Patton: A Real American Hero

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CubaChi on Twitter:

Alright! @MarkLevinShow is playing the Patton music now! You know this is going to be good!

Great taste in music, ma’am!

This is super-cool — Francis Ford Coppola describes how he got fired for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay:

The original theatrical trailer:

Here’s another version of the trailer:

My cousin Mark and I were always big war-movie fans as kids and when we were 11, Mark’s mom (my Aunt Pat) took us to see Patton. She was mortified by the profanity and was quite apologetic to my mother for having inadvertantly exposed us to this. But there was no need to apologize to Mark and me — we loved it!

For all his faults, his arrogance and stubbornness and irascible temper, Patton is a great role model because of his firm faith and single-minded devotion to his profession. He was aristocratic by nature, and didn’t sit around worrying about what some rear-echelon type might think of him. He desired a soldier’s true glory — the prestige of victory — not the sort of “popularity” that is false and transient, gained by fawning sycophancy.

Patton is a one of the most inspiring films in history, a celebration of a uniquely American hero.

31 comments

  1. My wife when she was 11 wrote a paper on Patton called “Old Blood and Guts” and got an A. She is still very proud of it.

    Patton was just a bigger than life guy who lived at the perfect time, did what he needed to do, and then was tragically injured and died. It is just amazing.

    In a related aside, Jerry Goldsmith did the music for Soarin’ at Disneyland and Disney World. I highly recommend that ride.

  2. My wife when she was 11 wrote a paper on Patton called “Old Blood and Guts” and got an A. She is still very proud of it.

    Patton was just a bigger than life guy who lived at the perfect time, did what he needed to do, and then was tragically injured and died. It is just amazing.

    In a related aside, Jerry Goldsmith did the music for Soarin’ at Disneyland and Disney World. I highly recommend that ride.

  5. I have a degree in history thanks to Patton. I saw the movie as a child, my uncle had been with Patton, he was a true inspiration.

  6. I have a degree in history thanks to Patton. I saw the movie as a child, my uncle had been with Patton, he was a true inspiration.

  7. We need a son of a bitch like Georgie Patton now.

    Great movie…magnificent man.

    Stacy: If you ever get the chance, read the two volume The Patton Papers. It is several thousand pages long, but contains most of his writings from throughtout his life. Usually these kind of books are only useful for reference purposes, but this one is a great read.

  8. We need a son of a bitch like Georgie Patton now.

    Great movie…magnificent man.

    Stacy: If you ever get the chance, read the two volume The Patton Papers. It is several thousand pages long, but contains most of his writings from throughtout his life. Usually these kind of books are only useful for reference purposes, but this one is a great read.

  10. I took my oldest son to see “Patton” when it first appeared in movie theaters. He was about 4 at the time and was very impressed with Patton. He wanted to shave his head so he could be bald like Patton!

    My Uncle Theo served under Patton in North Africa and Sicily, with the 2nd Armored Division.

  11. I took my oldest son to see “Patton” when it first appeared in movie theaters. He was about 4 at the time and was very impressed with Patton. He wanted to shave his head so he could be bald like Patton!

    My Uncle Theo served under Patton in North Africa and Sicily, with the 2nd Armored Division.

  12. I live little more than a stone’s throw away from where Patton was born and raised. Little known fact that he went to VMI because his dad did not have the connections (although they were rich) to get him into West Point. He like I was a Californian.
    When with Black Jack chasing Pancho he did kill Gen Cardenas (who ordered 500 RC priests shot because the Church would not let Villa take their land and give it to the peasants) with the Pearl handled revolver that is mentioned in the movie. But that was 25 years before WW2

    an old exJarhead
    Cerritros, Cal

  13. I live little more than a stone’s throw away from where Patton was born and raised. Little known fact that he went to VMI because his dad did not have the connections (although they were rich) to get him into West Point. He like I was a Californian.
    When with Black Jack chasing Pancho he did kill Gen Cardenas (who ordered 500 RC priests shot because the Church would not let Villa take their land and give it to the peasants) with the Pearl handled revolver that is mentioned in the movie. But that was 25 years before WW2

    an old exJarhead
    Cerritros, Cal

  14. PS
    Stacy was not more than 5 miles from the Patton homstead 3 weeks ago. You probably did not know it but the family’s estate is just south of the Rose Bowl.
    You do know your compas, right?
    Old Jarhead

  15. PS
    Stacy was not more than 5 miles from the Patton homstead 3 weeks ago. You probably did not know it but the family’s estate is just south of the Rose Bowl.
    You do know your compas, right?
    Old Jarhead

  17. Ran / Si Vis pacem sorry, but the Bonus Army’s allegations of “war crimes” is pretty weak. Go watch Cinderella Man.

    It is too bad Roosevelt made a recession a depression, but that was what happened.

  18. Ran / Si Vis pacem sorry, but the Bonus Army’s allegations of “war crimes” is pretty weak. Go watch Cinderella Man.

    It is too bad Roosevelt made a recession a depression, but that was what happened.

  19. Saw George C Scott on stage with his wife Trish Van Devere at a DC theatre years ago. He tried to upstage her the whole play. I believe he was drunk. I came away thinking he was a very rude man and a poor spouse.

    However, when Levin plays this music…I know I am in for a treat. He really tore into McCain tonight. God love him.

  20. Saw George C Scott on stage with his wife Trish Van Devere at a DC theatre years ago. He tried to upstage her the whole play. I believe he was drunk. I came away thinking he was a very rude man and a poor spouse.

    However, when Levin plays this music…I know I am in for a treat. He really tore into McCain tonight. God love him.

  23. Joe…
    Go read newspaper accounts of Patton and MacArthur acting under Roosevelt’s direct orders. I didn’t claim he was a “war criminal”, just underscoring his first major military action as being what it was – less than heroic.

    That he recovered honor in his service is not in doubt.

  24. Joe…
    Go read newspaper accounts of Patton and MacArthur acting under Roosevelt’s direct orders. I didn’t claim he was a “war criminal”, just underscoring his first major military action as being what it was – less than heroic.

    That he recovered honor in his service is not in doubt.

  30. Ya know, it was said that Patton’s daughters thought George C. Scott captured their father perfectly.

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