You're easily the most sincere reactor on youtube. You wear your heart on your sleeve and I always respect that. Some things are worth fighting and dying for...
You know you're in the presence of an elite actor, when Denzel totally commanded the flogging scene, without even having uttered a single line of dialog!
In reality the man that picked up the flag was William Carney, the first African American to receive the medal of honor for his actions during this battle. After picking up the flag he led the way into the fort and planted it there. When the 54'Th was ordered to fall back by the surviving junior officer he refused to do so without first retrieving the flag so it would not fall into enemy hands. He was twice wounded doing so and was promoted to Sgt. and awarded the medal of honor.
Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to holiday in Boston ( I'm from the UK), and, having already seen this movie several times(and found it an amazingly great movie, by the way) I made a point of going to go and see the memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the men of the 54th, and pay my respects......... it kind of made a fitting end to the story of the regiment and its brave soldiers.......apparently the Confederates buried Shaw with his men, thinking that by burying a white officer with black soldiers they were doing him an insult......Shaw's parents said that they were proud he was laid to rest with his men, and that he would have wanted to be with them.
sadly during the mostly peaceful protests BLM and others tried to get the memorial removed claiming it showed the white man being above black man as it has Shaw on his horse above his men
I saw this movie on the big screen when it first came out and it was a deeply moving experience. I especially remember how quiet everyone in the theater was as the ending credits rolled. I don't think anyone left until the scree was blank. Great story that had to be told one way or another. Great reaction as always brother.
The man Morgan Freeman's character was based on survived the final battle, won the Congressional Medal of Honor and still holds the US military record for men killed in hand to hand combat in a single engagement,,60.
YT deleting comments...I won't retype the long comment I made...except for James Horner should have at least gotten an Oscar nom for the music in this film in addition to the one he got for Field of Dreams...that is all.
The 54th wasn't completely wiped out as this leads us to believe. The Sergeant Major survived and several others. One recovered the unit's American flag and returned it to Union lines. He is thought to be the first black soldier to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
The “Give em hell, 54th” will always choke me up. All it took was one shoutout. One voice to turn that March of the Condemned into the March of Heroes.
I've loved Morgan Freeman since I was a little kid in the early seventies. He was on a children's educational show called "the electric company" He wore purple bell bottoms and a red and purple shirt and had a huge Afro!❤
Great reaction - should be required viewing for all high school kids. If you’re ever in Boston, visit the memorial to the 54th on the Freedom Trail (it’s in the credits at the end), and many of the artifacts in Col. Shaw’s tent in the movie were actual possessions of Col. Shaw, and they’re in the Harvard library.
Some of the things in the film were more “stylized” from the historical accounts. Flogging was no longer in practice at the time in the Army, although shooting a man for desertion was. Individual unit commanders did enforce regulations in their own ways, so some punishments were severe. The film is one of the best ever made. The story, the actors, the characters, the camera work, and the soundtrack are all fantastic!
Great movie to react to. ALL the actors did an awesome job. the flogging scene is always hard to watch, but Denzel and Braoderick did great jobs pulling off the conflicting emotions in it. Respect 54.
GREAT reaction to a very powerful movie. Great cast! That war was the first mechanized slaughter, the first trench warfare, the first submarines. It's been shown that the number of soldiers who died during the American Civil War (over 600,000) is roughly equal to the total number of American fatalities in all other wars combined. This includes the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War! It was a staggering cost in lives and it saddled post war America with a crippling debt. The history of the American Civil War is incredible. We should all be more familiar with it.
Colonel Shaw's father publicly stated that he was proud that his son was buried with his soldiers. He wrote in a letter, "we would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers. We can imagine no holier place than that in which he lies, among his brave and devoted soldiers, nor wish him for better company - what a bodyguard he has!"
Regarding not knowing left and right, a lot of recruits, especially from rural areas didn't know it. So, they had them tie a bit of hay to the left foot and a bit of straw to the right; then, setting the men to march, they would chant, “hay-foot, straw-foot”.
