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Actors: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington, Wings Hauser, Patti LaBelle, Art Evans, Dennis Lipscomb
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about A Soldier's Story |
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A SOLDIER'S STORY, based on a play by Charles Fuller, was directed by Norman Jewison in 1984.
The setting is a military camp, reserved to Afro-American soldiers, in Louisiana in the year 1944. After the murder of a sergeant, Washington sends Capt. Davenport to the camp in order to find out what happened. The soldiers are convinced that the Ku Klux Klan is to blame while the white military hierarchy is trying to dissuade Davenport from looking too far into the case. Davenport will question the soldiers of the company one by one and soon discover that Waters, the murdered sergeant, was hated by most of his men.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of A Soldier's Story |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Murder Mystery?
Yes
Murders of set profession?
- soldiers
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- senior military
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- fat (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- skinny (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- 1
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
Is this movie based on a
- play
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