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Glory

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Glory	comment	Glory is a 1989 war drama film, directed by Edward Zwick and featuring an ensemble cast including Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, and Andre Braugher.It is based on the true story of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of the Union Army during The American Civil War, as told from the point of view of its commanding officer, Robert Gould Shaw (Broderick). The 54th was one of the first formal units of the U.S. Army to be made up entirely of African-American men (apart from the officers).
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Glory / int_10ca13e4	type	Stereotype Flip
Glory / int_10ca13e4	comment	Stereotype Flip: Several characters defy the stereotypes of the day. Thomas Searles, a black man from Boston, probably is the most formally educated man in the regiment. You have the white officers, notably Shaw, who are almost totally free of racial bias (though not all of them are like this). Even the old black Sergeant Major, played by Morgan Freeman, surprises a white Union officer when he demonstrates that he actually can, in fact, sign his own name (at that point in history, most Southern blacks — enslaved or free — didn't even know the alphabet, as the movie shows).
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Glory / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
Glory / int_117b3429	comment	See also A Taste of the Lash, as this is one of the more disturbing examples of this trope.
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Glory / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Glory / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: The man at the end who yells "Give 'em Hell, 54th!" is the screenwriter Kevin Jarre.
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Glory / int_15800db3	type	All Are Equal in Death
Glory / int_15800db3	comment	All Are Equal in Death: In the end all the men of the 54th that were killed in the assault on the fortification are shown being dumped in a mass grave by the Confederates, white officers and black enlisted alike. The Confederates meant this as an insult, as officers were generally given honorable burials, but the family and friends of the white officers, especially Colonel Shaw's father, took it as a compliment and the greatest symbol of the equality between whites and blacks.
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Glory / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Glory / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In the first letter Shaw writes home at the start of the movie Shaw declares that the Union forces have amassed such an army that Confederates wouldn't dare attack them. Antietam turns one one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
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Glory / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Glory / int_1713b00a	comment	Notably averted during the Battle of Antietam to begin the movie, when an officer standing near Shaw, has his head ripped apart by cannon fire a far cry from the Bloodless Carnage that dominated most films about the Civil War to that point.
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Glory / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Glory / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop:
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Glory / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Glory / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Col. Shaw, who was probably the first white man to treat much of the 54th as equals in their entire lives. During their assault on Fort Wagner, he leads the charge with his men following behind.
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Glory / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Glory / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: Much as Saving Private Ryan did for the World War II genre a decade later, Glory was among the most notable early aversions to Bloodless Carnage in the Civil War genre. The film doesn't shy away from the brutality and bloodiness of the Civil War, punctuated by the camera focusing on an officer getting his head ripped in two by a cannonball during the Battle of Antietam.
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Glory / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Glory / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: Occurs while Charging Fort Wagner. It's suspiciously similar to Carl Orff's O Fortuna... which was used in the film's trailer. The text is taken from the Requiem mass for the dead, suggesting exactly what kind of situation the soldiers of the 54th are running into.
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Glory / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
Glory / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: "Y'alls the onliest family I's got."
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Glory / int_25256404	type	Barefoot Poverty
Glory / int_25256404	comment	Barefoot Poverty: The case for many of the black enlistees, and the Jerkass quartermaster thinks it's funny to claim that his armory has no shoes to spare when he's clearly skimming to stock his own larder.
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Glory / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Glory / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Mild case. For all the massive effort put into authenticity of military hardware to even the tiniest details, the Enfield rifles used by the troops are of a wrong variant, directly stated in the film. When Rawlins starts to distribute the rifles to other soldiers, he reads their serial numbers while doing so. The variant used during American Civil War lacked serial numbers - it only appeared when Enfield was converted into breech-loaded Snider-Enfield rifle, after the war itself.
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Glory / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Glory / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: In the aftermath of Antietam, with a cut to the body of a dead drummer boy. Later deliberately invoked right before the advance on Fort Wagner; Forbes dismisses the drummer boys - the youngest members of the regiment - to spare them from the ensuing slaughter. Like most things shown in the film, this really happened.note The drummer boys were to be stretcher bearers during the actual fighting.
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Glory / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Glory / int_2a090d00	comment	In contrast, Colonel Montgomery's Contrabandnote Very recently freed slaves who were issued uniforms and weapons and pressed into service troops are an undisciplined pillaging horde, who point out the difference by remarking that Shaw's men march like white soldiers.
