Fury (2014 film)
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| Directed by | David Ayer |
| Produced by | Bill Block John Lesher Alex Ott Ethan Smith David Ayer |
| Written by | David Ayer |
| Starring | Brad Pitt Shia LaBeouf Logan Lerman Michael Peña Jon Bernthal Jason Isaacs Scott Eastwood |
| Music by | Steven Price |
| Cinematography | Roman Vasyanov |
| Edited by | Dody Dorn |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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| Running time | 134 minutes[1][2] |
| Country | United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $68 million[3] |
| Box office | $28.9 million[4] |
Fury is a 2014 American war film set during World War II written and directed by David Ayer.[5] The film stars Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Michael Peña, Jason Isaacs, and Scott Eastwood.
Rehearsing for the film began in early September 2013 in Hertfordshire, England, followed by principal photography began on September 30, 2013, in Oxfordshire. Continuing filming for a month and half at different locations including Oxford, shooting for the film concluded on November 15. The film was released on October 17, 2014.
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Plot[edit]
The film is set during the last month of the European Theater of war during World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push into Nazi Germany, a battle-hardened U.S. Army Staff Sergeant in the 66th Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Division named Don "Wardaddy" Collier (Brad Pitt) commands an M4A3E8 Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man, all-veteran crew, consisting of Boyd "Bible" Swan (Shia LeBeouf), gunner, Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis (Jon Bernthal), loader and Trini "Gordo" Garcia (Michael Peña), driver. After losing the assistant driver/bow gunner in battle, he gets a recently enlisted typist, Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman), as a replacement.
The crew, which has been together since the North African Campaign, initially despises Norman for his lack of experience (he apparently had never seen the inside of a tank before) and excessive compassion towards Germans (Norman refuses to shoot a captive German artilleryman, and cannot bring himself to shoot at Hitlerjugend teenagers because of their age), so Wardaddy makes Norman shoot a captive German soldier to break him of his innocence.
The bond between Norman and Wardaddy becomes stronger after capturing a small German town, where Wardaddy and Norman meet a German woman named Emma and her cousin. Norman (presumably) sleeps with Emma, then joins Wardaddy and Emma's cousin for breakfast. However, the rest of the crew barge in and cause tensions while at the table. Shortly afterwards, a German bombardment hits the town, killing Emma and some of the American forces.
The platoon of tanks, led by Wardaddy, gets a mission to hold a vital crossing (protecting a clear way to supply trains), but after encountering a German Tiger I, only Fury remains, the other vehicles being knocked out. The vehicle is immobilized after hitting a landmine; shortly afterwards, a German column of three hundred Waffen-SS infantry approaches. Wardaddy refuses to leave, and the rest of the crew, initially reluctant, decides to stay and plan an ambush.
Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men nevertheless inflict heavy losses on the Germans using both the tank's and the crews' weapons, but eventually Grady, Bible, and Gordo are all killed, and Wardaddy is wounded by a sniper. Norman and Wardaddy retreat back into "Fury" where they share their last words. Norman escapes through the bottom hatch of the tank and hides in the crater made by the landmine explosion, while Wardaddy stays behind and is killed by a grenade blast. A young German Waffen-SS trooper finds Norman, but does not turn him in, leaving the assistant driver hidden safely beneath the destroyed tank as the surviving German soldiers move on.
The next morning, U.S. Army units discover Norman, and it is implied that the German offensive failed because of the crew's actions. Norman is taken off to safety while he looks back at the carnage of dead German SS troops and the destroyed Fury.
