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The Big Red One

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The Big Red One	comment	The Big Red One (1980) is a classic American World War II film written and directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Lee Marvin, Robert Carradine, and Mark Hamill.The film follows a squad of soldiers and their Grizzled Veteran sergeant as members of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division – aka "The Big Red One" – from the beginning of America's participation in the war in the African and European theater to the end. This film is Based on a True Story, specifically that of Sam Fuller, who served in the 1st Infantry Division during the war and observed and participated in many of the events the film depicts.The original release suffered from heavy Executive Meddling and received a lukewarm response in the 1980s. Over the ensuing years, the Director's Cut and Re-Cut became common, with the re-releases of Heaven's Gate, Once Upon a Time in America, Lawrence of Arabia and Blade Runner; and Fuller hoped for a restoration of his full-length version. Fuller died in 1997, but his widow Christa Fuller and film historian Richard Schickel managed to secure the restoration and release of The Big Red One: Reconstruction in 2004, which received significant acclaim and allowed the film to be Vindicated by History as one of the greatest and most accurate War Movies ever made. The Reconstruction cut is 40 minutes longer than the original released version, with new scenes and sequences clarifying and deepening the story.
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The Big Red One / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Big Red One / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo (deleted scene): Sam Fuller plays a war correspondent.
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The Big Red One / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Big Red One / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Griff falls into a fugue state upon seeing what was happening at Falkenau. When he comes across a living German soldier, he kills the man and keeps shooting at the body mindlessly until the Sergeant snaps him out of it.
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The Big Red One / int_1514ecc1	type	Home Guard
The Big Red One / int_1514ecc1	comment	Home Guard (deleted scene): The Squad find themselves confronted by Volksturm armed with pitchforks and pictures of Adolf Hitler. It looks like a massacre is about to take place, but they quickly surrender when the Sarge fires his gun over their heads.
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The Big Red One / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Big Red One / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Sarge might order his men to run into their deaths as necessary and even push them forward with nearby shots, but he's clearly neither heartless nor ineffective at being a sergeant.
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The Big Red One / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Big Red One / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Whatever humor pops up in the film is countered by the macabre horror of war happening at the same time. Topped by the sequence where Sarge's unit is tasked with taking out a heavily-fortified German base... which happens to be an insane asylum. Our heroes work quietly enough into the building, but get caught in a big gunfight in the cafeteria. The mental patients (save one) are too engrossed with their meals to notice all the Germans and Americans dying around them.
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The Big Red One / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Big Red One / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Several. The conversation about killing others between Sarge and Griff are mirrored by a similar conversation between The German Sergeant and his soldier. However, the German Sarge shoots his pacifist soldier for being a coward. The squad are told it's bad PR to call down an airstrike on the insane asylum, and Griff says sardonically "Killing sane people is OK?" During the subsequent shootout an inmate picks up a submachine gun and shoots another inmate, declaring gleefully: "I am one of you. I am sane!" A deleted scene had Sarge's superior officer from World War I show up as a General by World War II. In Real Life Major General Clarence R. Huebner leading the Big Red One during World War II had served as a Captain in the earlier war.
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The Big Red One / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
The Big Red One / int_278a8f2b	comment	Child Soldier (deleted scene): A sniper who killed one of the squad turns out to be a member of the Hitler Youth. Everyone votes to shoot the kid, so the Sarge challenges each man individually to do so. When they refuse, the Sarge is shown spanking the kid until he stops shouting "Heil Hitler!" and starts crying for his papa.
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The Big Red One / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
The Big Red One / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Kaiser likes Zab's writing, shown by enjoying the book he wrote, and survives an ambush orchestrated by Shroeder but is later killed in a forest by a German. He managed to return the favor on the inflictor of his mortal wound and lasts just long enough to hear Sarge tell him yes after asking Sarge if Kaiser killed the man who killed him.
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The Big Red One / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
The Big Red One / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: A major theme of the movie is the difference between killing and murder.
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The Big Red One / int_2c27353f	type	Was It Really Worth It?
The Big Red One / int_2c27353f	comment	Was It Really Worth It?: A continual theme of the movie, as it highlights the insanity and grotesqueness of war. Of course, then the squad liberates the concentration camp, and it becomes a tentative "Yes".
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The Big Red One / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Big Red One / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: A deleted scene has French Moroccan cavalry fighting Germans armed with machine guns and a tank, in the ruins of an ancient amphitheatre.
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The Big Red One / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Big Red One / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The squad all survive and save Schroeder, but Zab realizes that so many others had died during the whole damn mess.
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The Big Red One / int_47060811	type	Screaming Birth
The Big Red One / int_47060811	comment	Screaming Birth: Further complicated by Johnson and Sarge feeling the pressure of trying to help a woman give birth while not knowing French and being quite unequipped for it.
