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The Vietnam War And Hollywood Movies - Online Term Paper

The Vietnam War And Hollywood Movies

"Vietnam was the longest war in American history." It lasted more than ten years and killed hundreds of lives. The media was a big part of the war. Back at home in the U.S., televisions, radios, newspapers, and especially Hollywood movies portrayed the war in Vietnam. During the late 60’s to late 80’s, Vietnam movies from Hollywood changed their views of the enemy to the U.S. forces. The early movies tried to show how the Vietcong tortured and killed the Americans. However, by the late 80’s more movies started to portray Americans killing the Vietnamese civilians.
In one of the first movies called The Green Berets made in 1968 with John Wayne the U.S. hero, represents a medic that takes ...

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enemy is presented in the most evil way. Then when the Americans shoot them there is a rush of happiness that the opponent has been eliminated, "die you commi bustards." However, just a year later a whole view of Vietnam changed in Apocalypse Now, 1979. When a dozen of helicopters surrounded a civilian village, the Americans played Mozart while shooting M60s at the innocent people below. After things got a little out of hand, the choppers sent missiles to annihilate the Vietnamese. This violent scene sets a mode of guiltiness and regret. The killing of helpless Vietnamese children and mothers was not what the war was about. This presented a "bad" image of Americans. Seven years later, in 1986, the movie Platoon presented a conflict between Americans only. When a South African veteran fell asleep, the Lieutenant blamed the new Caucasian solider for not spotting the Vietcong from their ambush. Racism was exemplified in this scene. In this film, the enemies are the Americans between ...

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Added: 6/15/2007 02:52:08 PM
Category: Arts
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