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	The Green Berets (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Green Berets is the title of a 1968 film starring John Wayne and featuring George Takei, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, and Aldo Ray.
		In the second half of the film, Wayne leads a special ops team into enemy territory to capture an important VC field commander who lives in a mansion surrounded by bodyguards where he entertains his women guests.
		In both films, the missions are similar; both star a popular, " western" actor, and both were produced by Warner Brothers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Green_Berets_(movie) (551 words)

	Green Berets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A green beret is a type of headgear.
		The Green Berets, a 1968 movie directed by John Wayne
		The Green Berets, a computer game based on Myth II.
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	Green Berets and "Born Killers": Myth-Making and the Vietnam War in American Film ~ Alexander M. ...
		Due in part to the unpopular nature of the war, Vietnam War films have usually attempted to present warfare as a battle between individuals, rather than a battle between “isms.” The characters in these films are very often common soldiers or “grunts,” for whom the war is devoid of grand strategy.
		The Green Berets was just the kind of film that the military wanted and a grateful army eventually billed Wayne’s production company a mere $18,623.64 for the material, the eighty-five hours of flying time by UH-1 helicopters, and thirty-eight hundred man-days for military personnel taken away from their regular duties (Smith, 1975).
		The Green Berets, Hollywood’s movers and shakers felt that the Vietnam War was far too controversial, and therefore unprofitable, a topic for film and for a ten-year period no other films about the war were produced (Bregman, 1987).
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	Baqueira Beret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Berets are also worn by some scout groups and are part of the stereotype of Beatniks.
		Berets are a part of certain military uniforms, such as those of the British Armed Forces and the United States Army.
		Anyways, Green Berets redirect to this article, and in the article summary it is explained that their are also called like that.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Green Berets at Epinions.com
		Beginning with the thundering snare drums that open the film, viewers of the Warner Brothers Widescreen DVD are in for an action lover's treat as they view Actor/Director John "Duke" Wayne's take on the early stages of the Vietnam War.
		The Green Berets were established in the Cold War era to fight unconventional wars, acting as cadres to train local nationals into an effective fighting force in opposition to communism exported by the Soviet Union and Red China.
		Probably the reason The Green Berets provoked so much controversy when it was released in 1968 was its unabashed pro-American viewpoint, something that did not sit well with the media elite, then or now.
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	Digital History Resource Center
		In films, a POV shot records a scene as if it were being viewed through the eyes of one of the actors.
		Although antiwar demonstrators picketed the film's premiere (John Wayne profits off GI's blood, read one sign) an eager theater audience cheered as their hero, a tad paunchy at 61, led his Green Berets to a newly erected outpost in the heart of VC country.
		While the Green Berets provide villagers with humanitarian aid, the VC assume the role of savages, raping young girls and torturing wives in front of their husbands.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mintz/places/film-11b1_vietnam.html (8695 words)

	IMDb user comments for The Green Berets (1968) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Green Berets is like a mediocre WWII actioneer but it's supposed to be Vietnam.
		The Green Berets is certainly the least film in the John Wayne canon.
		One film critic (Penelope Gilliat) wrote, "A film best handled from a distance and with a pair of tongs", about a film which attempted to explain and support a misconceived American invasion of Vietnam.
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	buysoundtrax.com - The Green Berets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When Miklos Rozsa was asked to score The Green Berets, he said, "I don't do westerns!" He was told, "It's not a western, it's an eastern!" and signed on to provide a traditional, stirring symphonic score.
		The result has thrilled his fans for over 30 years.....The unlikely pop hit by Barry Sadler, "Ballad of the Green Berets," is used in the film's main and end titles (arranged by Ken Darby), but not in any of the interior score.
		Rozsa's score to The Green Berets is presented here for the very first time in complete in spectacular stereo sound.
	www.buysoundtrax.com /green_berets.html (280 words)

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		Apart from a few documentary films about the war, the reluctance of the American film industry to tackle Vietnam for a period of at least ten years (1963-73) is striking.
		The film was released in 1968 at the height of the anti-Vietnam demonstrations.
		Nevertheless The Green Berets was a commercial success, grossing $8 million domestically in the U.S. It may have been because American citizens who supported the U.S military in containing Communism were watching a film that reinforced their patriotism.
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		Part of the "failure" of The Green Berets is its inability to engage in one of the important icons of the genre: the dense jungle.
		The film is also ambivalent about the Huey as signifier par excellance of American technological prowess: the helicopters never really save the day (the jet fighter does) and indeed, the Huey ends up being shot out of the sky.
		The film never really lives up to its own internal expectations of the Green Berets as ultimate butt-kickers--especially since they fail to win, as in the raid on the base (now there's a biggy!).
	www.dartmouth.edu /~film41/berets.html (1419 words)

