The best eding imaginable to this film. Scott speaks, in his own eloquent voice, a bit of history which Patton himself knew very well. It's both summation and tragic epitaph.. Patton knew he was already being mothballed. There would not be another war for him; there would not be another command. The windmill evokes Don Quixote, that idealistic knight born out of time. Author Miguel De Cervantes knew this sort of story well. He was a professional soldier who lost the use of one arm in battle. Even actor Scott knew (too well) that all glory is fleeting.
Lovely and eloquent. Scott was a complex artist, as many are/ were in his position. We know the fleeting and aging nature of life, but the human condition begs to hold on to the possibility of one more triumph, one more affirming glory. The poignancy of this scene and many others , in this movie, are captivating to our soul. They never let go. We return, over and over.
I find myself returning to hear these words from time to time, over the years. I cannot imagine anyone in any setting delivering them more beautifully and in a manner more fitting! Legendary!
My Dad served in Patton's Third Army, Fourth Armored Division. He had seen Patton twice when he was reviewing the troops and said this movie was as close to the real Patton as you are going to get, except for his voice, which was rather high and squeaky. He said that you could feel his command presence, almost like goosebumps. Yes, many men under his command disliked him and maybe hated him BUT would serve under him again in a heartbeat. And yes, anytime this movie was on TV in the 1970's or early 80's, if you were home, you were watching this with him.
My Uncle was in the infantry in Patton's Third Army all the way across Europe. He was so shell shocked he could barely hold a cigarette, when he told me it was door to door, street to street, God we killed a lot of German Solders. He cried and only told me that story one time because a five-year-old boy kept asking him what it was like...
Thank you for sharing about your dad’s service in the Third Army. I am sure people would be interested to learn more about his experience if you wrote about it. My Dad served in the army Vietnam, and he loves this movie. I revere veterans, especially those from the now distant 20th century wars. God bless!
To me one of the greatest movie endings. Understated, moving and tragic . The movie is filled with such great monologues -the introduction speech on eve of d-day, in the ruins of Carthage, a prayer for immoderate weather, and this finale.
You get this nostalgic feeling with him every time there's a scene like this in the film. Is it kind of melancholy thing? He seems to yearn for another time throughout the entire movie. A Man out of Time speaking through poetry as if it were the only language he could speak that would get the point across I see him as a great barbarian king or many down through history who were in battle more than they were in life. The pure warrior.
John Milius wrote or co-wrote the screenplay for... Patton, Dirty Harry, Jeremiah Johnson, Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn (original), Conan the Barbarian, Clear and Present Danger, as well as episodes of Miami Vice, Homeland and Rome. How amazing a resume is that!
My wife and i saw this movie in San Jose,Ca. when it came out. It was so good i went back a few weeks later and saw it again. I have seen it at least 15 times since them over the 50 plus years. One of my favorite scenes in the move is where the Minister has given Patton a prayer to get rid of this (Immoderate weather). Patton walked outside at night as he read the prayer.
A very well made and pretty accurate movie. One of the inaccuracies is that apparently Patton actually used to get along with Monty, whereas Bradley didn't like Patton, at all.
But history has taught us that rarely is there peace without victory in war. Something that the U.S. seems to have forgotten since we have never won a war since World War II. And Biden has exacerbated a powder keg in the Middle East by tying Israel's hands. Strength deters wars, weakness invites them. Before the Ukraine-Russian war, Biden encouraged Russia's aggression by actually weakly suggesting that maybe it would be okay if Russia just took a little part of Ukraine! What a poor excuse for a leader. Good riddance.
They don't make people like Patton any more. Patton requested a transfer from The Citadel to West Point and had to start over as a freshman in June, 1904 and graduated in the Spring of 1909. He competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in the modern pentathalon, receiving 5th place because he used his .38 service revolver rather than a .22 target pistol. After studying at the Ecole Militaire in France, Patton was granted the title of Master of the Sword from his fencing instructors. He designed the last US Cavalry sword in 1913. During the 1916 expedition against Pancho Villa, he got in a gunfight with a couple of bandits, shot them and tied them to the bumper of his staff car. He created the embryonic US Army Tank Corps in WW1 in 1917 and became its Colonel and commander.
It was an omen how he was almost taken out by a runaway ox cart that wasn’t seen in this clip. And he says says imagine all I’d been through, then to be taken out by an ox cart. Then only a very short time later in December ‘45 he ends up in a car accident then he dies only days later. It was as if fate knew a warrior general like him could not be a part of a post war world. That a world with out war would cause him destruction. I didn’t really realize that when I first saw this movie with my father when I was 8 years old. But as I’ve gotten older, it was obvious.
Even in the scene when the Germans were burning every scrap of paper and the General there saying he would rather die in the same way the Führer did (suicide) than be captured by the Red Army, the young Hauptmann (Captain) serving as the General's aide said that Patton "would be destroyed too", mentioning that the lack of war would cause his demise (after which he put Patton's photo in the burning drum).
I believe that when Patton was relieved of command of 3rd Army, it broke his heart. The powers that be should have listened to Patton about his warnings about the Soviet Union. I wonder what they thought when the Soviets implemented the Berlin Blockade just 3 years later as a bullying tactic just because the Allies would not give them more German territory than they demanded.
@@lindaoneil5085 I always wondered that. They had egg on their face that much I do know. They were so interested trying to keep Patton quiet about the Soviets and didn’t heed anything he said, that they didn’t realize he was right and the western world was under the threat of nuclear war for multiple decades.
@@Sean17768 That's the truth! The Soviets have been nothing but troublemakers for decades, rattling their ICBMs and intimidating the rest of the world. My mother came to the US from Germany in 1962 right in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis. She told me more than once we came within inches of a nuclear war with the Soviets. My generation grew up in the shadows of the threat of nuclear war. I remember the made-for-TV movie "The Day After". Everybody at school was talking about it. Remember in 1983, the Soviets shot down a KAL 747 that had strayed into Soviet airspace, over the island of Sakhalin. There was an American listening station in Japan just 100 miles away, and it picked up the conversations between the Soviet pilot and ground control. First the Soviets denied it; then they said they did, but it was a spy plane. President Reagan was so angry he played the tape for the world to hear, embarrassing the Soviets and showing what liars they were. The entire world was mad at the Soviets for a long time.
What do men talk about when there aren’t any women around? Patton: “…For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars, enjoyed the honor of a triumph…”
"God and the soldier All the world adores In time of trouble And no more For when wars are over And all things Righted God is neglected The old soldier Slighted" -- Anonymous
As noted by Tertullian in his Apologeticus (chapter XXXIII), the exact words spoken by the slave were these: "Respice post te! Hominem te esse memento!" (Look behind you! Remember that you are a man!).
Over time, fewer people remember warriors or heroes of old. I was named after the Visigoth king who broke away from Rome, but very few remember Euric. What’s made by Man will be dust eventually. Especially what’s created through force.
I'm damned sure I saw a different cut of this movie, decades ago. The final-final scene resembled the first scene, with Patton in front of a huge flag. Patton climbs slowly back down the steps and looks back over his shoulder. He says, "I'm still here. If ever you need me again. I'm still here". Movies are often released with different cuts, but I can't find this cut anywhere.
@@quadnod4605 Don't you know how to search Sir? Both🇺🇸George's are no longer with us on earth, but I believe Patton is✨reincarnating somewhere. George C. Scott refused the Academy Award and I don't blame him.
@@rinalore9416 yes, unfortunately George Smith Patton Junior (III) passed away in December 1945 from the after effects of a traffic accident which broke his neck and severed his spine rendering him a quadroplegic. his only son and namesake George Smith Patton (IV) passed away in 2008 after serving in The United States Army for over 30 years in Korea and Vietnam and rising to the rank of Major General. he retired to his Family Farm in Massachusetts. he also has a son named George Smith Patton V but he is mentally challenged and the Patton Family remains very closed, secretive and cautious regarding the Grand Son and namesake of the World War Two General Patton. the oscar resides at the virginia military institute where the real George Smith Patton attended his first two years of college in Lexington, Virginia. the French Bull Terrier lived out the rest of his days at the Family Farm in Massachusetts but apparently there are sightings of the EXACT same dog in europe in france, belgium, luxembourg and elsewhere whenever one of the Pattons visit. Ironically Helen Patton who is a Grand Daughter of the WWII General is best friends with the Grand Daughter of Irwin Rommel from germany.
@@jephrokimbo9050 I was so💔sad to learn how he went out but he was so spiritual that I believe he feared not and looked forward to it, tbh. He was born a🇺🇸🪖soldier and🇬🇧Montgomery was born a🎩Madhatter, imo. The🗞press had a🥳field day with this🎖honourary man, when General Patton smacked that soldier nothing was known about shell shock or PTSD, how sad is that. That's so ironic about🖤Rommel's🧬link but👹monsters are raised, but🐣born innocent. Every🇩🇪German Nazi was addicted to Pervitin (crystal meth) the fentanyl crisis of today.🤦🏻♀️My ex grandfather in law was a🇩🇪Nazi, captured by the🇨🇦Canadians in🇫🇷France and after a year was given a parcel of land here and his👹Nazi family came a few years later. I never seen🖤evil until I met those👹people, "once a🇩🇪Nazi always a Nazi", I say, they had books made out of Jewish skin and one was given to my firstborn for🎄Christmas and I was so mad, I never went back! I am still trying to get it into a Holocaust Museum but nobody seems to want to touch it? It saddens me to have it in my home, I have it in a special lockbox in my basement and it makes me cry just to know it's there and why. I am happy that🇺🇸George S. Patton's descendants lead a peaceful existence after WWII, I'm sure their Dad wanted it that way. I find it sad that his Son went to🇻🇳Vietnam though. Agent🟧Orange did alot of damage and is still causing damage to not only the🇻🇳Vietnamese but to it's own🇺🇸US🪖Soldiers and has fuelled climate-change. The🇺🇸US🎩Gov had it's own soldiers addicted to morphine like bubble gum, fgs! It's a damn🖤shame the way the🇺🇸USA🪖vets were treated when they arrived back home, some weren't so lucky. Agent🟧Orange causes🐣birth defects to anyone exposed to it, sadly. I♥️love this; "THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY" Through the travail of the ages, Midst the pomp and toil of war, I have fought and strove and perished Countless times upon this star. In the form of many people In all panoplies of time Have I seen the luring vision Of the Victory Maid, sublime. I have battled for fresh mammoth, I have warred for pastures new, I have listened to the whispers When the race trek instinct grew. I have known the call to battle In each changeless changing shape From the high souled voice of conscience To the beastly lust for rape. I have sinned and I have suffered, Played the hero and the knave; Fought for belly, shame, or country, And for each have found a grave. I cannot name my battles For the visions are not clear, Yet, I see the twisted faces And I feel the rending spear. Perhaps I stabbed our Savior In His sacred helpless side. Yet, I’ve called His name in blessing When in after times I died. In the dimness of the shadows Where we hairy heathens warred, I can taste in thought the lifeblood; We used teeth before the sword. While in later clearer vision I can sense the coppery sweat, Feel the pikes grow wet and slippery When our Phalanx, Cyrus met. Hear the rattle of the harness Where the Persian darts bounced clear, See their chariots wheel in panic From the Hoplite’s leveled spear. See the goal grow monthly longer, Reaching for the walls of Tyre. Hear the crash of tons of granite, Smell the quenchless eastern fire. Still more clearly as a Roman, Can I see the Legion close, As our third rank moved in forward And the short sword found our foes. Once again I feel the anguish Of that blistering treeless plain When the Parthian showered death bolts, And our discipline was in vain. I remember all the suffering Of those arrows in my neck. Yet, I stabbed a grinning savage As I died upon my back. Once again I smell the heat sparks When my Flemish plate gave way And the lance ripped through my entrails As on Crecy’s field I lay. In the windless, blinding stillness Of the glittering tropic sea I can see the bubbles rising Where we set the captives free. Midst the spume of half a tempest I have heard the bulwarks go When the crashing, point blank round shot Sent destruction to our foe. I have fought with gun and cutlass On the red and slippery deck With all Hell aflame within me And a rope around my neck. And still later as a General Have I galloped with Murat When we laughed at death and numbers Trusting in the Emperor's Star. Till at last our star faded, And we shouted to our doom Where the sunken road of Ohein Closed us in its quivering gloom. So but now with Tanks a’clatter Have I waddled on the foe Belching death at twenty paces, By the star shell’s ghastly glow. So as through a glass, and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me. And I see not in my blindness What the objects were I wrought, But as God rules o’er our bickerings It was through His will I fought. So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a fighter, But to die again, once more. *George S. Patton 🤲🏻I do believe in Jesus and know🎓General S. Patton is beside the right hander and is leading the Archangels alongside⚔️🛡Archangel Michael,💪🏻for sure. (; 🌹Thanks for🤲🏻sharing neighbour/neighbor. 🇨🇦✌🏻♥️(+🇺🇦)✨🌎💫
Why Putin? He's not looking for glory. This film should be seen by American Democrats and citizens should reconsider their views on their rulers since Bush senior. Since then, the rule of the socialists began under the banner of democracy.
My father in law served under General Patton. He said he could be a son of a bitch but the soldiers should have followed him to hell and back because they knew the General cared for them. The Patton Museum on I - 10 east of Palm Springs California is an excellent museum.
Any idea where this is ... the windmill scene, or is it just a set?? Ive been to see Pattons grave a few times. The route always takes me through the Ardennes, for more irony.
It was filmed in Spain in the Consuegra region famous for windmills and where in the famous Spanish novel character, Don Quixote, fought the windmills. Thus, the symbolism is apparent with the idealism of Don Quixote’s knighthood fighting against incredible odds and Patton’s view of himself as a constantly reincarnated honorable warrior.
+morganpowys God is more than Jesus, more than, Buddha, Muhammad.. or who ever... God is bigger than ANY religion.. it was here before religion... and will be here after all religions are forgotten...God is ALL there is and ever will be.. it was not born and it will never die.. Nothing Exists except God You Don't Exist I Don't Exist All is Illusion there is NOTHING BUT GOD. And that is the Glory that will burn....FOREVER
This should be required listening before anyone assumes a governmental office at any level. Then again, most would never see the connection as applying to them.
Io? Io sono Svizzera di lingua madre tedesca come ho sempre detto. In Svizzera parliamo il tedesco, il francese, il romancio e litagliano come dialetto del canton Ticino. Io sono la signorina Marien Augustine Arcelor von Tyssen: acciaio Arcelor e Mittal. Mittal e' indiano e Arcelor (io) e' Svizzera. Lo so lo so lo so che i itagliane e i alliati sono andati in approfondimento che io mai lessi librinin inglese e neanche una parola scritta o verbale di inglese. Ora sono giu' in approfondimento e anche il dott. Mittal e' giu' a londra in approfondimento. Pero' stanno al buio. Comunque il dott. Mittal sale su in itaglia ad antenna 3 tv lombardia. Vi mando il filmato che va a ballare li' in tv. Noi svizzeri abbiamo diverso concetto di gestione di una company multinazionale con sede in Ue Lussemburgo. Ad oggi siamo ancora 50/50. Come dico sempre, se vuole salire al 53% per il controllo societario mi ha da pagare la differenza azioni. Cosa che fara' infatti e che faranno in Lussemburgo (vi mando video pagamento) per non fare la figura dei coglioni ad antenna 3 lombardia tv.
Esattamente li'. Prima della faccenda ferrarese, alla tigros di magenta, alla cassa stava il generale Us Patton e il suo attendente cane. Si sono gettati tutto a sinistra. Scomparsi per sempre come giustizia voleva.
For Patton the glory was fleeting,He died after an accident in his staff car.The subject of much conspiracy theory He was a man of his time,for the time
Patton broke his neck when he was thrown against the glass partition in his staff car, after a minor accident. He would be paralyzed from the neck down for the rest of his life. He died on Dec. 21st, 1945, after suffering from pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure.
vietnam was a POLITICAL defeat and NOT a MILITARY defeat. The United States Armed Services did NOT lose in vietnam. the politicians WITHDREW American Forces which led to the south vietnamese being conquered by the communist north vietnamese.
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@@rinalore9416 did you know that socialism, communism, marxism, fascism, and nazism is DIRECTLY responsible for the deliberate MURDER of over 500,000,000+ worldwide since this hateful ideology was IMPOSED upon the world by the criminal communist bastard vladimir ulianov?
@@jephrokimbo9050 Yes Sir. "I think the day will come when it will be recognized without doubt, not only on one side of the House, but throughout the civilized world, that the strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race." *Sir Winston Churchill 💐I apologize if I've offended you in any way.
@@sw5114 I remember walking out of the the theatre,thinking Huh? This was supposed to be something special. There were so many great movies during the first few years after high school. "Patton" was a bust in comparison. Had it come out fifteen years later, it may have in comparison seemed much better....nah, probably not
The best eding imaginable to this film. Scott speaks, in his own eloquent voice, a bit of history which Patton himself knew very well. It's both summation and tragic epitaph.. Patton knew he was already being mothballed. There would not be another war for him; there would not be another command. The windmill evokes Don Quixote, that idealistic knight born out of time. Author Miguel De Cervantes knew this sort of story well. He was a professional soldier who lost the use of one arm in battle. Even actor Scott knew (too well) that all glory is fleeting.
Beautiful comments Tim. I say this so many times, all glory is fleeting.
Tim Irish. Well said, my friend.
Oh damn, good call with the windmill. Spot on.
Lovely and eloquent. Scott was a complex artist, as many are/ were in his position. We know the fleeting and aging nature of life, but the human condition begs to hold on to the possibility of one more triumph, one more affirming glory. The poignancy of this scene and many others , in this movie, are captivating to our soul. They never let go. We return, over and over.
"Patton is a Sixteenth Century man caught in contemporary times."
-- Hauptmann Steiger
I find myself returning to hear these words from time to time, over the years. I cannot imagine anyone in any setting delivering them more beautifully and in a manner more fitting! Legendary!
One of the most beautiful endings to any war movie, it's just so touching!
This should be the first and last thing every occupant of the Oval Office sees every day
Oooo.. Oh yes. Would that the former had the courage to let it all go. The country could move on to a better place.
Finest war movie of all time , bar none.
52 years & as fresh as the day it was filmed.
It is a movie I own and go to for inspiration.
My Dad served in Patton's Third Army, Fourth Armored Division. He had seen Patton twice when he was reviewing the troops and said this movie was as close to the real Patton as you are going to get, except for his voice, which was rather high and squeaky. He said that you could feel his command presence, almost like goosebumps. Yes, many men under his command disliked him and maybe hated him BUT would serve under him again in a heartbeat. And yes, anytime this movie was on TV in the 1970's or early 80's, if you were home, you were watching this with him.
just remember, Kelli, he will return it always does
4th Armored...'Pattons Best'
My Uncle was in the infantry in Patton's Third Army all the way across Europe. He was so shell shocked he could barely hold a cigarette, when he told me it was door to door, street to street, God we killed a lot of German Solders. He cried and only told me that story one time because a five-year-old boy kept asking him what it was like...
Thank you for sharing about your dad’s service in the Third Army. I am sure people would be interested to learn more about his experience if you wrote about it. My Dad served in the army Vietnam, and he loves this movie. I revere veterans, especially those from the now distant 20th century wars. God bless!
I can remember it vividly, watching this ending as a little kid one weekend in the living room all alone, it gave me goosebumps.
Scott was perfect for that role.
He even had the same first name as patton, Lol
The perfection of this scene is truly humbling
I tear up every time I watch and listen to it. It is truly humbling
@@KathySmith-vb2xk It is. It makes one realize that, no matter how talented or smart one is, everybody is expendable.
One of the best movies ever made
A true American hero.We need more like him.
Movie holds up to this day in all the ways that matter.
To me one of the greatest movie endings. Understated, moving and tragic . The movie is filled with such great monologues -the introduction speech on eve of d-day, in the ruins of Carthage, a prayer for immoderate weather, and this finale.
Loved the dialog, climaxed with the Don Quixote symbolism.
Wow that’s an amazing observation
You get this nostalgic feeling with him every time there's a scene like this in the film. Is it kind of melancholy thing? He seems to yearn for another time throughout the entire movie.
A Man out of Time speaking through poetry as if it were the only language he could speak that would get the point across
I see him as a great barbarian king or many down through history who were in battle more than they were in life.
The pure warrior.
"...seems to yearn for another time..." Well said. Don't we all?
Well said. Poetic
@@sw5114 thank you. Actually I am a poet. I write under the name Achilles Butterfly. And I understand George and his poetry very well.
"Patton is a sixteenth-century man caught in contemporary times."
-- Hauptmann Steiger
John Milius wrote or co-wrote the screenplay for... Patton, Dirty Harry, Jeremiah Johnson, Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn (original), Conan the Barbarian, Clear and Present Danger, as well as episodes of Miami Vice, Homeland and Rome. How amazing a resume is that!
Milius and Francis Ford Coppola wrote this screenplay and it is absolutely genius!!
With Francis Ford Coppola
@@malemesjager41truly worthy of Oscar
Moving ending to the film "Patton." Great soundtrack to the film. One of Jerry Goldsmith's best, in my opinion.
I have the cassette tape..
I saw the Spanish Riding school Horses when they were town..
5 star Film..
Very "Copland" sound
My wife and i saw this movie in San Jose,Ca. when it came out. It was so good i went back a few weeks later and saw it again.
I have seen it at least 15 times since them over the 50 plus years. One of my favorite scenes in the move is where the Minister has given Patton a prayer to get rid of this (Immoderate weather).
Patton walked outside at night as he read the prayer.
wasnt a Minister..in real life it was his Chief of Chaplains Major James ONeill
Excellent scene!
Fantastic editing and cinematography! The nod to don quixote windmill was perfect
One of my favorite movies of all time and the ending is just perfect.
A very well made and pretty accurate movie. One of the inaccuracies is that apparently Patton actually used to get along with Monty, whereas Bradley didn't like Patton, at all.
Interestingly, Bradley was an advisor on the movie. He injected a little skepticism about Patton's accomplishments.
I can't explain it but when ever I watch this great movie and this scene comes up, I stand up, I cant stay seated.
***** Yes, for a truly great soldier, and leader of men.
Fantastic editing and cinematography! The nod to don quoxte windmill was perfect
God, I love this scene.
"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Probably right, but no one remembers them
But history has taught us that rarely is there peace without victory in war. Something that the U.S. seems to have forgotten since we have never won a war since World War II.
And Biden has exacerbated a powder keg in the Middle East by tying Israel's hands.
Strength deters wars, weakness invites them. Before the Ukraine-Russian war, Biden encouraged Russia's aggression by actually weakly suggesting that maybe it would be okay if Russia just took a little part of Ukraine! What a poor excuse for a leader. Good riddance.
Patton - the warrior poet.
They don't make people like Patton any more.
Patton requested a transfer from The Citadel to West Point and had to start over as a freshman in June, 1904 and graduated in the Spring of 1909.
He competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in the modern pentathalon, receiving 5th place because he used his .38 service revolver rather than a .22 target pistol.
After studying at the Ecole Militaire in France, Patton was granted the title of Master of the Sword from his fencing instructors. He designed the last US Cavalry sword in 1913.
During the 1916 expedition against Pancho Villa, he got in a gunfight with a couple of bandits, shot them and tied them to the bumper of his staff car.
He created the embryonic US Army Tank Corps in WW1 in 1917 and became its Colonel and commander.
General Patton never went to The Citadel he went to VMI.
Greatest movie ever...
Patton is the last true poet warrior.....
Love that last line,All glory is fleeting.
All glory is fleeting, except eternal glory.
It was an omen how he was almost taken out by a runaway ox cart that wasn’t seen in this clip. And he says says imagine all I’d been through, then to be taken out by an ox cart. Then only a very short time later in December ‘45 he ends up in a car accident then he dies only days later. It was as if fate knew a warrior general like him could not be a part of a post war world. That a world with out war would cause him destruction. I didn’t really realize that when I first saw this movie with my father when I was 8 years old. But as I’ve gotten older, it was obvious.
Even in the scene when the Germans were burning every scrap of paper and the General there saying he would rather die in the same way the Führer did (suicide) than be captured by the Red Army, the young Hauptmann (Captain) serving as the General's aide said that Patton "would be destroyed too", mentioning that the lack of war would cause his demise (after which he put Patton's photo in the burning drum).
HE was assasinated
I believe that when Patton was relieved of command of 3rd Army, it broke his heart. The powers that be should have listened to Patton about his warnings about the Soviet Union. I wonder what they thought when the Soviets implemented the Berlin Blockade just 3 years later as a bullying tactic just because the Allies would not give them more German territory than they demanded.
@@lindaoneil5085 I always wondered that. They had egg on their face that much I do know. They were so interested trying to keep Patton quiet about the Soviets and didn’t heed anything he said, that they didn’t realize he was right and the western world was under the threat of nuclear war for multiple decades.
@@Sean17768 That's the truth! The Soviets have been nothing but troublemakers for decades, rattling their ICBMs and intimidating the rest of the world. My mother came to the US from Germany in 1962 right in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis. She told me more than once we came within inches of a nuclear war with the Soviets. My generation grew up in the shadows of the threat of nuclear war. I remember the made-for-TV movie "The Day After". Everybody at school was talking about it. Remember in 1983, the Soviets shot down a KAL 747 that had strayed into Soviet airspace, over the island of Sakhalin. There was an American listening station in Japan just 100 miles away, and it picked up the conversations between the Soviet pilot and ground control. First the Soviets denied it; then they said they did, but it was a spy plane. President Reagan was so angry he played the tape for the world to hear, embarrassing the Soviets and showing what liars they were. The entire world was mad at the Soviets for a long time.
Powerful and truthful words
Yes, is fleeting...only Christ is the same yesterday, today, eternally
The magnificent climax to a great film. Drawing into the image the history that Patton irl reveled in.
Nixon (this was his favorite movie) should have listened……
"Sic transit gloria mundi" Thus passes the glory of the World.
For over a thousand years...........
I wonder about the windmill in the scene - it calls to mind Don Quixote. The scene may even have been filmed in Spain.
What do men talk about when there aren’t any women around?
Patton: “…For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars, enjoyed the honor of a triumph…”
"God and the soldier
All the world adores
In time of trouble
And no more
For when wars are over
And all things
Righted
God is neglected
The old soldier
Slighted"
-- Anonymous
Glory is fleeting; humiliation is forever.
Can't find that windmill in spain where this scene was filmed..supposed to be in San Ildefonso in Segovia, Spain...
Patton, un verdadero soldado y guerrero, digno de temer,, respetado por su enemigo
Perfect man for this role 👏
As noted by Tertullian in his Apologeticus (chapter XXXIII), the exact words spoken by the slave were these: "Respice post te! Hominem te esse memento!" (Look behind you! Remember that you are a man!).
Great comment
Over time, fewer people remember warriors or heroes of old. I was named after the Visigoth king who broke away from Rome, but very few remember Euric. What’s made by Man will be dust eventually. Especially what’s created through force.
I'm damned sure I saw a different cut of this movie, decades ago.
The final-final scene resembled the first scene, with Patton in front of a huge flag.
Patton climbs slowly back down the steps and looks back over his shoulder.
He says, "I'm still here. If ever you need me again. I'm still here".
Movies are often released with different cuts, but I can't find this cut anywhere.
damn i wonder if he's still with us
I remember seeing that one too? Ask Nicholas Cage, Francis Ford Coppola's nephew, he'll know why. (;
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Don't you know how to search Sir?
Both🇺🇸George's are no longer with us on earth, but I believe Patton is✨reincarnating somewhere.
George C. Scott refused the Academy Award and I don't blame him.
@@rinalore9416 yes, unfortunately George Smith Patton Junior (III) passed away in December 1945 from the after effects of a traffic accident which broke his neck and severed his spine rendering him a quadroplegic. his only son and namesake George Smith Patton (IV) passed away in 2008 after serving in The United States Army for over 30 years in Korea and Vietnam and rising to the rank of Major General. he retired to his Family Farm in Massachusetts. he also has a son named George Smith Patton V but he is mentally challenged and the Patton Family remains very closed, secretive and cautious regarding the Grand Son and namesake of the World War Two General Patton. the oscar resides at the virginia military institute where the real George Smith Patton attended his first two years of college in Lexington, Virginia. the French Bull Terrier lived out the rest of his days at the Family Farm in Massachusetts but apparently there are sightings of the EXACT same dog in europe in france, belgium, luxembourg and elsewhere whenever one of the Pattons visit. Ironically Helen Patton who is a Grand Daughter of the WWII General is best friends with the Grand Daughter of Irwin Rommel from germany.
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I was so💔sad to learn how he went out but he was so spiritual that I believe he feared not and looked forward to it, tbh. He was born a🇺🇸🪖soldier and🇬🇧Montgomery was born a🎩Madhatter, imo.
The🗞press had a🥳field day with this🎖honourary man, when General Patton smacked that soldier nothing was known about shell shock or PTSD, how sad is that. That's so ironic about🖤Rommel's🧬link but👹monsters are raised, but🐣born innocent.
Every🇩🇪German Nazi was addicted to Pervitin (crystal meth) the fentanyl crisis of today.🤦🏻♀️My ex grandfather in law was a🇩🇪Nazi, captured by the🇨🇦Canadians in🇫🇷France and after a year was given a parcel of land here and his👹Nazi family came a few years later. I never seen🖤evil until I met those👹people, "once a🇩🇪Nazi always a Nazi", I say, they had books made out of Jewish skin and one was given to my firstborn for🎄Christmas and I was so mad, I never went back! I am still trying to get it into a Holocaust Museum but nobody seems to want to touch it? It saddens me to have it in my home, I have it in a special lockbox in my basement and it makes me cry just to know it's there and why.
I am happy that🇺🇸George S. Patton's descendants lead a peaceful existence after WWII, I'm sure their Dad wanted it that way. I find it sad that his Son went to🇻🇳Vietnam though.
Agent🟧Orange did alot of damage and is still causing damage to not only the🇻🇳Vietnamese but to it's own🇺🇸US🪖Soldiers and has fuelled climate-change.
The🇺🇸US🎩Gov had it's own soldiers addicted to morphine like bubble gum, fgs!
It's a damn🖤shame the way the🇺🇸USA🪖vets were treated when they arrived back home, some weren't so lucky.
Agent🟧Orange causes🐣birth defects to anyone exposed to it, sadly.
I♥️love this;
"THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY"
Through the travail of the ages,
Midst the pomp and toil of war,
I have fought and strove and perished
Countless times upon this star.
In the form of many people
In all panoplies of time
Have I seen the luring vision
Of the Victory Maid, sublime.
I have battled for fresh mammoth,
I have warred for pastures new,
I have listened to the whispers
When the race trek instinct grew.
I have known the call to battle
In each changeless changing shape
From the high souled voice of conscience
To the beastly lust for rape.
I have sinned and I have suffered,
Played the hero and the knave;
Fought for belly, shame, or country,
And for each have found a grave.
I cannot name my battles
For the visions are not clear,
Yet, I see the twisted faces
And I feel the rending spear.
Perhaps I stabbed our Savior
In His sacred helpless side.
Yet, I’ve called His name in blessing
When in after times I died.
In the dimness of the shadows
Where we hairy heathens warred,
I can taste in thought the lifeblood;
We used teeth before the sword.
While in later clearer vision
I can sense the coppery sweat,
Feel the pikes grow wet and slippery
When our Phalanx, Cyrus met.
Hear the rattle of the harness
Where the Persian darts bounced clear,
See their chariots wheel in panic
From the Hoplite’s leveled spear.
See the goal grow monthly longer,
Reaching for the walls of Tyre.
Hear the crash of tons of granite,
Smell the quenchless eastern fire.
Still more clearly as a Roman,
Can I see the Legion close,
As our third rank moved in forward
And the short sword found our foes.
Once again I feel the anguish
Of that blistering treeless plain
When the Parthian showered death bolts,
And our discipline was in vain.
I remember all the suffering
Of those arrows in my neck.
Yet, I stabbed a grinning savage
As I died upon my back.
Once again I smell the heat sparks
When my Flemish plate gave way
And the lance ripped through my entrails
As on Crecy’s field I lay.
In the windless, blinding stillness
Of the glittering tropic sea
I can see the bubbles rising
Where we set the captives free.
Midst the spume of half a tempest
I have heard the bulwarks go
When the crashing, point blank round shot
Sent destruction to our foe.
I have fought with gun and cutlass
On the red and slippery deck
With all Hell aflame within me
And a rope around my neck.
And still later as a General
Have I galloped with Murat
When we laughed at death and numbers
Trusting in the Emperor's Star.
Till at last our star faded,
And we shouted to our doom
Where the sunken road of Ohein
Closed us in its quivering gloom.
So but now with Tanks a’clatter
Have I waddled on the foe
Belching death at twenty paces,
By the star shell’s ghastly glow.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.
And I see not in my blindness
What the objects were I wrought,
But as God rules o’er our bickerings
It was through His will I fought.
So forever in the future,
Shall I battle as of yore,
Dying to be born a fighter,
But to die again, once more.
*George S. Patton
🤲🏻I do believe in Jesus and know🎓General S. Patton is beside the right hander and is leading the Archangels alongside⚔️🛡Archangel Michael,💪🏻for sure. (;
🌹Thanks for🤲🏻sharing neighbour/neighbor.
🇨🇦✌🏻♥️(+🇺🇦)✨🌎💫
Someone should send this to Putin
🇷🇺Putin's🎓learned everything he's doing to🇺🇦Ukraine by the🇺🇸USA's🖤 evil tactics, tbh.
Yes Brad, yes
Why Putin? He's not looking for glory. This film should be seen by American Democrats and citizens should reconsider their views on their rulers since Bush senior. Since then, the rule of the socialists began under the banner of democracy.
My father in law served under General Patton. He said he could be a son of a bitch but the soldiers should have followed him to hell and back because they knew the General cared for them.
The Patton Museum on I - 10 east of Palm Springs California is an excellent museum.
That was Tough Military Commander in US History.
Uno de los generales más emblemáticos del Siglo XX.
Any idea where this is ... the windmill scene, or is it just a set??
Ive been to see Pattons grave a few times. The route always takes me through the Ardennes, for more irony.
It was filmed in Spain in the Consuegra region famous for windmills and where in the famous Spanish novel character, Don Quixote, fought the windmills. Thus, the symbolism is apparent with the idealism of Don Quixote’s knighthood fighting against incredible odds and Patton’s view of himself as a constantly reincarnated honorable warrior.
I too love this ending..but the final words are not strictly true. So I will make the amendment here.
All Glory Is Fleeting...Save The Glory Of God.
+morganpowys God is more than Jesus, more than, Buddha, Muhammad.. or who ever... God is bigger than ANY religion.. it was here before religion... and will be here after all religions are forgotten...God is ALL there is and ever will be.. it was not born and it will never die..
Nothing Exists except God
You Don't Exist
I Don't Exist
All is Illusion
there is NOTHING BUT GOD.
And that is the Glory that will burn....FOREVER
If there is a God, He acts through men like Patton.
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Men like🎓General S. Patton are far and few between, sadly.
He was a great man.
👋👋 Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil, July 24th 2024.
Rip my distant relative George s patton
where is the scene at the end? is this where Patton lived in retirement looks a bit foreign
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI
Great video! 😀👍
But obscurity is forever ;)
QUESTION Where was this scene filmed???
It was filmed by a windmill. Duh.
This should be required listening before anyone assumes a governmental office at any level. Then again, most would never see the connection as applying to them.
They don't do this anymore in Hollywood, not even close
Io? Io sono Svizzera di lingua madre tedesca come ho sempre detto. In Svizzera parliamo il tedesco, il francese, il romancio e litagliano come dialetto del canton Ticino. Io sono la signorina Marien Augustine Arcelor von Tyssen: acciaio Arcelor e Mittal. Mittal e' indiano e Arcelor (io) e' Svizzera. Lo so lo so lo so che i itagliane e i alliati sono andati in approfondimento che io mai lessi librinin inglese e neanche una parola scritta o verbale di inglese. Ora sono giu' in approfondimento e anche il dott. Mittal e' giu' a londra in approfondimento. Pero' stanno al buio. Comunque il dott. Mittal sale su in itaglia ad antenna 3 tv lombardia. Vi mando il filmato che va a ballare li' in tv. Noi svizzeri abbiamo diverso concetto di gestione di una company multinazionale con sede in Ue Lussemburgo. Ad oggi siamo ancora 50/50. Come dico sempre, se vuole salire al 53% per il controllo societario mi ha da pagare la differenza azioni. Cosa che fara' infatti e che faranno in Lussemburgo (vi mando video pagamento) per non fare la figura dei coglioni ad antenna 3 lombardia tv.
So true ask any oldtimer
omnis gloria labilis
Esattamente li'. Prima della faccenda ferrarese, alla tigros di magenta, alla cassa stava il generale Us Patton e il suo attendente cane. Si sono gettati tutto a sinistra. Scomparsi per sempre come giustizia voleva.
Sic Semper Gloria Mundi
High school hot shots are you listening!!!
For Patton the glory was fleeting,He died after an accident in his staff car.The subject of much conspiracy theory He was a man of his time,for the time
Patton broke his neck when he was thrown against the glass partition in his staff car, after a minor accident. He would be paralyzed from the neck down for the rest of his life. He died on Dec. 21st, 1945, after suffering from pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure.
wow
Pete Carroll Pete Carroll
#MementoMori
the American Nightmare rolls on...all thanks to our "Vietnam Generation." If only such defeats were as fleeing too.
Are you related to Lieutenant Doolittle?
btw, it's "fleeting" not fleeing. Sounds like a Freudian slip, tbh. (;
vietnam was a POLITICAL defeat and NOT a MILITARY defeat. The United States Armed Services did NOT lose in vietnam. the politicians WITHDREW American Forces which led to the south vietnamese being conquered by the communist north vietnamese.
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Tell that to the 58,209🇺🇸USA dead soldiers!
The🇺🇸USA had no business in🇻🇳Vietnam,🇮🇶Iraq nor🇦🇫Afghanistan, especially dragging other🌎Countries in just to be killed, maimed or PTSDed under false allegations and deceitful reasons! Your🇺🇸Country is mankind's greatest threat!
@@rinalore9416 did you know that socialism, communism, marxism, fascism, and nazism is DIRECTLY responsible for the deliberate MURDER of over 500,000,000+ worldwide since this hateful ideology was IMPOSED upon the world by the criminal communist bastard vladimir ulianov?
@@jephrokimbo9050
Yes Sir.
"I think the day will come when it will be recognized without doubt, not only on one side of the House, but throughout the civilized world, that the strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race."
*Sir Winston Churchill
💐I apologize if I've offended you in any way.
George C Scott was a better Patton than Patton was.
George Scott was a great actor, he was in some fine movies,
but "Patton" was a stupid movie.
We all have opinions, but yours has no intelligent backing. Nothing to discuss but throwing paper towels in Puerto Rico.
@@sw5114 I remember walking out of the the theatre,thinking Huh? This was supposed to be something special. There were so many great movies during the first few years after high school. "Patton" was a bust in comparison.
Had it come out fifteen years later, it may have in comparison seemed much better....nah, probably not
Fitting ending to a magnificent film about America's greatest warrior since Robert E Lee.
Robert E. Lee was a great general but hardly an American. He was a traitor.
Robert E Lee was a traitor and ultimately a loser.
How right he was about the Russians.
Wonder what this great warrior would think of today's woke Army?