troops in the rear to fend them off.
I really love your breakdown of the story and the characters. A lot of nuance and it's cool when people take the time to understand it. I'm pretty sure that last fight was the mission they were tasked with. There were supposed to be more tanks with them to stop the Germans from cutting off their supply chain. It's why Don wanted to stay, though everyone realized they were probably not gonna make it out alone. Really all they had was each other which makes their little pow-wow before the fight starts so heavy hitting. There's another movie by the same director which does a great job showing PTSD after returning to civilian life. Check out Harsh Times, with a young Christian Bale, if you get the chance. It feels just as morally messy, and you can hardly juggle hating the main character or feeling bad for him.
"Instead of raising alarm, the young SS soldier surprisingly enough chooses to ignore Norman and continue on his way without a word. That act of mercy"
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Thank you for your content I love your reactions especially since you have knowledge in the film industry plus you bring such a positive vibe. Ty
@@jbwade5676 Nobody wants your negativity
@@jbwade5676 But I'm not the one being negative 🤔
I think most hate the ad. It does take away emotion from the film reaction. I do understand that it helps with your future reactions. Keep doing what you're doing. People will watch.
Your segways during war movies for personal injury lawyers makes me audibly laugh every time you go in. They’re a chefs kiss haha
Jon Bernthal was protecting Norman from the trauma of seeing Emma dead, he redirected his focus to anger towards him.
I never looked at it that way, thanks for that
@@moosejuicepie2467 yeah i always thought jon's character was misunderstood to most people watching.
@@joeweeden39A lot of his scenes were deleted. Go watch the deleted scene of him portraying one of the best PTSD scenes with War Daddy in cinema in a long time. He's a broken man traumatized by the 3 or 4 years they have been in the war.
@@S1D3W1ND3R015 Yeah usually hate deleted scenes as they always make side characters lose a lot of character building for audience and the cuts then make the character be different compared to if you had seen those deleted scenes.
@@S1D3W1ND3R015 He was smacking Norman around in the girl's house a minute before it blew up, he didn't protect him from anything, just wanted to get him moving to the tank.
Shia’s character is religious not just because of the war but probably due to the fact that most American soldiers were raised in religious households.
💪God Family Country💪
Sorry but that simply isn’t true.
Yes it is.
@@ChuckChancert Source?
@@ChuckChancert bro adultery was literally a crime back in the day. Most people were Christians back then
The German soldier in the end was just another person like Norman who wanted to show compassion. It wasn’t just a movie trope, of course things like this really happened.
No matter which country you fought for, the vast majority of soldiers on hated being in the war and only fought for the sense of duty and their own survival.
Not the Japanese!
There is a story where a German fighter plane saw a badly damaged American bomber and saw a lot of the crew was killed and posed no threat and the German helped escort the American plane to safety
_Will not speak for any others, our family has a long history of military service - I was raised on a military base in Australia, while my father was in both the Army and later the Air force (RAAF) seeing active duty in war zones. My family members did not fight for a "sense of duty"... _*_But to protect our loved ones from invaders._*
I call complete BS on this. Absolutely crap! They were all rabid racists, they HATED the Jewish people, hated the poles and the Slavic people. They fully were on board with hitler and his maniacal plans. Many many studies have been done on this topic and the vast majority of germans soldiers knew exactly that there were mass killings, gas chambers, concentration camps and mass graves from territory they captured. To sit here and give a moral equivalence between the Allied and Axis side is ridiculous. One side was good, the other side was EVIL and deserved complete destruction. Go watch a few holocaust films and then get back to me. Go watch any documentaries on TH-cam involving the Einsatzgruppen killing squads that followed the german armies into Russia to murder over a million at gunpoint over mass graves.
Ridiculous comment.
@@Peter_Aranyos_Jr The Stigler-Brown Incident, yes.
The tracer rounds of ww2 is what inspired George Lucas for the colors of star wars blasters.
Yes that's true. The Rebels, representing the Allies, used red blaster bolts as shown. The Axis, the Empire, used green blaster bolts.
A man of culture i see…🎉
@@sirethanthegreat4069 interessting...thank you.
@@Metal-Bane no problem 🙏
@@sirethanthegreat4069 And there are 4 non tracer rounds between each tracer in a normal loadout of the belt.
They had to fight at the cross roads. That SS battalion would have destroyed their supply convoy. They were tasked with holding that position so the Nazis couldn't hit the unguarded cooks and mechanics. They saved hundreds of lives by fighting and dying in that spot
She said “this is so unnecessary” like what!!!
It really fucking drives me SO FUCKING crazy that EVERYONE critiquing or watching this movie forgets about this plot point. Thank you for spreading the good word.
The only issues is the Germans would have just gone around the tank in real life. The tank couldn't drive off. So they would have just gone around it
@@crazychase98 bruh, they were lured in, and it was a fanatical SS battalion. In what reality would they just be like “nah leave em be” after fury initially takes out dozens on their guys? Nonsense.