The amount of pride this particular group must have felt; beyond just serving their country, they were fighting for their peoples’ freedom! Most of them were escaped slaves…that parade scene gets me every time!!
Being from Massachusetts I walked by the statue of the 54th on Boston Common many times before this movie was made and never paid attention to it, now it's something to be honored and cherished when I see it!
On the flogging scene, I'm actually really surprised. Most people don't grasp that the flogging was actually fairly lenient. Even into the next century, desertion in time of war is an executable offense. The fact the guy was trying to find shoes is, and was, irrelevant, as it was still considered desertion. The fact that the individual portrayed by Denzel getting a flogging would have been considered a relatively lenient sentence.
You're missing the part where their feet were in agony, inability to use, infection because of racist SO's diverting it to whites, so that bit still stands, the white soldiers arent AWOL for lack of proper footwear.
Except flogging was outlawed in the US military in 1861. This scene was added for pure Hollywood fuckery. See the poor black man whipped by the evil white men.
I've loved Morgan Freeman since I was a little girl in the early seventies. He was on a children's educational show called Electric Company. He wore purple and red and had an afro. He helped me learn to read ☮️
Ft. Wagner was never taken, but it was eventually abandoned. The constant shelling by the Union unearthed all the dead Union soldiers buried around the fort, as well as unearthing Confederate soldiers who had to be buried within the walls of the fort. It was said the stench became so bad that the fort was not able to be manned.
The confederates buried Col Shaw with his troops as an insult. When offered to have their sons body returned foe burial, Shaws family refused and said he should remain with his brave soldiers. "What a bodyguard he has" was their response
The bullets were fired from rifles, not muskets. The inner firing chamber of the rifle was had spiral grooves. The spiraling made the bullet spin,, which made the rifles very accurate., unlike muskets.
Yeah but flogging was outlawed in 1861 so this incident never happened. Robert Shaw was a staunch abolitionist and never would have approved of flogging as a punishment. This was just typical Hollywood BS.
That's fine. Movies & Hollywood take a lot of liberties, always hv, always will. Even the couple yrs prior to 1861, the practice was probably going out of use. My point still stands that the times were very different.@@Bellthorian
It IS a lot of pride to wear the uniform & serve your country. The Navy made me the man I am today. Vietnam was a horrible & divided time & we're in very divided times now. Divided times are Not good times. Desire to serve is overtaken by "What's in it for me?" NOT to say "all kids" are "like that" but many. The kids who are out there now hv tough jobs under tough circumstances. The scenes when the guy who got into a fight w/Denzel said "Give 'em hell 54th!" & when Denzel's character picked up the Colors were both emotional. As a Veteran, I'm still moved when the flag goes up & the anthem plays.
I first read about this "Letter of Robert Gould Shaw" in our elementary/middle school library, it was red banded. Those were the books i preferred to read for my book reports, those that were labeled to be banned. I saw the movie later... and it fit his letters to his mom very well. He was so proud of his men and wanted them to prove it time and again but there was such prejudice in that era.
One of the saddest scene is Denzel being flogged with a whip and the teardrop from Denzel set the scene which won him The Best Supporting Actor Award and Brother it was NOT AS EXCITING as you said earlier in your reaction.
At 19:27 I was glad to see you understand. The Army is the Army. Plenty of white soldiers got whipped. You cannot leave camp on your own without authorization.
So the opening Battle of Antietam in MD was the bloodiest day with about 59,000 casualties and the actions shown of the 2nd MA was really in whats called the CornField and would have had corn about 5/6 feet high and very hard to see what the heck was going on. i've walked that battlefield it's an amazing place to visit. When the call went out about forming the Regiment they had so many volunteers they had to form the 55th Regiment. The 1st Black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor was William Carney of the 54th for saving the Colors (Flag) while being wounded several times during the retreat from the Fort After the Battle of Fort Wagner in Feb 20 1864 the 54th took part in The Battle of Olustee , Florida
At Sharpsburg AKA Antietam they said you could walk from one side of the cornfield to another and never have your foot hit the ground because so many people were killed there.
