Renaissance Man aka By the Book aka Army Intelligence is the title of a 1994 movie starring Danny DeVito. The film was written by Jim Burnstein and directed by Penny Marshall. Image File history File links UK DVD cover File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Penny Marshall at the 1988 Emmy Awards Penny Marshall (born October 15, 1942) is an American actress, producer and director. ... Robert Greenhut (March 18, 1942) was an American producer. ... Andrew George Vajna (born August 1, 1944) is a Hungarian film producer, originally from Budapest. ... Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. ... Gregory Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was a Tony Award-winning American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer. ... Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. ... Cinergi Pictures Inc. ... is the 154th day of the year (155th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... A Renaissance man, also known as a polymath is a person who excels in multiple fields. ... // November 1 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy). ... Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. ... Penny Marshall at the 1988 Emmy Awards Penny Marshall (born October 15, 1942) is an American actress, producer and director. ...

Plot

Danny DeVito plays Bill Rago, a divorced advertising executive down on his luck. When he loses his job in Detroit, the unemployment agency finds him a temporary job; teaching in the U.S. Army training base, Fort McClane. Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ...

Initially unenthusiastic about this assignment, Rago finds that he has only six weeks to teach a group of "squeakers," who are especially low achievers, the basics of comprehension and use of English language. Most of the soldiers are only semi-literate and equally unenthusiastic.

Unable to connect with his pupils and desperate to spark their interest, Rago quotes from his favorite play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, which they have never heard of. A small initial spark of interest is generated. Hamlet and Horatio in the cemetery by Eugène Delacroix For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Rago further introduces them to Henry V, which generates further interest. Despite the disapproval of their hard-as-nails Drill Sergeant Cass, and the loss of one of the trainees, revealed as a drug dealer hiding under an assumed identity, he sets them an end-of-term examination, which Cass doesn't expect them to pass - but they do. Title page of the first quarto (1600) Henry V, also known as The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, is a play by William Shakespeare based on the life of King Henry V of England. ...

The climax comes as one of the soldiers proudly gives Cass the St. Crispin's Day Speech by King Henry V while in full combat gear in the middle of the rain at a night exercise. Rago realises that he has finally achieved success. Henry V is a play by William Shakespeare based on the life of King Henry V of England. ...

Rago also does some investigation, as a result of which one of the soldiers is awarded the medal his father was to have been given posthumously after he was killed on duty in Vietnam.

As the proud soldiers march at their passing-our parade, Rago signs on for a further period of teaching soldiers-in-training.

The title "Renaissance Man" refers to Leone Battista Alberti (14 February 1404 – 25th April 1472), an Italian painter, poet, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer, whom Rago greatly admires. Late statue of Leon Battista Alberti. ...

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Primary Cast of Characters

Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. ... Gregory Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was a Tony Award-winning American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer. ... Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organisations around the world. ... William James Remar (b. ... Captain is a rank or title with various meanings. ... Edward James Begley, Jr. ... Lillo Brancato as Matthew Bevilaqua Lillo Brancato Jr. ... A Private is a soldier of the lowest military rank (equivalent to Nato Rank Grades OR-1 to OR-3 depending on the force served in). ... Stacey Dash (born January 20, 1966 in The Bronx, New York) is an American film and television actress of West Indian and Aztec descent. ... Kadeem Hardison (born July 24, 1965 in New York City) is an actor, best known for portraying Dwayne Wayne on the Cosby Show spin-off A Different World and playing Marlon Wayans brother in the basketball comedy, The Sixth Man. ... Richard T. Jones (born January 16, 1972 in Kobe, Japan) is an American actor. ... Khalil Kain (Born November 22, 1964 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States) is an American actor who first appeared in the film Juice as Raheem. ... Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, and television producer. ... Cliff Robertson. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... Ben Wright may refer to: Ben Wright (1915 – 1989), a British film and radio actor Ben Wright, an American participant in events leading up to the Modoc War of the 1870s Ben Wright, an English football player. ... Ann Cusack (born on May 22, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American actress. ...

Quotes

• Drill Sergeant Cass: If it ain't raining, we ain't training!

• Hobbes: [To Rago, during training] First thing; Don't look, down.
  [Rago looks down, and then grabs hold of Hobbes]
  Hobbes: I TOLD YOU NOT TO LOOK DOWN!!!

Bill Rago: Every body looks down when you say don't look down!

• Bill Rago: The choices we make dictate the life we lead.
• Bill Rago: GO NAVY!

External Link

• Lillo Brancato Jr. Official Site
• Renaissance Man at the Internet Movie Database