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Name of the main characters and their day jobs:
1-Frank Stokes – (Actor: George Clooney) – Harvard art conservationist
2-James Granger – (Actor: Matt Damon) – Curator of Medieval Art at the Metropolitan
MoA
3-Walter Garfield – (Actor: John Goodman) – Sculptor
4-Richard Campbell – (Actor: Bill Murray) – Architect
5-Jean Claude Clermont – (Actor: Jean Dujardin) – Director of Design Fine Arts
6-Preston Savitz – (Actor: Bob Balaban) – ballet director
7- Donald Jefferies – (Actor: Huge Bonneville) –British art historian
8-Private Sam Epstein – (Actor: Dimitri Leonidas)– Newark, N.J. – translator – born in
Germany
9-Claire Simone – (Actor: Cate Blanchett) – French art expert at Jeu de Paume
Stokes (George Clooney) speaking to the President
1. President Franklin D.
signed the Monuments Men into being.
Stokes (George Clooney) Recruiting Guys for the Monuments Men (MM)
2. The task of the Monuments Men was to find and protect
,&
.
3. Hitler coveted art because he was a
.
,
art student in
4. Hitler was stealing Europe’s art to create his own
Fuhrer
in his home country of
museum called The
.
5. The Germans did not bomb Paris because they were
art.
their
Guys arrive in Normandy, France
6. Stokes (George Clooney) told the guys to be careful because their
were more important than a piece of
.
7. In the movie, the date the Monuments Men went into action 8. When Stokes (George Clooney) and Garfield (John Goodman) arrived in
Normandy soldiers were unloading
used as grave markers.
9. Troops would not agree to take the MM into war zones. One Colonial says, “If you
think I’m gonna write a letter home to some kid’s mom saying her boy’s dead
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because somebody doesn’t want us to take out a
will not!”
2
, no sir, I
Claire (Cate Blanchett) & Stahl at her place
10. French museum secretary, Claire, was told that her brother Peter had been
and killed trying to steal a truck filled with
going
to Germany.
11. Stahl threatened Claire if she was found to be helping the resistance, she would
not be fired, she would be handed over to the
.
Stokes (George Clooney) in Normandy getting supplies
12. Major John Fielding shows Stokes paintings by Monet and Vermeer. Major John
Fielding said they found 12 crates, Stokes asked, “12 paintings?” – Major John
Fielding said, “12
. Sometimes 30
inside.”
Deauville, France
13. The Frenchman asked James Granger (Matt Damon) where he learned to speak
French because it was not very good. Granger said he studied in
for a while.
Paris, France – Museum
14. When Claire returned to the Jeu de Paume museum, all of the paintings had been
.
St. Lo, France
15. Names of towns/countries where Stokes sends each of the teams:
a. Preston/Campbell –
, Belguim
b. Garfield/Jean Claude –
, Germany
c. Jefferies Stokes’s speech over the radio talking about saving culture
16. This mission was never designed to
. With this many people
dying, who cares about art. We’re fighting for our culture, our way of life. You can
wipe out a generation of people. You can burn their homes to the ground, but
somehow they’ll come back. But, if you destroy their
,
and their history, it’s like they never existed. It’s just .
, floating.
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17. Jean Claude made a toast and said a phrase incorrectly while he was speaking to
the guys. ”My country thanks you and I thank you. Screw the German’s! Present
company
”
James Granger (Matt Damon) in France
18. Frenchman and James Granger (Matt Damon) take an
to Paris.
to get
19. French curator – Rene’ – By decree, private and Jewish art collections in France
were
, but the National collection was
.
James visits Claire in jail
20. Claire was imprisoned by the French because they thought she was collaborating
with the
to steal the art.
Preston & Campbell visiting Ghent
21. The Ghent altarpiece was sent to
All the priests were
, but it was stolen en route.
.
22. Campbell read info about the Ghent Altarpiece – “It is one of the most
pieces of art”
Stokes & Sam night conversation
23. Sam’s grandfather had seen Rembrandt’s SP, but Sam never saw it. His
grandfather said it was because he was too
.
Preston & Campbell in Ghent (at night)
24. German soldier held Preston & Campbell at gunpoint. They all sat down & took a
smoke. The German soldier finally said, “
”.
Jean Claude Clairmont (Jean Dujardin) & Garfield (John Goodman)
25. They got caught in a shoot out. Clermont found a young
building shooting at them.
