The film is scheduled for release in november 2014. But the part of the story not being told is that the t34 was possible thanks to an american inventor and. The most striking thing about fury, however, is that the whole thing is based on a true story. Oct 16, 2014 from street kings writerdirector david ayer, fury is actually based on a collection of true stories from reallife army veterans who spent their time during world war ii in tanks, just like pitt. With the upcoming cinematic release of fury this month, the war movie genre finally has a realistic, historically accurate, film focusing on tank crews and armored combat in world war ii. Mind you, these little wwii tanks had one thing going for em speed. In the movie, it was a sherman m4a3e8, more commonly known as. It takes a pretty good film to stand out from the crowd and in recent years. The real american tank commander who inspired the movie fury. The movie is pretty straightforward in its examination of how young norman ellison logan lerman gets broken into the trials and horrors of war.
Sony pictures has won the coveted distribution rights to fury, the david ayer world war ii tank movie with brad pitt attached to. David ayer to direct wwii tank actioner fury, based on his own script. The true history behind the 1917 movie a story shared by director sam mendes grandfather, a veteran of the western front, inspired the new world war i film. Nov 16, 2015 when a story unfolds in the real world that seems like a movie come to life, hollywood studios dont waste time in adapting it. After landing in courtordered rehab for a public drunken outburst and evading arrest in georgia, labeouf dedicated himself to his recovery and used the focused time and. The tiger takes out two of the tanks, leaving only fury. Fury ending explained by director david ayer screen rant. Moviemakers wanted actors playing a tank crew to hear from real tankers whod been in world war ii. Valentine blackwell is a former bionic scientist who quit her job after she was approached by nick fury and recruited to s. The 3rd armored division landed in normandy on june 24, 1944 with years of training but no combat experience. Fury is a brad pitt movie i can sink my teeth into. From street kings writerdirector david ayer, fury is actually based on a collection of true stories from reallife army veterans who spent their time during world war. Fury was inspired by reallife tank warfare stories ladbible.
Its a little hard to know the point of the tank, a movie that lacks a lot of credibility with a cast of characters that would in any real life situation never get selected for such a mission, nearly all of them saddled with some kind of curious trait that would surely be red flags for those choosing such a. Its definitely not just another world war ii movie. The following contains spoilers for honey boy shia labeoufs new movie, honey boy is based on true events from his childhood and young adult life, but how accurate is the movie s portrayal of these events. As the allies make their final push in the european theater, a battlehardened u. The film is based on a true story and set in 1944 and the story follows a courageous group of russian soldiers who managed to escape from german captivity in a halfdestroyed legendary t34 tank. Oct 17, 2014 david ayers fury is not the sort of film that tries to weave mystery and ambiguity into its tale of wwii bravery and the cost of such bravery. Gordo tries to maneuver fury behind the german tank so they can shoot it from behind in its only weak point. The story is about the last leg of the allies marching into germany with wardaddy and his sherman tank called fury. They finally take out the tiger, but they are left alone with a. Wwii tank crew that inspired the movie fury realcleardefense. There is a lot of blood and gore in the film but nothing can really come close to the true horrors of tank warfare.
Fury follows a single american tank as it rolls through germany in the final days of the war. His description of the lone tanker heroically holding off waves of german infantry is what inspired director ayer to write the. David ayers fury is not the sort of film that tries to weave mystery and ambiguity into its tale of wwii bravery and the cost of such bravery. The movie fury, in the words of david ayer the director, who is best known for his film training day starring denzel washington, is the study of a. Fury director david ayer shared a photo of the upcoming wwii movie via twitter showing alist hollywood actor brad pitt together with his costars shia labeouf, michael pena, logan lerman and bernthal in all their uniform glory atop the movie s, perhaps, biggest character the tank dubbed fury.
