Brad Pitt has been very open about how his responsibilities as a father affected his onscreen film career. But on the flip side, the actor credited one movie in particular for affecting his fatherhood.
How ‘Fury’ made Brad Pitt a better father Brad Pitt | Marilla Sicilia/Getty Images
Many films have helped Pitt grow as an actor. But perhaps only few managed to help him grow as a parent. The David Ayer feature Fury fits the latter category. Ayer’s 2014 flick was an ensemble feature that saw Pitt playing Don Collier, who was a world war 2 tank commander. As the army veteran, Pitt’s character was tasked to guide younger soldiers played by the likes of Shia Labeouf and Logan Lerman.
The war movie meant a lot to Pitt, as the actor felt it gave the opportunity for soldiers to be seen.
“The film is about the soldiers’ exhaustion from the cold,...
How ‘Fury’ made Brad Pitt a better father Brad Pitt | Marilla Sicilia/Getty Images
Many films have helped Pitt grow as an actor. But perhaps only few managed to help him grow as a parent. The David Ayer feature Fury fits the latter category. Ayer’s 2014 flick was an ensemble feature that saw Pitt playing Don Collier, who was a world war 2 tank commander. As the army veteran, Pitt’s character was tasked to guide younger soldiers played by the likes of Shia Labeouf and Logan Lerman.
The war movie meant a lot to Pitt, as the actor felt it gave the opportunity for soldiers to be seen.
“The film is about the soldiers’ exhaustion from the cold,...
- 8/30/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
David Ayer's films are known for the amount of preparation that goes into developing relationships between characters. The onscreen chemistry in films like "End of Watch" and "Training Day" is credited to the intense pre-production that Ayer puts his actors through, and Ayer used the same process for his 2014 film "Fury," which follows a tank commando led by Brad Pitt's Don "Wardaddy" Collier. Pitt and the rest of the cast, which consisted of Jon Bernthal, Shia Labeouf, Michael Peña, and Logan Lerman, underwent rigorous boot camp training to prepare for the film, and that training was an opportunity for them to bond as actors.
Aside from those interpersonal relationships, Ayer was also dedicated to making the characters as authentic as possible by developing their backstory. This was especially true for Brad Pitt's character, Wardaddy, whose backstory was developed a good while before production on the film even began...
Aside from those interpersonal relationships, Ayer was also dedicated to making the characters as authentic as possible by developing their backstory. This was especially true for Brad Pitt's character, Wardaddy, whose backstory was developed a good while before production on the film even began...
- 8/21/2022
- by Ernesto Valenzuela
- Slash Film
Don Collier, the rugged actor who built a career filled with Westerns with turns in three John Wayne films and work on such shows as The High Chaparral, Outlaws and The Young Riders, has died. He was 92.
Collier died Monday of lung cancer in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, friend and casting director Susan McCray (Little House on the Prairie) told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the big screen, Collier performed alongside Wayne in El Dorado (1966), The War Wagon (1967) and The Undefeated (1969) and acted with Audie Murphy in Seven Ways From Sundown (1960) and with Val Kilmer in Tombstone (1993).
Starting in the 1970s, Collier starred for years as ...
Collier died Monday of lung cancer in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, friend and casting director Susan McCray (Little House on the Prairie) told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the big screen, Collier performed alongside Wayne in El Dorado (1966), The War Wagon (1967) and The Undefeated (1969) and acted with Audie Murphy in Seven Ways From Sundown (1960) and with Val Kilmer in Tombstone (1993).
Starting in the 1970s, Collier starred for years as ...
- 9/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Don Collier, the rugged actor who built a career filled with Westerns with turns in three John Wayne films and work on such shows as The High Chaparral, Outlaws and The Young Riders, has died. He was 92.
Collier died Monday of lung cancer in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, friend and casting director Susan McCray (Little House on the Prairie) told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the big screen, Collier performed alongside Wayne in El Dorado (1966), The War Wagon (1967) and The Undefeated (1969) and acted with Audie Murphy in Seven Ways From Sundown (1960) and with Val Kilmer in Tombstone (1993).
Starting in the 1970s, Collier starred for years as ...
Collier died Monday of lung cancer in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, friend and casting director Susan McCray (Little House on the Prairie) told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the big screen, Collier performed alongside Wayne in El Dorado (1966), The War Wagon (1967) and The Undefeated (1969) and acted with Audie Murphy in Seven Ways From Sundown (1960) and with Val Kilmer in Tombstone (1993).
