Is there a more famous opening monologue in all of movie history? Just George C Scott standing in front of a giant flag giving a pep talk. The story is that they had to fool Scott into doing it by telling him that it would appear later in the movie. Otherwise he refused to do the scene. Actors, huh?
The most striking part of the movie to me was the scene where he visits Carthage. The idea of a modern general listening to echoes of his ancestors is more than strange. Apparently Patton was a strong believer in reincarnation and the movie treated that accurately.
This is probably the Grandfather of all WWII movies. Even though it was released during the Vietnam war, when doubt in the military was at it's highest, it did very well and won the Oscar for Best Picture. The story is well told and the movie is solid, but it's Scott that makes it work. He (famously) won the Best Actor award but refused it on the grounds that the glory belonged to the script.
A great movie.
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I also liked this film.
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