And not as a perpetual temptation or sparring partner so
much as a badge of honor, proof that we're intellectually rigorous, honest, and thoughtful — not the mindless automatons the world thinks we are.
Not exact matches
Stone gives himself
much credit
of «telling the truth» about Alexander's bisexuality
as if it's some progressive
badge of honor, but at the same time he can't get away from the cruelest, least imaginative stereotyping: His Alexander,
as expressed through the weepy histrionics
of Colin Farrell, is more like a desperate housewife than a soldier.
The ten - hour production follows three soldiers — PFC Robert Leckie (James
Badge Dale, now the star
of AMC's Rubison), PFC Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and medal
of honor winner Sgt. John Basilone (Jon Seda)-- from Pearl Harbor and the first battles on Guadalcanal across the Pacific (and back home for Bond drives) to Okinawa and V - J Day and finally homecoming, which is filled with just
as much anxiety
as some
of the battles, though for very different reasons.