New WW2 movie “Fury” about 2nd Armored Division
Fury with Brad Pitt is coming out in theaters this week. I had heard about this movie being produced through Combat Dealers on Discovery Channel. This guy Bruce Compton gets called that the production people are interested in using his collection of tanks and vehicles. From this article, it looks like it worked out for him.
This movie marks the first time a genuine Tiger I tank has been used in the production of a WWII film. Fury features “Tiger 131” from the UK’s Bovington Tank Museum, the only fully functioning Tiger tank in the world. That’s a serious step up from the wobbly triplex get-ups we’re used to seeing.
The Main Shermans used in Fury were : Fury M4A2 76mm HVSS from Bovington Tank Museum, M4A2 75mm VVSS from Tay Restorations, M4A2 76mm HVSS from Jeep Sud Est, M4A4 75MM VVSS from Adrian Barrell, M4A1 76mm VVSS. That’s a whole lot of rock ’n roll!
Even though the movie appears to be mostly set in Germany, all of it has actually been filmed in the UK.
I already love Brad Pitt’s M1917 S&W revolver with plexiglass grips in its Mexican-style shoulder rig. He needs to stand out (kinda like his huge bowie in Inglorious Basterds).
I can’t wait to go see this movie!
Photo and trivia: thanks to IMDB.com. View movie trailer
To comment after watching the movie, film was a success considering the use of genuine equipment, like Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan. But if you come to scenario it was fully crap. Although the American insist that the incident called ‘Barkmann’s Corner’
has never taken in their records and such a battle has never been happened, what they did in this movie was depicting the American version of what ernst Barkmann did. On the other hand, it was clearly a racist movie against Germans. It was all shit that SS Platoon was marching like Orks in the The Lord of the Rings, singing loudly to alert any possible enemy around that they are approaching and they don’t hasitate to march clearly in rows when it was the times that almost every flying aircraft belonged to Allies. American soldiers did not die before they were shot a couple of times but the germens died with a single shot even it was fired from a pistol. Germans lately remembered their Panzerfausts and opened their wooden cases but weren’t most of them already walking with their Panzerfausts on their shoulders in the forest before engaging the sitting duck.
Shortly, equipment used in the movie was excellent, but every little ingrediant mentioned above (There were much more of them) bull-shit…