Starring a guy, whos father moved his family to Aus. specifically to keep his sons out of Vietnam
Easymo, if you look into the background of every actor you'll be disapointed.
Kirk Douglass had to rescue his long haired son Michael from a hippy commune in 1970..
Robert DeNero leans politically to the left. His wife is black.
James Gabrifinni doesn't really act like Tony Soprano.
Martin Sheen who did a great job as Gen Robert E Lee leans waaay over to the left.
These folks are paid to play other people. We watch movies because it puts us in a place we could never live in real life.
Some of the best war movies are directed by war vets Battleground, The Story of GI Joe...Platoon. They add strong character development, tragedy, fear, and some light humor. Some of the humor is so subtle only a fellow veteran would understand it. There needs to be a love interest. If not a direct love interest maybe something like a letter from a sweetheart anything to pull the viewer back home. It’s to add contrast between the horror being depicted and what’s sane and normal. Mail call is always a centerpiece for real life and in the movies.. You know somebody’s going to get a dear John letter and that will effect them and the team later when there’s a task at hand. Another guy gets a tape of his baby son saying his first words. Only problem is he doesn’t have a tape recorder.
You being a Viet Nam Vet, I’m curious how you would direct a VN movie. Would it be pro war?... Bunch of Gung Ho guys waving that flag charging up the hill nobody complains.. A little odd.. nobody complains in the army? Or would there be a slightly anti war bent.. You want to show how diddlying insane war is in the first place? Try and remind the powers that be to not start these things.