I perhaps saw this movie too early I was 11 and it hit hard I remember breaking down not understanding why coming to realize later it was the aspect of sacrifice and devotion from all corners this movie shows that- to eachother to the country to the ideals to the transformation.
I think you would enjoy the book "The Mask of Command" by John Keegan. Speaks to how how leading men in battle has changed over millennia, it's a good read.
As someone who has followed a number of reactors, among some black, I have found mixed reactions. I can understand the feeling of feeling patronized and not liking the portrayal of certain scenes. If it was me in the person's shoes, I'd feel similar. But this movie does try to get a lot of things accurate to the times.
What is fascinating to me is that Fredrick Douglas' sons, plural, joined the 54th and were not represented? Though, maybe they joined after the exploits of the film?😎
The soldier Morgan Freeman was portraying, I think was supposed to be modeled after Sergeant Major Lewis Henry Douglas. Son of Frederick Douglas. I'm not sure if it was supposed to be him or, as movies often do, rolled up several actual soldiers stories into one character for the sake of story telling in limited time. Here's a letter he wrote his soon-to-be wife; MORRIS ISLAND. S. C. July 20 MY DEAR AMELIA: I have been in two fights, and am unhurt. I am about to go in another I believe to-night. Our men fought well on both occasions. The last was desperate we charged that terrible battery on Morris Island known as Fort Wagoner, and were repulsed with a loss of 300 killed and wounded. I escaped unhurt from amidst that perfect hail of shot and shell. It was terrible. I need not particularize the papers will give a better than I have time to give. My thoughts are with you often, you are as dear as ever, be good enough to remember it as I no doubt you will. As I said before we are on the eve of another fight and I am very busy and have just snatched a moment to write you. I must necessarily be brief. Should I fall in the next fight killed or wounded I hope to fall with my face to the foe. If I survive I shall write you a long letter. DeForrest of your city is wounded George Washington is missing, Jacob Carter is missing, Chas Reason wounded Chas Whiting, Chas Creamer all wounded. The above are in hospital. This regiment has established its reputation as a fighting regiment not a man flinched, though it was a trying time. Men fell all around me. A shell would explode and clear a space of twenty feet, our men would close up again, but it was no use we had to retreat, which was a very hazardous undertaking. How I got out of that fight alive I cannot tell, but I am here. My Dear girl I hope again to see you. I must bid you farewell should I be killed. Remember if I die I die in a good cause. I wish we had a hundred thousand colored troops we would put an end to this war. Good Bye to all Write soon. Your own loving LEWIS
Just finished watching to the end. Only watched this movie when I was a kid but after countless movies/stories/video games...how after these mutha fuckaz broke through and actually penetrated the front lines did not the rest of the army not funnel through and use their sacrifice mean something. Booo this ending.
Most people aren't so easy on Shaw when it comes to the flogging scene. Glad you understand. It was a horrible thing given the circumstances but he was just following military protocol and did what would have been done if the soldier was white.
Perfect film. My only criticism is that they weren't southern, jive talking, ex slaves. They were northern, freeborn Yankees. They all would have been a lot more like Thomas.
I can tell you have never really spent time outdoors in really cold temperatures. I was in the army from 91-95. We had thick winter gloves but it was so cold we were warming our hands by a burn barrel. I burnt the palms of my gloves by getting them too close to the fire lol. If you heated up your gloves right, they would stay warm for a few minutes after. It is something they would have been doing back then.
@@Bellthorian I can tell you're really stupid. Heating your gloves doesn't warm your body. It heats your gloves. It's thermodynamics...it's a whole thing.