	American History Through Film
		This is a dramatic film, not a scholarly monograph.
		In the case of films, characters are killed off because the screenwriters, the director, or the producers wish these things to happen.
		Sneaking into the general's bedroom, the Green Berets drug him and pack him off in a body bag to a rendezvous where he is lofted on high by a helium balloon and whisked away by an American airplane dragging a hook.
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	BBC - h2g2 - The Vietnam War Through the Eyes of American Filmmakers
		Ironically, this came in the middle of a wave of films depicting the horror of war in response to the experiences of a new generation, those who had fought in Vietnam.
		The first major film to tackle the subject of the Vietnam War was the 1968 film The Green Berets directed by John Wayne, the hero of many Westerns.
		The film ends with Wayne walking off into the sunset hand in hand with his mascot, a small Vietnamese boy who befriends the hero in the same way the audience was supposed to believe the Vietnamese had befriended 'Uncle Sam'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A771815 (2660 words)

	Green Berets
		JW believed that the media and the anti-war movement hid this fact from the American people, thus the aim of the film was to redress this imbalance.
		As you will understand after seeing the film, it was not well received by the critics, who rejected its simple-minded political viewpoint and its apparent praise of violence.
		Film opens at the "John F. Kennedy Centre for Special Warfare" at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where a press conference is under way.
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		The Green Berets (1968) was a highly personal project by actor and American icon John Wayne.
		Loosely based on the 1965 book by Robin Moore, the film tells the somewhat fanciful exploits of a squadron of elite American troops who defend an American encampment against Viet Cong guerrillas and then undertake the daring kidnapping of a North Vietnamese general.
		The unlikely pop hit by Barry Sadler, "Ballad of the Green Berets," is used in the film's main and end titles (arranged by Ken Darby), but not in any of the interior score.
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	Emanuel Levy : Review - The Green Berets: John Wayne and Vietnam
		The fact that The Green Berets became a best-seller surprised intellectuals of left-wing persuasion.
		The Green Berets was simple-minded, and modeled on Wayne's Western formula.
		Most critics panned The Green Berets, as film and as politics, but it was extremely popular, proving again that critics had no impact on Wayne's standing at the box office.
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	Movie Film Essays - The Role of Propaganda in China Gate, The Green Berets, and Rambo: First Blood, Part Two
		While some films, like Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, illustrate how horrible the army can be, other Vietnam War films glorify the armed services and American superiority in an attempt to alleviate the public’s fears that the war was a negative undertaking.
		As Leo Cawley claims in his essay, “The War about the War: Vietnam Films and American Myth,” they sought to show that “the Americans are the good guys, the Viet Cong are the bad guys, and the peasants are the frightened townsfolk who need protection and rule of law” (74).
		The characters in these films have no ambiguity to them, but rather just the opposite: they are either paradigms of goodness or pillars of evil.
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	The Green Berets
		Ray Kellogg and John Wayne's 1968 movie The Green Berets opens with a press conference hosted by the Green Berets themselves, as they attempt to answer the snippy questions of skeptical reporters as to why we are fighting in Vietnam.
		The film, of course, is an unintentionally humorous, thin, and messy shell for anti-communist sentiments, and it was in fact overseen by top government officials proving that not everyone, if they just put his or her mind to it, can write.
		Unfortunately for the film, there were no geological or astronomical experts to assist the filmmakers, as the sun, in an unusual turn of events, sets in the East over the South China Sea.
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	Green Berets,The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Wayne actually proved he wasn't a horrible director with his overblown, overlong, but still captivating "The Alamo." "The Green Berets" is shorter, tighter, and for all its corniness, entertainingly horrible.
		Their reasoning may be related to the fact that at 142 mins, the film is displayed over two sides instead of using dual layers on one side, as MGM typically does.
		It's also disappointing that Wayne didn't utilize 6-track surround as he did with "The Alamo," still the monaural sound suffices, and to be honest, the Green Berets theme song wouldn't benefit from any amount of mixing.
	www.dvd-lasercritique.com /green.htm (198 words)

