The Red Badge Of Courage Review

note; I spell condeferate style

The Red Badge Of Courage

this is my revuew on The Red Badge Of Courage (from 1951)

its based on a book I never read and is directed by john huston who did a buncha good cr-p

the original cut of this film was like 2 hours but the studio cut it down w/o hustons consent

just like erich von Stroheim's greed movie

so after credits shown in a book w/o pictures, it shows the authors picture

a narrator sez how great the book is and the writer did it at 22

and how its about a boy becoming a man (like dbgt??)

and many quotes of narration were from the book

if its gonna be narrated, why not just make it a silent film with title cards?

so its spring of 62 and at a base they just do military drills

ur too good 4 me dear ja military fairy! (see monkey python for getting dat ref)

hang on

I think these guys are the unionites

but the best civil war movies are about the southers

what next?

1776 from soviet englands p o v???

so a guy cleaning in the river hears from a homie theres a big battle coming there soon

he tells his fellow soldiers and none believe it

the guy (main guy ) is uneasy and writes a letter

oh f this

im watching in 144p youtube but the writing in in cr-ppy a55 handwriting and hard to read

gotta step it up to 240p

like a commie Nazi

he writes 2 his mom he hopes his service in the battle will do her proud

his droogs are eager to kill their fellow americans

1 guy sez he wont run unless everyone else does

reminds me of the time Nathan Bedford Forrest charged in alone on his horse into a group of union soldiers as his men were too candy a66 to follow

he sliced a bunch up with his saber and got out in one piece

it was pretty bada55

so main guy goes out to think and talks to a confederate across the stream

the confederate tells him to get outta the moonlight so he wont get capped

is this gonna be like Glory with the ferris bueler guy where it shows the evils of the union from their p o v?

later its daytime and one yankee talks so he gets 6 hours extra duty

after da drill 1 yankee longs for killing southern americans

then 2 yankees have a fist fight

but like mma, its just em moving around eachother

b4 they wrap their bodies against each other like centipedes b0ning, the base is sent to battle

and main guy is uneasy

along the way the yankees talk about killing americans like hunting for coons and using a dog

then they laugh at a yankee doing something with a farm girls pig

main guy goes off and his droog talks positive about the battle

but main guy worries about running

lol his droog sez main guy talks like hes napoleon Bonaparte

that was only like 50 years b4 this

so after walking more, the music turns tense and theres bodies on da ground

is this lord of the rings?

just walking to an eventual battle??

so the battle is near and they run

but the next shot has em walking

u can hear cannons

they get metal sticks and dig the ground

then move on

later they get to the battlefield

its full of smoke like d w Griffith did in birth of a nation

some other yankees on horses ride in

main yankees set up as cannons bust the field before em

main guys droog sez he knows he gon bite it and gives main guy something to give to droogs rents

the confederates fight well and force back the other yankees

main yankees gotta hold it

eventually the confederates show up nd the yankees open fire

1 guy tries to run but is forced back

makes sense why theyre called the "union"

if they go down, they all go down

no individual actions

like when they strike and the place closes and everyone loses their jobs

so eventually the yankees cap enough americans to win the fight

but a few of them got iced too

main guy sees himself as good for not running

so now they regroup and tend to the wounded

but then more confederates come at em

theres too may to stop

main guy books it and his captain sez he'd have him shot fir being a deserter

well

maybe if the south wins, he can live there and gain political asylum

after running through da woods for a bit he hears a yankee guy saying the main yankees held off the confederates

and now he's all bummed out

and imagines going back and all his homies who got chopped up are happy

wait

its really happening

it was edited like he imagined it

and he envies the amputees

this guy's f'd up

he chats with his busted homies and 1 might be biting it

the biting it homie goes off in the fields and wants to be left alone

then he bites it

see you in h-ll homie

he aint gonna be in the red badge of courage 2

btw I never saw this b4 so this is a new thing to me

later main guy sees yankees running from something

he asks 1 whats going on

so the yankee busts him with the butt of his gun

at night Andy Devine who was Frisby in the twilight zone and Coyote Bill in Myra Breckinridge, finds him and helps him

he sez the battle was really chaotic and its hard to tell who's who

and hes gonna bite it anyway so might as well not worry

then drops main guy at base and goes off to fight Indians with john wayne in stagecoach

he meets a homie and sez he was shot in the head

well it was a gun wound

but not by a bullet

his homie checks his wound and sez its like a head bump

min guy then tells him jim Conklin bit it

I don't know who that is

I don't keep track of names

I think the guy who bit it

oh and after da battle many yankees scattered and fought with other regiments

main guy gives this guy his item for his rents back

I figured it was dat guy

later its day and droog isn't as eager to ice americans

a fellow yankee sez day before yesterday he was more gung ho

if only he knew how bad the day after tomorrow would be

then they go to another battle

huh

just did some research and found the main guy is played by a real ww2 hero

I never knew of him

he as a big deal and wound up having PTSD

so then main guy goes berserk and runs onto the battlefield and opens fire

but don't get capped

after confederates retreat, main guy and droog go to the creak for water

but at it, hear they gon get sent out to a battle to help another unit

oh and main guy is wearing a headband for his head bump

kinda like Rambo or contra

so they get back and tell the guys their unit is gonna fight more

general brings em to another place and talks to em about dinner

general prays a bit and the men go to battle

we get some p o v shots of them going toward the bursting battlefield

main guy gets ahead and yells at his homies to come on

really good acting

feels real

they get in a line and open fire

horsemen come at em but fall

smoke envelops em and they rush in

cannons bust the area around em

they advance to Glory Glory Halleluiah in an epic scene

they take the ground and the soldier holding his confederate flag lays they as it blows in da wind

good shot of both flags together

so the captured confederates are displeased with the battle outcome

but warm up to their captors

oh and main guy was carrying the flag after the last guy bit it

and a guy comes up saying main guy and droog gon be promoted

main guy gets bummed and confesses he ran away b4

his droog sez he ran 2 but was caught by the commander and was more scared of him than the confederates

main guy sez confessing was good for the soul

then some other yankees come by saying they just fought the real battle on the other side of the area or w/e

and the other general they never heard of gets credit for winning this battle

they march off and make comments on nature

then narrator sez now main guy got over his fear and looks forward to peace

although I should point out that the war is far from over

then we get credits like spaceballs where it shows clips of the film with the actors and characters name on it to music

the end

that was quite good

its clean, but serious

good view on how soldiers aren't always gung ho heroes

good editing

good themes

even being a pro union movie its good

the acting is well done

ahhh

I cant find the words to put it right

I feel like a bimbo

I cant put into words what worked well with the movie in a good way

it just works

ok?

its interesting and easy to get through

good pacing too

john huston does it again

for The Red Badge Of Courage 2 I want the main guy to be captured by the confederates after being sent on a suicide mission by a general who is jealous of main guy's rise through the ranks. after being left for dead and his legs shredded by gunfire on both sides (by order of the general who told his men to open fire anyway even though he was in the way) a confederate scientist (who's Mongolian but living there to help the south as he believes in em) rebuilds his legs with animal muscles and makes him able to jump better than super Mario. he then joins the south and tries to take down the general who had him capped by jumping and crushing the unionite soldiers under his super enhanced legs. its also an 8 bit NES and Sega Master System game where you play as him and go through levels dodging bulets and jumping on people as they squish under you into piles of mush. and the general is the last boss in his union fortress and is in a prototype tank America is building for ww1 but made of rocks as steel is expensive