can someone tell me why the sgt was disfigured? did i miss something in the movie? one minute he's in the film the next he's gone for about 20 mins then his face is all burnt.
it's been bugging me all along
help!
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Well, we never see how the George Peppard character gets wounded, either, but he is on crutches when he goes to visit the sergeant.
shareI can only guess that he was injured when he spent the night with the french lady, who was afraid of being left alone for one more night of shelling in her chateau.
Sarge was scoping out possible buildings as a forward headquarters for the company brass and spent one night to many within range of enemy artillery.
But the Sergeant is seen in a scene subsequent to the bombing bed scene and he is unhurt.
shareSomebody has mentioned that this film was withdrawn and re-issued heavily edited. I think the story regarding the disfigurment of the sgt was a part of the film that suffered.
I think the whole point of us not knowing is so that we feel the same shock as Geroge Peppard's character when he goes to visit him in hospital.
He has no idea his Sgt has suffered such terrible injuries.
He only knows he's been wounded.
I think it makes it more horrific in impact.
I don't think the audience was ever meant to know the specific incident which burned Sgt. Craig. THE VICTORS is a movie concerned with the consequences of actions not the actions themselves.
shareI agree with the last two entries.....the scene is set up to shock Peppard, and us. If we knew ahead of time about the circumstances the scene would have had little effect. Add to this the fact that the film was episodic, where most scenes seem to end with a dramatic punctuation (this scene is one of them) and there is little doubt that what we saw was intentional, and not confusing....
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In a possibly deleted scene two members of the cast discuss how the sgt had a booby trap blow up in his face.
shareLike us, the audience, Peppard is shocked to find that the Sgt. has his face burnt or blown off. if we saw how it happened, when we see those horrible bandages we shouldn't have gotten that sinking feeling in our stomach.
it was a very powerful scene that worked.
Like one poster said earlier, the film never intended the viewers to see the actual events leading to Chase's injuries or Sergeant Craig getting horribly burned. Similarly, we didn't see how Trower eventually ended up in Berlin. The film was like a number of vignettes showing what happened to a group of soldiers that were somehow connected, at various points of time. It was not all glory and happiness for the victorious side, as many other warfilms would have liked the viewers to believe. The victors were not always welcomed by the people they liberated. There were deserters (the execution scene), Sergeant Craig was disfigured, Chase probably became a cripple for life, and we know what happened when Trower clashed with the Soviet soldier also form the "victorious" side.
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