Cast[edit]
- Brad Pitt as US Army SSG Don "Wardaddy" Collier[6]
- Shia LaBeouf as T/5 Boyd "Bible" Swan[7]
- Logan Lerman as PVT Norman "Machine" Ellison[8]
- Michael Peña as CPL Trini "Gordo" Garcia[9]
- Jon Bernthal as PFC Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis[10]
- Jason Isaacs as CPT "Old man" Waggoner[11]
- Scott Eastwood as SGT Miles[12]
- Xavier Samuel as 2LT Parker
- Brad William Henke as SGT Davis[13]
- Eugenia Kuzmina as Hilda Meier
- Kevin Vance as SGT Peterson
- Branko Tomović[14] as German Corporal
- Iain Garrett as SGT Foster
- Stella Stocker as Edith[15]
- Alicia von Rittberg as Emma
Production[edit]
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On February 13, 2013, Deadline reported that QED International had purchased their next project, Fury; they would finance the film, scripted by David Ayer, who would also direct later that year.[5] on 3 April production was set to begin in September 2013.[19] on April 10, 2013 Sony Pictures won the auction from Universal Pictures for the film and Columbia Pictures acquired the film's domestic rights.[20]
Casting[edit]
On April 3, 2013, Sony started to assemble the cast for the film when Brad Pitt, who previously starred in 2009's WWII-set Inglourious Basterds, entered final talks to take the lead role of Wardaddy.[6] on April 23, Shia LaBeouf joined the cast.[7] on 1 May it was announced that Logan Lerman had also joined Fury 's cast, playing Pitt's crew member Norman Ellison.[8] on 14 May THR announced that Michael Peña was in negotiations to play a member of Pitt's tank crew.[9] on May 17, Jon Bernthal joined the cast as Grady Travis, a cunning, vicious and world-wise Arkansas native.[10] on August 26, Scott Eastwood also joined the cast, playing Sergeant Miles.[12] on 19 September Brad William Henke joined as Sergeant Davis, commander of another tank, Lucy Sue.[13] Jason Isaacs was cast on 7 October 2013.[11] Other cast members include Xavier Samuel, Jim Parrack, Eugenia Kuzmina, Kevin Vance, and Branko Tomović.[14]
The film features four leading Jewish actors (Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Shia LaBeouf, and Jason Isaacs) playing soldiers fighting Nazi Germany.[21]
Filming[edit]
The film's crews were rehearsing the film scenes in Hertfordshire, England, in September 2013.[22] Brad Pitt was spotted in preparations for Fury driving a tank on September 3 in the English countryside.[23] Principal photography began on September 30, 2013, in the Oxfordshire countryside.[24][25] Pinewood Studios sent warning letters to the villagers of Shirburn, Pyrton and Watlington that there would be sounds of gunfire and explosions during the filming of Fury.[26][27]
On October 15, 2013, a stuntman was accidentally stabbed in the shoulder by a bayonet while rehearsing at the set in Pyrton. He was taken to John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford by an air ambulance. Police confirmed that they were treating it as an accident.[28] In November 2013, the film caused controversy by shooting a scene on Remembrance Day in which extras wore Nazi uniforms. Ayer apologized for the incident, and Sony also made an apology.[29]
The film featured Tiger 131, the last surviving operational Tiger I. The tank belongs to Bovington Tank Museum. It is the first time since the 1946 film "Theirs is the Glory" that a real Tiger tank – and not a prop version – has been used on a film set.[16] Although Tiger 131 is a very early model Tiger I tank, and is not historically accurate for a story set in 1945, externally it is virtually identical to later Tiger I tanks.[30] While filming, star Shia LaBeouf pulled out his own tooth, cut his own face and refused to shower in order to "understand what his character would have been through", angering much of the cast and crew.[31] Filming was wrapped-up on November 15, 2013 in Oxfordshire.[32]
Music[edit]
On November 19, 2013 composer Steven Price signed on to score the film.[33][34] Varèse Sarabande released the original soundtrack album for the film on October 14, 2014.[35]
Release[edit]
Sony Pictures had previously set November 14, 2014 as the American release date for Fury.[36] on August 12, 2014, the date was moved up to October 17.[37] The film will be released in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2014.