@GhostManPRO the one where they don't wanna lose 500 guys to a broke down tank. Because it's the smart basic millitery tacketic to do. Is also late in the war an the ss where there only still highly trained troops left
Fun fact: The Tiger tank the squad took on in the field is Tiger 131, the last operational Tiger 1 from WW2. She was captured in Africa intact, and currently resides in the Armor Museum at Bovington, England. The Museum has open houses every so often, and Tiger 131 and other rare veterans get to crank up and stretch their legs in the open. The Museum also owns 'Fury', the American Sherman tank used in the film.
Yep, every time there is a WW2 or cold war movie that features tanks or attilery or other heavy vehicles from that period they give the tank museum at Bovington a call and get to use the real deal. It's a source of revenue for the museum. I've never visited but I'm a big fan of their TH-cam channel.
do you know if tiger 131's sandy colour camo would've been used in Germany or...?
I watched them drive it around at tiger day a couple weeks ago, its terrifying
@@FelixTaylor-lu5lmYes. While early in the war they were painted Panzergrau (light grey), but later in the war they used Olivgrün (olive drab), Gelb (sand/yellow) or Rotbraun and Grau Grün (Reddish brown and dark grey). When they returned from other fronts they didn't have time to repaint them, just serviced & sent em back out.
@@FelixTaylor-lu5lm no the she was left in the colour she was captured in witch was in the desert
Most of the soldiers I have talked to would rather be on the ground than in a tank. Tanks were and are "bullet magnets" and everyone and their uncle would shoot at tanks with whatever they had. Infantry and armor always work together to protect each other. The tanks take care of machineguns and heavy weapons to protect the infantry, and the infantry keep the anti-tank weapons suppressed to protect the tanks.
All the more true in the new world of attack drones.
As an ex infantry man I definitely agree. I'd rather be on the ground than in a metal coffin
Oh, hell no. Tanker here. There's a reason we say Death Before Dismount. Very few jobs have the destructive capability of a single tank. 50 tank rounds, thousands of rounds of .50, .762, .556, and if you run dry, you can always just knock a building over by driving into it (I have). We are bullet magnets because we are terrifying. We command respect from everyone on the battlefield. And there are few bonds greater than the one between the 4 men who live and fight 15 months at a time inside a metal cocoon. When they made us use Humvees and do grunt work during my 2nd deployment, I was incredibly disappointed about how insignificant I felt and how little we affected a hostile area.
@@TenTonNuke I 100% appreciate tanks and there crews don't get me wrong. But no thanks on being stuck in a tank. God speed to you and yours and thank you for doing it so I don't have to. But I'll stick with my boots on the ground being human killing machines with my brothers any day.
@@TenTonNuke I was mechanized infantry in the 80's and 90's and I feel the same. Every single "crunchie" that I met who came out with the metal coffin joke was the one to jump in our track when showed up to pull them out of tight spot.
They use tracer rounds, (looks like Lazers) a type of ammunition designed to help shooters visually track the path of fired bullets, especially in low-light conditions or during nighttime operations.
They are also loaded at intervals in a belt and in a magazine so people know in a firefight roughly how much ammo they have left.
Only used in machine guns with high ammunition counts to allow more accurate sustained fire.
@@bran1886Incorrect
Really appreciate your intelligent commentary Colette. When Norman was playing the piano and Emma was singing, Wardaddy could see they obviously had an attraction to each other and they were both innocents, that's why he told Norman to take her into the room so they could have some time together and he knew Norman wasn't going to abuse her. He didn't mean it when he said he would do it if Norman didn't, that was just giving him a little push to step up.
That’s my interpretation as well.
Cool. I never thought of it that way. Definitely a solid insight. Thanks for sharing. Seen this movie many times, including in theatres and hadn't thought of that.
Definitely how interpreted it as well.
Yeah definitely what i got from it
i mean you seem to be right, but also in times of war there is no such thing as consent or legal age. Unfortunately, in wars there is no age limit. And also back in that days there were no such thing as woman rights. i am not justifying that, just pointing that if enemy army coming to city you just know that you as a parent need to hide your very young daughters
Thats how great John Bernthal's acting is in this. Makes you hate his character. Such a great movie, all the actors were phenomenal.
Yeah one of the best scenes of his was deleted. When he was having a PTSD breakdown with war daddy in the tank. If they'd left that in. A lot of people would have been more sympathetic to him for his actions. Yes he treated people like crap but he was a broken man.
You are right Colette, at 42:39 they all *could* live, but if you remember the mission briefing, that SS battalion is heading straight for an Allied medical and transportation camp, full of wounded, medics, cooks, and mechanics. Probably more people than the two to three hundred in that German battalion, and without a doubt those cooks and doctors will all die if the SS battalion is not stopped or at least crippled. Wardaddy knows this, so thats why he stays. And tells his crew there is no shame if they want to save themselves. As Wardaddy said, "a lot more people gotta die" and as you predicted, he is now including himself in that count.
