Whipping scene
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amikelhenry — 11 years ago(February 21, 2015 06:15 PM)
Exactly right..The prior whippings he had as scars had come unjustly when Tripp was a slave..but this whipping was given not because he was a slave, but because he was viewed as a deserter like any soldier would have been given White of Black..
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goleafsgo27 — 11 years ago(January 19, 2015 11:19 PM)
"That scene where Denzel has a tear run down his face is one of the most powerful in cinematic history! Absolutely brilliant and it secured his Oscar!"
Well, that is exactly what I was going to say, so thanks Mini, you saved me some keystrokes. I'll just steal yours! That scene is so extraordinary. If I were teaching an acting class, I would start with that, and repeat it until every student fully understood its depth and the intense beauty of its horror.
I have seen enough to know I have seen too much.
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echoesofglory — 9 years ago(June 19, 2016 08:04 AM)
I can't believe what I'm reading in this thread, the whipping scene is awful, it would only have been powerful if it had taken place in real history. Now the movie wrongly shows Shaw accepting the flogging of an escaped slave, something that he never ever would have done. Shaw's descendants should have sued the director.
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Doc80 — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 05:53 PM)
You're an idiot. Would you have preferred them branding a "D" on his forehead? They chose flogging because of the history of slaves being whipped. Shaw then punishes him in that way to show that he would treat his soldiers the same he would treat any other soldier even though he didn't personally believe that the punishment was right or not.
Also, I would point out that while his family were abolitionists, Col Shaw was an opportunist who take the job in order to rise in rank and didn't completely believe what his family did, at least not at the beginning.