Glory: A Review

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South Carolina. Poised to dispel the belief that blacks would not be
disciplined under fire, the Fifty-fourth leads the almost suicidal attack on Ft.
Wagner. There Col. Shaw valiantly falls and the Fifty-fourth, suffering great
losses, displayed the courage that persuaded the Union to enlist many more black
soldiers.
Matthew Broderick delivers a noteworthy performance in the role of Col.
Shaw, which Leonard Maltin calls his most ambitious part. In an interview for
the New York Times, Broderick spoke of his method acting,

"The first step [in preparing for the role of Robert Gould Shaw in Glory]
was to try to learn as much as I could about the real person. That was mostly
from letters, photographs, descriptions and a poem by Emerson. The thing I had
to do was bring myself into that situation. I didn't want to be an imitation of
what I thought Shaw must have been like."

Broderick's acting talent has been noted on Broadway as well as in films.
Broderick won a Tony ...

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a moving effect during the
death of Col. Robert Shaw.(Magill, 158) Horner won a Grammy Award for the score
for Glory. He was nominated the same year for an Academy Award for the score
for Field of Dreams. Horner's previous Grammy Awards include song of the year
and best song written for a motion picture or television, all for "Somewhere Out
There" from An American Tale in 1987. (CTFT, 228) Leonard Maltin calls Horner
one of today's most prolific film composer's. Horner composed thirty one motion
picture scores from 1979 to 1989. (Maltin, 411)
There are many elements that contribute to the success of a film. Glory
combines the best cinematography, sound, score, and acting to ...

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