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Glory / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Glory / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Sharts is very confident about his shooting abilities, until Shaw demonstrates that there's a big difference between shooting small game or bottles with all the time in the world to reload and shooting at enemy troops and reloading before they shoot you first.
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Glory / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Glory / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Sharts' crack shooting, on two different levels. First, he only ever shot at small game, having all time in the world to reload his gun afterwards while being at no risk himself. Second, he is part of a line infantry regiment, when it's the volley fire of an entire company that matters, rather than him picking targets. Shaw instantly points out to every other soldier presented why this is only good for amusing them by shooting bottles, making Sharts confuse the order of doing things when reloading simply by putting him on a time pressure and firing a revolver above his head.
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Glory / int_2e732207	type	Home by Christmas
Glory / int_2e732207	comment	Home by Christmas: After the 54th's first battle, Shaw learns that General Lee was turned back at Gettysburg. The reporter says that the war can be expected to be over by Christmas.
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Glory / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Glory / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: As dictated by history, Shaw is killed. Along with him is every other important character.
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Glory / int_38958f33	type	Black and Nerdy
Glory / int_38958f33	comment	Black and Nerdy: Thomas Searles, played by Andre Braugher. Although black, he is actually quite educated, offering several other soldiers tutorship in reading using his volumes of Emerson. See also Stereotype Flip.
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Glory / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Glory / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Silas Trip gets the most out of everyone in the film, even getting a Book End showing that he's come a long way.
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Glory / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Glory / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Anyone who's read about the battle of Fort Wagner will know how it ended for the 54th Regiment—Half the regiment dies or wounded/captured at the end.
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Glory / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Glory / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Montgomery kills one of his soldiers after harassing a white lady. Note that he cared little over the same soldier doing the same to a black woman. Yet he also blames the white woman for "starting it".
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Glory / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Glory / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The 54th Regiment deals some in the early battles they're put in. They're on the receiving end of one however, during the battle of Fort Wagner.
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Glory / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Glory / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: In reality, Shaw was initially very reluctant to lead a regiment of black men, although he soon came to respect them as fine soldiers (however he was supposedly reluctant because he didn't really believe the 54th would be deployed to the front lines and didn't want to leave his fellow soldiers in his current regiment for a non-combat role). On the other hand, the pay boycott was not the black soldiers' idea, but Shaw's.
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Glory / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Glory / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: On the bitter end, the 54th fails to capture Fort Wagner and suffers grievous losses during the battle, including most of the main characters. However, their valor on that day would vindicate the worth of black soldiers with the Northern public and inspire the mass recruitment of thousands more, which helped make the Union's ultimate victory and the resulting destruction of slavery possible.
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Glory / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Glory / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The 54th do a rare heroic version of this to try and take Fort Wagner and very nearly succeed - but you get to see the horrific results of such a rush straight into heavily fortified defenses. More than half the regiment, including Col. Shaw, are killed, wounded, or captured.
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Glory / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
Glory / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: Played straight, but not portrayed as incompatible with War Is Hell.
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Glory / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Glory / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: Shaw's regiment joins Colonel Montgomery's regiment for a foraging mission. As Montgomery conceived the idea of a colored Union regiment, Shaw (and the viewers) assume he's progressive and feeling all men are equal. It's soon revealed that Montgomery is extremely racist, and really only sees the merit of a colored regiment as cheap cannon fodder.
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Glory / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Glory / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: The flag carrier whom Trip was loosely based on, Sergeant William H. Carney, did take up the flag and never let it touch the ground during the entire battle. However, Carney did survive despite getting shot twice - something for which he ended up receiving a Medal of Honor.
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Glory / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Glory / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Colonel Shaw looks on as a Union soldier's wounded leg is hacked off while said soldier is still conscious. The actual hacking is covered by a sheet but we see blood splatter on the sheet as the soldier screams in agony. One could also say Trip's whipping is also an example, though there were several shots of Trip's Death Glare at Shaw while he was being whipped. Notably averted during the Battle of Antietam to begin the movie, when an officer standing near Shaw, has his head ripped apart by cannon fire a far cry from the Bloodless Carnage that dominated most films about the Civil War to that point.
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Glory / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Glory / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: When the men of the 54th are informed they will be paid less because they're a colored regiment, Trip is the first to refuse on principle and leads the others in tearing up their pay stubs. Eventually Shaw rips his own in solidarity of their protest.