	10/10/02: Scaramouche and The Green Berets CDs
		The Green Berets (1968) was the first major Hollywood production to address the Vietnam War, starring John Wayne as the leader of an elite squadron of American troops.
		The film was based on the semi-factual book by Robin Moore and is still controversial today for its staunchly pro-war attitude.
		Scoring The Green Berets was a legendary composer of Hollywood's Golden Age: Miklos Rozsa.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2002/10_Oct---Scaramouche_and_The_Green_Berets_CDs.asp (371 words)

	The Green Berets
		That question was most definitely on the mind of John Wayne when he starred in and co-directed The Green Berets (1968) arguably his worst war film.
		The bad taste the film leaves in the mouth of its viewers is largely due to the fact that it presents us with a Vietnam too much like World War Two; even though when the film was released the war was there for all to see on the nightly news.
		With the rigid press controls of the OWI during the second world war the American people were able to be duped by the movie industry.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /jwasia/reviews/beretsRW.html (849 words)

	The Green Berets by Philip M Taylor
		The Green Berets wanted to address directly the controversy about why American troops were fighting in Vietnam and it did this by using a device which was also later adopted by post-war Vietnam films, namely the insertion into the plot of a sceptical journalist, in this instance a George Beckworth played by David Janssen.
		In The Green Berets, the Beckworth character may have represented the military's view of the media in general, but television is a different medium.
		When The Green Berets was released in 1968, it was accompanied by an advertising campaign which ran in part: `Their badge of honour was a green beret and it said they had lived it all'.
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	Ballad Of The Green Berets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"The Ballad of the Green Berets", an extremely patriotic song about the United States Army Special Operations Forces, was composed by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler and Robin Moore in 1966 (it reached #1 in the charts, and stayed there for 5 weeks - it has sold over nine million singles and albums).
		"The Ballad of the Green Berets" was used in the film "The Green Berets" (1968) starring American icon John Wayne.
		"The Ballad of the Green Berets," is used in the film's main and end titles (arranged by Ken Darby), but not in any of the interior score (that was done by Miklos "I don't do westerns!" Rozsa).
	globalia.net /donlope/fz/songs/Ballad_Of_The_Green_Berets.html (222 words)

	Research
		Films that depict the Vietnam War are a valuable medium for those who were not there at first hand to experience it.
		The Green Berets was the first Vietnam War film, produced in 1968 by John Wayne and Melvin LeRoy with a World War II approach.
		Film producers try their best in making war movies to win the hearts and minds of people around the world.
	www.uh.edu /~hkbigley/2321/long/ResearchPaper.htm (1427 words)

	Film Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This film is rated PG-13 due to violence and language.
		In terms of fire fights and military strategies, The Green Berets does a decent job of depicting the war.
		Overall the film is a Hollywood over glorification of war, that provides a general "tip of the iceberg," understanding of the events in battle.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/students/vietnamfilm/green_berets.html (155 words)

	Controversial Movies (Song Of The South, JFK, The Green Berets). Also Funny and Entertaining Audiobooks About Walt ...
		The Green Berets production problems ranged from a lack of cooperation from the Pentagon to battle scenes repeatedly being ruined when twirling helicopter blades blew the sixty-one year old actor’s toupee off.
		Upon its release many critics who opposed the war called The Green Berets vile and boring, but to their great distress it was a huge box office success.
		The quasi-documentary film featured so many characters that Stone felt the only way for an audience to keep track of them all was to have an all-star recognizable cast.
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	MSN Encarta - John Wayne
		After appearing in routine Westerns and action films for about ten years, Wayne gained prominence almost overnight when he was cast by director John Ford in the lead role of the ground-breaking Western Stagecoach (1939).
		Soon he was in great demand as a leading man, and he was continuously cast until the mid-1970s, usually as a tough, taciturn, idealistic cowboy or military man.
		Wayne's other notable films include Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), Hondo (1953), The High and the Mighty (1954), Blood Alley (1955), The Comancheros (1961), McLintock (1963), and his final picture, The Shootist (1976).
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	The Ballad Of The Green Berets by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler Songfacts
		He was injured by a punji stick (a type of booby trap) and while laid up in the hospital released the rights to this song so it could be heard.
		Sadler was a member of the Green Berets, the US Army's elite Special Forces unit.
		A TV news crew filmed him singing this at the hospital, and when the footage aired in the US, it became a huge hit very quickly.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=4405 (474 words)

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