The actual written word, the script for the film, is one of the strongest supporters of the theme that the only tru

e glory of war is surviving. There are very few attempts at sentimentality in this film. Fuller, due to his time spent in WWII, has a seemingly endless fountain of information and wants to express as much of it as he can. Because the audience follows the “four horsemen” and their sergeant through so many endeavors the audience never really grows attached to the actual missions, just the main characters who go through all of the missions. The audience is happy to just see the men make it out of one mission and go on to the next. Subconsciously, the audience has already adopted the mentality that the true glory of war is surviving. The movie is moved along more by the events than the feelings, and that is why the audience truly starts to feel for the characters, not because of any “moments” that are shared, but because by the end of film you feel as if you have gone through so much with the characters and you have experienced what they have, the thrill and jubilation of survival.

Another scene is of Lee Marvin carrying the boy on his shoulders toward the end of the film, and while on his shoulders, the boy dies and rather than take his off immediately, the sergeant continues to walk around with the boy on his shoulders. This scene shows how upset and fed up with the war all of the soldiers are. The sergeant almost refuses to let this death happen, he is so upset that this boy dies that the audience realizes that this war has not

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