@Fogle Either way, it's a lose-lose for him, he gets transferred, he's sent into some entirely different suicide mission, or what you said would happen if he displays the same behaviour in said different regiment, which he almost certainly would, the bloke's mechanism has gone.
Because in WWI, the newspapers would have either ignored it, or puffed it up to make it look good. In WWII, some newspapers leaned left, and made Patton a villain.
In WW 1 the Germans who fought in China were taken to a POW camp in Japan. A Japanese officer slapped a German soldier. German soldier slapped back. The German soldier was condemned to death but the Japanese then decided that it is ok to CONDEMN him to death but actually did not care to execute him and they told the Germans they simply will forget the execution. The Japanese then had a second thought and told the German soldiers they will open the gates of the POW camp and they can come and go whenever they want, travel around and can move free around. Amazing what one slap can do.
"In peace, children bury their parents, in war, parents bury their children" Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484 BC - 425 BC) Greek historian and geographer.
Hey there Tony :D Could I recommend you a book then? Poilu, from Barthas a french Corporal. 4 years on the trenches, recently trasnlated to english if you cant read french for shit, like me. You can find like an e book also on amazon. Hey Im no expert here, but that has to be one of the best ww1 memoirs ever written.
"The film doesn´transmit any message. In any case is a film in favour or against the army. It´s a film against the war, which can lead men to such conflicts of conscience" Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) American fim director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and photographer. Greetings from Venezuela.
One of the greatest films about war and its effects. In this scene the great George Macready, ever combining suavity with a cool sliminess, takes a tour of the trenches to improve the morale of his troops....
Anybody else would make this seem like a heroic visit to the troops but George Macready's Mireau is inseparable from being a slinking, reprobate and conniving evil. Great acting.
Ce genre de personnage ne s'est pas assez fait botter le cul pour agir ainsi! Incroyable qu'il aient pu survivre au conflit! Une ou plusieurs balles perdues auraient du le toucher depuis longtemps!
while most of us think this portrays verdun, mccready resembles more of general nivelle during the ill fated nueve chapelle offensive. the french army had been battered but won back its spine but then to be thrust into such a poorly conceived plan by nivelle that it lead to widespread mutiny. the germans never this. general petain, of ww2 vichy france infamy, patched up the army, forgave most of the mutineers but about 100 were executed to set an example. nivelle was a pompous ass, the glory hound, who had no conception what to do if your plans don't succeed. english general doug haig is given a short stick for the likes of the somme and ypres, but both to his credit he corrected in time to reverse defeats into victories.
Read the book, "The Christmas Truce". The story about an impromptu true during WWI that was started by the frontline troops and how the generals reacted to the soldiers not willing to kill each other on Christmas. Yes, the men and women who start wars should be led up to the front lines at the moment the fighting begins....but will never happen because they are cowards and evil people.
No such thing, the wars end wars lol, brilliant film I was 10 years old approx when I saw it with my father , then I knew why my grandad never spoke about that war.
UN gran director. Muy bien dirigida y los actores realmente excepcionales. El ambiente de guerra muy bien logrado. En 1957, esta película fue de las primeras bélicas que se filmaron despues de la terminación de la 2da guerra mundial (1945). Esta película impuso moda. De hecho la serie de los 60s; Combat! la tomo como modelo.
«Un hombre escribe una novela, un hombre escribe una sinfonía, es esencial para un hombre hacer una película» Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) Director de cine, guionista, productor y fotógrafo estadounidense. Saludos desde Venezuela.
Ok. You´ve got it Caroni100 ! Please pay attention of Kirk Douglas and George Mccready's work. Director Frankenheimer put them together in 1963 "Seven days in may" film. Really good both of them.
I had a very similar experience with a Finnish Volunteer in Ukraine. We fought in Kyiv together and everything was fine. But then he got posted to Zaporizhia and when he returned he no longer was himself. He would stare right through you half the time. He never spoke by himself. His eyes would light up briefly and he would give short replies when you talked to him, but then he went back to blank. It was painful to see for me, who had only known him for weeks. I don't want to imagine how painful this must be for his wife 🙏
@@Frontline_view_kaiser you have it all wrong, it takes a lot of bravery to do the right thing, to live a good and rightful life on the other hand it take just imbecility to be a mercenary, i can't think of a lower thing than a mercenary, a man who die and kill for money is the same thing as a sicario of a narco cartel, there's no lower being than that. Everybody knows that half of mercenaries are mentally ill people and the other half are imbeciles, that's a requisite to willingly die and kill for money.
The German field marshal Erich Von Manstein remarked that there are 4 types of officer: 1- Stupid and lazy. These are harmless, they can be ignored. 2- Smart and lazy. They make the best field commanders. 3- Smart and hard working. They make the best staff officers. 4- Stupid and hard working. The most dangerous type, should be immediately dismissed.
Shell shocked guy doesn't realize it now but this was the luckiest day of his life: the day he got transferred out of that psycho general's regiment.