First...appreciate you. 23:40. IMO That rhetoric is an overblown narrative man..the stuff about not being proud to serve. There are hundreds of thousands that would proudly serve if called on. That "no one is proud to serve anymore" stuff is absolute nonsense imo. It's what our government orders that makes people uneasy about our military.. like invading Iraq for no reason 2003 (knowing it would create a vacuum of extrimists seeking power later on), extending the Vietnam War for domestic political gain, Native American genocide (after the civil war especially), post ww2 Philippines war etc etc.... Don't get caught in that whirlwind of narrative that we are not proud to be American or to serve when called on.
There was no Native American genocide, that is liberal revisionist history. More people died in the four years of the civil war than Indians did in conflict with European settlers in the 400 years since first contact. 90% of the American Indian population died from DISEASES brought from Europe that they had to resistances to. When you actually read historical accounts from the time they talk about small pox plagues that ravaged the American Indian and how they nearly vanished from the eastern states in five years. While undeniably there were some small scale conflicts between the US Government and the American Indians the numbers pale in comparison to even a single battle like Gettysburg.
As with most reaction videos, you can’t just show scenes with no commentary or interruptions. Long stretches of the movie get videos flagged for copyright violations and taken down. It’s a hard balance for these reacters, I think. The videos aren’t meant to substitute for actually watching the movie.
This is a reaction video - he reacted to it. And his commentary and emotions are real. If you want to watch it without interruption watch the movie on TV.
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These men bathed themselves in eternal glory. May the 54th Massachusetts be remembered forever.
You're easily the most sincere reactor on youtube. You wear your heart on your sleeve and I always respect that. Some things are worth fighting and dying for...
I see you crying at the "Give em hell 54th!" scene... it makes me cry every time too.
@tileux makes it even better. Two angry characters came to recognize one another.
😅😁🙏🇺🇸❤🙏🙏🙏😁🍺🤙🥲😊🤙🍺
That guy was also the screenwriter for the movie. He gave himself a great line!
You know you're in the presence of an elite actor, when Denzel totally commanded the flogging scene, without even having uttered a single line of dialog!
In reality the man that picked up the flag was William Carney, the first African American to receive the medal of honor for his actions during this battle. After picking up the flag he led the way into the fort and planted it there. When the 54'Th was ordered to fall back by the surviving junior officer he refused to do so without first retrieving the flag so it would not fall into enemy hands. He was twice wounded doing so and was promoted to Sgt. and awarded the medal of honor.
Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to holiday in Boston ( I'm from the UK), and, having already seen this movie several times(and found it an amazingly great movie, by the way) I made a point of going to go and see the memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the men of the 54th, and pay my respects......... it kind of made a fitting end to the story of the regiment and its brave soldiers.......apparently the Confederates buried Shaw with his men, thinking that by burying a white officer with black soldiers they were doing him an insult......Shaw's parents said that they were proud he was laid to rest with his men, and that he would have wanted to be with them.
sadly during the mostly peaceful protests BLM and others tried to get the memorial removed claiming it showed the white man being above black man as it has Shaw on his horse above his men
Andre Braugher (Thomas) sadly passed away in December of 2023.
"I'll see you in the fort, Thomas."
Duets
RIP 😢
😢❤️🙏
I saw this movie on the big screen when it first came out and it was a deeply moving experience. I especially remember how quiet everyone in the theater was as the ending credits rolled. I don't think anyone left until the scree was blank. Great story that had to be told one way or another. Great reaction as always brother.
The man Morgan Freeman's character was based on survived the final battle, won the Congressional Medal of Honor and still holds the US military record for men killed in hand to hand combat in a single engagement,,60.
I cry every time when Denzel picks up the flag. Great film.
Denzel won best supporting actor for the role. Great film!
YT deleting comments...I won't retype the long comment I made...except for James Horner should have at least gotten an Oscar nom for the music in this film in addition to the one he got for Field of Dreams...that is all.
Glory brings me to tears every time
Love Glory! All the actors are fantastic & the sound track brings me to tears everytime I watch it.
RIP Andre Braugher.
"I'll see you in the fort, Thomas."
Andre was a great actor. Have you seen Primal Fear ? It's the first film I ever saw him in. It also stars Richard Gere ☮️
Glory will always have a special place in my heart.
