Prior to the 1960s, war films did well at the box-office. Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. ... At the same time, the film argues that representations are fraudulent. ... Wayne also incorporates the inaccuracy of the stereotypical Vietnamese enemy in his film. ... Cimino's film relies on another myth; the racist stereotypes of the enemies. ...

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On the other hand the film All is Quiet on the Western Front stars Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, who, along with a group of his teenaged classmates, are conscripted into the German army during WWI. The youths quickly realize that the patriotic hogwash they had been fed by their schoolmaster has absolutely has nothing to do with the horror they observe and experience on the front lines (All is). ...

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(Herman 12-14) It wasn't until World War I and the horror brought by the "industrialization of war" (The Century) that the symptoms suffered by hysterics could be compared with the symptoms of a large number of men who had endured documentable horrors. ... Memorable film footage documenting shell-shock cases at Craiglockhart hospital showed the extreme fits patients would fall into. ...

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