Brad Pitt plays no guts, no glory WWII tank commander Don 'Wardaddy' Collier in his new movie Fury and from Legends of The Fall to Inglorious Basterds, he's always liked a good ding dong. Alan Corr looks back at Pitt's on-screen war record.
World War Z (2013)
Brad plays Gerry Lane, a former UN specialist who is caught up in a global zombie apocalypse in this shambling and deeply silly disaster flick. The CGI is slathered on as Pitt zips with immunity and impunity around the globe trying to stem the virus that has turned mankind into a bunch of dead-eyed sheep. Imagine that? Most of the audience left the cinema as stumbling, mottled-skinned husks of humanity after watching this. World War Z went through torturous re-writes and re-shoots and it really shows. Great title; naff film. Here's what TEN said.
Inglorious Basterds (2009)
Pitt was great as gurning cartoon Nazi hunter Lt Aldo Raine Waldo in Tarantino's bad taste circus about a ragbag US Army unit of Nazi hunters. Quent got to indulge his cineaste obsessions (Michael Fassbinder plays a movie critic and the climatic inferno takes place in a beautiful Parisian picture house) and Pitt as the cigar-chomping southern gent with a vicious streak holds his own in a cast of villains and anti-heroes. Best bit: we get to see the Nazi High Command burn to death in the expensive seats while being gleefully riddled to pieces by Waldo and chums. Waldo is also pretty damn good at carving swastikas into Nazi foreheads. Result! Here's what TEN said.
Troy (2004)
From Sue Ellen's toy boy Randy in Dallas (yup, that was his name) to eh, Troy boy in Wolfgang Petersen's unintentionally hilarious sword and sandal epic, it's been quite a trip for our Brad. Naturally, he plays legendary warrior Achilles in this bloody and lusty yarn and he gets to go full-on buffed, golden-haired uber Pitt. The cast is sure nice to look at but at nearly three hours in duration, Troy seemed to last longer than The Iliad itself and showed again that Pitt could often be the master of bad career choices, as well as romantic ones (I'll always be Team Jen, OK?). Here's what TEN said.
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Pitt played a Nazi lover (yes, A NAZI LOVER!!!) in this worthy tale of redemption which wags quickly renamed Seven Years in the Cinema. Brad is Heinrich Harrer, an egotistical Austrian mountaineer who decides to make the Reich proud by climbing Nanga Parbat in British India. Then WWII breaks out (entirely the Reich's fault, that) and Henry and his mates are thrown in a POW camp. They escape (don't worry about the plot; just look at them mountains, folks!) and Henry gets matey with the Dalai Lama and becomes all wise and sensitive and stuff. Boooring.
The Devil's Own (1997)
Not quite a war movie (well, depending on your political persuasion). Brad had his first run-in with a wonky Oirish accent (see also Snatch) in this botched and cliched US thriller which plays the American-Irish card in bloody spades. He plays Frankie McGuire, an IRA gunman who is initially welcomed into the home of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop played with an e mailed-in performance from gruff ol' Harrison Ford. Tom likes the kid (when he can understand his accent, that is) but his suspicions mount when Frankie keeps humming Wolfe Tone songs in the shower. Or something. Best bit: some of it was filmed in Inchicore which means Brad possibly popped into the Black Lion for a pint. Horray! Anyway, this was made by the great Alan J Pakula (All The President's Men, The Parallax View) but we reckon he did it to help get his long lost cousin a Green Card.
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Initial disappointment that Pitt was not, in fact, playing Mark E Smith in this pot boiler gave way to vague enjoyment. This is another great American epic in which Brad gets to stare meaningfully across vast landscapes and get his boots muddy in the trenches in The Great War. He stars as Tristan Ludlow, one of three brothers who live with their highly-principled father in the wilderness of early 1900s Montana. It's a big canvas this and the movie spans the decade before World War I through the Prohibition era, and into the 1930s, and ends with a brief scene in the key American year of 1963. The war scenes are gory and true and the scene where Brad cuts out his own brother's heart on the battlefield so he can send it home to be buried in Montana is actually quite moving.
Alan Corr @corralan
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