#robert gould shaw

[bardengarde]

Glory + Memes Part 1

[tommy-288]

[amaranthinepoetess]

Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial.

[ephemeral-wound]

where r all the robert gould shaw fans ?? im obsessed w reading abt him but i feel like no one talks abt him 😭😭

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Glory (1989, Edward Zwick)

24/01/2024

Glory is a 1989 film directed by Edward Zwick about the first volunteer fighter unit formed by African Americans in the United Army during the American Civil War.

The film is inspired by the personal letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment from its formation in February 1863 until the attack on Fort Wagner in South Carolina, where he died during the assault in July of the same year.

Among the awards received, the film received five nominations for the 1990 Oscars, winning three as best supporting actor for Denzel Washington, best cinematography and best sound.

On September 17, 1862, during the American Civil War, Captain Robert Gould Shaw was slightly wounded during the Battle of Antietam and returned home to Boston on medical leave. During a ceremony in November of the same year, he met the abolitionist Frederick Douglass and at the request of Governor John Andrew, accepted the task of training and commanding with the rank of colonel the first regiment of African-American men of the Union Army.

The men are informed that due to President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the Confederacy has declared that all captured black Union soldiers will be returned to slavery and the white officers under their command shot.

In the subsequent clashes, the regiment gained the valor and respect of the white soldier and Shaw proposed himself to General George Strong as the first attack force on Fort Wagner, as part of the campaign to secure the port city of Charleston.

The officers are aware that breaking the fort's defenses will not be easy; in fact the fortress had previously been attack by a white regiment but without success (First Battle of Fort Wagner). A front-line force of the 54th, with supporting white companies, begins the Second Battle of Fort Wagner.

The film budget was $18 million and filming took place in Georgia and Massachusetts from February 9 to April 27, 1989.

Rotten Tomatoes indicates that 93% of 40 selected critics gave the film a positive review, with an average score of 7.9 out of 10.

[eachlittlebird]

If you ever need a good cry or just want to feel the horrible mystery and beauty of mortality deep inside your bones, just watch the scene in Glory (1989) when Colonel Shaw (Matthew Broderick) rides his horse along the beach prior to the assault on Fort Wagner, peering out at the waves and the seagulls with tears in his eyes because he knows the remainder of his life is counted in hours and he'll never look at the ocean again.

[rmstitanics]

My Civil War Historian Opinions, as told in Memes, Part II | inspired by @chamberlainswifey

[everythingtoony]

We watched the movie Glory in my US, it's a Civil War movie based entirely off of the letters that were sent by Robert Gould Shaw.

Now we finished it (it was super super good!!!) AND we have to do a project for it. Make a movie poster and write three journal entries as a character of our choice from the movie.

I AM A WRITER!!! THIS WAS A DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT FOR MY TEACHER TO ASSIGN /pos

And that's how I wrote a three page doc consisting of three entries having way more than the required amount of paragraphs entirely as Robert Shaw's friend Colbat Folbes.

AND I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE SLIPPED IN A LIL GAYNESS BECAUSE I GOT SUUUPER STRONG VIBES FROM THEM WHENEVER THEY WERE ON SCREEN

[fandomhoppers]

One of my more detailed drawings. This is Matthew Broderick’s rendition of Col. Robert Gould Shaw in Glory (1989). -H

[of-fear-and-love]

Interiors from The Sting (1973)

[bardengarde]

Robert Gould Shaw/Cabot Forbes || First Class - Rainbow Kitten Surprise

[tommy-288]

I don’t really have anything important to say…but gosh darn these two mfs got the best chemistry!

[whatamigonnawatchtoday]

The Sting

1973. Heist Film

By George Roy Hill

Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Robert Earl Jones, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, John Heffernan...

Country: United States

Language: English

[col-robert-shaw]

Watched Glory for the 3rd time already, I can't keep watching it every time I finish it I cry. It's such a good movie and the casting is amazing, Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, and Cary Elwes. When I first watched this in history class I never expected to become this obsessed. I need more people to watch and enjoy this movie.🫠🫶

[rabbitcruiser]

At nine o’clock on the morning on May 28, 1863, the 54th’s 1,007 black  soldiers and 37 white officers gathered in the Boston Common and prepared to head to the battlefields of the South. That evening, the 54th Infantry boarded a transport ship bound for Charleston.    

[ulrichgebert]

Man braucht nur ein bisschen Selbstvertrauen. Sowie schicke Anzüge, eine fabelhafte Ausstattung, von Marvin Hamlish arrangierte Scott-Joplin-Rags und eine größere Menge hochmotivierter Spieler, Trickbetrüger und Kleinganoven. Schon steht einem außerordentlich aufwändigen Betrugskonzept nichts mehr im Wege. Es ist so wohlorganisiert, daß es sogar auch beim Filmpublikum funktioniert.