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Glory / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Glory / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Then you can explain that at your court-martial... after your men are placed under my command!" Shaw might have been willing to deal with the consequences of defying a superior officer himself, but turning the 54th over to a man like Montgomery was unthinkable.
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Glory / int_4eb66c8d	type	White Male Lead
Glory / int_4eb66c8d	comment	White Male Lead: Colonel Shaw, the white male leader of a unit of African-American soldiers, is the movie's viewpoint character. Justified by the fact that he was the highest ranked officer and the commander, and his surviving personal correspondence was referenced heavily in the film. In addition, much of the information in the film are from the real Shaw's diary, so it's inevitable it would be from his P.O.V. In fact, this trope was noted by the director, who said he did not want to turn Glory "into a black story with a more commercially convenient white hero." His justification for it was that this film was about both Shaw and the 54th, and that the two were inseparable to the story. Like Maj. Winters in Band of Brothers, though he's in charge, he isn't necessarily the main character.
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Glory / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Glory / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Colonel Montgomery in his Historical Villain Upgrade. Despite his staunch support of the Union his movie version is shown to be an openly racist bigot.
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Glory / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Glory / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: The US Army banned the use of flogging as a disciplinary measure in 1861, so the scene where private Trip gets flogged is inaccurate, as the movie takes place in 1863. Obviously a by-the-book officer like Shaw wouldn't use a prohibited disciplinary method. The film gives the impression that many men of the 54th were escaped slaves, but in reality nearly all of them were free men living in the North before the war started. Robert Shaw was actually a Captain when he first took command of the 54th, not a Colonel as depicted in the movie. However, he was promoted all the way up to Colonel in the following two months. The film also does not mention or acknowledge Shaw's marriage to Anna Haggerty on May 5, 1863, five weeks before his death at Fort Wagner. The ending text says Fort Wagner was "never taken". While it's true Fort Wagner was never taken by force, it was taken when the rebels abandoned the fort after a long siege. The Confederates had actually abandoned it shortly after their water supply was contaminated by the Union soldier bodies that were buried, leading many to say that, in a way, the 54th and their comrades ultimately did defeat them.
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Glory / int_590e1c70	type	Frontline General
Glory / int_590e1c70	comment	Frontline General: Colonel, but close enough in the case of Shaw who fights alongside his men on the front lines. Forbes counts as well.
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Glory / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
Glory / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker: Trip fights with reckless abandon, taking on several Confederate troops in rapid succession, which very nearly gets him killed more than once.
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Glory / int_60ec7ddd	type	Young and in Charge
Glory / int_60ec7ddd	comment	Young and in Charge: Shaw is made colonel and given command of a regiment at age 24, largely owing to his family's connections. Though this is also justified given in the context of the Civil War. Due to the heavy casualties both sides sustained it was not uncommon for men of very young ages to be made officers in ways that would be unheard of today.
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Glory / int_60f92ddd	type	Oireland
Glory / int_60f92ddd	comment	Oireland: Mulcahy, complete with his Irish brogue. Being a Drill Sergeant Nasty and combat instructor, he is technically a Fighting Irish, too.
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Glory / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Glory / int_627264e0	comment	Colonel Shaw looks on as a Union soldier's wounded leg is hacked off while said soldier is still conscious. The actual hacking is covered by a sheet but we see blood splatter on the sheet as the soldier screams in agony. One could also say Trip's whipping is also an example, though there were several shots of Trip's Death Glare at Shaw while he was being whipped.
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Glory / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
Glory / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: Rawlins if we assume he's a similar age as Morgan Freeman, who was 50 at the time the film released. This makes him strikingly above most Civil War soldiers, who were an average age of 26. On the other hand casualties in the Civil War were so heavy that older men in combat roles was not uncommon. A handful of extras in uniforms are also clearly this, too.
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Glory / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Glory / int_6375f746	comment	Mulcahy may have insulted and treated the black recruits without mercy, but he is training them for the harsh battles ahead. Thus his insults are just your drill sergeant nastiness, rather than him meaning a single word of it. He's also correct that Shaw's protectiveness of Thomas won't do the man any favors once they are all on the battlefield and Shaw needs to let him be trained properly.
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Glory / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Glory / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Trip grabs the flag, despite having refused being the carrier earlier in the film. Even though he makes it only five feet or so, it's the most glorious five feet of his life.
