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the accomplishment grin... broderick to freeman when he got the shoes. nothing else said, no questions, and to top it off, Shaw proved himself to the Quartermaster. This movie is just that awesome!
shareOne of my favorite scenes in the whole movie. I show the movie to my 8th grade history class every year (the edited for school version), and that scene always gets a big laugh. ?
shareEdited for school? Do they bleep out all of the uses of the "N" word?
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I remember watching it in high school (96 or 97 maybe) after seeing it in the theaters and multiple times on vhs... and the major differences in the edited version are primarily the violence. In particular, the opening scene where the union officer yells, "FOR GOD'S SAKE C'MON!" and gets his head blown off by a cannonball... the line is in the movie, but the physical image of his head getting popped like a balloon is changed with a quick cut. As for the racial slurs through the film (in particular the drill sergeant scenes/montage), they were left uncut. Which I think is great. This film looses 90% of its meaning if you delete the racially-charged scenes. Granted, I watched this in the 1990's in school... who knows what kind of hatchet-job they show to kids today in order to spare all the little precious snowflakes' "FEELINGS" from being challenged/hurt. Peace.
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The shot of the head being taken off is a quick cut, anyway. If a viewer is not focused on the screen, they can easily miss the shot.
When I taught high school in 2006 to 2012 I showed the uncut and unedited version. I showed it for leadership training in my Junior ROTC class.
High school students are exposed to everything that adults are. They usually get that exposure under their parents supervision. Whenever I thought there might be an issue, I would send a letter home with the students citing the name of the movie, providing a summary, and asking permission before the showing.
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The shot of the head being taken off is a quick cut, anyway. If a viewer is not focused on the screen, they can easily miss the shot.
Sorry. I should have been more clear. Basically the version I saw in school had the line where the Union officer yells... and then instantly goes right to Col. Shaw getting blood splattered on his face. So, basically about 24 frames of film edited out in the version I watched in school.
Side note: The version I watched in school had a special intro from Montell Williams where he explained to the viewer that, "This is a historical piece... This may be uncomfortable... This film is important to understanding America..." and so on. I always thought this was weird, because I saw the movie in theaters when I was 10, and I was the one in the family that suggested we all go see it. Sadly, only my dear mother was on-board with that... so only she and I saw it. The rest of the family watched... who cares? They all missed out, IMO. Peace.
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I understand. I did not mean to suggest that you were wrong in citing the cut, just in case you thought that. I just wanted to point out that it was a very brief shot.
It is amazing to me in spite of years of seeing it how little interest there is in our country for accurate information about our history. Almost everyone appears to desire a shallow, mythical, and blurred understanding about the past. Heck, they don't want to know too much about the recent past, i.e. history of the last thirty years or the present. I am thrilled when I see more curiosity.
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Well, it's like the reporter/biographer says at the end of The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance... "When the legend becomes the truth... You print the legend." That line pretty much sums up the general inquisitiveness of the average person. Most people don't care what reality is as long as they have a bag of Doritos, some Mt. Dew, and whatever inane by-the-numbers sitcom is most popular on TV right now. No joke. I had a conversation last week where I had to explain to a 20-something coworker that there was a man... named Adolf Hitler... and he did some pretty terrible things. I swear the girl looked at me like I had made it all up off the top of my head. It's sad really, but that's what happens when you acclimate an entire generation (and some folks my age and older) to staring down at their thumbs 24/7. Peace.
Never follow a hippie to a secondary location, Lemon.
-Jack Donaghy