... DIE, indicating strongly what the average "grunt" thought of the war, but irrespective of this the depiction of the Vietnamese still makes for uncomfortable viewing. When, during the first Russian roulette sequence, Robert De Niro's character Michael kills his captors it is an act of bravado worthy of John Wayne, and one that American audiences clung to. When the film ends, with the mourners of Nick's funeral ... and its highly questionable depiction of the Vietnamese make it wholly unreliable, and the very worst example of mainstream contemporary American movie making. Universally laude...

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... brings forth success. For the next three years, the family lived off the gas station and was able to support themselves. In 1925, the fourth youngest brother out of the five, Arthur, suddenly died from tubercular meningitis at the age of seven. Shaking the foundations of Richard's heart, Arthur's death gave Richard the burden of trying to make up for the loss of his dear brother to his parents by having them be ... , five burglars were sent from the CRP, the Committee to Re-elect the President, to break into the DNC, the Democratic National Committee, to steal pictures of documents and b...

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... as a form of heroism, cynicism as a form of self-preservation, rather than historical accuracy. The only major production during the Vietnam Conflict, John Wayne's 1968 The Green Berets, illustrates how directors concentrated on drama rather than history. Dismayed by the growing protest against United States" involvement in Vietnam, Wayne contested that he tried to counter ... the perverted ideals of the savages illustrates the removal of the historical context of the war for the creation of a scene that powerfully plays on the viewers" emotions. Cimino's film relies on another myth; the...

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