Good Morning, Vietnam!: Adrian Cronauer on Accuracy

Adrian Cronauer, who was portrayed in "Good Morning, Vietnam!", discusses the movie's accuracy at the American Veterans Center's 2008 conference.

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Education

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• Good Morning Vietnam
• Vietnam War

[RHMETAL]

This is very interesting. Thanks for posting it.

[thedazedbandman]

ditto on rhmetal's comment. i always kinda wondered what the real person thought of the movie...it's kinda like watching the real Patch Adams on the behind the scenes of the dvd for the movie.

[thrashorbethrashed]

"THE Adrian Cronauer? From Dead Poets Society?" rofl. Accuracy in movies or not, THIS guy is damn funny. One of the greatest in radio history. And be honest. We won't have 100% accurate movies. We want good and heart touching movies. Thanks for posting, thanks Adrian, thanks Robin.

[RadioVientam]

@volumecorps Most true stories are like that and I think Adrian is intelligent enough to know that and, even with the changes to events, it still brought AFVN to light, gave a softer side, and more humanized feeling, than other movies of the 80's. I wish he had more applause, I loved every bit of it. :) My favorite was "I was not teaching because I was trying to meet this particularly beautiful Vietnamese girl, at least not one particular beautiful Vietnamese girl". :)

[RadioVientam]

If I could only get him to do a Goooooood Morning Radio Vietnam for the station or ANYTHING! lol I love this guy and a huge inspiration for my station, which turns 7 years old in 10 days (can't believe we've made it that long!). :)

[katey1dog]

Had no idea. 

[volumecorps]

Its nice to know he's not bothered by the lack of accuracy in the movie. I doubt the movie would have been very good otherwise. Besides, Armed Forces Radio and Television is meant for morale. No combat vet needs the news to tell him how depressing and brutal the realities of war are.

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@piker78 i agree. 

[MrJimmyboy1972]

i think adrian was a person of his time. the troops needed some home comforts and he gave them over the air waves. he seems to have got older (obviously) and stuffier. maybe he needs the live radio thing. he was not funny in this interview, basically i think he struggled. sorry!

[ratholin]

this was wonderful. Thank you so much for posting this. It's so great!

[ThRealityDysfunction]

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning Vietnam!!! :P