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Glory: Hollywood vs. History Glory is a movie about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first official all black units in the United States during the Civil War. It’s an inspirational story of how a young Union soldier, Robert Gould Shaw, is offered the chance to lead an army unit that will change not only his life, but the lives of many other Americans. Glory does a great job of capturing many of the feelings towards the black soldiers during the Civil War. The film is based off

The filmmakers of Glory depict the 54th Massachusetts volunteer infantry from the point of view of its commanding officer, Robert Shaw. As shown in the film and from the reading materials, we know that the 54th regime was the first formal U.S. Army regime comprised only of African-American soldiers. After watching the film, we can infer that the filmmakers were interested in depicting the African-American Men from the public’s viewpoint. Rather than depicting the struggles within the African-American

The movie Glory is about a man by the name of Colonel Shaw leading the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, which was a all black male army. Through many hardships and trials they were tested in Colonel Shaw got his men ready for action and went to battle and won their first battle after a lot of hard work and dedication. Once they trained some more they went to Fort Wagner and fought against the Union Army and lost their battle with many casualties. Colonel Robert Shaw was a white man leading and organizing

The ending part of Glory is about men going to battle against the Confederates. The six main characters in the movie are Thomas Searles, Jupiter Shots, Trip, Rawlins, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, and Cabot Forbes. They battle at Fort Wagner in South Carolina at night because there uniforms are blue. The Union and Confederates start off by shooting at each other. All the men of Colonel Robert go on the other side of Fort Wagner to find cover so they wouldn’t get shot at. Trip and Jupiter came to save

Is the movie “Glory” an accurate portrayal of the African American experience in the Union Army ? Yes the movie Glory is an accurate portrayal of African American experience in the Union Army because all of the characters were completely fictional, but it was said the 54th regiment was mostly educated freedmen rather than a bunch of runaway slaves that they put in the movie I think they did that because they want blacks to look like less of a people. Majority of the main characters were fictional

Maguire Mrs. Franco Glory essay US1H There are multiple scenes from the movie “Glory” that I found particularly notable, but the scene where Col. Shaw was in the rain advising the men of the Union

In Edward Zwick’s Glory, there are two themes that stand out to the audience. Throughout the movie, the viewer starts to see the courage that it took for these men to volunteer when they had absolutely no idea what to expect as well as the coming of age of these men as the whites viewed them as nothing but children. This movie is wonderful in depicting the racism and rudeness of the white men toward the black 54th regiment, even though they were fighting on the same side, and how they came to deal

street and you see someone steal a women's purse, you can either do something about it and try to get it back or just stand by and watch as the man runs away. In this case in the movie Glory, it is about the 54th regiment, a volunteer colored fighting force made up of northern freemen, and some escaped slaves Overall Glory is about the freedom of millions of people from forced labor and captivity on unjust causes. These brave men risked their lives knowing if they succeed, all the slaves and laborers

The movie called “Glory” is a historical military based story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. In the movie “Glory” we see the struggle of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who is the main character of this movie, and the supporting cast, being his regiment of African Americans recruited to become soldiers during the Civil War. “Glory”, however, Is not just a movie. It is based off of real life events in history during our Civil War, where the African Americans took their first step towards

The 1989 film Glory was based on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry story. The story focus on racism, biased and discrimination against the black people. During the scene of discrimination, the discrimination against black people needed just one white officer, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw to try to take revenge against the white people and fight with high strength in the civil war with an army of black people. Even, though there were a lot of advantages and disadvantages in the fight against