... 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 enemy, relationships with civilians, racial division, drugs, and lack of confidence in ranking officers. Commenting on his characters, Stone calls Barnes and Elias, "Two Gods. Two different views of the war. The Angry Achilles Versus the conscious-stricken Hector" who "mirror the very civil war th...

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