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* [[Academy Award]]: [[Denzel Washington]] won Best Supporting Actor for this performance, his second nomination and his first win. He'd get another as Best Actor for ''[[Training Day]]''.
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Col. Shaw, who was probably the first man to treat much of the 54th as equals in their entire lives.▼
* [[Black and Nerdy]]: Thomas Searles, played by Andre Braugher. Although Black, he is actually quite educated, offering several of the other soldiers to tutor them in reading using his volumes of Emerson. See also [[Stereotype Flip]].
* [[The Captain]]: Robert Gould Shaw is a Captain in the Union Army at the beginning of the movie and is promoted to the rank of Colonel upon taking charge of the 54th.
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* [[Colonel Badass]]: Matthew Broderick plays a Real Life Colonel Badass; in this case Col. Robert Gould Shaw, the son of Boston abolitionists, who commanded the Union Army's first black troops in the Civil War.
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: The attitudes of the white soldiers towards the blacks. Even the most tolerant ones express attitudes that today would be considered racist.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Mulcahy.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: The Negro Irregulars are basically a mob used by their commanders to rob Southern civilians.
* [[Fair for Its Day]]: In story. The regiment's officers treat the soldiers as soldiers and even Mulcahy would probably have treated white soldiers just as badly if he thought it necessary to [[The Spartan Way|whip them into shape]] as assuredly he would.
**Mulcahy certainly uses racist insults and he probably did have racist feelings, but his first feelings were for his job and he certainly would have used the best insults he could for white soldiers to goad them.
▲* [[A Father to His Men]]: Col. Shaw, who was probably the first man to treat much of the 54th as equals in their entire lives.
* [[Good-Looking Privates]]: Denzel Washington is very attractive, as is most of the cast (including [[Foxy Grandma|Morgan Freeman]] if you're so inclined).
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Matthew Broderick watches on as a Union soldier's wounded leg is hacked off while said soldier is still conscious. The actual hacking is covered by a sheet but we see blood splatter on the sheet as the soldier screams in agony. One could also say Trip's whipping is also an example, though there were several shots of Trip's [[Death Glare]] at Shaw while he was being whipped.
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