Patton | Based on a True Story

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344.3 هزار بار بازدید - 6 سال پیش - It’s finally time to review
It’s finally time to review Patton!  I have a lot to say about it, as you can tell by the time stamp.  Way back when I started the Based on a True Story series, the second episode was a bit about what I considered to be the best ones - and this movie was at the top.  I love this film, but for more reasons than most of you could know - so this is going to be a deep dive into the film and it’s subject matter.  It’s ambiguous, narrowed in subject, and just a perfect examination of the man.  As the New Yorker said during the movie’s release, “[Patton] appears to be deliberately planned as a Rorschach test.”
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references:
Brian Sobel and George S. Patton IV, The Fighting Pattons (Westport:  Praeger Publishing, 1997).  https://amzn.to/2u2WI57

MacMillan Compendium, America at War (New York:  Macmillan Library Reference, 1994), 726-727.  https://amzn.to/2m6o4mx

John Keegan and Andrew Wheatcroft, Who’s Who in Military History: from 1453 to the Present Day, (London:  Routledge, 1996), 231-232.  https://amzn.to/2KWv53M

Paul Fussell, “Patton,” in Past Imperfect:  History According to the Movies, ed. Mark Carnes (New York:  Henry Holt and Company, 1996).  https://amzn.to/2J5iGc7

Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, Based on a True Story:  Fact and Fantasy in 100 Favorite Movies, (Chicago: A Cappella Books, 2005), 269-272.  https://amzn.to/2m2sSZQ

Frank Sanello, Reel v. Real:  How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction (Lanham:  Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003), 177-181.
https://amzn.to/2N072BB

http://www.historynet.com/patton-film...

https://dailyhistory.org/How_accurate...

http://jbell2ja.umwblogs.org/history-...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008...

https://www.moviemistakes.com/film960

Special thanks to my mom, dad, and uncle for making sure this was accurate and providing media for the end bit, especially my father (Mark Hall-Patton), who proofread the script as well.
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Chapters
0:00 Spoof
1:16 Intro
2:13 Reality
13:40 Scholarship
16:52 Pro or anti war
20:30 Accuracy
28:37 Omissions
32:41 Disclosure

Wiki:
Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical DeLuxe Color war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, who based their screenplay on the biography Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and Omar Bradley's memoir A Soldier's Story. The film was shot in 65 mm Dimension 150 by cinematographer Fred J. Koenekamp and has a music score by Jerry Goldsmith.

Patton won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Scott won Best Actor for his portrayal of General Patton, but declined to accept the award.[3] The opening monologue, delivered by George C. Scott as General Patton with an enormous American flag behind him, remains an iconic and often quoted image in film. The film was successful,[4] and in 2003, Patton was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved Patton in 2003.
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