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Glory / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Glory / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Quite a few of these. Mulcahy may have insulted and treated the black recruits without mercy, but he is training them for the harsh battles ahead. Thus his insults are just your drill sergeant nastiness, rather than him meaning a single word of it. He's also correct that Shaw's protectiveness of Thomas won't do the man any favors once they are all on the battlefield and Shaw needs to let him be trained properly. Shaw becoming more distant from Thomas. Even though he gets called out for it, officers should not be too overly familiar and chummy with subordinates since it tends to undermine discipline and may have said officer seen as one who plays favorites. Worse, the subordinate in question may be resented for being the Teacher's Pet. Trip may be a hateful guy with a chip on his shoulder, but he isnâ€™t wrong that Shaw was essentially given command of the regiment and the high rank of colonel without much experience as an officer at all because his parents happen to be friends with the governor of Massachusetts. A twenty-four year old, especially without any formal military training as an officer, being given such a command today would be unthinkable. Colonel Montgomery burning the village and destroying supplies is technically in line with Ulysses S. Grant's commitment to total war, which was to destroy the Confederacy's ability to fight by destroying homes that, in Grant's view, would otherwise have gone to the support of secession and rebellion. Historians indeed credited total war with ending the Civil War sooner despite Montgomery's Historical Villain Upgrade.
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Glory / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Glory / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The film opens with Shaw's participation in the Battle of Antietam. And boy, is it frenzied.
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Glory / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Glory / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Completely subverted, as both black and white characters make liberal use of the n-word albeit in different ways. White characters use it when condescendingly talking about blacks; notably, the more sympathetic characters like Shaw and Forbes refrain from using it. Trip uses it in a much nastier way against Thomas to belittle him and gets chewed out for it by Rawlins.
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Glory / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
Glory / int_78c5ce7e	comment	The "boots" example may also count as Screw the Rules, I Make Them!, given Shaw's rank relative to the quartermaster. But then, the quartermaster had been screwing the rules himself for some time, without any such cover, just because he thought it was funny.
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Glory / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
Glory / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: Mulcahy, maybe. He definitely uses racist insults when harshly drilling the black soldiers and it would be rare for a white man from that era to not be bigoted to some degree. It's also lampshaded at one point that in that era Irish-Americans were known to have pretty terrible relations with African-Americans. Mulcahy's primary motivation nonetheless seems to be turning the men into soldiers tough enough to deal with horrific battles of the Civil War rather than bigotry. He looks genuinely proud at the parade when he concludes their training. His racist remarks may just be an In-Universe example of Fair for Its Day.
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Glory / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Glory / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: Foregone Conclusion, if you know anything about Civil War history.
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Glory / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Glory / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Shaw, despite his age, had to endure the bloodbath that was Antietam. The battle leaves him constantly jumpy and seeing his men play-act and shoot their rifles causes him flashbacks of men dying around him. He even gets visibly startled when at a banquet and window shutters are getting close, making a sound similar to gunfire.
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Glory / int_7ae40f90	type	Manly Facial Hair
Glory / int_7ae40f90	comment	Manly Facial Hair: The Drill Sergeant Nasty Mulcahy sports an impressive moustache.
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Glory / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Glory / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Rawlins lays a whopper on Trip, after Trip calls him a "nigger" and "the white man's dog" A Contraband soldier gives a short and very condescending one to Thomas about the burning of Darien.
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Glory / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
Glory / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: In reality, the pay boycott protest was Col. Shaw's idea.
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Glory / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Glory / int_7febc23b	comment	"You see, Shaw, Secessionists need to be wiped away by the hand of God, like the Jews of old."
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Glory / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Glory / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: While the Confederacy is clearly the villain, the film doesn't gloss over the fact that, even though the Union fought to end slavery, it still by-and-large treated black people as second class citizens even within the army by doing things like trying to pay them less than the white soldiers.
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Glory / int_87bf0789	type	Teacher's Pet
Glory / int_87bf0789	comment	Shaw becoming more distant from Thomas. Even though he gets called out for it, officers should not be too overly familiar and chummy with subordinates since it tends to undermine discipline and may have said officer seen as one who plays favorites. Worse, the subordinate in question may be resented for being the Teacher's Pet.
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Glory / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Glory / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The 54th Regiment turns into this eventually, and are quite a deadly force to be reckoned with when they first engage with Confederate forces. They even earn respect from other Union troops who earlier mocked them prior to the assault on Fort Wagner.