The 54th wasn't completely wiped out as this leads us to believe. The Sergeant Major survived and several others. One recovered the unit's American flag and returned it to Union lines. He is thought to be the first black soldier to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
Youre right, usually the Colonel fights in the back but Shaw led his men OG style. ❤
The “Give em hell, 54th” will always choke me up. All it took was one shoutout. One voice to turn that March of the Condemned into the March of Heroes.
I've loved Morgan Freeman since I was a little kid in the early seventies. He was on a children's educational show called "the electric company" He wore purple bell bottoms and a red and purple shirt and had a huge Afro!❤
Easy Reader.
Great reaction - should be required viewing for all high school kids. If you’re ever in Boston, visit the memorial to the 54th on the Freedom Trail (it’s in the credits at the end), and many of the artifacts in Col. Shaw’s tent in the movie were actual possessions of Col. Shaw, and they’re in the Harvard library.
"He's gotta have something to be able to move up to captain."
The kill rate in that war was unlike anything we'd seen then or since.
Some of the things in the film were more “stylized” from the historical accounts.
Flogging was no longer in practice at the time in the Army, although shooting a man for desertion was. Individual unit commanders did enforce regulations in their own ways, so some punishments were severe.
The film is one of the best ever made. The story, the actors, the characters, the camera work, and the soundtrack are all fantastic!
This movie never fails to bring a tear to my eye.
Glad to see you watch this one. It’s one of my favorites.
"We want our folks to know that we died standing up facing the enemy, amongst those who are fighting against our oppression!
Great movie to react to. ALL the actors did an awesome job. the flogging scene is always hard to watch, but Denzel and Braoderick did great jobs pulling off the conflicting emotions in it. Respect 54.
Great movie. Give em hell 54th! gets me every time. They didn’t win but they won their glory.
GREAT reaction to a very powerful movie. Great cast!
That war was the first mechanized slaughter, the first trench warfare, the first submarines. It's been shown that the number of soldiers who died during the American Civil War (over 600,000) is roughly equal to the total number of American fatalities in all other wars combined. This includes the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War! It was a staggering cost in lives and it saddled post war America with a crippling debt.
The history of the American Civil War is incredible. We should all be more familiar with it.
Denzel insisted that they actually whip him, (not with a bullwhip obviously,) so he could feel the scene.
Colonel Shaw's father publicly stated that he was proud that his son was buried with his soldiers. He wrote in a letter, "we would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers. We can imagine no holier place than that in which he lies, among his brave and devoted soldiers, nor wish him for better company - what a bodyguard he has!"
During the parade, the salute given by that sergeant was nothing but the highest respect to his men.
"Give'em Hell 54th !!! Gets us every time !!! Don't think you can watch it a second or third time and not cry at that same scene.
Regarding not knowing left and right, a lot of recruits, especially from rural areas didn't know it. So, they had them tie a bit of hay to the left foot and a bit of straw to the right; then, setting the men to march, they would chant, “hay-foot, straw-foot”.
Such a great movie, and a great story. Thank you for sharing this one. 🙂
Great writing and even better acting. It brings this piece of history to life.
The amount of pride this particular group must have felt; beyond just serving their country, they were fighting for their peoples’ freedom! Most of them were escaped slaves…that parade scene gets me every time!!
Being from Massachusetts I walked by the statue of the 54th on Boston Common many times before this movie was made and never paid attention to it, now it's something to be honored and cherished when I see it!
Denzel was brilliant in "A SOLDIERS STORY" too.
Great reaction. This movie was superb. All the acting was great, but Denzel was on a whole other level.
A Classic! An absolute travesty it was not nominated for best picture!
Funny enough, I have ran miles upon miles since my army days and I have ran to this movies' soundtrack since like 19years old🙃 And still do at 47😂
Best reaction I've seen of this movie. And, you have a terrific smile 😊👍
On the flogging scene, I'm actually really surprised. Most people don't grasp that the flogging was actually fairly lenient. Even into the next century, desertion in time of war is an executable offense. The fact the guy was trying to find shoes is, and was, irrelevant, as it was still considered desertion. The fact that the individual portrayed by Denzel getting a flogging would have been considered a relatively lenient sentence.
