In "Chosin Lake", MacArthur did not appear much, just showed his face in the early stages of the movie, and then, there seemed to be nothing for him, so that many people thought that MacArthur in this movie was a soy sauce character, but if you really think so, then you are very wrong, in fact, the real MacArthur in "Chosin Lake" can be described as quite arrogant, even the president of the United States at the time felt that he was a bit too much.
So, how arrogant was he at the time? First of all, if it is the most crazy, it must be MacArthur's attitude toward China; at the beginning of the Korean War, MacArthur did not take New China seriously, and in the eyes of him or the Americans, the army of New China was not much different from those of the Nationalist army during the War of Resistance Against Japan, because chiang Kai-shek fought too hard in the War of Liberation, so the outside world at that time was obvious to all.
Therefore, MacArthur did not take China seriously at all, and even during the bombing, MacArthur also expanded the bombing scope of the air force to our vicinity of the Yalu River, and carried out all kinds of indiscriminate bombardment of our homeland, MacArthur's purpose was actually very obvious, that is, to use this to deter China, but he never expected that the volunteer army would really cross the Yalu River to defeat the US army one after another.
Therefore, the angry MacArthur was completely mad, bluntly saying that he wanted to go to war with Red China, such a plan, even made the then US President Truman dumbfounded, thinking that MacArthur was too arrogant, coupled with the fear that the Soviet Union would also join the war, once this happened, the third world war would inevitably start, so US President Truman immediately opposed MacArthur's opinion.
Truman bluntly said that he let him fight a limited war, but he kept shouting, which really gave Truman a headache, and in April 1951, seeing repeated losses on the Korean battlefield, our MacArthur could be said to be not calm, and actually thought of making a key attack on military targets in northeast China, destroying the rear facilities of the Chinese army, and even threatening to use atomic bombs against Red China.
This remark can be said to have made many people think that MacArthur was crazy, and even the high-level people in their own country at that time felt that he had a brain problem, so Truman casually found a reason to directly remove MacArthur from his position and let Ridgway serve as the commander-in-chief at that time, so I can see how arrogant and arrogant MacArthur was at that time, and I don't know what kind of intentions some domestic media were praising him.