<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s2-1hz1juBI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Based on the true story of Desmond Doss who was the first conscientious objector to get the medal of honor. A true hero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss
"If I've still got my pants on, they've sent me the wrong script" http://gawker.com/5582644/all-the-terrible-things-mel-gibson-has-said-on-the-record
The real Doss looks half 1st Nation Indian (Native American). I'm not sure the casting of him accurately portrayed this.
The original documentary in on youtube. It makes you realize that real heroes look like everyone else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3reiJYFpw
Just saw it. Best movie of 2016 for me. Bar none. Just amazing. I'm glad I watched it the night before Veterans Day.
Haven't seen it yet. Reading the medal citation though gave me flashbacks to the old GI Joe cartoons when a thousand Cobra Troopers would open fire on Flint and none of them could hit a damn thing.
Mel Gibson is such a talented filmmaker. If not for his personal issues we'd have gotten 2 or 3 more movies out of him by now.
I don't think they really portrayed well enough the magnitude of what Desmond Doss did. Plus there was a really ridiculous scene of him swatting a grenade which takes away from the realism of the movie. Overall good but not great imo.
Did the real Desmond Doss get shot by a Japanese sniper?Yes. Director Mel Gibson decided to leave this out of the movie because he felt audiences would find the heroic circumstances under which it happened too hard to believe, especially after Desmond had just taken the blunt of a grenade blast to save his fellow soldiers. After the grenade left him with 17 pieces of shrapnel stuck in him, Desmond waited for five hours until fellow soldier Ralph Baker was able to reach him. Baker, along with a few other men, carried Desmond on a litter (stretcher) through an intense enemy tank attack. As they were carrying him, he saw a guy on the ground badly wounded. Desmond rolled off the stretcher and crawled over to patch the man up. Desmond gave up his stretcher to the man, but while waiting for help to come back, he was wounded again, this time by a sniper's bullet that shattered his left arm. He fashioned a splint out of a rifle stalk and crawled the remaining 300 yards under fire, eventually reaching the safety of an aid station. He was transported to the hospital ship Mercy. They undersold the amazing stuff this crazy SOB did. I can't believe he wasn't more well known. The magnitude in which he put others before him was superhuman.
