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  1. Feb 1, 2024 · David Ayer's 2014 World War II film starring Brad Pitt has a powerful yet satisfying ending that highlights the brutality and consequences of war. Fury's crew, led by Wardaddy, choose to fight the German battalion, ultimately sacrificing their lives for their country and each other.

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  2. Oct 17, 2014 · By the end of “Fury,” I was rooting for Brad Pitt to get shot between the incisors. This is a problem, because he’s the hero of the film — a hard-charging sergeant who eats lead and craps...

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  4. Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) and his boys (Shia LaBeouf, Jon Bernthal and Michael Peña) give the Nazis hell and take many of them down - but one by one they ultimately fall in battle. Only new recruit Norman Ellison gets a chance at survival - slipping out of a hatch underneath the tank, where he hides in the thick mud.

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    Set over 24 hours in April 1945, Fury follows the fortunes of a Sherman tank commander called Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) and his crew as they find themselves behind enemy lines, outgunned and outnumbered, in a desperate last pitched battle to the death. Much of the movie tracks the evolving relationship between Wardaddy and Norman “Cobb” El...

    Director David Ayer has spoken of the lengths gone to for maximum verisimilitude, with computer graphics eschewed save for the laser beams used to show tracer fire. Though Oxfordshire doubles for Germany in terms of location, Ayer was able to use a real German Tiger 131 tank, the only working model in the world, captured from the Germans on the sec...

    As the film makes clear, a Sherman tank was a lightweight in comparison to a Tiger. The Sherman weighed 33 tonnes and had a 75mm gun, compared to the Tiger’s 54 tonnes and a 88mm gun. A Tiger also had 3.9 inch thick armour, so shells from a Sherman literally bounced off it. In response to an attack from a Tiger, Wardaddy yells: “It will end soon. B...

    The corpses certainly mount up in Fury, particularly in the final scene. This was the only part Bill felt lacked credibility.

    One scene from Fury shows Wardaddy attempting to toughen up Norman by forcing him to shoot a German prisoner in the back, against his will. The prisoner pleads for his life and shows both of them a photo of his wife and children. This brought back memories for Bill of the end of his own war, spent in the German port of Kiel.

  5. Oct 17, 2014 · The Brutalities Of War Bring Surprising Angles To 'Fury' October 17, 20141:51 PM ET. By. Chris Klimek. Enlarge this image. Brad Pitt plays Wardaddy, an Army sergeant leading a mission in Nazi...

  6. Fury is a 2014 American war film written, directed, and co-produced by David Ayer. It stars Brad Pitt with Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal as members of an American tank crew fighting in Nazi Germany during the final weeks of the European theater of World War II.