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...cardigan sweater endures. It was the symbol of his first days of power. That rather austere garment, which he wore both for warmth and to show the American people he was one of them, has been upgraded to a fuller and more stylish model with a collar. It is neatly folded on these scorching days on a table along the wall of the Oval Office. That office remains fundamentally intact as he established it when he came to power, but it is now enriched with the acquisitions of his years in office?a vase from Sadat, a glass screen from...
...Fuller's dream movie has about it a mellowness that contrasts sharply with the brutal force of his earlier films, which often derived their power from the simple act of upending generic conventions-having the hero actually pull the trigger at the moment when normally he might be expected to holster his gun, or even fall into hysterics just when he was supposed to be most tightly controlled. Fuller is still doing this in Big Red, but in a much more benign way. In the movie, which traces the lives of four privates and their sergeant (Lee Marvin) from...
Again, in the classic movie manner, the characters are drawn from different backgrounds. But instead of using these conflicts for comic relief or color, Fuller mutes them to emphasize the commonality of their response to shared danger. The only fully developed figure is the wise and weary sergeant, who is so resonantly underplayed by Marvin that one scarcely notices that the young men who group themselves self-protectively around him are not more sharply particularized. But that comes to seem a prime virtue, for character is something that is formed by experience digested, and there is no time for that...
...Fuller's film is essentially a series of incidents. Marvin's squad hits an African beach defended by the Vichy French, and instead of facing a firefight, they find themselves making allies of these reluctant warriors. They knock out a hidden German gun in Italy and are awarded an alfresco luncheon by the women of the newly liberated town. They survive a German ambush and soon after help to deliver a French woman's baby in the tank they have captured. There is a weird battle in an insane asylum, and the death of a child...
Some heavy ironic meaning might have been imposed on these juxtapositions of the quotidian and the violent, and the younger Fuller might have done so. But now he merely touches on them and passes on, leaving them to work on his viewers' minds as they imagine the memories must have, over the years...