You're missing the part where their feet were in agony, inability to use, infection because of racist SO's
diverting it to whites, so that bit still stands, the white soldiers arent AWOL for lack of proper footwear.
Except flogging was outlawed in the US military in 1861. This scene was added for pure Hollywood fuckery. See the poor black man whipped by the evil white men.
There were so many men who signed up for the 54th Massachusetts they had to make the 55th!
I've loved Morgan Freeman since I was a little girl in the early seventies. He was on a children's educational show called Electric Company. He wore purple and red and had an afro. He helped me learn to read ☮️
Ft. Wagner was never taken, but it was eventually abandoned. The constant shelling by the Union unearthed all the dead Union soldiers buried around the fort, as well as unearthing Confederate soldiers who had to be buried within the walls of the fort. It was said the stench became so bad that the fort was not able to be manned.
The confederates buried Col Shaw with his troops as an insult. When offered to have their sons body returned foe burial, Shaws family refused and said he should remain with his brave soldiers. "What a bodyguard he has" was their response
That’s beautiful
The bullets were fired from rifles, not muskets. The inner firing chamber of the rifle was had spiral grooves.
The spiraling made the bullet spin,, which made the rifles very accurate., unlike muskets.
You might like another early DW movie, A Soldier’s Story.
Such a great movie. The 54th Massachusetts were so good, brave and inspiring.
Morgan was great in Amistad as well.
Yeah I watched that. He was so good. you can check it out th-cam.com/video/e0wlR9WpwrI/w-d-xo.html
Amazing how Flogging was common punishment in the Army & Navy back then. Different times for sure.
Yeah but flogging was outlawed in 1861 so this incident never happened. Robert Shaw was a staunch abolitionist and never would have approved of flogging as a punishment. This was just typical Hollywood BS.
That's fine. Movies & Hollywood take a lot of liberties, always hv, always will. Even the couple yrs prior to 1861, the practice was probably going out of use. My point still stands that the times were very different.@@Bellthorian
It IS a lot of pride to wear the uniform & serve your country. The Navy made me the man I am today. Vietnam was a horrible & divided time & we're in very divided times now. Divided times are Not good times. Desire to serve is overtaken by "What's in it for me?" NOT to say "all kids" are "like that" but many. The kids who are out there now hv tough jobs under tough circumstances. The scenes when the guy who got into a fight w/Denzel said "Give 'em hell 54th!" & when Denzel's character picked up the Colors were both emotional. As a Veteran, I'm still moved when the flag goes up & the anthem plays.
Strong men bring good times. Good times creates weak men. Weak men create bad times.
worthy of a night in the afterlife with leonidas and the 300 epic reaction
Everyone in this movie was spectacular 🎉
A top notch movie with stellar performances by all!
I first read about this "Letter of Robert Gould Shaw" in our elementary/middle school library, it was red banded. Those were the books i preferred to read for my book reports, those that were labeled to be banned. I saw the movie later... and it fit his letters to his mom very well. He was so proud of his men and wanted them to prove it time and again but there was such prejudice in that era.
Btw, Col. Shaw was only 25.
Man that's incredible!
That's what a ground pounder dose is march forward
My favorite character is the background white officer with the wide brimmed hat.
One of the saddest scene is Denzel being flogged with a whip and the teardrop from Denzel set the scene which won him The Best Supporting Actor Award and Brother it was NOT AS EXCITING as you said earlier in your reaction.
At 19:27 I was glad to see you understand. The Army is the Army. Plenty of white soldiers got whipped. You cannot leave camp on your own without authorization.
Except flogging was outlawed in the US Military in 1861. Robert Shaw's relatives were PISSED when they saw that scene because it is 100% made up.