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The Big Red One / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Big Red One / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Near the end of the film, Griff discovers a furnace full of burnt human remains at Falkenau concentration camps. While hesitant to shoot people at the beginning of the film, upon discovering a live German soldier hiding in another oven, Griff shoots the German dead, and then shoot his corpse repeatedly until he runs out of ammo. Sarge investigates, and upon discovering the situation immediately gives Griff more ammo to continue shooting.
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The Big Red One / int_50c7749f	type	Dead Man's Trigger Finger
The Big Red One / int_50c7749f	comment	Dead Man's Trigger Finger: A Vichy French officer is killed by one of his men while trying to man a machine gun after said officer shot another man for refusing to shoot at Americans, but the officer's finger ends up shooting the machine gun anyway and causing a battle for a little while.
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The Big Red One / int_52094ed	type	Team Killer
The Big Red One / int_52094ed	comment	Team Killer: Schroeder gunned down one of his men who refused to continue fighting in his first scene. Lee Marvin's character is regarded by The Squad as perfectly capable of this, and on Omaha Beach he starts shooting nearby Griff when he hesitates to run forward with the bangalore torpedo.
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The Big Red One / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Big Red One / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The movie opens - during World War I - and ends - during World War II - with Lee Marvin knifing Germans who both insist their wars are over. They're both right. The squad is able to save the life of the second German in time.
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The Big Red One / int_5f410c2c	type	Blood Is Squicker in Water
The Big Red One / int_5f410c2c	comment	Blood Is Squicker in Water: The D-Day sequence ends with blood washing up on the beach. In the sequence of shots of the dead soldier’s wristwatch, as the minute hand on the watch advances, the coloration of the water around the hand seems to become increasingly red.
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The Big Red One / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Big Red One / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Robert Carradine's character Zab is based on Fuller.
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The Big Red One / int_7089d02e	type	All Germans Are Nazis
The Big Red One / int_7089d02e	comment	All Germans Are Nazis: Averted. One of the soldiers (who is pretty much the Axis counterpart to Griff) in Schroeder's squad in Tunisia expressed distaste towards Hitler. Schroeder shoots him dead after he refuses to fight.
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The Big Red One / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
The Big Red One / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: The Sarge. He accepts Mateo's deal that they help him bury his mother in a good coffin to end up later getting him an even better coffin than agreed upon, as well as a young girl's gift to him by taking his helmet to decorate its netting with flowers before returning it. Sarge also tries to befriend and feed a boy that was imprisoned at Falkenau but ends up having to bury the boy after he dies while sitting on Sarge's shoulders.
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The Big Red One / int_76a08cd6	type	Friend or Foe?
The Big Red One / int_76a08cd6	comment	Friend or Foe?: Sergeant Schroeder gets shot in the back by a Panzer's machine gun in the Kasserine Pass.
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The Big Red One / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Big Red One / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Many of the incidents in the film are based on director Samuel Fuller's experiences as a member of the 1st Division during World War II (including the baby being delivered in the tank). The film was one of the first war movies to not focus on a specific battle or person, detailing instead the drudgery and sudden shocks that happen in every battlefield any Army unit enters.
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The Big Red One / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Big Red One / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The unit receives a ton of medals for their thwarting of an ambush and killing a platoon of Germans, but not a word of praise for their delivering a baby just after that battle.
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The Big Red One / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Big Red One / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill like Overkill: After discovering human bones inside Falkenau's ovens, Griff fills the German soldier he finds hiding in one of them (who was fortunately out of ammunition) with so many rounds, the rest of the squad hears it to notice something's off and Sarge comes over to him.
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The Big Red One / int_8f9da5ca	type	I Wrote Our Story
The Big Red One / int_8f9da5ca	comment	I Wrote Our Story: Zab (a stand-in for Fuller himself) narrates the story and announces that he will write his memoirs in the final lines.
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The Big Red One / int_9350a0b9	type	The Tape Knew You Would Say That
The Big Red One / int_9350a0b9	comment	The Tape Knew You Would Say That: A German propaganda truck is broadcasting a recording of an Axis Sally-type telling the GI's that their wives back home are shagging other men, etc.
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The Big Red One / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
The Big Red One / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: Civilian women are shown killing on several occasions; the Sicilian peasants who scythe a wounded German soldier, the Resistance woman cutting throats in the madhouse, and the Belgian innkeeper who shoots dead a German infiltrator.
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The Big Red One / int_9751f6eb	type	Tanks, but No Tanks
The Big Red One / int_9751f6eb	comment	Tanks, but No Tanks: Since most of the film was shot in Israel (see above), Isherman tanks are painted with iron crosses to somehow turn them into German Panzers.
