How Brad Pitt Taught His Son About War - And Made 'Fury' a No. 1 Movie

Brad Pitt brought Maddox to 'Fury's' set to teach him about the reality of war.

This weekend, Brad Pitt's Fury is not just the box office number one movie making $23.5 million. The film about the World War II tank crew's last offensive against the waning Nazi forces in 1945 was also a teachable moment for Pitt's son Maddox. 

In an interview with the Associated Press, the actor talked about his eldest son's reaction to watching the film.

"He's a bit of a World War II buff so it's interesting for him, I think, but it's still dad so it's not that cool."

It was important to Pitt to explain the reality of war to his kid. "The younger generation play a lot of video games and I want them to understand that there is casualty, you don't just reboot. There are real consequences and real stakes so we talked a lot about that."

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Fury
dislodged Gone Girl after a few solid weeks at number one. The psychological thriller starring Ben Affleck takes second this weekend at $17.8 million -- which adds up to over $100 million total gross in just three weeks.


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While Pitt was working on Fury, his wife Angelina Jolie was also working on a World War II film, Unbroken, out in December.

Pitt told the AP that they were learning together. "I was studying the European theatre, she was studying Pacific theatre. I was studying tanks, she was studying bombers. and yeah It was good fun for us."

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