Probably killed himself later though
Probably to a different psycho general entirely
@Fogle Either way, it's a lose-lose for him, he gets transferred, he's sent into some entirely different suicide mission, or what you said would happen if he displays the same behaviour in said different regiment, which he almost certainly would, the bloke's mechanism has gone.
Send that coward away!
To Paris!!!
He'd be straight up in front of the firing squad next day no doubt!!
Un chef-d'œuvre, le plus grand film sur la guerre de 14-18 ,et sur la cruauté de certains généraux français qui envoyaient des jeunes a l'abattoir.
WW1 a general can slap a soldier.
WW2 General Patton was almost thrown out of the army for doing the same thing.
Because in WWI, the newspapers would have either ignored it, or puffed it up to make it look good. In WWII, some newspapers leaned left, and made Patton a villain.
In WW 1 the Germans who fought in China were taken to a POW camp in Japan. A Japanese officer slapped a German soldier. German soldier slapped back. The German soldier was condemned to death but the Japanese then decided that it is ok to CONDEMN him to death but actually did not care to execute him and they told the Germans they simply will forget the execution. The Japanese then had a second thought and told the German soldiers they will open the gates of the POW camp and they can come and go whenever they want, travel around and can move free around. Amazing what one slap can do.
@@dougbrowne9890 Absolutely correct!
@@dougbrowne9890 Because they favored rusia. look at today 🤣 And us normal people are labled as Natzies by um
Yes, and things went so well for the French in WW1, you know, with the mutinies and all.
"In peace, children bury their parents, in war, parents bury their children"
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484 BC - 425 BC) Greek historian and geographer.
That’s the absurdity of life
MACREADY is Fabulous as the cynical and cruel French general. So is adolph menjou as his superior. And of course Kirk Douglas is just masterful..
Paths of Glory is an amazing film. I highly recommend it.
Hey there Tony :D Could I recommend you a book then? Poilu, from Barthas a french Corporal. 4 years on the trenches, recently trasnlated to english if you cant read french for shit, like me. You can find like an e book also on amazon. Hey Im no expert here, but that has to be one of the best ww1 memoirs ever written.
"The film doesn´transmit any message. In any case is a film in favour or against the army. It´s a film against the war, which can lead men to such conflicts of conscience" Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) American fim director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and photographer. Greetings from Venezuela.
Strolling around the trenches slapping shellshocked soldiers...
Patton got holy hell in the next war
Apparently Patton once beat up a shell shocked soldier, calling it an excuse for cowardice.
@@jhonlewis5758 Eisenhower is said to have called Patton a mental-case.
@@jhonlewis5758 he slapped two soldiers.
@@evanboyd1541 I bet the 101st airborne wouldn't take it to kindly if he slapped any of them.
One of the greatest films about war and its effects. In this scene the great George Macready, ever combining suavity with a cool sliminess, takes a tour of the trenches to improve the morale of his troops....
the major accompanying him is even more slimy than the general
@@jimhardy743 Only for the fact that he's a complete brown noser.
@@jimhardy743 He's a sycophant.
I keep expecting the camera to pan over to Edmund Blackadder III for color commentary
He would not have been so cocky if he came across the roach in apocalypse now.
2:24 “General Mireau, I must say your boots are delicious…” Major Saint-Auban.
Another Kubrick masterpiece.
The Allies in WW2 called it the ‘1000 yard stare’
Or, in fiction - “the *two mile stare.”*
The axis powers called it "Alter Boy".
Movies like this are so good that I don't want to watch them very often.
Same here. Great films are like fine wine. You don't just drink it, you savor it, but you don't spoil the experience by drinking it often.
@@abc64pan right and once you’ve tasted you can’t go back, you want to make the bottle last longer
Anybody else would make this seem like a heroic visit to the troops but George Macready's Mireau is inseparable from being a slinking, reprobate and conniving evil. Great acting.
Ce genre de personnage ne s'est pas assez fait botter le cul pour agir ainsi!
Incroyable qu'il aient pu survivre au conflit!
Une ou plusieurs balles perdues auraient du le toucher depuis longtemps!
Generals should've set in positions during barrages
Make love NOT WAR!!!
A lot of Yanks in the French army.
You mean whole French army is american
And all of the extras were german. Production got around 100 bavarian policemen as french soldiers.
Judas No, you get all wrong. It is just a movie.
They needed extras who knew more about war than surrendering and running away
while most of us think this portrays verdun, mccready resembles more of general nivelle during the ill fated nueve chapelle offensive. the french army had been battered but won back its spine but then to be thrust into such a poorly conceived plan by nivelle that it lead to widespread mutiny. the germans never this. general petain, of ww2 vichy france infamy, patched up the army, forgave most of the mutineers but about 100 were executed to set an example. nivelle was a pompous ass, the glory hound, who had no conception what to do if your plans don't succeed. english general doug haig is given a short stick for the likes of the somme and ypres, but both to his credit he corrected in time to reverse defeats into victories.
