To: NFHale
The helicopter door gunner in the movie just mows down civilians like there's no tomorrow. They're not on a combat mission, just going from one place to another.
I find it hard to believe someone could 1. Get away with that (no Vietnamese complained?) 2. That other soldiers wouldn't stop the gunner (like Mai Lai) and 3. That anybody would do that to begin with.
I'm forced to conclude that movie is just fomenting "anti-war" propaganda. The whole movie looks like every stereotype, myth and legend of Vietnam combined combined with only the realism that helped add to the narrative.
7 posted on
10/02/2016 8:33:05 AM PDT by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: \/\/ayne
Kubrick’s goal was to show innocent boys being turned into killers. Vietnam was merely the stage.
9 posted on
10/02/2016 8:36:41 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: \/\/ayne
“...The whole movie looks like every stereotype, myth and legend of Vietnam combined ...”
RE Door Gunner: Agreed. I found it kind of outside the realm of believability too. But people anywhere and everywhere can and have done savage things.
That guy that played the door gunner was actually SUPPOSED to be the original Drill Instructor, until Kubrick met R. Lee Ermy, who was the real deal. Discusses that in the Youtube clip.
11 posted on
10/02/2016 8:39:42 AM PDT by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: \/\/ayne
My buddy served in the marines during somalia. He was in that shithole country and from his stories, the gunner mowing down civies in Vietnam is totally believable. Like the gunner says “aint war hell?”
To: \/\/ayne
“The helicopter door gunner in the movie just mows down civilians like there’s no tomorrow.”
Ah, exactly where my tag line came from.
When shooting at people farming the rice patties the reporter leans over and asks the door gunner how he could shoot women and children?
His reply, “It’s easy, you just don’t lead em as much”
Still makes me giggle everytime I think about it.
16 posted on
10/02/2016 8:58:35 AM PDT by
walkingdead
(It's easy, you just don't lead 'em as much....)
To: \/\/ayne
I agree. When I see parts of movies or movies like that, it just disgusts me.
34 posted on
10/02/2016 9:51:37 AM PDT by
vpintheak
(Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
To: \/\/ayne
“The helicopter door gunner in the movie just mows down civilians like there’s no tomorrow.”
Its in the middle of the Tet offensive, just on he outskirts of Hue. And you think they were “civilians”.
49 posted on
10/02/2016 2:58:50 PM PDT by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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