... savages participating in Russian roulette matches or refugees fleeing the country. Cimino offers the people no sympathy or history. By stereotyping the Vietnamese characters as merely savage anti-American enemies and removing the story of the Vietnamese struggle, Cimino, in effect, de-contextualizes the history of the Vietnamese people. Cimino manipulated the stereotypical Vietnam veteran as the returned man who at best was troubled ... Vietnam era. The various inaccuracies and myths, in spite of attempts by Stone for a realistic film, turn the movie into just another dramatic noble-grun...

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