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Glory / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Glory / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: How Colonel Shaw seems to treat Thomas, one of his friends from before the war. Major Forbes even calls him out on this at times.
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Glory / int_91c001	type	Cute Mute
Glory / int_91c001	comment	Cute Mute: The drummer boy that Rawlins reassures at Ft. Wagner. It's All in the Manual, however.
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Glory / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Glory / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: As the 54th, encounters the cannons aimed right at them, Forbes is last seen pointing his pistol at the cannons ready to go down shooting.
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Glory / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Glory / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Inverted, actually. There's only three battles featured, though the training scenes keep the movie from getting too quiet.
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Glory / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Glory / int_973d220f	comment	After he kills his "monkey children" soldier, he claims "That would not have been necessary if that Secessionist woman hadn't started it." "You see, Shaw, Secessionists need to be wiped away by the hand of God, like the Jews of old."
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Glory / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Glory / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The soldiers of 54th are doing their very best to take over Fort Wagner despite heavy loses, ultimately rallying together for the final push inside of it. They face fierce resistance, but seem to be slowly winning more ground. They charge into another position, only to run straight into few cannons loaded with canister shot, already aimed in their direction. The Union soldiers have just enough time to realise how screwed they are, but not enough to do anything about it before the guns fire. Cut to next scene.
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Glory / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Glory / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Colonel Montgomery's "contraband regiment" is basically a mob used by him and his superior officer to rob Southern civilians.
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Glory / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Glory / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Thomas becomes quite the efficient killer. In Fort Wagner, he's singlehandedly taking out Confederate soldiers. He even becomes a Screaming Warrior.
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Glory / int_a0ccd559	type	Last Chance to Quit
Glory / int_a0ccd559	comment	Last Chance to Quit: The 54th is offered the chance to leave when they hear that the Confederate Army will kill them if they're captured. None of them leave. Shaw drops his cold demeanor towards Thomas briefly before the assault on Ft. Wagner and begs him that he doesn't have to do it. Thomas firmly refuses to bow out.
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Glory / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
Glory / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear: Trip during his whipping. See also A Taste of the Lash, as this is one of the more disturbing examples of this trope.
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Glory / int_a5a4c9a2	type	Majorly Awesome
Glory / int_a5a4c9a2	comment	Majorly Awesome: Forbes.
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Glory / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Glory / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: A pretty chilling example. After he kills his "monkey children" soldier, he claims "That would not have been necessary if that Secessionist woman hadn't started it." "You see, Shaw, Secessionists need to be wiped away by the hand of God, like the Jews of old."
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Glory / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Glory / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Montgomery, the guy who forced Shaw to loot and burn Darien, never gets formally punished for it. And in real life, the 54th 'did' eventually come under his command.
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Glory / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
Glory / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: When they first meet the "Contraband" Georgia regiment, Thomas has trouble understanding their Gullah-English creole when they tell him he "march like the buckra (white) soldier" and "every day like chris'mus (Christmas)". Rawlins has to translate for him.
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Glory / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Glory / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The attitudes of the white soldiers towards the blacks. Even the most tolerant ones express attitudes that today would be considered racist.
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Glory / int_abb15066	type	Corrupt Quartermaster
Glory / int_abb15066	comment	Corrupt Quartermaster: The Jerkass quartermaster refuses to give black men shoes. Eventually Shaw loses his temper with him, pulls rank, and forces him to hand the equipment or else. The 54th subsequently gets a whole mountain of boots.
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Glory / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Glory / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: While the regiment is in training, Drill Sergeant Nasty Mulcahy berates Thomas and demonstrates his weak bayonet technique to his fellow soldiers by seizing his rifle as he tries to stab him with the bayonet and hitting him with the rifle butt. Later, during the battle on James Island, Thomas demonstrates his increased proficiency by using his bayonet to save Trip's life. At the end, during the charge on Fort Wagner, Thomas uses Mulcahy's technique against a Confederate soldier attempting to bayonet him. Likewise, after the 54th receives its first shipment of rifles in basic training, Private Jupiter Sharts shows off to the cheering admiration of his fellow soldiers. In response, Col. Shaw gives the private a stern wake-up call about how being a good squirrel hunter and being in combat are leagues apart—by making Sharts reload while he fires a revolver directly behind the man. Sharts panics almost instantly and can't reload. Fast forward to the Battle of James Island; Private Sharts is shown calmly but quickly reloading in an active combat zone while being charged down by a yelling Confederate soldier with a bayonet. He finishes reloading just in time to deliver a killshot at point-blank range.
