Movie Reaction - First Time Watching 'Glory' (1989)

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5 ай бұрын

For Black History Month, the first movie I've chosen to react to is 'Glory' (1989). A film following Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, a Union army officer who is offered to command the United States' first African-American regiment (the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment) during the American Civil War.
This film was directed by Edward Zwick, and stars familiar faces; such as: Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, etc..
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@lsbill27 5 ай бұрын

I don't see how anyone can watch this without some tears.

@kh884488 5 ай бұрын

So glad to see a younger generation watching this great and important film. Give 'em hell 54th!

@thetr00per30 5 ай бұрын

The character Trip, played by Denzel Washington, is based on a real soldier named William Harvey Carney. He picked up the Flag after the first carrier was shot down and carried the flag during the assault, being shot twice, he still managed to fight and carry the flag back out of the fort after they were forced to fall back. He survived the war and later was awarded the Medal of Honor. You should look him up.

@johnchrysostomon6284 4 ай бұрын

...only to die as the result of an elevator accident

@hibbidyjibbidyy Ай бұрын

holy shit men have the absolute monopoly on petty violence, and heroic endeavors. what a dude

@socalpaul487 5 ай бұрын

The Confederates buried Col. Robert Shaw's body in a mass grave with his men, an action that was meant as an insult. His father publicly proclaimed that he was proud to know that his son had been buried with his troops, befitting his role as a soldier and a crusader for emancipation.[38] In a letter to the regimental surgeon, Lincoln Stone, Frank Shaw wrote: "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers. ... We can imagine no holier place than that in which he lies, among his brave and devoted followers, nor wish for him better company. - what a body-guard he has!" After the war, the Union Army disinterred and reburied all the remains-including, presumably, those of Col. Shaw-at the Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort, South Carolina. Their gravestones were marked as "unknown."[40]

@PaulSnook-PewPew 5 ай бұрын

the flogging scene is always so hard to watch. Washington, and Boarderick did an amazing job of portraying the mixed emotions, the single tear is the clincher

@MichaelAndrews-uy1gl 4 ай бұрын

Morgan Freeman started out on Electric Company, a children's program for PBS. What a fine actor he has become...brilliant.

@johnchrysostomon6284 4 ай бұрын

One thing different about the south and their triage of patients is they treated officeres before they treated men. The proper way is to go by the type of injury, not to whom you find injured

@golvic1436 4 ай бұрын

Glory is one of my all time favorite ACW movies.

@8301TheJMan 5 ай бұрын

Great reaction, one of my ten favorite films of all time! When i saw this as a kid, i misread the name of the movie at the movie rental, (cuz it was written in cursive and I was like 10 or something), and thought the movie was called "Gory", and after the first battle thought the name was quite apt, lol.

@jaysonb.6669 4 ай бұрын

😭🤣🙏🏾

@OrbGoblin 4 ай бұрын

Great movie, great reaction. The prayer scene is amazing, I especially love seeing Trip choke up, it really shows how the character is growing.

@thetr00per30 5 ай бұрын

"I don't know how violent 80's and 90's movies are allowed to get " lol yes, that graphic. This movie is tame by 80's and 90's standards.

@kh884488 5 ай бұрын

LOL - "Red Dawn" (1984) is rated PG-13 and has teenagers getting riddled with machine gunfire.

@NilezII 4 ай бұрын

3:48 Robert is having trouble with returning to civilization after just returning from hell.

@top_gallant 5 ай бұрын

The guy from princess bride wasn't wearing a kilt. his long coat, sash and sword belt make below the belt look busy.

