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, 14:32, January 18, 2007The (excellent!) George C. Scott movie
In 1944, Patton's Third Army rolled through France, Belgium, Luxembourg and much of the Netherlands, routing the Germans everywhere. The best the German army could do was turn and run. The French citizens lined the streets of [[Paris]] to cheer the Americans when they arrived and freed the city. His most famous line was "Lets give 'em guts and blood boys!"
In 1944, Patton's Third Army rolled through France, Belgium, Luxembourg and much of the Netherlands, routing the Germans everywhere. The best the German army could do was turn and run. The French citizens lined the streets of [[Paris]] to cheer the Americans when they arrived and freed the city. His most famous line was "Lets give 'em guts and blood boys!"
==The 1970 movie==
The 1970 movie, ''Patton,'' won seven academy awards including "Best Picture." It is a biographical film, based factually on Ladislas Farago's book ''Patton: Ordeal and Triumph,'' and General Omar Bradley's ''A Soldier's Story.'') It starred [[George C. Scott]], and reviewer Robert Ebert called it "one of those sublime performances in which the personalities of the actor and the character are fulfilled in one another."
The movie conveys many facts about Patton's career, but highlights his colorful personality and his controversial role in the public eye.
The opening of the film has become famous, and is frequently alluded to or parodied. A gigantic American flag fills the screen, and Patton addresses his (unseen) troops with frankness and brutality; the screenplay was inspired by a real speech Patton actually gave.
The movie was originally filmed and presented on 70mm wide-screen film, and had a dimension of spectacle which cannot be fully appreciated in home video.
The movie has been interpreted as both anti-war and pro-miliary; Ebert judges the movie to be "a hard-line glorification of the military ethic, personified by a man whose flaws and eccentricities marginalized him in peacetime, but found the ideal theater in battle."
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