First of all, that is not Patton, that's George C. Scott, playing Patton, and quite admirably too.
This is Patton:
Unlike Scott, Patton had a high squeaky voice. Did that make him a lessor man than the one portrayed by Scott. No Way!
Patton was forced, by Ike, to apologize to his own troops for slapping a private who "Just couldn't take it" in a hospital tent in Sicily. And he did. In several separate "briefings" in different locations. He also learned, from personal study after the incident, that "battle fatigue" was quite real and took measures to prevent and treat it in it's early stages, when he commanded 3rd Army. Patton was an SOB, proudly so, but he was a smart SOB.
So are our Colonels and Generals today.
Oh not all are SOBs, each has his/her own style, but they are also smart.