![]() America was there to do a job-and it did it well. Millions of people died, but in the end it was good. The good guys did what they had to do to win the war. The bad guys wore black and had skulls on their hats. Movies often depict World War II as the good war. LaBeouf as “Bible.” Sony Pictures capture If they don’t-as they’re well aware-he won’t survive the war … and he could get them all killed. The main conflict is the troops’ struggle to make Norman like them. They’ve lived to kill for so long, they’re barely clinging to their humanity. Combat has infected the men of the tank crew. War changes people, and Fury goes to great pains to show that. They fought on D-Day, moved through France and now toward Berlin. They all started off fighting Nazis in Africa. These soldiers have been with Collier since the beginning of the war. Michael Pena, Shia LaBeouf and Jon Bernthal play the rest of Collier’s crew. That’s a problem considering the circumstances. Norman’s first job is to clean the blood and gore off the seat in the tank he’ll occupy for the rest of the war. The Army pulls him from a transport vehicle at the last moment to replace a fallen member of Collier’s tank crew. Norman is a 19-year-old desk jockey, typist and clerk. Sony Pictures captureįury’s principal character arc belongs to Norman, played by Logan Lerman. It’s a psychological horror movie set on the battlefields of Europe. It’s a movie about war’s horrors, how it changes the people and what happens to a nation when it realizes it’s been beat. He’s written war films before-like the unpleasant U-571-but Fury is a whole different animal. Writer-director David Ayer is best known for helming End of Watch and his screenplay for Training Day. Dan “Wardaddy” Collier, an American Sherman tank commander whose main concern is killing the Germans who still resist. The war is almost over, but not everyone is ready to give up on the Reich. It follows a five-man tank crew fighting across Germany. At that point, I knew I was watching a different kind of war film.įury is set in the closing days of World War II. ![]() German Hitler Youth soldiers fired the anti-tank weapon-children no more than 12 years old. A crewman-on fire and screaming-scrambles from the tank, raises a pistol to his head and ends his life. In the first half hour of Fury, an American tank catches fire after taking a hit.
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