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Glory / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Glory / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: The reason the quartermaster kept the units shoes from them.
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Glory / int_ae087674	type	I Can Still Fight!
Glory / int_ae087674	comment	I Can Still Fight!: Thomas after being wounded at James Island, begs Shaw to keep him in the regiment instead of sending him home.
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Glory / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
Glory / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Shaw threatens to report Harker's shady activities to the war department in order to get a transfer to combat command rather than the 54th being used for menial labor. It works.
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Glory / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Glory / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: While the Union mandated that only white commissioned officers would the 54th, they never said anything about non-commissioned officers. Thus, Shaw has Rawlins promoted to Sergeant Major in recognition of his leadership skills.
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Glory / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Glory / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: A group of Confederate cavalry attempt a frontal charge against a formed line of Union riflemen. They are promptly mowed down for their efforts. As soon as the Union troops begin to celebrate their victory, a line of Confederate infantry advance on their position and a much bloodier battle proceeds.
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Glory / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
Glory / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming The Fort: The battle of Fort Wagner at the end of the film. It doesn't go well for the Union troops...
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Glory / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Glory / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Colonel Montgomery. Though it's not discussed in the film he was a staunch abolitionist, and despite his jerkass behavior and racism his extreme actions did contribute to the war in favor of the Union.
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Glory / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Glory / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The film opens with a voice-over by Shaw writing a letter to his mother with martial music playing and the Army of the Potomac enjoying their day before preparing for battle. The letter ends with "You mustn't think that any of us are going to be killed. They are collecting such a force here that an attack would be insane." A short while later, the title card appears, "Antietam Creek, Maryland". Shaw just marched into the bloodiest single day in American history.
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Glory / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Glory / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: One occurs during the battle to take Fort Wagner after Colonel Shaw is killed. The surviving soldiers attempt to rally themselves, and perform fairly admirably, taking a portion of the wall...only to then meet even stiffer resistance once they went into the fort.
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Glory / int_c4286511	type	For Doom the Bell Tolls
Glory / int_c4286511	comment	For Doom the Bell Tolls: When Robert becomes the first main character killed charging Fort Wagner there's a single bell ring, followed by an extended run of Ominous Latin Chanting.
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Glory / int_c57a6051	type	If I Do Not Return
Glory / int_c57a6051	comment	If I Do Not Return: Right before the advance on Ft. Wagner, Shaw hands some letters to a reporter, and tells him "If I should fall, remember what you see here."
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Glory / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
Glory / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: Shaw. This isn't exactly a good thing, because each time he tries to behave like a gentleman, he's put in some sort of abuse and only by fighting back and using back-hand means he can achieve any of his own goals.
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Glory / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Glory / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Shaw, Cabot and Thomas, who all were friends prior to the formation of the regiment. Its command structure ends up placing a strain on their relationships with each other. Rawlins glumly realizes the weight of his responsibilities pretty much the moment he's handed his Sergeant Major stripes. When he expresses his reluctance, Shaw understands all too well.
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Glory / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
Glory / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Matthew Broderick plays a Real Life Colonel Badass; in this case Col. Robert Gould Shaw, the son of Boston abolitionists, who commanded one of the Union Army's first black regiments in the Civil War.
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Glory / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Glory / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title
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Glory / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Glory / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Forbes calls out Shaw many times for his harsh treatment of his soldiers, some of whom are even former friends. Shaw in turn accuses him of insubordination and chickening out.
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Glory / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Glory / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: A benevolent example where Colonel Shaw uses his to ensure that he gets the supplies needed for his men such as boots, and later so that they can be used in combat instead of manual labor and raids. The "boots" example may also count as Screw the Rules, I Make Them!, given Shaw's rank relative to the quartermaster. But then, the quartermaster had been screwing the rules himself for some time, without any such cover, just because he thought it was funny.
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Glory / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
Glory / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Robert Gould Shaw is a Captain in the Union Army at the beginning of the movie and is promoted to the rank of Colonel upon taking charge of the 54th.