Starting in the 1970s, Collier starred for years as ...
- 9/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
1966: The final episode of Never Too Young aired on ABC.
1983: Guiding Light's Nola & Quint were married.
1987: As the World Turns' Iva blurted out the truth about Lily.
1999: A gorilla plotted to interrupt Cass & Lila's wedding on Another World."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
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1946: Procter & Gamble radio soap opera Life Can Be Beautiful moved to the 3 p.m. Et timeslot on the NBC Radio network. The show had always run in the mornings previously. It would remain in this new timeslot until...
1983: Guiding Light's Nola & Quint were married.
1987: As the World Turns' Iva blurted out the truth about Lily.
1999: A gorilla plotted to interrupt Cass & Lila's wedding on Another World."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1946: Procter & Gamble radio soap opera Life Can Be Beautiful moved to the 3 p.m. Et timeslot on the NBC Radio network. The show had always run in the mornings previously. It would remain in this new timeslot until...
- 6/26/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1966: Final episode of ABC's Never Too Young. 1983: Guiding
Light's Nola & Quint were married. 1987: As the World Turns'
Iva blurted out the truth about Lily. 1999: A gorilla plotted
to interrupt Cass & Lila's wedding on Another World."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."
― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1946: Procter & Gamble radio soap opera Life Can Be Beautiful moved to the 3 p.m. Et timeslot on the NBC Radio network.
Light's Nola & Quint were married. 1987: As the World Turns'
Iva blurted out the truth about Lily. 1999: A gorilla plotted
to interrupt Cass & Lila's wedding on Another World."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."
― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1946: Procter & Gamble radio soap opera Life Can Be Beautiful moved to the 3 p.m. Et timeslot on the NBC Radio network.
- 6/24/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
It wasn’t too long ago that war films painted their characters as clear-cut heroes and villains belonging solely to one side or the other, but by the time the darkness of the Vietnam War settled over America the movies discovered the muddy morality that exists in the real world. Our patriotic heroes could have flaws, and our mortal enemies could exhibit a recognizable humanity. The whites and blacks of the past are today’s grays, and what was once a revelation — that good guys can be troubled, weak and filled with doubt — is now the norm. Basically if you’re going to make a war movie it better be packed with more than a squad of morally challenged soldiers. Fury, the new film from writer/director David Ayer that leaves his precious Los Angeles streets behind in favor of the blood-soaked fields and shell-shocked towns of World War II Germany, takes...
- 10/16/2014
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Early on in Fury, the new World War II film starring Brad Pitt, an American column of tanks is seen creeping slowly into Germany. The convoy is, in fact, so deep into Nazi territory that enemy lines don’t really exist anymore. By the April, 1945 of the film’s setting, the Nazi opposition is a shambles, scattered and divided between those willing to surrender to the Allies, and those fighting to the last man, woman and child. One of the latter group catches the convoy by surprise, striking the lead tank with an explosive. The operator, engulfed in flames and howling in agony, climbs out of the tank, grabs his pistol, and shoots himself in the head.
It’s a disturbing moment of violence, small in comparison to the body count of the rest of the film (let alone the war), but completely unbecoming of the kind of war picture Fury is being sold as,...
It’s a disturbing moment of violence, small in comparison to the body count of the rest of the film (let alone the war), but completely unbecoming of the kind of war picture Fury is being sold as,...
- 10/16/2014
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Writer and director David Ayer brings his particular brand of hard-hitting action and remorseless intensity to the muddied front of World War II-torn Europe in Fury, more specifically the metal beasts that rolled through the landscape on rusted tracks. Fury’s heart is in both the hardened men inside those tanks as well as the hellish events that made them that way. It pulls up a number of war movie tropes, some of which give the film a shopworn feel. Regardless, the out-and-out ferocity of Ayer’s camera and action with a staggering slate of performances led by Brad Pitt makes Fury as solid as any good war film before it. Pitt plays Staff Sergeant Don Collier, commander of a Sherman tank whose crew of five are the closest the Army has on the Nazi Germany ground, so much so that Collier has been given the lovely moniker of “Wardaddy.
- 10/16/2014
- by Jeremy Kirk
- firstshowing.net
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