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This 7 page report discusses three Vietnam War movies in the context of their symbology and the ways in which they represent the attitudes of Americans directly involved in the war and those presenting their cinemagraphic viewpoints of a war that did not have the simplistic good guy against bad guy scenario. By the late 1980s, both television and movie producers had become willing to consider Vietnam as a useful and marketable topic. Ironically, and more than probably - accidentally, America's artistic involvement in Vietnam has mimicked its military presence there. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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expressions of the modern world. Movies have expanded an enormous part of humanitys awareness of other nations, other problems, as well as political consciousness. Movies chronicling the Vietnam
War, its soldiers, and their personal or collective drama became part of the cinematic world in the 1970s and have continued as a theme ever since.
Since their earliest days, movies have influenced fashions, social mores and, more important, altered the way people think. Clearly, Vietnam War movies have demonstrated the conflicted
nature with which the American public viewed the war and Americas role in it. Many people argue that are really a reflection of life. Yet, in general, the Vietnam
War movies also provided a reflection of the world as perceived by Americans. As the movies illustrate, it has not necessarily been an attractive view.
Three Vietnam War movies are especially notable for their depiction of some aspect of crippling and disability. As such, the characters who lose their physical strength,
their idealism, and their personal power serve as metaphors for the ways in which America as a nation was crippled by the Vietnam War - emotionally and physically. Oliver
Stones "Born on the 4th of July" (1989), Barry Levinsons "Good Morning,Vietnam" (1987), and Hal Ashbys "Coming Home" (1978). A good film is successful because it works as art, as
well as entertainment or storytelling. Each of these films is an example of storytelling that has a message that is defined within the parameters that was the Vietnam War.
Whether or not one thinks of one as melodramatic ("Coming Home"), histrionic (Good Morning Vietnam"), or mindlessly patriotic ("Born on the 4th of July"). Messages in the Images
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