Fury was released on October 17, 2014 across 3,173 theatres in North America.[38]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
- North America
Fury was released on October 17, 2014, in North America across 3,173 theatres.[39] It earned $1.2 million from Thursday late night showings from 2,489 theatres.[40][41] on its opening day, the film grossed $8.8 million.[42][43][44] The film topped the box office on its opening weekend earning $23,500,000 at an average of $7,406 per theatre.[45][46] The film's opening weekend gross is David Ayer's biggest hit of his (now five-film) directorial career, surpassing the $13 million debut of End of Watch and his third-biggest opening as a writer behind The Fast and the Furious ($40 million) and S.W.A.T. ($37 million).[47]
Controversy over depiction of atrocities[edit]
One of the film's technical advisors was a World War II tank gunner named Don Evans. In an interview with The New York Times, he admitted that "some scenes in “Fury” are more extreme than what he witnessed in 28 months overseas." The New York Times noted that "Surprisingly, Mr. Evans, who has read the script, said he was wary of the film’s thrust, adding, “I am not looking forward to seeing it.”"[48] The film has provoked other discussions about the responsibility of filmmakers to accurately depict American soldiers and atrocities in the Second World War.[49]
Critical reception[edit]
If memorable war movies mean something to you, open that book to a new page and add "Fury" to the list. It belongs there.
Fury has received positive reviews from critics, who praised its visual style, script, Ayer's direction and the performances of its cast (particularly Pitt, LaBeouf, and Lerman). on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a "Certified Fresh" rating of 80%, based on 162 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The site's consensus reads, "Overall, Fury is a well-acted, suitably raw depiction of the horrors of war that offers visceral battle scenes but doesn't quite live up to its larger ambitions."[51] on Metacritic, the film has a score of 64 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[52]
The Boston Globe's Ty Burr gave 2.5 out of 4 stars and talked about Pitt's character Sergeant Don "Wardaddy" Collier, that he is "the battle-scarred leader of a tank squad pushing through Germany toward Berlin, Brad Pitt creates a warrior who is terse, sometimes noble, more often brutal." Burr explained that Ayer put character "into a figure both monstrous and upstanding. In one scene, he shoots a captured enemy officer in the back. A few scenes later, he’s protecting two German women from being assaulted by his own men." He said, "Fury gives us terrible glimpses: tank treads rolling over a body pancaked into the mud, an elderly woman cutting meat off a dead horse, a woman in a wedding dress among a crowd of refugees. Fury wants to lead us to a fresh consideration of “the good war” while simultaneously celebrating the old bromides and clichés. No wonder it shoots itself in the tank."[53] Rafer Guzman of the Newsday admired director Ayer who "does a good job of putting us inside the tank Fury," film with "all the extra blood and brutality, this is still a macho and romanticized war movie," and Pitt who "serves honorably in the John Wayne role."[54]
It never scales the cinematic heights or reaches the same groundbreaking level as Saving Private Ryan, but it's intensely ferocious and relentlessly rough on the senses. You'll know you've been to war, and not on the Hollywood front.
Film critic Christopher Orr of The Atlantic magazine said that the film "is too technically refined to be a truly bad movie, but too narratively and thematically stunted to be a good one. In a sense, it succeeds too well in conjuring its own subject matter: heavy, mechanical, claustrophobic, and unrelenting."[56] The Philadelphia Inquirer's Steven Rea gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and praised, "Fury presents an unrelentingly violent, visceral depiction of war, which is perhaps as it should be. Bayonets in the eye, bullets in the back, limbs blown apart, corpses of humans and horses splayed across muddy, incinerated terrain. Ayer brought a similar you-are-there intensity to his 2012 cops-on-patrol drama, End of Watch (also with Peña)." But on the opposite side of Rea's admiration, he thinks, "It wouldn't be right to call Fury entertaining, and in its narrow focus (as narrow as the view from the tank's periscope), the film doesn't offer a broader take on the horrors of war - other than to put those horrors right in front of us, in plain view."[57] Chris Vognar wrote the review for The Dallas Morning News giving the film "B+" grade, in which he writes about "War" which he thinks is, "hell," and also "relentless, unsparing, unsentimental and violent to the mind, body and soul. Fury conveys these truths with brute force and lean, precise drama."[58] Kenneth Turan for the Los Angeles Times praised the film highly, writing: "Best job I ever had" sentence "is one of the catchphrases the men in this killing machine use with each other, and the ghastly thing is they half believe it's true."[50]
Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter simply said, "Fury is a good, solid World War II movie, nothing more and nothing less. Rugged, macho, violent and with a story sufficiently unusual to grab and hold interest, it's a modern version of the sort of movie Hollywood turned out practically every week back in the 1940s and 1950s."[59] Peter Debruge wrote for the magazine Variety in which he praised Pitt, "Brad Pitt plays a watered-down version of his 'Inglourious Basterds' character in this disappointingly bland look at a World War II tank crew."[60] The Wrap's James Rocchi gave 4 out 5 ratings and expressed a warm approval of the film which is "unflinching, unsentimental and never unconsidered, "Fury"'s rumbling, metal-clad exterior has real humanity, fragile and frightened, captured and caged deep within it."[61] Randy Myers of the San Jose Mercury News rated the film 3 out of 4 and talked about LaBeouf "who's most impressive, inhabiting the soul of a scripture-quoting soldier who seeks guidance from the Word in hopes of remaining on a moral path. While much has been made about the reportedly extreme lengths he took to prep for the role, the fact remains it is one of his best performances."[62] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave 4 out 4 ratings and talked completely in the favor of the film, "A great movie lets you know you're in safe hands from the beginning."[63] James Berardinelli also gave the film a positive review saying: "This is a memorable motion picture, accurately depicting the horrors of war without reveling in the depravity of man (like Platoon). Equally, it shows instances of humanity without resorting to the rah-rah, sanitized perspective that infiltrated many war films of the 1950s and 1960s. It's as good a World War II film as I've seen in recent years, and contains perhaps the most draining battlefield sequences since Saving Private Ryan".[64]
The New York Times's critic A. O. Scott well praised the film and Pitt's character, "Within this gore-spattered, superficially nihilistic carapace is an old-fashioned platoon picture, a sensitive and superbly acted tale of male bonding under duress."[65] Rex Reed of The New York Observer said, "The actors are all good, Mr. Pitt moves even closer to iconic stardom, and young Mr. Lerman steals the picture as the camera lens through whose eyes and veins we share every dehumanizing experience. Purists may squabble, but if you’re a history buff or a pushover for the sight of a man engulfed in flames who shoots himself through the head before he burns to death, you’ll go away from Fury sated."[55] The Arizona Republic's critic Bill Goodykoontz said, "In terms of story, structure and look (with the exception of the gore), this movie could have been made at any time in the past 70 years."[66] To Goodykoontz review, Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the reply, "Given how many World War II films have emerged in the last 70 years, it requires a thoroughly fresh angle to make one seem distinctive." Puig also said, "Flesh-and-blood soldiers play second fiddle to the authentic-looking artillery in Fury, rendering the film tough and harrowing, but less emotionally compelling than it could have been."[67] The A.V. Club's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky gave the film "C+" grade and said, "It's all very Peckinpah-or at least it could be, if Ayer had any sense of poetry."[68] The Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips gave the reviews from the negative aspects of the film, "At its weakest, "Fury" contributes a frustrating percentage of tin to go with the iron and steel."[69]
Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald gave the film 2 out of 4 stars said, "War is hell. That's entertainment, folks."[70] Amy Nicholson of LA Weekly said, "This is an ugly part of an ugly war, and Ayer wallows in it. Instead of flags and patriotism, Fury is about filth: the basins of blood, the smears on the soldiers' exhausted faces, the bodies pushed around by bulldozers, a decomposing corpse that's melted into the mud."[71] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave 3 out of 4 stars and said, "Written and directed with exacting skill and aching heart by David Ayer, Fury captures the buried feelings of men in combat with piercing immediacy."[72] The New York Post's Kyle Smith said that he "couldn't help suspecting that there's a pornographic leer to it all, a savage glee."[73] Tom Long wrote for The Detroit News and gave the film negative reviews, ""Fury" is a brutal film that too easily celebrates rage and bloodshed to no clear end beyond ugly spectacle."[74] The Globe and Mail wrote: 'Fury...is a war movie with balls of steel and marbles for brains.'[75] Chris Klimek of NPR praised the film and actors, "Fury is a big step up in sophistication. Where it elevates itself from being merely a believably grimy, well-acted war drama is in its long and surprising middle act."[76] New York "magazine"'s David Edelstein admired the film in his own words, "Though much of Fury crumbles in the mind, the power of its best moments lingers: the writhing of Ellison as he’s forced to kill; the frightening vibe of the scene with German women; the meanness on some soldiers' faces and soul-sickness on others'."[77]
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