she just wasn t going to be content with the status quo. -my only brother, who had served almost four years in the war, was discharged honorably. he was quite upset because he felt that those of us at home had failed those on the war front. -my grandfather, he served in two theaters in world war ii. a highly respected military man at the time. and he came home and was mistreated. you know what i mean? you serve your country, and then you come home to a place in which you would think you would get the flowers, you would get the accolades, you would get, at least, don t call me boy or nigger.
if you boys just turn right on around and head on back that way and you let us head on up there where the real fighting is. there are men dying up that road. and it wouldn t be nothing but rebs dying if they let the 54th in. people had no idea that there were black soldiers fighting for the union in the civil war. you men move on. stripes on a nigger. it s like tits on a bull. you re looking at a higher rank, corporal. now you ll obey and you ll like it. glory stars matthew broderick, but the movie really belongs to denzel washington, as a former slave who s now going to fight. he runs away because he needs shoes, and they do what they have to do. they whip him. proceed. he sits there and he takes his beating like a man. he does not scream. he does not flinch.
mostly f-u, pigs. get out of the way or we ll kill you. we give you niggers some power i m like, did he just call me a nigger? me? part of me is like, that s rude. another part of me is like, say it again. i m trying to get people a chance to recover, but no matter how bad you were hurt, you had to get back in. so i was running over to our injured officers and picking them up and throwing them back, you know, into the into the tunnel, into the fight. and telling them, hey, i know you re hurt, but you ve got to get back in the fight. you know, kind of throwing them back into this meat grinder was a was a very very hard thing to do. emotionally, you know.
you re going to get a medal of valor for this. i didn t shoot him. a room full of cops said you didn t. but i didn t. you did. every scene i did with him from that first day was the reason why i want to make movies. i was just so into watching these two guys performance that i forgot to yell cut sometimes, and they would keep going. player to player, pimp to pimp, i m letting you shoot me, nigger. don t do it. don t do it. i don t believe you got it in you. there was a scene where they got in a fight, and denzel put the cigarette down. he picked it back up, and i was about to yell cut because the scene was over, and he kept going. he lit it, and i saw it in his eyes. on the lens. it was a long lens, and i could see something happening. he was just on fire, man. i m the man up in this space. you ll never see the light of [ bleep ]. who the [ bleep ] do you think
out of her mouth was nigger. and her parents were so proud of her when she said that word because that meant you knew you were superior to somebody else. you ve been so dedicated. so long. you ve dedicated so much care and time and effort to this. why do you care about this? i m going get emotional, but i grew up in a family in mississippi. my dad was from new york. my mom s family was from south mississippi. 90% white, 10% black. still segregated in the ways in which people in the communities live. but i was raised in a racist family, racist community at the time in which i grew up. things have changed in a good