So the opening Battle of Antietam in MD was the bloodiest day with about 59,000 casualties and the actions shown of the 2nd MA was really in whats called the CornField and would have had corn about 5/6 feet high and very hard to see what the heck was going on. i've walked that battlefield it's an amazing place to visit.
When the call went out about forming the Regiment they had so many volunteers they had to form the 55th Regiment.
The 1st Black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor was William Carney of the 54th for saving the Colors (Flag) while being wounded several times during the retreat from the Fort
After the Battle of Fort Wagner in Feb 20 1864 the 54th took part in The Battle of Olustee , Florida
At Sharpsburg AKA Antietam they said you could walk from one side of the cornfield to another and never have your foot hit the ground because so many people were killed there.
Thank you. That was the best ever reaction to this film.
Wow, thank you!
Thank you, appreciate your reaction.
I perhaps saw this movie too early I was 11 and it hit hard I remember breaking down not understanding why coming to realize later it was the aspect of sacrifice and devotion from all corners this movie shows that- to eachother to the country to the ideals to the transformation.
I think you would enjoy the book "The Mask of Command" by John Keegan. Speaks to how how leading men in battle has changed over millennia, it's a good read.
Glory always made my top 3 war movies. 1. Platoon 2. Fury 3. Glory. If you haven't seen the other 2, please do. I promise they won't disappoint you
As someone who has followed a number of reactors, among some black, I have found mixed reactions. I can understand the feeling of feeling patronized and not liking the portrayal of certain scenes. If it was me in the person's shoes, I'd feel similar. But this movie does try to get a lot of things accurate to the times.
One of my favorite movies
Thomas vs Trip: Captain Holt vs Detective Harris.
What is fascinating to me is that Fredrick Douglas' sons, plural, joined the 54th and were not represented? Though, maybe they joined after the exploits of the film?😎
Not Val Kilmer. I think you're referring to Carey Elwes. He's most famous for Princess Bride and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
Youre back!
yes sir!
What you do if Denzel looked at you like that? Great reaction, thank you.
fantastic movie!... top 5 Denzel movies. top 10 American War movies.
would have like to hear the soundtrack, you know.
There are accounts of rebels being afraid of facing black troops in combat.
Are you gonna continue the crown?
RIP Andre...
Make sure you read the actual history of their story. And check out the Harlem Boys Chior.
People aren't anti military, they are against starting wars for no reason. Like Vietnam, The war/occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The soldier Morgan Freeman was portraying, I think was supposed to be modeled after Sergeant Major Lewis Henry Douglas. Son of Frederick Douglas. I'm not sure if it was supposed to be him or, as movies often do, rolled up several actual soldiers stories into one character for the sake of story telling in limited time. Here's a letter he wrote his soon-to-be wife;
MORRIS ISLAND. S. C. July 20
MY DEAR AMELIA: I have been in two fights, and am unhurt. I am about to go in another I believe to-night. Our men fought well on both occasions. The last was desperate we charged that terrible battery on Morris Island known as Fort Wagoner, and were repulsed with a loss of 300 killed and wounded. I escaped unhurt from amidst that perfect hail of shot and shell. It was terrible. I need not particularize the papers will give a better than I have time to give. My thoughts are with you often, you are as dear as ever, be good enough to remember it as I no doubt you will. As I said before we are on the eve of another fight and I am very busy and have just snatched a moment to write you. I must necessarily be brief. Should I fall in the next fight killed or wounded I hope to fall with my face to the foe.
If I survive I shall write you a long letter. DeForrest of your city is wounded George Washington is missing, Jacob Carter is missing, Chas Reason wounded Chas Whiting, Chas Creamer all wounded. The above are in hospital.
This regiment has established its reputation as a fighting regiment not a man flinched, though it was a trying time. Men fell all around me. A shell would explode and clear a space of twenty feet, our men would close up again, but it was no use we had to retreat, which was a very hazardous undertaking. How I got out of that fight alive I cannot tell, but I am here. My Dear girl I hope again to see you. I must bid you farewell should I be killed. Remember if I die I die in a good cause. I wish we had a hundred thousand colored troops we would put an end to this war. Good Bye to all Write soon.
