Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor of a charming medieval French village threatening to paint its buildings red, blue and green? And why does la Patronne want the one word, Ouf!, on her tombstone? See THE WORLD, The Benefactress...
...think the Green Berets is an extraordinarily dangerous political movie because although it comes as close as it ever could to reaching cautious liberal types, it still doesn't make it. The average man has been unusually well warned about this movie already. And those touching scenes of friendly, tough Green Berets helping oppressed South Vietnamese children and then leading them by the hand into the sunset are nothing that the tough realistic average mind equates with reality...
...film is based on a book of the same name, which is a curious anti-war document. Robin Moore wrote it purporting to show what a big job the heroic Green Berets were doing in Vietnam. At the time of his writing the government was falsely insisting we had only 12,000 technical advisors in Vietnam. In the book, Green Berets lead patrols, scorn their corrupt Vietnamese allies, torture prisoners as the first step in interrogation, chase the enemy across the border into Laos, and even parachute an exclusively American special mission into North Vietnam--acts all that have denied...
...movie updates the book to present policies, which give the soldiers more freedom of action such as torturing a Vietcong infiltrator because he's carrying the cigarette lighter of a dead Green Beret...
...Barry Sadler's song, "The Green Berets," which is sung at both the beginning and the end of the film, is a fight song for those who are already convinced. Just like the Columbia slogan, "Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers," it's good for inner group morale, but doesn't win any converts...