why do the hollywood movies about vietnam show american story?

all of the hollywood movies about vietnam are lies.

why?

 

why you keep making threads is a much better question

 

All war movies lie *laughs*

 

there was a book written by a viet cong--cant remember the name--they were in it for life --not a year at a time showd the war from the vietnamise point of view-totally awesome and realer than anything else ive ever read about that war

 

Because the Vietnamese are terrible people who are only good for sucky sucky, fucky fucky.

Duh.

 

Because they are made in Hollywood.

Question why there are not many Vietnamese films made about Vietnam...

 

It's not like they make america out to be the good guys though, full metal jacket, apocalypse now, it's more to do with young american soldiers, and the horror of war. If it was pseudo-propaganda to make it look like america were saviors of democracy or some crap it'd be different.

 

That Mel Gibson one showed a bit of the Vietnamese side of things as well.

 

it seems to me most films were trying to tell the truth about vietnam.sometimes art is politicaly driven.i'm interested in why you think the films are all lies.

 

are you trying to tell me that sean penn and michael j fox didnt really rape that girl in vietnam?...all these years i thought those guys were assholes and now i find out they were ACTING....

 

Is that your real name?

Why don't you have a nose?

Why is your hair purple?

You are LIAR!

 

I think it depends what era the films are made and the political biases of the directors (or stars.)

Green Beret (my favourite Vietnam film.)

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Berets_(film)


Platoon (Biggest pile of Propoganda BS I've witnessed (well Oliver Stone made it, so...)

It shows some U.S. soldiers as violent and indiscriminate killers. Fueled by rage at seeing their friends killed and maimed by booby traps, they take their anger out on villagers who were found hiding a cache of firearms, killing and torturing Vietnamese villagers and setting their village on fire. The film has been banned in Vietnam.

I'm thinking this one might be an ani-war film, myself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_(film)

Then you get the late 90s to mid 00s (things become calm and less gun ho...almost introspective.)

Here I feel film makers swapped Vietnam for WW2.
But the sentiment was aimed at Vietnam.

I didn't think michael j fox raped her!

 

Most of the Nam movies I've seen showed the horrors of war and particularly the Vietnam War.
Also, you do realize that Hollywood is in America, and makes it movies mostly for the Western World, right?

 

I thought Platoon did a good job as portraying the Americans as asshole foreign invaders who did nothing but destroy the country and it's people. I don't think it made America look like the good guy at all.
I dunno, from my viewpoint, if it's propaganda (which 99% of Hollywood war films are), it's some sort of reverse psychology propaganda.