It was overdone, Teddy wasn't as strange as that, he was a total badass, the man took a bullet in the gut from an assasin and without medical aid, gave a speach for an hour while bleeding. He wasn't as ridiculous as they make him out to be.
shareIf by ridiculous, you mean his speech mannerisms, then yes, he WAS that ridiculous. You obviously haven't read about Teddy as a wrancher in Montana, where he would say " Hasten forward quickly", instead of "Stampede!" He had asthma, and willed himself to be strong. THAT'S what made him a badass, not a macho voice, or a typical cowboy's swagger. I thought that the movie captured both his quirks AND his toughness.
shareHaha, that's hilarious, I chuckled. I did not know that. But I was under the impression he wasn't such a prissy type... Am I wrong? This movie makes him out to be kind of ridiculous. I thought he was ridiculous out of blood lust, not out of weirdness. I just checked this for the first time in ages, and yet I got a response two days ago. Joy!
shareI wouldn't say "prissy" but he was a New York socialite of sorts. He and his college buddies were very schooled. I think today you'd say prissy but it was just how the upper class acted.
The movie really captures how for these men it was an adventure. See a movie like Zulu Dawn. The British officers in that film are much like the educated men here. This is almost a "game" to them, Teddy included!
That is what the movie shows at the end: Teddy growing up, realizing that war and life is not a game. The TR that came out of this war was very different then the one that came into it.
shareThe TR that came out of this war was very different then the one that came into it.