D when she singlehandedly took down four thugs who tried to rob her lab. David ayer to direct wwii tank actioner fury, based on his. Wwii veteran from gastonia shares war stories with fury. A true story of adoption and murder walker, leslie on. Discover the stories of the heroic gis who rolled into nazi territory in the final weeks of wwii and faced off against an enemy that refused to. Fury, starring brad pitt, a raw look at warfare the. Ayer, fury is actually based on a collection of true stories from reallife army veterans who spent their time during world war ii in tanks, just like pitts tank crew in the film.
Thats not to say that these films arent loosely inspired by real life events, but this statement. Going to see fury you dont get that dreadful, nauseating smell of burnt flesh. The fury was an m4a3e8 not an m4a2e8 as that does not exist. The film fury itself, while inspired by a mixmatch of multiple different war stories, is completely fictional. This will be true for most who go to watch fury, which stars brad pitt as the commander of a sherman tank doing battle in germany in april 1945. Fury, released in 2014 is about an us army sergeant, wardaddy brad pitt and his crew of 5 men. Much of the movie tracks the evolving relationship between wardaddy and norman cobb ellison logan.
Fury was destroyed in late 1944 during the invasion of germany. Reese, mi in the new world war ii film fury, brad pitt plays tank commander wardaddy, leading his 5man crew during the european conflicts final days in wartorn germany. Wwii veteran from gastonia shares war stories with fury star brad pitt charlotte observer. Based on the apollo lunar mission in 1970, ron howards film follows the story of three astronauts desperately struggling to bring their ship back into earths orbit after an oxygen tank.
From street kings writerdirector david ayer, fury is actually based on a collection of true stories from reallife army veterans who spent their time during world war ii in tanks, just like pitts tank crew in the film. They finally take out the tiger, but they are left alone with a busted radio. Ywr the true story that inspired fury breach bang clear. The real american tank commander who inspired the movie. If youve seen director david ayers 2014 war drama fury, starring brad pitt, youll recognize the similarities between the movie and the story above, an excerpt from belton y. The fury tank battalion used real world war two tanks, with the famed sherman tanks. An army officer watches fury, comes away thinking about. More than 58,000 were manufactured between 1940 and 1946. The bloody world war ii action film fury takes its name from the sobriquet of a sherman tank, its barrel emblazoned with and its mission defined by that angry word. Fury takes a couple of hits from the german tank but they do only small damage. It was great to be able to get the wartime tanks, said the film s. The sherman tank that would later go on to portray fury this also extends to the crews of the tanks.
Ywr the true story that inspired fury february 4, 2017 october 2, 2019 mike durand 1 comment tank week in the fighting around hastenrath and scherpenseel, the tankers, without adequate infantry support, performed almost superhuman acts of heroism to hold on throughout the night. Very realistic, but it cant show the full horror of war. One of them is a rookie who was trained as a typewriter but was enlisted in the war. Jul 01, 2014 9 ways fury aims to be the muddiest, most realistic world war ii movie ever made. This past weekend, i saw brad pitts new movie, fury. With his addition to the cast, fury became one of the few films to show. The new russian blockbuster film t34 celebrates not only fictional russian heroes who fight their way out of a nazi concentration camp, but also a partially reconstructed tank. The movie drops you into the battlefield of world war ii, april 1945, and immerses you in the tension, the fear, the adrenaline, the bodies, and the blood. The real fury tank the last stand of fray bentos youtube. The fury tank itself never existed but was based on the stories of real life shermans during ww2, notably bomb a canadian sherman t.
A true story of adoption and murder by leslie walker, which itself is based on a true story. In a sense, fury is based on a true story, but not an individual one. But not every movie based on a true story is clearly advertised as one, which means some stories that seem too strange, too hard to believe, or just too wellhidden to be based on fact slip by audiences. The german army as a military force on the western front is a whipped army, a confident allied supreme commander dwight d. Three years later, he begins to plan his ultimate escape, alongside his newlyrecruited tank crew. In 1943, this motley tank crew is sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a soviet train thats carrying fuel for the red army. A family torn apart also known as sudden fury is a 1993 american madefortelevision crime drama film directed by craig r. The last fight of the crew of the fury would appear to be based on a story by an anecdote by one belton cooper.
