Nolan can be something of an ass, too
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Charge of the Light Brigade
heckles — 19 years ago(August 24, 2006 07:52 PM)
Nolan in the movie is a contradictory character - he has good intensions, but he mishandles several things even before his fatal order. He repells Clarissa (Vanessa Redgrave) even though she is clearly in love with him, and tears up her letter.
He joins a regiment even though his friend tells him he will not get along with Cardigan. He despises the officers, even as they despise him back. And an officer may argue with his commander if necessary - but not over mess etiquette. And you really don't leave a wine bottle on the table at a formal mess, you have it decanted. That's the rule in the British Army, the U.S. Army, what have you.
The Nolan shown in the movie should have stayed out of the military and stuck to horse breeding.
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poe-30 — 19 years ago(September 18, 2006 01:40 AM)
Also too in spite of his talk (in the film that is) about kindliness and humanity he seems to loathe and despise the common soldiers, he has a look of distaste on his face whenever he has to deal with them. And I agree, according to proper mess etiquette he should have simply apologized and not made a big deal of it.
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thammond-6 — 18 years ago(August 21, 2007 02:21 AM)
In the movie because I feel it is 1960s and therefore would have /has an anti-establishment feel they portray Nolan as a type of hero pointing out the wrongs of the other officers and too a point this is correct and I like the way it is done .
But in reality Nolan was a very arrogant and hot headed man yes I can agree with him getting so wound up with the idiocy and sloth of the senior Command Raglan , especially just sitting around doing nothing as he wanted to protect his precious calvary and didnt really have a clue, but he played his part in the tragic sequence of events that led to the actual Charge by pointing down the wrong valley and shouting at senior officers and in his absouloute belief that Calvary could win battles single handed even in 1854 calvary was starting to become ineffective that was the British armys last calvary charge in Europe . His arrogance betrayed him eventually the same in the film I felt although their arrogance betrayed all of them