This!
Also if you know what happened to war daddy before war the lore...he know that was his chance to make up for things he screwed before war....check it out
didnt get that far in logic lol. Daddy doesnt pass the buck. WT.... This is the US Army broski. That is an NCO.
Acts of kindness and compassion do happen in war.
First story that pops into mind is "The Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident"
The German pilot, Stigler, had the opportunity to shoot down a badly damaged bomber piloted by Brown, but decided instead to fly alongside it as to stop other Germans from targeting it, and escorted the bomber to safety. The two men were reunited decades later
There was a similar incident where a stricken P-47 was escorted by two BF-109s, but the pilots have not been reunited at this point.
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@@Howie-du7ovcame here to say exactly that lol
In the meal scene, the crew was resentful that Warddady was coaching norman and giving him "special treatment and attention"
That those two went on their own to "play house" with those german women.
They were basically saying "we are broken, eventually norman will be broken like us as well. Nothing will change. Even if you try to act normal with norman and these women, you will never be normal again."
It is also supposed to make us uncomfortable, we get to judge WarDaddy and Norman. Then with the entrance of the other three we see how bad it can get. And then with the death of the women the horrible pointlessness of it all.
WarDaddy and Norman go from sexual assaulters to protectors real quick
Norman didn't sexually assault that lady. Even though the whole scenario was very morally grey.@@michaelcerrone8403
Exactly this. That’s also why they told that D-Day story.
War makes different things out of different people. Some of us are lucky, and we become better versions of ourselves - men who can handle anything. And for some of us, when all the decency and genteel of society has been stripped away, the only way to survive is to embrace the lack of humanity.
“Tracer rounds” are true and realistic. 1 out of 5 shots fired from machine guns are tracer rounds to illuminate the target. You can’t see your bullets you are firing but you can see the tracer rounds. By the way, an amazing war movie that was a true story is “Unbroken” I hope you can react to it.
Yeah, there are other types of ammo too like full metal jacket, armor piercing, armor piercing incendiary, etc. I know soldiers who used to open different ammo boxes and mix and match. Like they would fire 5 round bursts (you have to burst fire on many to not overheat the barrel) where it was like AP, AP, incendiary, incendiary, tracer, and stuff like that.
At night you can't see iron sights hence tracers can help. On the downside they draw a bright line right to your position. When I was doing the soldier thing if it was too dark to see our sights but there was enough ambient light to see bullets impact the ground we'd intentionally fire low and then walk the rounds into the target (only works at short range).
Fun fact: Shia LaBeouf went weeks without showering and even pulled his tooth out to prepare for this movie.
It's important to remember that this movie was filmed in 2013 and that was when Shia was in the midst of all his troubles and addiction. He has lost himself and went off the deep end, then ended up with those assault charges that totally destroyed almost everything he had left within 2 years of this film wrapping. I watched his appearance on real ones podcast with Jon bernthal and you can tell from the way he talked about it how much it hurts to know how far he had fallen before getting clean.
At around 10:45 when they are telling Brad Pitts character to stop because there are MPs around.. MPs are military police. They are soldiers first and police second so they probably do some fighting but mostly they stay in safer areas like assembly areas and whatnot. Their job is to keep their own sides troops in line.
The weapon used to destroy the tank in the ambush by the young German soldiers is called a panzerfaust. German for armorfist. It is what is known as a shape charge. The projectile is essentially a nose cone for keeping the payload aerodynamic, and the back half of the cone/projectile is lined with copper kind of like a funnel. Behind the copper is an explosive charge linked to the tip of the nose cone. On the back of the projectile is a rocket that allows it to be fired from a tube. When the nose cone strikes the tanks thin side armor the explosive charge detonated and caused that copper cone to invert and melt turning it into a jet of molten copper that can slice through quite a bit of steel. When that jet of copper contacts the tanks ammunition and ignited the propellant it goes up in flames very very quickly. Shape charges first showed up in World War Two and are still very widely used today.
This movie takes place in 1945 towards the end of the war in Germany. D-Day was June 6th 1944 and was the initial successful invasion of Europe by the US, Britain, and Canada. By landing in France the allies were able to push the Germans out of France and Belgium on their way to Germany, so yes this film takes place after D-Day.
The movie Saving Private Ryan depicts the first beach landings in France followed by the pushing into France in the days after. The TV series Band of Brothers (which you will most likely be begged to watch) follows the Army Airborne troops that parachuted into the land behind the beaches several hours before the beach landings depicted in Saving Private Ryan. In fact I believe you see troops from the unit Band of Brothers follows in Saving Private Ryan.
