“We've Caught A Deserter.” – Glory (1989) #shorts #glory #movie #moviescene #movieinsight #scene

“We've Caught A Deserter.” – Glory (1989) #shorts #glory #movie #moviescene #movieinsight #scene


#shorts #glory #movieinsight
“We’ve Caught A Deserter.” – Glory (1989) #shorts #glory #movie #moviescene #movieinsight #scene

Glory is a 1989 American historical war drama film directed by Edward Zwick about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army’s earliest African-American regiments in the American Civil War. It…

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  1. Sone people think this is purely fictional, but this is actually from a reality show that Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington were on before they were big stars.

  2. According to the film, I wonder why he deserted the army. It was always going to be in the best interest of the black people for the Union Army to win the War. The Confederate Army would treat the blacks with worse conditions. They saw blacks as their personal properties and not as human beings.
    Being discriminated against is still better than being an outright slave !

  3. Its a fucked up one tbf because on one end. The punishment was the same for white soldier so treating black soliders differently would be reeforcing the issue. On the other hand, the punishment is inherently barbaric and a fucked up thing for black soliders at the time. He was fucked if he did and fucked if he didnt.

    Edit: Rare case where decimation style punishment may have worked tbf. Like let them handle their own sorta punishment without killing (being the difference)

  4. Say whatever you want…put it correctly this scene had ah white woman literally ( screaming) in the theater fore 20 minute's as the room fell DEAD SILENT!!!

  5. Well yeah at that time they whipped people who deserted, last I knew, it's still the field punishment for desertion. Robert Gould Shaw and Cabot Forbes were uncomfortable viewing it

  6. Slacks… If you dont respond to calls as a protest it'll be the exact same PD in everyones eyes and no one will know a protest is happening. Hense the one week temporary quota to get people out of the police station at any cost so they can RP outside of their own force

  7. Lol it was the same punishment all deserters got, if they were lucky. Most just got shot or hung. Check out a book called Shot at Down for the horror of WWI British treatment of deserters.

  8. We grew up on this movie in history classes. So glad we did. Not sure what curriculum is like now but we spent an entire semester on the civil war. Such important history, not just as American history, but this was such a unique and defining moment in military history. Mind boggling, impossible to even comprehend the scale of it….

  9. everyone in this film was doing amazing work. people often comment on Morgan Freeman, or Broderick, or Denzel, who were all phenomenal, but i have to highlight cary elwes' performance in this movie. his line deliveries were just perfect. from his lighthearted attitudes in the beginning and his questioning disbelief in the idea of a colored regiment but wilingness to go along for his friend/fellow soldier, to scenes like this where he's learned to respect these men and knows Shaw does as well, and his line delivery drips with disdain as he sees the hypocrisies Shaw chooses, or is forced to choose, to abide by, choosing the lesser evil(deserters were often shot, and this flogging was a compromise, sparing denzel's character while still enforcing military chain of command and showing that desertion won't be tolerated). that disbelief as he sees the cat o' nine tails and says "What's this?!…Robert, not with a whip, not on them." and the mocking tone as he says "I is sorry massa, you be da bossman now…", spells out both how he can see this from the men's perspective, that this is symbolic of literally what they're fighting against in the south, as well as the disgust with Shaw's authoritative posturing in this moment, knowing Shaw agrees at heart but is more concerned with chain of command in the moment, treating his friend as an inferior and taking the 'master' role in this sick game of master and servant that the Union claimed to be against.

    in a production filled with more talent than one film can usually muster, everyone else(except maybe Broderick) went on to give even more impressive performances in roles on later productions, but in my opinion, this film was some of Cary Elwes' best work throughout his career to date.

  10. Actually quite a show of respect. White deserters would be flogged. They were punishing him as if he were a white guy. EXACTLY the same context as when Jesus turned his cheek. Roman punishment involved slapping both cheeks. Jesus was demanding respect.