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Wardaddy:I deals are peaceful . H istory is violent.

Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Here's a Bible verse I think about sometimes. Manytimes.

I t goes: And I heard the voice of Lord saying: Whom shall I send and who will

go for Us? And... I said: Here am I , send me!

Wardaddy:I t wi l l end, soon. But before it does, a lot more people have to die.

Wardaddy:I had the best gunner in the enti re United Army in that seat. Now

I have you.

Wardaddy:Wars are not going anywhere, Sir .

Apr i l , 1945. As the Alli es make their final push in the European Theatre, a

battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a

Sherman tank and her f ive-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.

Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds

in their heroic attempts to str ike at the heart of Nazi Germany. Written bySony

Pictures Entertainment

FURY (2014) FILM REVIEW WAR NEVER ENDSQUIETLY - 11-2-2014

11-2-2014 - Written By: David L. $Money Train$ Watts Journalist/Film ReviewerFuTurXTV & HHBMedia.com - David Velo Stewart Editor HHBMedia.com

When I hear arm chair military analysts on network or cable news shows like

ABCs This Week, NBCs Meet The Pressor MSNBCs Morning Joe

say that President Obama cant defeat the terrorists ISIL in Syria and Iraq

without sending in lots of U.S. ground troops they from have not seen Fury.

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When neo-cons, Tea Baggers, Right Wing bloggersand almost all of Fox

News watchers think we should not pull our troops get out of Afghanistan and

should still have a large force of American troops in Iraq have not seen Fury.

When Millennials and even many Gen-Xers think intense and realistic

warfare are on next-generation console video games like Halo 4, Destiny or

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare then they also have not seen Fury.

Warfare rarely gets as simple, honest and brutal than when one watches

director David Ayers Fury. I wish films like Red Tails(2008) was as realistic

and powerful as Fury. The problem with a Red Tailsor Pearl Harbor(2001) is

that they are shot like a traditional Hollywood World War II film were death

is a scorecard. The more Nazis or Japanese fighters are killed on screen the

more and audience thinks we are easily winning the war. And everyone on the

Allies side dies cleanly or with an honorable self-sacrifice to save a mission.

But there are non-traditional action based World War II films like Wolfgang

Petersons classic submarine thriller Das Boot(1981), an equally great and

somber The Railway Man(2013) and even the LA EigaFest 2014 short film

masterpiece Suicide Volunteersthat are compelling dramas that really push

viewers to examine the powerful psychological and emotional toll on soldiers.

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT FURY:

Furyis a perfect blend of exceptional tank fighting scenes while still making

those same action packed scenes evoke a truly haunting feeling that death is

inevitable in war no matter how heroic the soldiers or noble their cause. Fury

had me hooked when we start the film in the final days of World War II and

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we are told that the Germans have now mobilized everyone from women and

children to take up arms to defend the Fatherland. Unlike the Japanese who

were forced to surrender and end their war machine after we dropped the

A-bomb on Nagasaki. Furysfilm motto is War never ends quietly. These

are truly the bitter dog days of WWII because with the end so near no onereally wants to die. But for Brad Pitts steely-eyed and even tempered Don

"Wardaddy" Collier he devotedly believes his Fury 5-man tank crews

purpose in life is to kill any SS and all Nazis until there are none left. So when

Fury gets a new baby facecrew member Norman Ellison played by Logan

Lerman David, Ayer turns your stomach and flips the notion of any World

War II film when you see Logan being forced to clean up the blood and guts

off his seat in the tank. Ayer pulls no punches with Fury and shows Logan

literally picking up the blown off face of his replacement. This also reinforces

how grisly and bloody reminder that tank warfare is like no other warfare.Tanks are rolling deaths because they can inflict lots of death, but also there is

hardly any way to escape death if one is badly wounded. And if one is killed

inside the tank than it may be several hours or even days before the tank crew

can clean away your blood and guts in your cramped and tight section in the

tank. There is nowhere to hide if one gets scared or has doubts you are going

to survive facing off against the superior made German tanks that can destroy

three to five U.S. made tanks in every combat encounter. When you have

killed thousands and repeatedly survived death than Wardaddycan seem

robotic and emotionless, but watching Furyyou realize each crew member has

a personal code or quirk to deal with their almost inevitable deaths in combat.

WHAT I DID NOT LIKE ABOUT FURY:

The only two things I did not about Furywas kinda of knowing that the films

only lead women characters, Irma and Emma, were going to get killed soon

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after we saw them. I thought Ayers wanted the German women to represent

a glimmer of hope and sanity for Logan. And when they are ironically blown

up by their own German forces--we see the last bit of innocence drain away

from Logan, so now he can become a more focused and fearless Fury fighter.

