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For 21st century viewers, the white actors may be overshadowed by the performances of [[Denzel Washington]] - the tough-talking private whipped for [[desertion]] after leaving camp to find shoes; and [[Morgan Freeman]] - promoted to [[sergeant major]] because of his initiative in getting shoes for the poorly shod men. | For 21st century viewers, the white actors may be overshadowed by the performances of [[Denzel Washington]] - the tough-talking private whipped for [[desertion]] after leaving camp to find shoes; and [[Morgan Freeman]] - promoted to [[sergeant major]] because of his initiative in getting shoes for the poorly shod men. | ||
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Revision as of 18:54, January 24, 2008
Glory is an historical drama about Robert Gould Shaw, a white New Englander moved by his abolitionist sentiments to join the Union forces in the Civil War. Promoted to colonel, he is put in charge of an experimental all-black regiment of Massachusetts volunteers. His two best friends go with him (a white officer Cary Elwis and a black professor of literature[1]), and the rules of military life strain his friendship with both.
For 21st century viewers, the white actors may be overshadowed by the performances of Denzel Washington - the tough-talking private whipped for desertion after leaving camp to find shoes; and Morgan Freeman - promoted to sergeant major because of his initiative in getting shoes for the poorly shod men.
References
- ↑ He is an expert in the New England Transcendentalists