John Wayne - The Green Berets (USA 1968) - Movie Trailer
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The Green Berets (USA 1968)
Directed by John Wayne and Ray Kellogg
Soundtrack by Miklós Rózsa
Tip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58QzTglCen8
The Green Berets is a 1968 film featuring John Wayne, George Takei, David Janssen, Jim Hutton and Aldo Ray, nominally based on the eponymous 1965 book by Robin Moore, though the screenplay has little relation to the book. Unlike most war films, the movie polarized public opinion to this day.
Thematically, The Green Berets is strongly anti-communist and pro-Saigon. It was produced in 1968, at the height of American involvement in the Vietnam War, the same year as the Tet offensive against the largest cities in South Vietnam. John Wayne was prompted by the anti-war atmosphere and social discontent in the U.S. to make this film in countering that. He requested and obtained full military co-operation and materiel from President Johnson.
Columbia Pictures, (who had bought the book's pre-publication film rights) was not able to produce a script that was approved by the Army whilst producer David L. Wolper, who also tried to buy the same rights, could not obtain finance for filming.
John Wayne had always been a steadfast supporter of American involvement in the war in Vietnam. He had entertained the soldiers in Vietnam, and wanted The Green Berets to be a tribute to them. He co-directed the film, and turned down the "Major Reisman" role in The Dirty Dozen to do so. The film's first scene illustrates that contention when Green Beret tour guides at Fort Benning, Georgia, show civilian visitors to the U.S. Infantry School the Soviet- and Chinese-made weapons issued to the soldiers and guerillas of the communist NVA and VC.
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How corny can you get ?
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The Green Berets were a torture squad sent to Vietnam in a futile but brutal effort to prevent Ho Chi Minh taking over. Intelligence assessments suggested that if elections were held to determine who would control a unified Vietnam when the North and South occupied zones were reunited -- as agreed between the USA and the USSR -- Ho Chi Minh would win around three-quarters of the vote.
So much for supporting democracy. The Green Berets set about murdering and torturing supporters of Ho Chi Minh
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Green berets was just a poorly made patriotic propaganda movie. Propaganda not always bad, people need positive values, even if somebody has to show them. Not this vile demoralizing crap hollywood usually mass produces.
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@floatinglandscape and the Deer Hunter. I cried my eyes out.
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If John Wayne was so good it's a pity he was to yellow to enlist in WW2.
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This movie is funny because it was filmed somewhere that looks absolutely nothing like Vietnam.
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"Out here due process is a bullet!"
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My Grandpa was Lieutenant Colonel in the republic of viet nam ranger. he earned silver star and bronze star from US Army
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i wish they would do a darker remake like stallone and the expendables :D
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Larrry Thone was a finnish sodier who fought against the russians in the winter war and again in the continiotuation war in ww2.. He earned the Mannerheim Cross ( (Congressional medal of honor) He signed up to the U.S. Army after he had served in Waffen- SS. , He is considered as a legend in "green berets" Siiver r star, 2 purple hearts. He was MIA till they found his remains and was promoted Major after his death.John Wayne presents him in the movie. Orig. name: Lauri Torni.
Adamson11x 1 month ago 6
For all you naysayers, My father was a marine in WWII. I grew up singing this song, him instilling the Spirit of America in me. Too bad some miss that today. John Wayne did more for the American Spirit when it was needed than anyone. Too bad we don't have a hero like him today..even if it is only in the movies.
gilley573 3 months ago 4