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Glory / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Glory / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Colonel Shaw. Although he had Trip flogged due to his alleged desertion, once he learns that the latter was only trying to find some boots that fit, and he sees the horrible condition his feet were in, Shaw immediately heads out to resolve the issue. He also refuses to accept his pay when he finds out his soldiers are only going to be paid less than white soldiers would. Rawlins as well, making sure that Shaw is aware of various problems the troops are having. This leads to him being promoted to Sergeant Major.
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Glory / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Glory / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: It was General George Crockett Strong who asked the regiment "If this man should fall, who will lift the flag and carry it on", and it was Shaw himself who volunteered "I will."
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Glory / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
Glory / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: John Rawlins.
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Glory / int_e0789c2a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Glory / int_e0789c2a	comment	Your Head A-Splode: The officer in front of Shaw in the Battle of Antietam, after he takes a direct hit from artillery.
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Glory / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Glory / int_e16217f8	comment	Colonel Montgomery burning the village and destroying supplies is technically in line with Ulysses S. Grant's commitment to total war, which was to destroy the Confederacy's ability to fight by destroying homes that, in Grant's view, would otherwise have gone to the support of secession and rebellion. Historians indeed credited total war with ending the Civil War sooner despite Montgomery's Historical Villain Upgrade.
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Glory / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
Glory / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: At first much of the regiment, specifically Thomas and Major Forbes, act extremely informal. Shaw does away with this. In contrast, Colonel Montgomery's Contrabandnote Very recently freed slaves who were issued uniforms and weapons and pressed into service troops are an undisciplined pillaging horde, who point out the difference by remarking that Shaw's men march like white soldiers. Montgomery himself is shown going into his "forage" mission wearing a straw hat and his uniform barely put on, further contrasted by Shaw riding right next to him.
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Glory / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Glory / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: A rare example in the epilogue. It is stated that Fort Wagner was 'never taken' and that is technically true. After the failure to capture it directly, the Union forces stood back and kept it under siege (cutting off its supply lines from Charleston) until the Confederates abandoned it on their own.
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Glory / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Glory / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Rawlins kicks a Confederate in the nuts before smashing his jaw with the butt of his rifle.
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Glory / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
Glory / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: It's clear from Shaw's first letter at the beginning of the film that he's had little if any combat experience. Being thrust into the Battle of Antietam is a jarring wake-up call.
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Glory / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: In the final shown moment of the charge at Fort Wagner, 54th runs straight into Confederate guns loaded with canister shot, which are fired, creating a cloud of smoke. It then transitions into a cloud on the sky the next morning.
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Glory / int_f03aae7f	comment	Your Other Left: The soldiers, many if not most of whom had no formal education, had even more trouble than the average volunteer with drills for this reason. Mulcahy chews one of them out with a stock "Don't you know your right from your left!" and then appears genuinely taken aback when the answer is an honest no. He asks how many others also can't and about a third of the hands go up.note This is a country boy versus city boy thing. Mulcahy's Irish, he's probably trained city boys up till now. See the trope page for why "hayfoot" is still sometimes used as slang for "rookie". Also, the climatic battle happens exactly the reverse of how it really happened. In the actual assault, the 54th had the ocean on their right hand side, not on the left as in the movie. (This is noted in the commentary, the best location they found was the "wrong way round").
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Glory / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: The black soldiers are all obligated to obey Shaw's orders, but what really seals their loyalty to him is when he joins them in refusing pay after it is discovered that black soldiers will receive less money than white soldiers.
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Glory / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Played straight and subverted at the same time. While the film certainly doesn't sugarcoat the horrors of war, the title of the movie is not misplaced. The men of the 54th were eager to serve, and if they were not always victorious, they proved themselves true soldiers who fought for a worthy cause.
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Glory / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Glory / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Col. Shaw is buried in a mass grave next to Trip and the rest of the 54th. The Confederate soldiers putting him there intended it as an insult, but according to Shaw's father he would've considered it an honor, also making this count as an Insult Backfire.
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Glory / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Getting dumped in a mass grave with his black soldiers instead of a proper burial usually given to dead enemy officers was meant to disgrace Shaw. He probably wouldn't have had it any other way. His parents and wife felt it was no insult either.
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Glory / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Glory / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Very historically accurate, minus a few small points (most of which fall under artistic license). For instance, the shoes are made as neither right nor left, since it's expected that they'll conform to which ever foot you'd wear them on. Matthew Broderick was also the same age during filming as Shaw himself.
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