The end of the movie where the nazi let Norman live is to symbolize that there were good guys on the German side too, some were forced to fight just like how we drafted young men to fight even if they didn’t want to go they had to. That last scene was basically showing the Germans version of Norman
Considering it was an SS division is VERY TELLING. Most likely that soldier was around Normans age. May have been part of the Hitler youth and was probably heavily indoctrinated into Nazism but regardless near to this point he STILL let Norman go. It’s interesting because you’d think from any of the other American soldiers they would’ve killed the German if it was the other way around. But Norman was one of few exceptions. Even then he was shown the mercy very little people were afforded to on both sides in this war. It shows that from the worst of people and no matter how small a gesture it still counts and matters even in soemthing as hopeless as a war.
The crazy dude telling Norm he's a good man, is my favourite scene
53:41 - I see that german with a flashlight as being the same version as a Norman, but serving the other side. An innocent person who isn't yet tainted by the horrors of war. I'm sure you, Colette, as you go and watch more and more war movies, you'll come up with further examples of how this type of exchange does indeed happen. Take "All quiet on the Western Front" movie, for example (an entire story told from the perspective of german soldiers on WWII). Its not just because its the enemy side that all soldiers are evil. Some still have good in their hearts.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PAUSING AND investigating when you feel interested or confused. so relatable and makes you one of my fave reactors of all time
Agreed!
So glad you watched this film. It has a special place in my heart. Not only is it a Great War film but also some great lessons in it. My father passed away when I was 18 just after I graduated high school. This was one of the last movies I remember going to watch with him in the theatres. Bringing back great memories watching this and also some emotions. Glad we can share them together.
Thanks for posting and creating content Colette.
One of my favorite war films, and I wish they had done a prequel that could have taken place in Africa when they all first met.
Inthe original script, Norman was the name of War Daddy's younger brother, but that part was left out. Which explains the look on Pitts face when he first meets Norman.
Retired as a tanker. The crew becomes like a family. Everything is done together and your crew determines how good you are. The conversations you have are some of the craziest things. Best job I ever had.
"We have so much to say, and we shall never say it."
- Erich Maria Remarque, "All Quiet on the Western Front"
Bernthal's character while extremely hard and seemingly cruel actually displays heart when he grabs Norman after the loss of Emma and lets Norman swing on him and struggle physically.
“It’s so honest and genuine” that’s the perfect words to describe the writing in this film. That scene in the apartment with the eggs is one of my favorites. One of the purest scenes. Just wanting a moment of piece from the chaos. Glad you reacted!
Best sceenes i ever seen 8)
of all the reactions I have reviewed, yours was the most insightful. You re a natural. Keep up the good work.
Good war film, the tank battles aren't realistic, but it's good cinema and it progresses the story. The relationships between the guys though is spot on.
La Fayette's tank actual name was "In the mood." His second tank was "In the mood too."
There are multiple depictions in this movie of how the Germans were vastly outnumbered but caused a lot of casualties with their superior engineering. Their planes, their tanks, and their guns all outperformed ours.
Not true for aircraft AT ALL.
@@ohnoitisnt666tell this to the b17 and p51 pilots who saw for the first time a ME 262.
what i love about your channel is that you look stuff up. other react channels will always say "tell me in the comments blah blah blah" but you see something you dont know and you look it up. Thats so refreashing
I view the Norman and Wardaddy scene in town similarly. I don't think Wardaddy actually was gonna go into the room with the girl. He obviously knew Norman was a gentle soul at heart and wouldn't touch the girl if she didn't want it. The other 2 would have done god knows what to her.
It's an odd family dynamic in the movie. Wardaddy is daddy obviously and the others are brothers. He treats Emma like a daughter in law(?) when he swaps eggs with her and tells everyone not to touch her. The town scene with the women was like a little family time away from war. The jerk guy was kind right when he said they were playing house. Wardaddy wanted some normalcy. He just shaves and eats, and the "mom" understandably stress smokes in the kitchen.
Very ambiguous but war blurs those lines often. If it was anybody but Norman it would be really bad. We gotta remember he very well was probably a virgin as well. That on its own doesn't make it ok, and Emma very well could have consented out of fear, but it seems like she genuinely liked him especially when they sat down after.
TLDR: Wardaddy wouldn't have touched Emma if Norman didn't. He knew Norman was sweet and not alike the others.
"Best job I ever had" line speaks to the feeling troops get at the end of hostile action. Massive adrenaline from the excitement, loud blasts and gunfire, then things slow down when contact is done. Can't help but feel on top of the world after surviving a fight.
They had to stay and fight! 😢Protect the cross roads for as many of their fellow soldiers as they could save.
You are one of the few reactors to openly voice how good we have it here in America present day, and you always manage to thank those that went before us. I very much admire that about you. I understand that you aren’t old enough to remember this, but President Reagan wants famously stated that America is only one generation away from losing our freedom. Like I said, I think you’re one of the few reactors that truly get it.
Another thing about the tracers is that not every bullet is a tracer, in the movie one of the guys says every fifth round is a tracer, so when you see one flash, five bullets have already been fired.
The true story this is based on is actually incredible. The real crew mostly survived the war. And war daddy became an instructor till he passed away after desert storm.