The mother of all tank movies online gun magazines. Fury brad pitt plays a watereddown version of his inglourious basterds character in this disappointingly bland look at a world war ii tank crew. According to cooper, a germany infantry unit approaches a tank, which has been crippled. He doesnt play the pretty boy, in fact, if anything, hes anything but a pretty boy. Feb 07, 2016 so this is the real story of the m4 sherman fury.
They were outgunned and outarmored by superior german tanks, but what the american m4 sherman tank crews lacked in firepower, they made up for in courage. The survival of an american armored division in world war ii. Many people are able to watch films set during the second world war and eat their popcorn with ease. Oct 16, 2014 the movie fury should not be viewed as a lesson in history, but rather observed from the lens of how humans, when faced with crisis, regardless of their background, can work together and overcome. In the end of the movie, the tank fury, having brad pitt and his men soldiers, hit a landmine in the middle of nowhere on nazi territory and got stuck. However, it can be argued that fury is a realistic film that is based on hundreds of true stories of tank crews just doing their best to survive, despite being a fictional film set during the final days of the war in europe. War story of the 27th panzers, hitlers heavyduty combat regiment composed of prisoners. A soldier in the tank machine guns the germans and throws grenades at them. The problem with brad pitts tank garrett on the road. Brad pitt, logan lerman, jon bernthal, michael pena, and shia lebeouf all turn in emotionally. Its a rarity to see a cast of actors click so well in a film, and fury is one of those exceptions. Fury, was this movie based on a true story posted by homey the clown on 12915 at 8. The film narrates the life of nikolay ivushkin, a tank commander who gets captured by the nazis.
Fury is based on the true story of a sherman tank crew who stood their ground against seemingly insurmountable odds. The fury tank itself never existed but was based on the stories of real life shermans during ww2, notably bomb a canadian sherman that fought and survived heavy combat from dday onwards until the end of the war. Don wardaddy collier brad pitt commands a tank with a fiveman crew in the storied 66th armored regiment in the 2nd armored division, as it is invading the heart of germany in april 1945 just days before the nazi surrender. Its important to note, however, that many films claim to be based on a true story. Sep 26, 20 fury director david ayer shared a photo of the upcoming wwii movie via twitter showing alist hollywood actor brad pitt together with his costars shia labeouf, michael pena, logan lerman and bernthal in all their uniform glory atop the movies, perhaps, biggest character the tank dubbed fury. Oct 22, 2014 this will be true for most who go to watch fury, which stars brad pitt as the commander of a sherman tank doing battle in germany in april 1945. Instead of escaping, brad pitt and his men, stay hidden in the tank and plan an ambush on the nazis. Bill betts, now 91, was a radio operator on sherman tanks during the. Fury shows just how vulnerable you were fighting in a sherman tank. It comes right after the 75th anniversary of the start of wwii, which began on sept.
Ayers story, the crew of a tank called fury, one of about 10 real shermans used in the film, have fought their way from africa, to normandy, across the rhine and into germany. The fury tank itself never existed but was based on the. Brad pitt wwii thriller fury to hit theaters november 2014. From street kings writerdirector david ayer, fury is actually based on a collection of true stories from real life army veterans who spent their time during world war. Did the tank last stand portrayed in the movie fury really happen yes, it did, but it wasnt in wwii, but in wwi. Don wardaddy collier commands a tank with a fiveman crew in the storied 66th armored regiment in the 2nd armored division, as it is invading the heart of germany in april 1945 just days before the nazi surrender. Nonton film online fury gratis cinemaxxi film bagus bioskop online movie sub indo ilk21 indoxxi. Contrary to popular belief, fury is not a true story or based on true events. The synopsis goes on to say that those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.
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