A brilliant and brutal scene. Watching ambition and manipulation overcome common sense.
idk if anybody else noticed this but the shellshocked guy looks just like the dead allied soldier in all quiet on the western front
generals playing chess with mens lives..let the generals lead the charges..
Read the book, "The Christmas Truce". The story about an impromptu true during WWI that was started by the frontline troops and how the generals reacted to the soldiers not willing to kill each other on Christmas. Yes, the men and women who start wars should be led up to the front lines at the moment the fighting begins....but will never happen because they are cowards and evil people.
Generals did lead the charge the war before. You should be more afraid of the Civilians, which never had seen war.
The good General just happened to visit the three condemned men.
Being tough under these circumstances would be phenomenally difficult.
A classic film showing the futility of war
Irish army officers😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao I thought the Germans were sneaking in at the end
General Patton did exactly the same thing to some guy who suffered from shell shock in the Second World War
i was born with shell shock
"Good Luck to you , Soldier" 😄 Luck is all you need !
A little history lesson of the term "shell shock":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_shock
No such thing, the wars end wars lol, brilliant film I was 10 years old approx when I saw it with my father , then I knew why my grandad never spoke about that war.
What a fantastic break for the guy!
Unfortunately he was likely executed
¡ Qué bien que hablan en inglés los soldados franceses!
Says the guy who speaks spanish on an american website :D
Can anyone please provide the link to download this great movie
thank you
World leaders need to see this movie before they declare war. They also should be the first ones to lead the charge.
Countries leaders don't care about the population of their countries. 1 exception : when it's elections time.
Ukraine 2022 same s ....
Oh, so this is where Patton got his inspiration.
UN gran director. Muy bien dirigida y los actores realmente excepcionales. El ambiente de guerra muy bien logrado. En 1957, esta película fue de las primeras bélicas que se filmaron despues de la terminación de la 2da guerra mundial (1945). Esta película impuso moda. De hecho la serie de los 60s; Combat! la tomo como modelo.
«Un hombre escribe una novela, un hombre escribe una sinfonía, es esencial para un hombre hacer una película» Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) Director de cine, guionista, productor y fotógrafo estadounidense. Saludos desde Venezuela.
Ok. You´ve got it Caroni100 ! Please pay attention of Kirk Douglas and George Mccready's work. Director Frankenheimer put them together in 1963 "Seven days in may" film. Really good both of them.
Still think Full Metal can match it ?
No full metal is a good film. Paths of Glory is a masterpiece.
The guy walking besides the general is so handsome. He has a nice figure.
I had a very similar experience with a Finnish Volunteer in Ukraine.
We fought in Kyiv together and everything was fine. But then he got posted to Zaporizhia and when he returned he no longer was himself.
He would stare right through you half the time. He never spoke by himself. His eyes would light up briefly and he would give short replies when you talked to him, but then he went back to blank.
It was painful to see for me, who had only known him for weeks.
I don't want to imagine how painful this must be for his wife 🙏
you know, having to be in a war against your will is madness, volunteer for one is stupidity.
@@leonardoflorentin Sounds just like what a coward would say
@@leonardoflorentin Good for you, bringer of enlightenment.
Sarcasm idiot.
@@Frontline_view_kaiser you have it all wrong, it takes a lot of bravery to do the right thing, to live a good and rightful life on the other hand it take just imbecility to be a mercenary, i can't think of a lower thing than a mercenary, a man who die and kill for money is the same thing as a sicario of a narco cartel, there's no lower being than that. Everybody knows that half of mercenaries are mentally ill people and the other half are imbeciles, that's a requisite to willingly die and kill for money.
@@Frontline_view_kaiser No, just someone of sound mind that won't get themselves killed for Globalists. But you do you.
Even today we have generals who are cowards
The German field marshal Erich Von Manstein remarked that there are 4 types of officer: 1- Stupid and lazy. These are harmless, they can be ignored. 2- Smart and lazy. They make the best field commanders. 3- Smart and hard working. They make the best staff officers. 4- Stupid and hard working. The most dangerous type, should be immediately dismissed.
Really? Who, by name? And what exactly did each do to deserve your label as "coward?"
Joe Biden Generals
@@mosesgutierrez7602reminder : your god trump LOST the last presidential election 😂
That general is a fruit
"Ah! The generals! Many but not good for many things!" Aristophanes (446 B.C - 386 B.C.) Comic playwright of ancient Athens. Greetings from Venezuela.
I think Macready added a prissy quality to him. The last person you would imagine fighting in the trenches.
Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly inspecting the troops.
The shell shocked solder was CNN after seeing their ratings.....
Why?
@@LeonardStauffer Because....
I meant why are they Hannity and O’Reilly?
@@LeonardStauffer Because they are old foolish warmongering morons.