Fun fact: Audie Murphy practically did the same thing the crew of Fury didn’t the end by himself, wounded and on a burning tank and lived to tell the tale, he got a Medal of Honor for it
And he returned home to become a great actor and star in a movie about his WW2 experience in To Hell and Back
Hey cherry as an active duty service member thank you for reacting to these war films. It brings awareness and it helps us have purpose to defend our people. Thank you cherry
38:03 Wardaddy is indeed the tank commander.
Most tanks had little glass lookouts that faced each direction, but the commanders would frequently open the hatch and stick their head out to have a better view. This was obviously dangerous, but the Sherman tank's hull wasn't particularly powerful, so when facing a Tiger tank, it didn't make much of a difference.
At the beginning, the first ambush, you also asked what they hit on the tank that it flamed up so much. The Sherman tanks were well known for catching fires when hit. It was one of the worst tanks of the war, actually, and not really that powerful compared to German and Soviet tanks of that era.
The Sherman actually had quite decently thick armour as was stated in German tank manuals on engaging Allied armour. It was thicker than the T-34's. It was thicker than the Panzer IV's. In fact, it was almost as thick as a Tiger's and some models of Shermans had thicker armour than a Tiger. At the stage of the war that this movie is set Shermans had very low burn rates, much lower than German tanks. German tanks turned into balls of flames when hit.
@21:35
the actual translation of that sign is even a little darker, in the audio they say "I'm a coward and refused to fight for the German people",
but "Ich wollte meine Kinder nicht kämpfen lassen" just means "I didn't want to let my kids fight"
The bullets you are seeing are called tracers. They have magnesium tips so they glow bright when shot so you can see where they are going. Generally there are a certain amount of rounds between tracers, usually 4 for the .50 caliber machine guns. So basically every 5th shot will be a tracer. That's why it sounds like it's shooting faster than what you are seeing. You cannot see bullets that are not tracers, they are too small and move to fast.
16:38 those bullets are tracer bullets. The bullet has an incendiery material in it and it glows like an ember when it flies through the air. It helps you aim machine gun style guns. Basically one every 4-6 bullets is a tracer, so for every tracer you see, another 3-5 invisible bullets fly.
Colette don’t be heartless if you never been to war. You can not tell another person how to react when it’s a lot harder and stressful than what you can say on a movie
My dad fought in that war. You are right about the PTSD effect. His nightmares returned for a while after we took him to watch it. He said it was the sounds. Spielberg's team got them almost exactly right. Dad fought in Europe with the Airborne against the Wehrmacht. His job was the same as Ryan's. Both were paratroopers. Dad was finally wounded the day before we retook St. Vith in
January 1945. His unit was the 517th Regimental Parachute Combat Team. They entered the war at Anzio, jumped in Southern France and fought the Maritime Alps campaign and then were thrown into the line at the onset of the Battle of the Bulge. I'll leave it to your Google skills to fill in the vocabulary meanings.
Good video. Glad to see a young person who appreciates history and can attach context to it. Well done.
The SS tended to exhibit different behaviors. Documented in committing the worst atrocities against civilians and prisoners of war. However, when the British 1st Airborne Division surrendered to the SS at Arnhem in 1944, the British paratroopers all expected to be executed. Instead, the SS honored them as heroes because they regarded them as fellow knights for their brave defense. The British had held out out for several days against German tanks at incredible odds even without many heavy weapons. That's the story told in the movie, "A Bridge Too Far."
I also think that this SS was probably very impressed by the fight that they put up and spared him out of respect.
34:15 -- RE: "Like, that's just PTSD I guess..."; One of the aspects of World War 2 which this film does not address is that, as was indicated in the narrative a few moments ago, these men had been fighting for 8 or 9 months nearly non-stop from France into Germany, with a "shortcut" through Belgium which went Kaput. The only way that this was possible was through chemical enhancement, sometimes in the form of "pep pills" like benzedrine and sometimes after they'd been taken to a medical station and given some psychiatric treatment as first aid. They're also self medicating with alcohol. They're not properly into the "Post" phase of the trauma yet, and that's why they're anxious to bust up the party with War Daddy and Norman.
Your love and appreciation of and for men is evident in all your war movie reactions.
It's a refreshing and extremely welcome break from the norm.
Never lose that beautiful trait.
The far majority of both men and women love and appreciate the opposite gender. It’s only a toxic small minority of men and women who don’t, we shouldn’t. Exggerate that.
Those laser-looking bullets are called tracer-fire. Usually used by burning phosphorus of some kind, they help see where you are shooting. they're generally saved for machine guns, as the recoil tends to make aiming hard. As well, for tanks, there are different types of rounds to deal with different things. HE, or high explosive is generally used to blow holes in walls and buildings, and to take out enemy infantry or gun emplacements. Armor piercing has several subtypes, but the whole overarching category of AP is used to destroy vehicles. I hope this helps!