@gregoryeatroff8608 5 ай бұрын

The Potomac River divides Virginia from Maryland (and the District of Columbia). The Army of the Potomac was the Union army assigned to defend Washington and capture the rebel capitol, Richmond. The Battle of Antietam (September 17, 1862) was the bloodiest single day in American history. Two of Frederick Douglass's sons served in the 54th Massachusetts. I thought it was a shame that all the black soldiers in the film were fictionalized composite characters when we have information about some of the real men who fought in the regiment. The US government initially paid black soldiers less, and the 54th did refuse pay in protest. The government equalized pay in 1864. This was totally unfair to the 2nd South Carolina (Colored) Infantry. You can aim canons. There are live fire competitions where civil war style canons firing solid shot try to crack the engine block of a car at various ranges. A rifled canon fired by a well-trained crew can hit a target at over a mile. I've never live-fired a canon, but I have been on a gun crew at reenactments, firing blank charges. It's loads of fun. The assault by the 54th Massachusetts was repulsed with heavy casualties, but the closing title card is wrong. The Union captured the fort by siege, wearing down the defenses with artillery fire and pushing trenches closer and closer until the Confederates had to evacuate in the middle of the night, abandoning their heavy equipment. The 54th continued to serve through the rest of the war, including at the Battle of Olustee in January 1864. We just did a reenactment of that battle a week and a half ago, and I got to portray a lieutenant in the 54th Mass for the event. Something like 180,000 black soldiers and 20,000 black sailors served in uniform during the Civil War, and were vital to the survival of the United States as a single nation. There were numerous cases of Confederates murdering captured black soldiers, including Fort Pillow in Tennessee and Plymouth in North Carolina. Earily in the war the two sides exchanged captured soldiers to relieve crowding in prison camps, Confederates refused to exchange black prisoners, so Lincoln suspended all prison exchanges. Only in 1865 did Confederates drop their whites only demand, allowing prisoner exchanges to resume. The Emancipation Proclamation was enforced at different times in different places, depending on when the Union captured rebel territory. Juneteenth celebrates its enforcement in Texas, the last state where rebel soldiers laid down their arms. The US government had freed some slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation through the Confiscation Acts and through laws abolishing slavery in DC and the western territories, and freed the last slaves in December 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified. By that point slavery was only legal in Kentucky (where 2/3 of slaves had been freed by wartime action already) and Delaware (where 90% of black people were free before the war and where a state emancipation bill had failed by one vote).

@guyinreallife6035 4 ай бұрын

I know this comment is a bit late, but I saw this video in my recommendations, and I have watched a few reactions to this movie. one the one hand I'm glad more people are watching it, its an important film, but at the same time its disheartening because this was required viewing in school for me, and it seems thats not the case now. which I suppose explains a lot of the resurgence in open racism in the country. We had to get permission from our parents because it was R rated, but I will always remember watching it. The scene with Denzel getting whipped HAUNTED me. its not even that he's being whipped, its that he's been whipped so many times he doesnt even react, just 1 tear.... I really hope more people get a full education on the real history of this country, Im deeply patriotic, but I dont think we can improve if we dont learn, right? anyway, glad you saw it.

@stellaandes759 5 ай бұрын

I wish you had elevated the volume of the movie itself. Thank you for your reactions though.

@michaelvincent4280 5 ай бұрын

Also watch 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner,' a film ahead of it's time.

@MattC-ew1kr 5 ай бұрын

The movie takes a lot of artistic license with the composition of the regiment, but it's trying to tell a much broader story about the black soldiers in the army. The 54th was not the first black unit, but I believe it was the first raised with the intent of actually being a combat unit as opposed to manual labor. I would recommend getting the book "Blue Eyed Child of Fortune". It's a collection of Colonel Shaw's letters.

@capnhands 4 ай бұрын

54th Regiment member Sgt. William Harvey Carney was the first African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor during the battle at Fort Wagner. Despite being shot in the face, shoulders, arms and legs refuse to let the American flag touch the ground.

@1MahaDas 4 ай бұрын

What's all this conversation by the host "PERIOD?" Is this a film reaction or a LECTURE?

@RobinPoe 4 ай бұрын

If you want to see more videos of pioneering black soldiers. "The Patriot" features a black soldier in the Revolutionary War, and the odd circumstances that brought him there. In the end he earned the respect of his red-necked fellow soldiers as an equal. "Flyboys" features a black pilot, in the famed Lafayette Esquadrille.

@hibbidyjibbidyy Ай бұрын

i dont know who you are, but glory is one of the best movies of all time, ill watch it with you

@andrewlustfield6079 5 ай бұрын

Great reaction to a great movie, and a very important movie. Even though they took some liberties with the history--it was for very understandable reasons.

@williambranch4283 5 ай бұрын

A great movie.

@top_gallant 5 ай бұрын

I saw a rebel flag in London Ontario. How bizarre.

@theevilascotcompany9255 5 ай бұрын

It's a extremist racist symbol in Canada. No historical reason for anyone in Canada to be flying those colors except signaling supremacist beliefs.

@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 5 ай бұрын

Very insightful reaction. A great film with a fabulous script and terrific actors. This was a very classy production, and Denzel certainly deserved his Oscar. The entire base premise of the reluctance to believe black men could be soldiers was idiotic, since there was a regiment of free black soldiers in a Rhode Island regiment in the American Revolution nearly 100 years earlier, and the US Navy had black crewmen on their ships all along. Further, by the 1860's, many free black men in the north were educated as well as most whites (There was a USCT-- 26th US Colored Troops--regiment recruited in the Hudson Valley and their letters and diaries are solid reading). As is shown in the parade in Boston, there were obviously substantial numbers of black people who, like Thomas, were also economically well set. For Lincoln, the black community provided almost 200,000 troops and definitely helped to win the War.

