A Geek's Reaction To The 'Fury' Trailer With Brad Pitt
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- June 25, 2014
I love a good war movie. Apocalyse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, Patton, and M*A*S*H* are some of my all time favorite movies. World War II seems to be the hotbed for most war films, and there never seems to be an end to the possible stories to be told in that era.
Brad Pitt has been cast in a new war film set during World War II called Fury. Written and directed by David Ayer (Training Day, End of Watch), it centers around a sergeant who leads third platoon in the titular tank named Fury. Here’s the synopsis and you can check out the trailer below.
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Most war movies are somewhat similar in that they always show you the horrors of war. Whether they vilify or glorify it, there’s no getting around that being in war, well, kind of sucks. That’s the thing I’m really taking away from this trailer is it doesn’t look like Ayer wants to take sides at all, and is just getting to the meat and potatoes of being in the war. This is their job and they’ve lost people along the way but they’re not there to tell you if it’s worth it or not, they’re there to see it to the end.
Oddly enough, the film reminds me of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai: a few good warriors against a insurmountable odds — except instead of swords, they have a tank. Adding to that Ayer wants to:
… bring a fresh execution to the genre. What these men went through is worthy of a complex, honest portrayal. This will have incredible, visceral action and complex rich characters. I plan to bring tank combat to life in a way that lands with a modern audience.
Wardaddy (authors note: I’ll be honest, I’m having a hard time with that name), points to Fury and says “that’s home” in the trailer. Since the title of the film is named after that tank, I have to wonder how the idea of home works in this film. The crew lives in this tank and have apparently done so since being deployed in Africa. Whether the crew survives or not, at the end of the war they must leave their home. There’s something very intriguing, and very sad, about the idea of finding a home in a place that feels like the lower depths of hell and eventually having to leave it.
Fury hits theaters November 14, 2014.
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