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The Big Red One / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Big Red One / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Used at the end when it's pointed out the squad have more in common with the German soldier they're carrying to an aid station, than the replacements who were killed before they knew their names. Namely, that all of them are still alive.
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The Big Red One / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Big Red One / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Schroeder, the German sergeant who keeps popping up on the opposite side of the battlefield from our heroes. He's the German that Sarge stabs on the eve of Germany's surrender.
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The Big Red One / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
The Big Red One / int_9c6ba43a	comment	Values Dissonance: This is in fact a theme of the film. Soldiers by definition have to be killers during wartime but not peacetime. These circumstances are defined, as Sarge explains to Griff, by their leaders and politicians who arrange an armistice, after which killing is not permitted anymore and a soldier has in fact committed murder. The difference between the two actions is shown to be more meaningful to Sarge, an old soldier from WW1 than it is to the far younger squad of Zab and Griff.
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The Big Red One / int_9c6da41b	type	Spot the Imposter
The Big Red One / int_9c6da41b	comment	Spot the Imposter (deleted scene): During the Battle of the Bulge the men are dining at a Belgian inn; the woman who owns it realizes one of them is a German infiltrator from the way he eats. Also, in the Playing Possum example above. In this case, the German infantry were pretending to be (dead) German tankers, but were given away by having the wrong uniforms.
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The Big Red One / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Big Red One / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Schroeder shoots another German dead for not wanting to fight and disliking Hitler and maintains his fellows' stillness during the ambush by the threat of death. Schroeder survives the war, though only at the squad saving his life after Sarge stabs him as he was trying to surrender while Sarge was unaware the war was over.
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The Big Red One / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Big Red One / int_a8559a9f	comment	Marvin was a Marine in Real Life who served in the Pacific where he was wounded in battle.
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The Big Red One / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
The Big Red One / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: The opening credits are "This is fictional life based on factual death."
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The Big Red One / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
The Big Red One / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Replacements get killed, but not the 'four horsemen' veterans who've learned to survive on the battlefield. Said veterans end up not bothering to learn the replacements' names.
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The Big Red One / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Big Red One / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Zab, especially in some of his narrations.
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The Big Red One / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Big Red One / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Sarge has no problem killing a German who's trying to surrender, but is shocked to find that the war was over when he did so. Values Dissonance: This is in fact a theme of the film. Soldiers by definition have to be killers during wartime but not peacetime. These circumstances are defined, as Sarge explains to Griff, by their leaders and politicians who arrange an armistice, after which killing is not permitted anymore and a soldier has in fact committed murder. The difference between the two actions is shown to be more meaningful to Sarge, an old soldier from WW1 than it is to the far younger squad of Zab and Griff.
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The Big Red One / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
The Big Red One / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Zab has a cigar in his mouth very frequently, even keeping one in his mouth while landing in Omaha Beach where all of the water he's wading in naturally ruins it. This was based after Samuel Fuller himself.
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The Big Red One / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Big Red One / int_c9868780	comment	Also, in the Playing Possum example above. In this case, the German infantry were pretending to be (dead) German tankers, but were given away by having the wrong uniforms.
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The Big Red One / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Big Red One / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Kaiser is shot by a German in a smoky forest, but manages to kill his assailant. Kaiser lives just long enough to ask Sarge if he killed the man who got him and hear him reply yes.
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The Big Red One / int_d63af362	type	Dramatic Ammo Depletion
The Big Red One / int_d63af362	comment	Dramatic Ammo Depletion: When Griff opens the oven at Falkenau where a German soldier is hiding, he's only saved from the soldier's MP 40 being apparently empty after two attempts at a shot on him.
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The Big Red One / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Big Red One / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Sarge/Sergeant is just that. No one ever says his actual name, and indeed no other sort of backstory or any other past information about him else is ever revealed about him.
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The Big Red One / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
The Big Red One / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: The camera stares at the rear of a woman walking before the party, which is an Ironic Echo given Kaiser has just died and expressed a particular interest in female butts beforehand.
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The Big Red One / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
The Big Red One / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: "Sarge" played by Lee Marvin. Marvin was a Marine in Real Life who served in the Pacific where he was wounded in battle.
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The Big Red One / int_e0dc6390	type	Go Among Mad People
The Big Red One / int_e0dc6390	comment	Go Among Mad People: The Resistance woman pretends to be insane so she can move among the German soldiers cutting their throats. Subverted by the one asylum resident who picks up a submachine gun and joins the battle (and also murdering one of the other patients), declaring himself sane in the process. Zab wryly notes that he did have trouble telling the difference between the two at that point.
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The Big Red One / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
The Big Red One / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Played straight whenever the film shifts to Sgt. Schroeder's perspective. Other than that, averted. A Vichy French officer also shoots one of his own men.
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