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Who will play the lead in THIS movie?
I am a movie buff. I'm a screenwriter and I've made a few short student films for classes I've taken. I'm searching for the word to describe how I feel about really well-made war films; admire comes to mind, but it's much more powerful than that. I also appreciate the best war films since they remind us all of what it's like to be in combat. Only a select few humans compared with the rest of us civilians ever face live firing rounds or incoming projectiles or IEDs.
My favorite war movie, for this reason, is probably Black Hawk Down. This movie shows SOME of the politics involved in the tug-of-war between Clinton detractors and supporters and warlord manipulation of the military. It's impossible to clearly assign blame for the fiasco in Mogadishu. It just told the stories as accurately as possible, massacres and rescues alike.
But my Yahoo! News headline tells me there is, presently, a huge maneuver in Afghanistan by our military.
U.S. Marines launch helicopter assault in southern Afghanistan
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/s/1094508
I can already see the scene from the movie about twenty years from now, or sooner: The flotilla of Hueys and other missile-armed jet copters, heading straight for the camera, long telescopic shot with the heat rays shimmering the air. Michael Bay, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer: Call your office.
But for some reason the only face I can guess that might star in this movie is Abigail Breslin...Everybody else will be too old. Because, as Kurt Vonnegut noted decades ago, mostly children fight wars; his masterpiece "Slaughterhouse-Five" was subtitled "The Children's Crusade", referring to World War II.
When most people read headlines, they see something they can look right past and onto the next headline. But when I read that headline, I saw disaster, death, destruction, more American ill-will, with one small difference: The President. Again, I say: Get out of Afghanistan. Bring these men and women home. They are not preventing the next 9-11, and they may just be the cause of it.
My favorite war movie, for this reason, is probably Black Hawk Down. This movie shows SOME of the politics involved in the tug-of-war between Clinton detractors and supporters and warlord manipulation of the military. It's impossible to clearly assign blame for the fiasco in Mogadishu. It just told the stories as accurately as possible, massacres and rescues alike.
But my Yahoo! News headline tells me there is, presently, a huge maneuver in Afghanistan by our military.
U.S. Marines launch helicopter assault in southern Afghanistan
URL: http://www.yahoo.com/s/1094508
I can already see the scene from the movie about twenty years from now, or sooner: The flotilla of Hueys and other missile-armed jet copters, heading straight for the camera, long telescopic shot with the heat rays shimmering the air. Michael Bay, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer: Call your office.
But for some reason the only face I can guess that might star in this movie is Abigail Breslin...Everybody else will be too old. Because, as Kurt Vonnegut noted decades ago, mostly children fight wars; his masterpiece "Slaughterhouse-Five" was subtitled "The Children's Crusade", referring to World War II.
When most people read headlines, they see something they can look right past and onto the next headline. But when I read that headline, I saw disaster, death, destruction, more American ill-will, with one small difference: The President. Again, I say: Get out of Afghanistan. Bring these men and women home. They are not preventing the next 9-11, and they may just be the cause of it.
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