"The judge told me to go die for my country...The best advice I ever got." Christ that's one of the most powerful lines I've heard in any movie...period
This actually makes a person understand why he was so eager the hold the crossroad. He had nothing to live for, he killed his fiancee and his brother. Enough to lose your will to live. Why would anybody sane delete this scene?
Why, oh, why they deleted THIS scene?! It changes EVERYTHING! Wardaddy is not some superhero who got his burned back in a fight against a Tiger or a Paner, but because of some stupid accident which, actually, was his fault. He is just a guy from America, who was sent to the war by a judge's order. Which makes him even a bigger hero. Whoever decided to delete this dialog is a complete moron!
Every deleted scene I've watched for this movie made it better. I don't know who got a hold of this for the final cut, this explains so much about the movie.
I can understand cutting the second bit, turning Norman into some spiritual phrophet is a bit dumb, but they should’ve kept don’s story and him saying his brother’s name was Norman, because it explains why he didn’t want Norman to be in his tank, because if he died he’d feel like it was his fault and like he’d killed his brother again
Let's get this straight. Don was from southern Oklahoma and had a girlfriend and a brother who were named Rose and Norman. The three were at a dance one night and Don got drunk and fought a native American descent. After police showed up, they fled and Don wrecked the car that they were in, killing both Rose and Norman. He was then arrested for manslaughter. The judge sent him into the army as punishment instead of prison believing that we would die in the war. Don met Bible, Coonass, Gordo, and Red at tank school and would later become friends and leader of their Sherman M4. At some point in Kasserine Pass, Don pooped his pants after there tank was first knocked out, according to Coonass. The crew was then reassigned to a newer M4A3E8 which was better at tank combat. They named it, 'Fury'. After landing at Normandy, they witnessed the aftermath of D-Day. Before advancing further into France, the army bombed and fired artillery on the Germans. When they moved, they came across open fields of dying horses from the artillery. They shot the horses dead in response. Gordo said that the horses sounded like children screaming. In 1945, after being a sole surviving tank of a battle, Fury's radio turret battery was broken and Red was killed in action which broke moral of the crew. Even when Norman was introduced as a new gunner. To sum it up, this is why his crew is battle hardened and he rides them. He hates the Nazis because they are killers who fail to learn the mistake he made. He shows some level of guilt and is very disgusted with himself. But he put the evil inside him to good use.
The editor really fucked this movie up. If they'd left this scene and the scene with Grady losing it before the final battle, and the film would have had a point. Brad Pitt in the final cut is a John Wayne hero. These scenes show he's dead inside, allowing him to convince his men to follow him to certain death.
Boys on road trips: