John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it’s too late does he realize that he’s absconded with his boss’s bride. Georgeanne Howard, charm school graduate and Southern belle extraordinaire, leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realizes she just can’t marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Thanks to Mel Gibson it will be permanently retold.New York Times bestselling and RITA® Award-winning author Rachel Gibson’s
The Doss story is one that deserves telling and retelling.
Hacksaw Ridge shows the horrors of war and from it the beauty of heroism when people have to summon their personal best and become more than themselves. Gibson got nominated for Best Director and the film itself for Best Picture. Hacksaw Ridge did win a pair of Oscars for its Sound. The battle scenes are suggestive of Saving Private Ryan, director Mel Gibson staged them well. Cooper won one of his two Oscars for Sergeant York and Garfield really suggests his character in what he does with Doss. That might well be said of Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss who got a Best Actor Oscar nomination as Doss. In Sergeant York, Walter Brennan's country preacher character says that Gary Cooper has the 'using kind of religion'. With no weapon to defend his own person, this medic saved a lot of people at an engagement at a place dubbed Hacksaw Ridge in the Battle of Okinawa. He felt it his patriotic duty to join, but as a combat medic, save lives rather than kill. He would not touch a weapon and the film will show you why. But he did what he did and got every decoration imaginable including the Congressional Medal Of Honor. He wasn't sure what he would do if a combat situation arose. Unlike Doss, York grew up as a hunter and was a dead shot. Like our protagonist Desmond Doss here, York had a rural background and joined a pacifist religious sect. York, his background in Eastern Tennessee and his exploits in World War I. I guess that Hacksaw Ridge could probably best be compared to the great Gary Cooper film Sergeant York which hewed pretty close to the truth about Alvin C.
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