Your own loving
LEWIS
How you not gonna include the audio?
One of the problems I have with the divided states of America is like Thomas we need to grow up
Just finished watching to the end. Only watched this movie when I was a kid but after countless movies/stories/video games...how after these mutha fuckaz broke through and actually penetrated the front lines did not the rest of the army not funnel through and use their sacrifice mean something. Booo this ending.
It is pretty simple, Civil War forts had more than one line of defense. They were designed to be nearly impossible to capture.
i hate this movie. it makes me cry everytime. great reaction. keep on rockin
Most people aren't so easy on Shaw when it comes to the flogging scene. Glad you understand. It was a horrible thing given the circumstances but he was just following military protocol and did what would have been done if the soldier was white.
Except flogging was outlawed in the US military in 1861, so this incident is 100% made up Hollywood fuckery.
Perfect film.
My only criticism is that they weren't southern, jive talking, ex slaves.
They were northern, freeborn Yankees. They all would have been a lot more like Thomas.
I hate the shot where they're pretending to warm their hands on an offscreen fire, with their heavy riding gloves on.
I can tell you have never really spent time outdoors in really cold temperatures. I was in the army from 91-95. We had thick winter gloves but it was so cold we were warming our hands by a burn barrel. I burnt the palms of my gloves by getting them too close to the fire lol. If you heated up your gloves right, they would stay warm for a few minutes after. It is something they would have been doing back then.
@@Bellthorian I can tell you're really stupid.
Heating your gloves doesn't warm your body. It heats your gloves.
It's thermodynamics...it's a whole thing.
@CRAZYHORSE19682003 being in the army from 1991 to 1995 is being in the boyscouts.
You just said you torched your own gloves trying to stay warm.
Denzel for sure not. Broderick is the goat in this movie...in character and in acting...for me its his best movie
First...appreciate you.
23:40. IMO That rhetoric is an overblown narrative man..the stuff about not being proud to serve. There are hundreds of thousands that would proudly serve if called on. That "no one is proud to serve anymore" stuff is absolute nonsense imo.
It's what our government orders that makes people uneasy about our military.. like invading Iraq for no reason 2003 (knowing it would create a vacuum of extrimists seeking power later on), extending the Vietnam War for domestic political gain, Native American genocide (after the civil war especially), post ww2 Philippines war etc etc.... Don't get caught in that whirlwind of narrative that we are not proud to be American or to serve when called on.
There was no Native American genocide, that is liberal revisionist history. More people died in the four years of the civil war than Indians did in conflict with European settlers in the 400 years since first contact. 90% of the American Indian population died from DISEASES brought from Europe that they had to resistances to. When you actually read historical accounts from the time they talk about small pox plagues that ravaged the American Indian and how they nearly vanished from the eastern states in five years. While undeniably there were some small scale conflicts between the US Government and the American Indians the numbers pale in comparison to even a single battle like Gettysburg.
@flabbyg33 thanks for the insight, rings true.
Denzel wanted to feel the real pain from the flogging so they rigged the whip to where it would be the same pain but didn’t cut his skin.
I don't know why you are laughing. I would like to put you in this REAL situation in history. Boy... read some history, this stuff is real.
I need to watch 5 min without a comment, it's irritating. Just watch and stop laughing every 20 secs. , Its Not A Comedy. Grow up take it seriously.
As with most reaction videos, you can’t just show scenes with no commentary or interruptions. Long stretches of the movie get videos flagged for copyright violations and taken down. It’s a hard balance for these reacters, I think. The videos aren’t meant to substitute for actually watching the movie.
This is a reaction video - he reacted to it. And his commentary and emotions are real. If you want to watch it without interruption watch the movie on TV.
Enough of the silence. I know some must be done. But almost all of your review? Terrible. Get better at it.