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- From: wwarf@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Wayne J. Warf)
- Subject: Re: BC in Movies
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:31:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov3.160123.29724@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> frankenp@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Paul Frankenstein ) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov3.033425.2748@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >* Ah another previous topic.
- >*
- >* One can chose numerous G and PG-13 rated films. The D film has been covered.
- >* I chose Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter as another "flawed masterpiece."*
- >*
- >* Spoilers:
- >*
- >* The closest bit of the reality and one basis of the film was the
- >* summary execution of a suspected Vietcong sympathizer during the Tet
- >* Offense where the man's brains were blown away (most people remember this
- >* incident as a still, but Cimino was clearly a person who also saw the
- >* film footage [a still appears as wall paper in Woody Allen's
- >
- >No film footage of this event exists. The photograph was shot by an AP
- >photographer (who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize) who, to quote him
- >roughly, said "I just turned, saw it, and took the picture." Also, the man
- >who was executed was Vietcong and had been directly responcible for the deaths
- >of several of the executor's family members.
-
- Sorry, I have to disagree, film footage of the event was include
- in an A&E documentary on Vietnam. Lots of blood pumping into the
- street. The AP photographer may have shot a still but a film crew was
- there also.
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