@Colette, a lot of military ammunition that is designed to be fired in rapid succession will have what's called a "tracer" round among them. What that means is every 5th bullet you fire (for example as it could be every 10th or every 3rd) is coated in chemicals that burn brightly when fired from a gun so the round actually lights up when you fire it. The point is to see where the bullets are going so you can adjust your aim as needed. Most of the bullets you can't see because they are traveling so fast, but the tracer rounds interspersed among them are the red lights you see that look like laser shots. The disadvantage can be it also shows the enemy where you are firing from since the tracer bullet lights up as soon as it leaves the barrel
I'm not sure how many but it's called a tracer round maybe every 10 bullets or so a tracer round will go out so it gives you an idea of where you are firing.
🤔 Yes, There is a bit of weirdness in the dinner scene. It's wholesome but at the same time scary because it is two men with guns in these women's apartment😮 But it's also norman, Who's the least corrupt(in terms of war) But it feels like it's War Daddy trying to find his humanity but can't(At least not to the fullest😬) And as for the other guys that come in later, Yes, it's pretty obvious they're suffering from PTSD(Which wasn't a medical term back then😮) but They are also angry that they're seeing War Daddy choose Norman to "play house" And leaving them out. That's why that whole scene becomes so Intense, even though they're close with each other😮 Something to think about
True that!
I served 2 tours in Iraq. The soldier, above all others, prays for peace. It's the civilians that derive joy and pleasure from the games and movies of war. In real life, "Call of Duty "isn't fun,... just a reminder of lesser times. God help us please.
theres actually some backstory for war daddy those scars on his back are from a car accident back home he was drunk and had his girlfriend and brother in the car. they died and he lived and had the choice of either jail or the military. its part of why he feels so protective of norman he reminds him his brother and when he say this is my home referring to the tank he actually means it. he felt dying was the only was to gain redemption for what he had done
i'd recommend looking up some of the heartwarming moments from the war, there is one about a german officer that sacrificed himself trying to help a wounded enemy soldier among many others.
Also its insanely wild to me that you said them fighting that SS battalion at the end was so unnecessary, like as if you weren't actually paying attention to the plot and you were just watching an action movie. They were protecting a ton of supplies and people that could not have fought that battalion. Thats why those medics called Norman a hero, because they saved so many people.
Finally someone said it😂😂
no need to get riled up though, mistakes happen
13:05 the thing they shot at the tank was called a Panzerfaust. It’s an anti tank RPG (rocket propelled grenade). It went through the tanks side armor then blew up, causing the fire and explosion.
21:07 when there are a lot of planes moving into the not so many planes, it is probably b17 flying fortresses’s or b24 Mitchell bombers that are the “lot of planes,” and the “not so many planes” are German Messerschmitt Bf109 fighters or Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighters try to intercept the bombers attacking Germany. These bombing runs happened all the time, especially towards the end of the war.
All the times you saw kids fighting for Germany, it was probably the Hitler Youth. These were kids who either signed up to be part of the program or were pretty much forced to sign up. It was a program who taught kids how fight in order for them to be future soldiers. They had them do things like manning AA guns ( anti air guns) when the allies would have bombing runs on Germany or German occupied territory. And especially towards the end of the war they would have the hitler youth fight in many places, even the front lines
37:00 the reason that Wardaddy wanted to move towards the German tank was to flank it. The German tank in this movie is a Tiger tank. It had very think frontal armor, but its side armor and rear armor were not so strong. But in this movie, the tank Fury ( the one that Wardaddy, Norman, and the rest of his crew are in) is depicted as having a 76mm cannon. Unlike many other Sherman tanks, ( Sherman’s are the American tanks in this movie) which had a 75mm cannon, the 76mm cannon could fire a shell that was capable of penetrating the frontal armor of the Tiger. Shooting a tiger from the rear was always an easier way to kill it if you could get around it easily, but the way they rushed the tiger they could have penetrated its frontal armor and taken it out that way too. The tiger had strong frontal armor but weaker armor on the sides and rear.
37:26 the tiger had a larger gun than the Sherman tanks, having an 88mm unlike Sherman 75 or 76 mm cannons. Depending on the round the Tiger tank fires, its shells could move up to 930 meters per second, which is a little over 2000 miles an hour. Sherman tanks could fire a round about 792 meters per second or lower, which is 1771 miles an hour.
Bazinga!
I'm surprised that the new kid was the only Survivor. Good for him 👏🏿.
21:30 the german luftwaffe only had a small amount of planes when this movie was happening, the allies would do bombing raids of dozens or hundereds of bombers at a time, and the luftwaffe couldnt only scramble just a small handful to do what they could. It just shows the desperation germany faced at the end of the war
In regards to how the AT guns couldnt hit the tanks, same thing, alot of equipment was old, scopes could be damaged and unable to be replaced due to the factories being bombed, and most importantly the experienced troops are either dead or captured leaving inexperienced new conscripts to fight
Lets be honest though, if they'd actually been dumb enough to drive out into a huge open field the AT guns would've knocked all of them out before they even made it half way. Fury is a great film but a terrible war film.
