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</html>";s:4:"text";s:8752:"John Wayne attempted to show some of the good things we were doing, and trying to show some of the hardships and dedication to duty. The group subdue the enemy general with Lin's help, and hoist him outside, where they put him in the trunk of his car. We learned the meaning of free fire zones, shooting anything that moves, and we watched while America placed a cheapness on the lives of orientals. Would it be appropriate to include the fact that actual veterans right from the start laughed uproariously at this film's many Hollywood combat absurdities, and that for forty years DIs and other training NCO's have referred to some dumbass stunt likely to get you killed as a "John Wayne move?" While you may find inaccuracies in every film ("Platoon" included), there are also a lot of accuracies in the movie "the Green Beret". Special Forces did a lot of things, and proportionally as a unit took a lot of casualties. See these links to Lam Dong territory forestry and Nam Dong District --Habap 17:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC), Major portions of "The Green Berets" movie were filmed in Columbus, Georgia (the mansion scene) and Ft. Benning, Georgia where a mock Vietnamese landscape was created to train Green Berets going to Vietnam. He has gotten the silly idea in his commie-loving head that this war might be a bit nasty. We fought using weapons against those people which I do not believe this country would dream of using were we fighting in the European theater or let us say a non-third-world people theater... We found also that all too often American men were dying in those rice paddies for want of support from their allies. Jack Valenti told the President, "Wayne's politics are wrong, but if he makes this film he will be helping us." Wayne got enough firepower to make The Green Berets, which became one of the most controversial movies of all time. The Gabriel Demonstration area was in honor of Specialist 5 James Gabriel, executed after capture. Surely this is not true? "[3] It is on his "Most Hated" list. Suggested correction: Nowhere in the film are we told where in Vietnam the Green Beret base is, just that it is in South Vietnam (of course). In fact, a year after this film was released, a New Yorker investigation by Daniel Lang would reveal that such atrocities as this film attributes to the north Vietnamese were being committed by US troops. Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 20:38, 24 December 2017 (UTC), I think the John Pilger paragraph should be removed from this article because it is superfluous. The US dropped more bombs than in WW1 & WW2 together, murdered 3-4 million Vietnamese,crippled God knows how many, utterly destroyed the country, and imposed a decade of sanctions after the war. Kirby and Muldoon arrive with reinforcements, but by dawn the enemy is still attacking, and Colonel Kirby orders the troops to withdraw from the camp. On The Green Berets' release in 1968, the New York Times said it was "unspeakable … stupid … rotten … false in every detail … It is vile and insane. [8] Wayne was a steadfast supporter of American involvement in the war in Vietnam. I'd always heard of it as a major defeat for the NVA and VC, though ultimately they would prevail after America left Vietnam. For five hours, a mixed force of Americans, Australians and South Vietnamese troops fought off a force three times its size. The survivors of the raid airlift the captured General out of the area by a Skyhook device mounted to a transport plane. John Wayne said '...we all get steak or nobody does. As they watch from cover, the scene shifts to the General's bedroom where Lin has sex with the General, being discovered in bed with him after all the sentries around the mansion have been killed. Now, I never would have believed it, but there actually ARE pine trees in the Central Highlands. He co-directed the film, and turned down the "Major Reisman" role in The Dirty Dozen to do so. Resistance to that we called "communist aggression" and Kennedy outright invaded, starting chemical warfare, driving people into concentration camps etc. The first was that the Army wanted to show that South Vietnamese soldiers were involved in defending the base camp. The final film's origins began in June 1966 with a trip by John Wayne to South Vietnam, and his subsequent decision to produce a film about the Army special forces deployed there as a tribute to them. Department of Defense cooperation with the film was extensive, with the United States Army providing several UH-1 Huey attack helicopters and a C-7 Caribou light transport. BAD!"). Levy quotes Wayne: "What war was ever popular for God's sake? "Go Tell the Spartans" (1978) was a strongly anti-war movie. '", Levy also notes that Wayne acknowledged that war is generally not popular, but the soldiers who serve face the risks and dangers of combat nonetheless, and must be prepared to sacrifice themselves, regardless of their personal will or judgment. By 1968 I remember hearing people making very rude remarks about men in uniform while waiting for stand-by flights home, at the airport. It seems highly unlikely to me that with all the output of Hollywood in the entire decade 1965–1975, this would be the only pro-war movie ever produced. That said, here's Ebert's Most Hated article from 2005 mentioned down in the "trivia" section, and here's a link (of questionable quality) which shows three movies that John Wayne directed, where "The Green Berets" grossed nearly three times the other two. Once you go over there, you won't be middle-of-the-road. As the battle rages, Ham Chuck's pet dog is killed and the young boy tearfully buries his faithful companion, before being found by Sergeant Petersen, who takes him to safety with the other refugees. The army post at Fort Benning, Georgia, stood in for Da Nang in the film, not entirely convincingly. This is seen as a bargaining chip to end the war on South Vietnam's terms, as well as disrupting the leadership of the Viet Cong.  From relatively modest beginnings in the 1950s, the war in Vietnam boomed into an epoch-defining conflict for the US in the 1960s and 1970s. Meanwhile, Colonel Kirby is posted to Vietnam with orders to build a team to work with the South Vietnamese. Not shown in the movie were the displays, mock villages and skills performed by Green Berets. Holding hands, the two walk along the beach into the sunset as "Ballad of the Green Berets" plays. In my diary of 1968, I made this entry on July 1, 1968: Went to see "The Green Berets" -- "it was dull, brutal, gruesome, nerve-racking and because it was filmed here in Columbus and at Ft. Benning, it seemed "fake!" The Green Berets begins at Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army training camp in North Carolina. Kirby places Petersen's green beret on him and says, "You let me worry about that, Green Beret. Captain Nghiem sets off hidden explosives which kill the double agents, and a mortar brings down the observation tower in which Ngheim, Kirby and other officers had been standing. Much of the film was shot in the summer of 1967 (before the Tet Offensive) at Fort Benning, Georgia. When Beckworth remains skeptical about the value of U.S. intervention, Green Beret Colonel Mike Kirby asks him if he's ever been to Southeast Asia. Getting on for half a century later, it's still hard to argue with that verdict. The French, weakened after WW2, then received 80% of their weapons from the US to reconquer their former colony Vietnam. Arriving in South Vietnam, they meet Beckworth, whom Kirby allows to accompany them to the front-line camp. [23], "The critics overkilled me, the picture and the war", said Wayne. Patriot John Wayne made a film about the Vietnam war and gave the Pentagon carte blanche to rewrite the plot. Beckworth admits he hasn't, and decides to go there on a reporting mission. ... 'I wasn't trying to send a message out to anybody,' he reasoned, 'or debating whether it is right or wrong for the United States to be in this war. 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