Jefferies – trying to get guards to take him to Cathedral in Bruges
26. Artist of Madonna and Child –
in the
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Jefferies at the Bruges Cathedral
27. -When one of the priests asked Jefferies if he was a Catholic, he said, “I am
.”
28. -The Germans got into the cathedral by pretending one of them is
.
29. -Jefferies wrote a letter to his dad while trying to save the Madonna and Child
sculpture. One of his comments was, “I remain diligent and resolute in my belief
that great works of art can never belong to any
,
at least not in
.”
30. -Jefferies was the first Monuments Men to
Granger (Matt Damon) & Claire (Cate Blanchett) walking through a warehouse full of art,
china, etc.
31. James, “What is all this?”
Claire, “People’s lives.”
James, “What people?”
Claire, “
”
December 1944 – Battle of the Bulge – Campbell & Preston
32. Campbell received a Christmas recording from his
grandchildren. They sang the Christmas song,
.
and
Granger talking to Stokes on the radio
33. Claire was afraid the US would keep the art once they recovered it like the
. The French commissioned the
Brigade to
collect and keep all of the stolen art.
Granger talking to Claire
34. Hitler wrote a directive called The
fell, they were to
Decree. If he died or Germany
everything.
Remagen, Germany (Stokes talking to the MM in a tent)
35. Stokes told the guys about The Nero Decree. The Germans were to destroy all
, train
, archives, and
.
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Campbell & Preston at the Dentist’s nephew’s house
36. The German dentist who repaired Campbell’s tooth had a nephew, Stahl, who
helped with the collection of artworks in Paris, France. He was hiding artworks in his
.
.
37. Preston asked Stahl if he had ever heard of the collector,
whose name was on the back of the Cezanne painting. He was a famous
art collector.
,
Jean Claude & Garfield on the road to Merker’s
38. Jean Claude was looking at a
when he was shot.
and smoking a
39. Stokes said, “From the beginning, I told you that no piece of art was worth a man’s
life, but these last months have proved me
. This is our history
and it is not to be stolen or destroyed. It’s to be held up and
,
as are these brave men. And now we owe it to them to finish the job.”
40. From the map of German towns, Sam told the MM the symbols at each town
meant what type of mine was there–
, potassium, &
mines.
41. In Stokes’ letter to Granger, he told him they found
of stolen art in the Siegan cooper mine.
pieces
Granger with Claire in Paris before he leaves
42. With most of the pieces, the soldiers took
Hitler
filled with the stolen artwork.
of the art and sent
43. With the modern masters, like Picasso, Klee, Max Ernst. The Germans would
them in the yard.
44. Claire kept a
of every piece of art that passed through the
Jeu de Paume museum. She wrote who it belonged to, who took it, and where
they took it.
45. Most of the art was taken to Neuschwanstein
in the Bavarian Alps
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April 1945 – Merkers, Germany
46. In the salt mine, Sam found over 100 tons of
bars in a storage area of
the mine. The U.S.
took credit for the discovery.
Heilbronn Mine – Germany
47. Soldiers
the entire collection of stolen art.
48. Preston found a frame with the name Pablo
on it.
49. The barrels of small, gold pieces Sam and Granger found were fillings from
.
Neuschwanstein Castle
50. The sculpture the MM found as they entered the castle was created by Auguste
. We have a replica of a Rodin sculpture on campus –
The Thinker
Salt Mine at Altaussee
51. On their way to the salt mine, the guys found out Germany
and the war was over.
52. The MM had to move quickly to get to the art in the mine because the
were on their way.
53. Campbell and Preston found the missing panel of the Ghent Altarpiece being
used as a
.
54. Stokes found Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child sculpture in a
55. President
were worth losing two men.
asked Stokes if he thought the MM’s efforts
56. Interesting statistics:
57.
5,000 Church bells
300 Trolley cars
1000s of Toras
a.
million pieces in all were recovered
3 million books
.
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58. Other interesting numbers:
a. 20% of Europe’s art was stolen by the Nazis during WWII.
b. 345 men and women in the allied task force known as the Monuments Men
c.21,000 works of art were stolen from France
d. $1.35 Billion – the value of the largest recovered cache of stolen art
e. 50% of the stolen works have not been returned to their rightful owners
f. Swastika – 5,000 year old symbol meaning good fortune or well-being – after an
archeologist found a swastika at the site of ancient Troy, he connected it to similar
shapes found in Germany – hence the “Aryan identity” connection – Hitler then use it
for Nazi propaganda during WWII
…
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