Sands of Iwo Jima
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IMDB rating: 7.10 Plot: John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker’s from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose father was Stryker’s CO at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft and cowardly to be a Marine. The squad grows more and more resentful at Stryker’s increasingly brutal training regimen and his lack of sympathy for the varied personal problems of the recruits, but his determination to mold them into fighting men helps save their lives when the squad is landed at Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker risks his life to blow up a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered Marines trapped at a log wall. The now battle-tested squad becomes more closely-knit and Stryker’s relationship with the men warms as the squad eventually finds itself in the bloodiest island battle of the war, at Iwo Jima. |
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What actor in a movie best symbolizes the American Soldier?
I’m talking about the basic GI Joe – No Superhero types (like Rambo, Chuck Norris) – but just the everyday soldier. For me, its Robert Mitchum in The Longest Day, with John Wayne as Sgt. Stryker in Sands of Iwo Jima and Karl Malden as General Marshall in Patton right behind.
So who is your favorite?
Bill Murray in Stripes
R. Lee Ermey (Gny. Sgt. Hartman) in Full Metal Jacket
markiemark1451 | Sep 05, 2007
I would probably have to say either Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now or Robert Deniro in The Deer Hunter.Apocalypse Now is the all time greatest color war film, but Deniro is very bad ass in his role as Michael.
annonoman | Sep 05, 2007
Lee Marvin – Big Red One
Tom Hanks – Saving Private Ryan
Kevin Dillon – Platoon (just kidding)
George C. Scott – Patton
Matthew Modine – Full Metal Jacket and Memphis Belle
No offense but John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Jima is a disgrace to those who actually served there (quoting my grandpa who actually fought there).
go avs! | Sep 05, 2007
Denzel Washington in Courage Under Fire.
Damian Lewis … Maj. Richard D. Winters in Band Of Brothers
Anthony Hopkins … Lt. Col. John Frost ..A Bridge Too Far
JJ P | Sep 05, 2007
Tom Hanks – Saving Private Ryan
Pisces & Leo | Sep 06, 2007









