FURY new Brad Pitt WWII film

[Keith]

The Tiger is the real deal - 131 transported from Bovington for the film. Only use of a real tiger in a Hollywood Movie (Theirs Is The Glory doesn't count - it was British and they had a bit of an advantage   ). Definitely not the Saving Private Ryan mockup.

Of course rivet counters will point out that 131 is a very early model, whereas you'd probably expect a very late version for this time period, but if they are fighting in Germany then arguably all bets are off!

[Ballardian]

Fun as it is to debate real vs faux Tigers, it is only incidental to how good the film may be surely?
(Incidentally, I was going to say that I doubted we'll ever see a real Tiger I or II used in a movie - they're simply too rare, fragile & valuable to be let out from the few collections that own ones in running order - however I've since discovered that it indeed the fully running Tiger I owned by The Tank Museum at Bovington that was used in the film - surprising given the reasons mentioned earlier - ahh, looks liked I've been pipped at the post by Keith.)

[Calimero]

According to this Wiki article (yes, I know...), there's only six Tiger tanks left around the world with only two in working order (one in Bovington, UK and the other in the US).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimoutiers_Tiger_tank

IIRC the Saving Private Ryan Tiger was built on an old Russian tank frame wasn't it?

[Elk101]

This from IMDb on the shermans:

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 from Barratt Homes.

I'd have let them use mine but it's only 1:50, though it would've been fine for tiny Tom Cruise.

[The Dozing Dragon]

Looks good fun. I stood on that Vimoutiers Tiger tank sometimes around 1966......

[Ballardian]

Yes Calimero, the SPR 'Tiger' is on a T34 chassis, as appears to to the grand film tradition, just like the one from Kelly's Heroes.
It's a pity so much of the Vemoutier Tiger is missing, (including I think the entire floor pan!) but the restoration would easily hit six figures & spares are rare - though I suppose if you combined it with the equally ratty one at Samaur you would have most of one good one.

[axabrax]

Yes Calimero, the SPR 'Tiger' is on a T34 chassis, as appears to to the grand film tradition, just like the one from Kelly's Heroes.

Yes, that's right, it was a T34. I knew it was some kind of Frankentank, but couldn't remember exactly which chassis. It's freaking huge, that's for sure. It showed up at a few World War II reenactments that I went to. The funny thing was its only opponent was a Stuart on the American side!

[Elbows]

Yep, T34...easiest way was to glimpse at the tracks.  I sure hope there is some vaguely rewarding footage in this new movie.  I expect we'll be seeing a lot of 30-yard tank battles for cinematic effect.

 

[Atheling]

So, who's going to remind us all in November then  ?

i always seem to forget about films and end up missing them!! 

Darrell.

[Paul Hicks]

The SPR Tiger is alive and well and on display at the IWM Duxford land war site.

[Silent Invader]

This from IMDb on the shermans:

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 from Barratt Homes.

I'd have let them use mine but it's only 1:50, though it would've been fine for tiny Tom Cruise.

What? Barratt Homes owns a tank?!

[Cubs]

What? Barratt Homes owns a tank?!

Why not, Everest Double Glazing owned a helicopter.

I accept the fact that Hollywood will mostly make American movies, with American heroes for an American audience these days. I just hanker after the older films of the post war period, when people who were there were still around, possibly even making the film. There seemed to be a much more accurate and respectful spread of honours amongst the other nations involved back then.

[Arthur]

What is Brad like 50 years old? Where there really 50-year-old tank commanders? Of course being in his 40s didn't stop Brad from playing the teenage Achilles in Troy, so I guess he's not really a stickler for these things.

Pitt was born in 1963, which makes him a bit long in the tooth for a front line WW2 tankie. That said, no one seemed to mind Lee Marvin as a 56-year old infantry NCO in The Big Red One or John Wayne as a 55-year-old paratrooper officer in The Longest Day.

[former user]

besides, he looks way more youthful than the other two.

Plus, 3 years of combat fatigue can let 30 years old look like 50.....

[SiamTiger]

To be honest, yet another cheap propaganda movie.

Yeah killing germans (germans, not nazis), that's something a Tarantino Movie like Inglorious Basterds can come along with. But this action movie is just ... it's a Sherman, against so much enemies and surviving it? Oh, we all forget, it was the americans, who did win the war by themselves. Not the brits, not the polish airborne, russians and the combined allies, it was the americans...