Posted: 2/6/2005 10:52:43 AM EDT
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In the last episode of Band of Brothers (Points), there is a scene where Major Winters is accecpting the surrender of a German Colonel. In the scene, the German Colonel offers Major Winters his pistol as a token of his surrender, but Major Winters tells the German Colonel that he may keep his sidearm. If you watch the documentary, there is a scene where the real Major Winters pulls out this gun that he brought home from the war, and tells the story that this gun was given to him by a German Major who surrendered. Major Winters then tells that after inspecting the pistol he saw that it had never been fired, and how he felt that this was the perfect token of surrender since it was a pistol without blood on it. Why would the writers of the series change such an obviously important moment like that? |
| The German officer may have kept his personal weapon. Winters might have got another one that was presented to him by the same officer. That may explain why it was new. It may have been in the armory and never issued. But out of respect the Major gave Winters a pistol, all that symbolism crap. |