That ending scene with the german not saying anything when he spotted Norman.. Stuff like that actually happened on both sides. You should look up that german pilot that saved 3-4 americans in a bomber plane. He could have killed them all but saved them instead. Pretty sure stuff like that happens all the time but we the public both now and history/future rarely hear about it.
People would be amazed how just the little bit of humanity is needed to have immense good impact. As a Christian faith in god allows us to have this spirit in us that has us do good. That’s able to have us withstand and persevere through the worst to then do immense good. In fury. Bible says the scripture and prays for the lord to call upon him to do his service. Christian’s want god to use them to do immense good when most of what humans do is immense evil. War may occur but in war individuals can have immense impact and do immense good in times when there maybe none. After all the only way we get to peace and not obliteration is through the semblance of trust and faith we have in one another
Bullets are grouped into regular bullets and bullets that have firework like mixture that makes them visible when ignited, its so a soldier can see where his bullets are going at high rates of fire. you can use different minerals, strontium gives you red color and barium salts give you green colors. preferably you would have bullets that used one type of color only so you can tell which side is firing. yes it will burn of hit by a tracer more so than a regular bullet.
The scene at the end with the german soldier who lets him go when he sees him under the tank was meant to represent Norman earlier in the film. He was a young soldier as well, who was still innocent.
It also represents the goodness in humanity, and that stuff like that did happen in war, it was just rare.
A real life example is in WW1 when Private Tandey from Britain encountered a wounded German soldier at the french village Marcoing wandering into his line of fire. He chose not to shoot him, and the german nodded and thanked him and continued on, its been alleged that German soldier was Adolf Hitler himself.
Its a shaped charge warhead. A copper cone turns inside out and becomes a jet of molten copper punching through steel, concrete, etc.
Good job Colette! These war films are never easy to watch, especially when you are young and "innocent." But sometimes life throws you a curve, and you just have to learn to "deal with it." I was eight years old when I saw the execution of a Viet Cong soldier as it was broadcast on CBS news. In that incident, a military officer walked up to a Viet Cong prisoner, drew his revolver and shot the prisoner in the head at point blank range. The camera man continued to film this act even as the VC prisoner bled to death for what seemed like one or two minutes. Those images took place in 1968 and are seared into my memory like it was yesterday.
Wasn't that the famous picture here in the us where the south Vietnamese soldier shot the north Vietnamese spy. Whi was also accused of abusing a small child which is why he was shot
I don't know for sure as I was 8 years old.
The actress who played Emma was a real German actress. Her name is Alicia von Rittberg. She's rather famous in Germany.
Every 5th round out of the machine guns are tracer rounds, so the gunner can see where they are hitting.
You should watch "Hacksaw Ridge" as your next war film. It is by far one of the best war films out there based on a true story. It is a must watch.
One of Logan Lermans best performances.
this was the most honest movie I have seen in a very long time, the kid admitting he wanted to surrender, and then Brad Pitt telling him bluntly that he will be tortured and to NOT DO THAT., while also DYING? FROM BEING SHOT? a wonderful movie!! 52:02
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My father was 7th armoured 207 signal squadron and I have seen what shells of men come home and some didn't come home, I can tell you alot resort to drinking or drugs to help alleviate pain I have much respect for those brave men.
Rip aly a family friend who passed away after losing his arm and due to cancer gone but not forgotten rest easy big guy.
the ending is very plausible there would of been plenty of young soldiers on both sides that did things like letting other young soldiers go... germany especially as they new they were about to surrender and face some unknown judgment for losing
The actual name of the tank was “in the mood” and I can’t get ever how great that name is.
Another great movie is The Outlaw Josie Wales with Clint Eastwood, it’s one of my favorites
The reason for the men's behavior in the "girl room" is because they went through so much trauma, they know not to get attached to any semblance of civilized life, and it disturbs them when War Daddy lets go of the war, they feel the need to keep reminding him of the world they live in, because if he gets soft, they will die.
My family is German it’s always funny to me people don’t know what sauerkraut is lol from the time I was a kid my cousins and I would play together at least once a year as our mothers who were sisters would get together to make and can it. It’s basically fermented cabbage usually served with bratwurst. The store bought stuff isn’t very good compared to actual stuff but I only have a couple jars left from when my mother was alive. German food is great
I think "best job I ever had" holds meaning in the sense that in the darkest of dark, you find the greatest light. War is mega lows, ultra highs. The feeling of coming out victorious. I just a liiiitle bit relate as a volunteer firefighter. There's a little bit of a culture of people with that "send me" attitude. They want that grind, they want the battle. They derive meaning from it. On some fire ground, it can be a real fuck fest, horrible things happening, in the end of it, you've fought a meaningful battle. The thing is, there are people they don't even get the chance to do that in their lives. So it is a blessing in a sense.
The coffe scene is easy to understand if you understand that the more society crumbles the more primitive we become and we adjust to less ethical values to survive.
