Denzel Washington Movie

        In the famous film, Glory, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman portrayed soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, a unit of free African American volunteers, commanded by a white officer, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. The film dramatizes the fateful assault on Fort Wagner, a Confederate bastion on Morris Island, S.C on July 18, 1863. The film, Glory, was a film that portrayed the struggle for African Americans to overcome the hardships of slavery and the war that the African Americans had to fight in order to break away from discrimination.

        In the film, Robert Shaw is a captain of American forces but after being injured in battle, he is then offered the position of Colonel and to command the first all-black regiment. A number of runaway slaves joined this regiment and gave everything they had up in order to fight against the Union. Racial discrimination was still at a high between some of the commanders and the slaves, but when a slave named Trip was caught away from the camp and was sentenced to a whipping, all of his previous scars were revealed.

The commanders and slaves ties are then mended after Tripp’s scars are revealed and after the commanders find out that Tripp was only going out of camp to get some better shoes. The men then undergo the difficulties of securing a harbor, and taking a fort. The mission goes badly, and many are killed during the attempt to capture the fort but in the morning the Confederate flag is flying in the wind above the fort.

The film managed to address the discrimination of not only the blacks but also the white abolitionists. The film also depicted the relationships and hardships of slaves during the Civil War.

The movie accurately and effectively portrays the time period that the film was set in in several ways. Although the film did not tell when or how the slaves escaped, the film managed to accurately show that the camp did not start out with thousands of members. The film managed to include the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which legally freed the slaves in rebellious states. Glory also portrayed the cluelessness of the slaves upon entering the training phase of battle. Several of the slaves had never been in contact with firearms or weapons of any kind before.