Hollywood can get corny and loves to use death as a motivator to make a leadcharacter complete a mission or goal. Or death can be an excuse to be heroic.

I truly thought Ayer could have let the women live and still get Logan to find

another less contrived plot point to make him as dedicated and hard fighting

and loyal Fury member as Wardaddy, Bible, Coon-Assand Gordo.

The only other thing I did not like in the Furywas accidental way Logan was

allowed to escape the films final Fury battle scene when a young German

solider has pity on him and lets him live. I know this is another way Ayer is

trying to make a statement that not all Germans were bad or predictable evil

socio-paths. I wish Logan could have found a more innovative way on his own

to secure his own freedom rather rely on a random charitable moment from a

German soldier. Logan could have slipped on dead German soldiersjacket or

uniform and then snuck away. I would have really preferred to see that scene.

WOULD I PAY TO SEE FURY AGAIN?

Without a doubt I would pay to seeFuryagain and again. The tank warfare

scenes alone would be worth seeing. But I would go back just to watch the

playful and witty banter of Furys crew. I truly admired David Ayers ability

to establish a deep sense of male bonding and team unity without having to

make their dialogue just a series of dated jokes and crude insults. And if one isa fan of Kathryn BigelowsThe Hurt Locker(2008) than you will be a big fan

of Fury. I can easily see multiple Oscar nominations for Fury.I happily give

Fury$$$$ and highly recommend that everyone should see it right away.

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SPOLIER ALERTTHE WHOLE FURY STORY:

As theAllies make their final push intoNazi Germany,a battle-hardened

U.S. Army Staff Sergeant in the66th Armored Regiment,2nd Armored

Division named Don "Wardaddy" Collier (Brad Pitt)commands anM4A3E8Sherman tank named Furyand its five-man, all-veteran crew: Boyd "Bible"

Swan (Shia LaBeouf), gunner; Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis (Jon Bernthal),

loader; and Trini "Gordo" Garcia (Michael Pea), driver. The tank's original

assistant driver/bow gunner has been killed in battle and his replacement

turns out to be a recently enlisted Army typist, Norman Ellison (Logan

Lerman)who, it transpires, has never even seen the inside of a tank before, let

alone experienced the ravages of war. Norman later earns the nickname

"Machine", given to him by Grady Travis.

The surviving crew, who have been together since theNorth AfricanCampaign,despise the new recruit upon meeting him, for both his lack of

experience, and for his reluctance to kill Germans, especially the teenagers of

theHitlerjugend in cold blood; a decision which results in the destruction of

one of the Allied tanks and its crew. Wardaddy is furious and in an effort to

brutalise the young man and 'educate' him to the realities of war, he violently

attempts to force Norman to take his weapon and shoot dead a captive

German artilleryman, who was wearing a looted American trenchcoat). When

Norman refuses to do so, Wardaddy forces the gun into his hand and makes

him execute the prisoner.

This bond between Norman and Wardaddy becomes stronger after capturing

a small German town, where Wardaddy and Norman meet a German woman,Irma, and her cousin, named Emma. Norman (presumably) has sex with

Emma, then joins Wardaddy and Emma's cousin for breakfast, during which

time Norman discovers that Wardaddy has sustained horrific burn scars on

his back at some point. However, the rest of the crew barge in and cause

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tensions while at the table. Shortly afterwards, a German bombardment hits

the town, killing Emma and some of the American forces.

The platoon of tanks, led by Wardaddy, gets a mission to hold a vital

crossroads (protecting a clear way to supply trains), but after encountering a

GermanTiger I,only Furyremains, the other vehicles being knocked out. The

vehicle is immobilized after hitting alandmine;shortly afterwards, a battalion

of three hundredWaffen-SS infantry approaches. Wardaddy refuses to leave,

and the rest of the crew, initially reluctant, decide to stay and plan an ambush.

Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men nevertheless inflict

heavy losses on the Germans using both the tank's and the crews' weapons,

but gradually, one by one, Grady, Gordo and Bible are all killed and

Wardaddy is wounded by a sniper. Norman and Wardaddy retreat back into

the Furywhere they share their last words. Wardaddy tells Norman to escape

through the bottom hatch of the tank and he hides in the crater made by the

landmine explosion, while Wardaddy stays behind and is killed by soldiersafter they drop two grenades into the tank. A young German Waffen-SS

trooper finds Norman, but does not turn him in, leaving the assistant driver

hidden safely beneath the destroyed tank as the surviving German soldiers

move on. The next morning, U.S. Army units discover Norman, and it is

implied that the German offensive failed because of the crew's actions.

Norman is taken off to safety while he looks back at the carnage of dead

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