@Center1240 5 ай бұрын

A few suggestions- 1) the movie volume is too low compared to your commentary. 2) your reaction is too short for a movie of this significance. It should be two to three times longer. The story is not clear the way you present it.

@user-kj5iu8bs1p 5 ай бұрын

I know I'm late but watched your Glory reaction last night & enjoyed it. As to flogging scene, that was a military punishment back then for both Army & Navy. I'm sure a history geek will chime in w/year the practice was abolished (British Sailors used to get tattoo crosses on their backs to protect them from flogging). If it was prior to events of this movie, was prob added for (very) dramatic effect. I didn't take flogging as "cuz he was black." But, cuz he deserted (regardless of reason) & that was the punishment. Of course, issue was it was on "them" (as Forbes' character stated). But, Robert had to maintain military order & discipline. Of course, Robert grew in this movie (as a leader & as a man). Glad u weren't "too hard" on the Irish-American Drill Instructor, he was a great character. I really liked scene when they promoted "Morgan Freeman" to Sgt. Major & he told Robert he wasn't sure he was wanting it & Robert responded he knew exactly how he felt. Robert sure did being quickly promoted from Captain to Colonel). Going frm Company Cdr. to Regimental Cdr. pretty much overnight cldn't hv bn easy. Glory confronts a lot of issues & emotion (I think u saw that). We're all Americans & our history is complex mix of "good & bad." Lots of shades of Gray (like life). Important to face it & learn frm it (be proud of & build on the good, look critically at the bad). Glory forces us to do that. It's why (in my opinion) it's a masterpiece - cuz it's uncomfortable. As a veteran, I appreciate your Mom's service. Service & Sacrifice knows No Race / No Gender.

@user-hx7wd7wt5v 4 ай бұрын

This is American history.

@kurtwilloughby475 5 ай бұрын

Welcome to the party pal....

@jarlnils435 5 ай бұрын

Their kind of warfare faced a major problem. These massed formations of infantry were created to defend against cavalry. Enemy fire was not a problem for over 200 years, as muskets were not the most effective weapons. In fact, archers were better and in the turkic wars, german and italian musketiers refused to attack turkish archer formations. This movie shows a conflict, where these old infantry tactics are still in use, but the weapons changed. These were rifles. Rifles are very precise weapons. So now, you have a hundred guys fiering at a formation and 50 men hit a target with their rifles, instead of 100 musketiers shooting and only 10 hitting anything. The "low" accuracy of these riflemen was inexperience. They often aimed to high. But after a few battles, if they survived, they were deadly shots and would almost every time hit a target. And those veterans were able to let enemy formations disappear in a mist of blood.

@kurtwilloughby475 5 ай бұрын

I'll see you in the fort Thomas....

@user-kg8oc3pn8w 4 ай бұрын

Frederick Douglas was GOP so most likely the 54th was mainly GOP.

@aranerem5569 5 ай бұрын

Have you seen the movie Tarzan The Fearless?

@johnchrysostomon6284 4 ай бұрын

Just a small quibble it's more rightly called "Battery Wagner" although the battle is Second Battle of Fort Wagner. Even though I'm Australian as my dad was from Indiana I have strong interest in the civil war, and of course the Unionist cause I have Robert Gould Shaw's writings collected in "Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune"

@aranerem5569 5 ай бұрын

Hello

@1MahaDas 4 ай бұрын

Don't watch this movie reaction! Your "host" wants to steal the show!

@jamesgreenhow108 5 ай бұрын

I hope you will consider the following movies of BLACK HISTORY based on true events. 1. "GHOST OF MISSISSIPPI" 2. "ROSEWOOD" 3. The following are all Denzel Washington movies based on true events "Malcolm X" " AMERICAN GANGSTER" "UNSTOPPABLE" "REMEMBER THE TITANS" "THE GREAT DEBATERS" "ANTWONE FISHER" "THE HURRICANE" ......4. " ALI" 5."TILL" 6. "COURAGE UNDER FIRE" 7. " THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN or REDTAILS" "THE COLOR PURPLE" W/Whoopi Goldberg" 6. "KING" "SELMA" "IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT" "42 The Jackie Robinson Story" "SHAKA ZULU" " HARRIOT" "ALICE" "HIDDEN FIGURES" is a must see soon.

@lolly1405 4 ай бұрын

An 18 minute reaction to this movie is almost an insult to the film. There’s no way you can encompass what this film is in 18 minutes. Your reaction to the Sims game was 42 minutes. She had more to say about that game than the contents of this film depicting, a piece of black history.