Amazon.com Review: Amazon.com
essential video - One of the greatest screen
biographies ever produced, this monumental film runs
nearly three hours, won seven Academy Awards, and gave
George C. Scott the greatest role of his career. It was
released in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam War
still raged at home and abroad, and many critics and
moviegoers struggled to reconcile current events with
the movie's glorification of Gen. George S. Patton as a
crazy-brave genius of World War II.
How could a movie so huge in
scope and so fascinated by its subject be considered an
anti-war film? The simple truth is that it's not--Patton
is less about World War II than about the rise and fall
of a man whose life was literally defined by war, and
who felt lost and lonely without the grand-scale pursuit
of an enemy. George C. Scott embodies his role so fully,
so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn to and
fascinated by Patton as a man who is simultaneously
bound for hell and glory. The film's opening monologue
alone is a masterful display of acting and character
analysis, and everything that follows is sheer
brilliance on the part of Scott and director Franklin J.
Schaffner.
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