{"id":33178,"date":"2023-06-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33178"},"modified":"2023-06-25T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:44:31","slug":"samuel-fullers-the-big-red-one-1980-starring-lee-marvin-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33178","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Fuller&#8217;s &#8220;The Big Red One&#8221; (1980) starring Lee Marvin \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z062623zview_bugredone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"761\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Big Red One <\/em><\/strong>(1980)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Samuel Fuller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Samuel Fuller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco <\/strong>and <strong>Kelly Ward.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> The real glory of war is surviving.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A battle-tested Sergeant (Marvin) leads a squad into battle after battle throughout World War II.\u00a0 Although new recruits are added to the team, the four soldiers with the Sarge from day one are the focus of the story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Samuel Fuller, who wrote and directed <em>The Big Red One<\/em>, actually served in World War II in the 1st Infantry Division known as <em>The Big Red 1<\/em>.\u00a0 Fuller received the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart over the course of his military career.\u00a0 Many of the events that happen in the film, are from Fuller&#8217;s experiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Samuel Fuller&#8217;s initial cut for<em> The Big Red One<\/em> was four hours.\u00a0 It and a two hour cut were both rejected.\u00a0 I&#8217;d be interested in seeing a longer version.\u00a0 It felt like we moved from battle to battle with little over-all meaning to the outcome of the war.\u00a0 Also, the new recruits added to the unit as the film progressed were basically Star Trek red shirts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em>The Big Red One<\/em> (1980) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z062623zview_bugredone2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Red One (1980) Director: Samuel Fuller Screenplay: Samuel Fuller Stars: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33181,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178\/revisions\/33181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}