Scene of the Week: Swede! Swede! Swede!

Heartbreak Ridge is one of the Clint Eastwood movies that I think people tend to forget. Eastwood plays the tough as nails but over the hill Marine Gunnery Sergeant Highway, who is tasked with turning around the inept Recon platoon. For some, this is seen as a career ending, but Highway follows orders to the best of his ability. The best scenes in Heartbreak Ridge show Highway teaching the misfits how to be a Marine and learning how to improvise, adapt and overcome and eventually earn his respect.

This week’s Scene of the Week features Highway having to improvise, adapt and overcome the mountainous Swede Johanson. The platoon had thought that Johanson would be able to clear up their Highway problem, but it is Highway who is teaching the lesson.