Adrian Cronauer: Good morning, Vietnam! Hey, this is not a test. This is rock and roll. Time to rock it from the delta to the DMZ! Is that me, or does that sound like an Elvis Presley movie? Viva Da Nang. Oh, viva, Da Nang. Da Nang me, Da Nang me. Why don't they get ...
but there’s only one movie focused on the radio waves of Vietnam. StarringRobin Williams, the 1987 movie “Good Morning, Vietnam” is loosely based on the experiences of Armed Forces Radio DJAdrian Cronauer. In the film, Cronauer is hugely popular with American soldiers but infuriates...
Good Morning, Vietnam is a movie that tackles a variety of feelings—from courage, risk, and comedy. This made it so relevant to its viewers. And, though many think of it as your typical war movie, it’s much more than that. It’s a movie that wraps the seriousness of war with a...
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Col. Jessup:We go back a while. We went to the Academy together, we were commissioned together, we did our tours in Vietnam together. But I've been promoted up through the chain of command with greater speed and success than you have. Now if that's a source of tension or embarrassmen...
No rain without clouds. —Vietnamese Proverbs 46 The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain. —Leo Tolstoy 38 If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When ...
I’d almost rather get a story of them in Vietnam, than this somewhat forced method of putting them in such a unique environment. We’re also just a little over the top with this extra aggressive polar bear (a regular, hungry polar isn’t challenging enough for Walt?). And if the ...
Michael Cimino followed his Oscar-winning Vietnam War film The Deer Hunter with an even more ambitious effort, an epic Western based on the real-life Johnson County War. Cimino’s perfectionism is now the stuff of legend; when a street set was not built to his satisfaction — with the two...
After Vietnam, it was “boat people.” More recently, dehumanizing terminology like “illegal aliens” or simply “illegals” has been used to describe undocumented workers from Mexico, many of whom have been living here for years. U.S. citizens originally from Muslim countries are subject to...
I also loved the nods to Vietnamese culture throughout the book – Sonny’s mother always in the kitchen, cooking; her father tending to their garden filled with Vietnamese herbs, fruits and vegetables; the untranslated Vietnamese language filtered throughout the book. Most of all, I loved...