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...make us an average family ... Jimmy is 100% and I'm 0%. So it comes out to 50% because of me." There was Jimmy near the top of his high school class; Billy, by his own account, next to the bottom. Jimmy the Navy officer; Billy the Marine sergeant. Jimmy the Governor; Billy the gas station owner. Jimmy the straitlaced, born-again Baptist; Billy the laid-back, foul-mouthed redneck. Jimmy the President; Billy the family embarrassment...
After frustrating the coup attempt, officials hastily formed a Headquarters for Coordinating the Neutralization of the Conspiracy and launched a nationwide man hunt. The government's actions were accompanied by popular frenzy. Mobs jammed the streets to denounce the conspiracy and mourn their latest martyr: Sergeant Mohammed Esmail Ghorbani, killed by one of the accused plotters, whom he was seeking to arrest...
...freed slaves in Liberia until the recent coup. Sierra Leone gained its independence from Britain in 1961; seven years later, Stevens took power after a revolt led by low-ranking soldiers. That power grab bore a certain resemblance to the army-led coup in Liberia, headed by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, that ousted the long-entrenched Tolbert regime...
...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 their landing in North Africa in 1942 to the liberation of a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia in 1945, one keeps expecting at least one of them to be killed. But they defy expectation by surviving, implying that in brotherhood there is a strength bordering on the magical...
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...