good morning Vietnam
The movie "Good Morning, Vietnam" Directed by Barry Levinson and written by Mitch Markowitz Had a solid view, that was portrayed in many ways, on the roles of the North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, and American Soldiers. It also depicted a clear picture of the Vietnamese Civilians and Viet Cong. The film began with a clear-cut portrayal of American Soldiers within the confounds of an office, and the discrepancies amongst the high ranking and higher ranking Officers. Robin Williams is introduced into the Movie as a humorous man meant to be a radio DJ for the American Soldiers fighting 'outside the Office'. The high-ranking officials in charge of the News broadcastings limited Adrian Cronauer (played by Robin Williams) to broadcast the most mild of new about the war to the soldiers; the very same soldiers who were fighting the war. In this was, the film maker practically hands over to the audience the fact that high ranking officials wanted to virtually blind-sight listeners into thinking that the war is only being fought in the hills...that it is, in fact, not real to them, but very distant. By doing this he shows how, by using propaganda, the news controlled out view [American view] and the soldier's views on the war that w
He created the antithesis of the 'faceless mass propaganda' that Dictators such as Hitler used to create a subhuman tag for their targets. The Imagery that the producer and writer used was impeccable in portraying the humanities and inhumanities of war and of Vietnam. Consider the fact that when a student reads about mass casualties in a war, decades before their time, they only see the number or 'statistic', and not the hundreds and thousands of men woman and children who each came from a home, who left their loved ones, and the individual loss each family suffered. In the movie, Robin Williams served as a "part time" English teacher. And through this outlook, implied that this was a wide spread belief during that time. Along with the portrayal of misconception within the confounds of the Vietnam War, the filmmaker successfully was able to serve the audience with the sight of individuals within each army confound. He also showed the innocents of the average soldier, how the soldiers conversed with the Vietnamese, continued to live their lives, and did not suddenly become emotionless robots. The film didn't show the evils of communism, or the major advantages of Capitalism, simply the people and the quality of their lives without active interaction with the government that ruled over them. These proved to point out how the people who were being attacked for the govt. Mitch Markowitz, did in fact specifically point out, through the young South Vietnamese/ secret Viet Cong boy Tuan, who was befriended by Robin Williams, that The Americans were the Enemy, not the North Vietnamese OR the French. The Viet Cong were able to seek sanctuary among the villages as South Vietnamese during the day and reawaken as the infamous Viet Cong during the night. But the US soldiers also impacted the Vietnamese with their presence in other ways. Misleading the masses to believe what the handful of major leaders felt was necessary for the masses to believe by keeping them mal-informed and blissfully ignorant of the actual situations at hand. In the Village which this story plot took place, there were images of families, children, and unique individuals within their habitual lives during the war in South Vietnam.
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