“Is this even possible? To fight this many?”
Audie Murphey - “Damn right it is”
The tank last stand is based on Audie Murphey’s story from WW2. Dude was definition of a badass and a hero, got back home and played himself in movies about the things he did.
The 3 are upset because Norman hasn’t gone through the shit the rest have yet war daddy is giving him special treatment
The scene with the German women and the main characters just showcases a facet of broken men during war. Before Norman came along, the tank crew of Fury have been through some shit together, but despite it all, they always looked to Wardaddy as their leader. As Bible said himself, "Ain't no crew that's stuck together like we have Norman. It's cuz of him."
Now imagine being a part of this broken, traumatized crew and one day you see your leader enjoying a moment of peace and levity; with the newbie who hasn't seen the shit they have no less. You might think, "Well that shit ain't fair." So to put it simply, the crew was just jealous, so that's why they were snapping back at him.
I was an Armor Noncommisioned Officer for 32 years: crewman, tank commander, and platoon sergeant on M60s and M1A1s. I appreciate a story told about tankers.
"Best job ive ever had"
The massive adrenaline comedown and brotherhood combined make it a legitmate feeling.
Never forget what our fathers and grandfathers fought and died for. WWII was truly the war against evil.
This was a great review! Your take on the forcing of women is perfect. No other reviewer on TH-cam dared to even react to this scene. Good for you! I followed because of your honest and factual opinion. ❤
The movie is very accurate in portraying the grittiness of tank battles between American Sherman's and German Tigers and Panthers. There is much to be desired in the tactics employed by both the Germans and the Americans. For example the Tiger tank would never close the distance on the American tanks as one big advantage the Tiger had was its ability to enemy tanks at a greater distance. Why give up one of your big advantages. The American tanks attacking the German positions on an open field where the German guns had already taken out 2 half tracks is nuts. They had that field sighted in so all 4 tanks would have been destroyed in a real battle. But we don't watch movies to learn battle tactics. Movies are made for entertainment and for profit. Tank battles on the Western front show that it took 5 Sherman's to take out 1 Tiger. Fortunately, the Tiger was prone to breaking down and Germany was low on fuel. All the sacrifices of our bombers over Germany was paying off.
Yes, a Tiger would NEVER drive towards some shermans like they did in this movie, a tiger has better range and armor. they could just sit in a stationary position at that range and destroy ALL of the shermans, if it is some open field like that. One of my friends in real life is half german and half swedish, one of hes relatives was a tank commander in WW2 that took out like dozens of american tanks during hes day, there is even pictures of him shaking hands with adolf hitler. he never would have done like they did in this movie. he faught on the western front, hes last battle was around normandy before he gave up to the allies.
Another thing about the tracer rounds … tracer rounds are used so you can “call targets” essentially you can tell your platoon or “team” to follow your tracers that way everyone knows the direction of the target also helps you follow your round slightly
Brad stay cus the mission was protect that crossroad
It’s great to see a channel that actually brings comment and insight into a reaction
This is my top 10 favorite Wars movies.
The reason it looks like lasers is because they are tracer rounds. There is phosphorus mixed into the gun powder and when it’s fired the phosphorus lights up so you can see the trajectory of the rounds. That being said what is shown in the movie is not realistic to how they work in real life. But it is a thing.
Fury is such a great movie with a fantastic cast. You check out 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, a really underrated film and in my opinion one of my Micheal Bay’s best work.
I agree with every word in that sentence. So rare on YT lol. :)
The reason they stayed to fight the 200-300 advancing SS is 'cause if they left, the SS would break through, whereas if they fought, they could cut down a chunk of them before dying so when they did break through, it's be easier for the troops in the rear to fend them off.
This was a great reaction ✌🏽💪🏽💯👍
Thank you!! 😊
I really love your breakdown of the story and the characters. A lot of nuance and it's cool when people take the time to understand it.
I'm pretty sure that last fight was the mission they were tasked with. There were supposed to be more tanks with them to stop the Germans from cutting off their supply chain. It's why Don wanted to stay, though everyone realized they were probably not gonna make it out alone. Really all they had was each other which makes their little pow-wow before the fight starts so heavy hitting.
There's another movie by the same director which does a great job showing PTSD after returning to civilian life. Check out Harsh Times, with a young Christian Bale, if you get the chance. It feels just as morally messy, and you can hardly juggle hating the main character or feeling bad for him.
12:56 The German used a Panzerfaust on the tank which is basically a budget rocket launcher.
The story of Fury is based on a ww1 battle about a tank who did fight against the enemy for a few hours.
"Instead of raising alarm, the young SS soldier surprisingly enough chooses to ignore Norman and continue on his way without a word. That act of mercy"
The lasers are called tracer rounds. They’re bright so you can see where your fire is going.
War Daddy was a real dude, drove a tank called "in the mood" and this is based off of a real situation, look into it its epic. He didnt die