10/16/2023 0 Comments Tank battles of wwii documentary![]() Written and directed by David Ayer ( End of Watch), Fury offers a stark and unforgiving portrait of the closing days of the Good War in the European theater. His first assignment is to mop up the blood and flesh of the man whose seat he has just inherited. When their Sherman tank returns to its operating base, they all meet the newest member of their crew, Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman), an impossibly innocent young recruit who was pulled from a clerical post to become the tank’s assistant driver. ![]() Over the course of a quick bout of battlefield tank maintenance we meet the rest of his crew: the soulful Christian gunner, Boyd Swan (Shia LaBeouf) the thuggish, hillbilly mechanic, Grady Travis (Jon Bernthal) and the Mexican-American driver Trini Garcia (Michael Peña), who lies somewhere on the middle of the crew’s broad moral spectrum. That commander is Staff Sergeant Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt). (We do, after all, know how the war turned out, for Nazis and combat horses alike.) One of the tanks is not so lifeless as it appears, and its commander leaps from the turret, unhorsing the officer and stabbing him to death. It’s an ironic reversal-the past standing victorious over the present-but one that will prove to be short-lived. The opening shot of Fury, the brutal saga of an American tank crew in Germany near the close of World War II, is of a Nazi officer on horseback, guiding his mount amid the lifeless hulks of half a dozen burning tanks.
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