Why are there so many movies set in the Vietnam War that don't have much (or sometimes any) representation of, you know, Vietnamese people?
>>220554954Because the southern Vietnamese and south Korean gooks were ineffectual spectators in their own civil wars that couldn't function or survive without a million US servicemen intervening. The former collapsed overnight after the US left and its a miracle South Korea exists today, despite their endless corruption and self sabotage. Why depict such a pathetic people on film?
>>220555044And absolutely nobody saw a repeat of this coming in Afghanistan.
they probably don't humanize the viet cong either out of respect for currently living veterans or propaganda to justify american intervention, so they portray them as unfeeling bug people. same thing with nazis. how many ww2 films show a sympathetic/humanizing view of a german soldier dragged into the ww2 conflict?
If anyone in the USA identifies as Vietnamese they are diaspora of a country that doesn't exist anymore. I've never met a Vietnamese from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
>>220554954Because theyre american movies, who gives a fuck about the vietnamese?
>>220555176Das Boot is the only one I can think of. Most of the others paint the Germans as evil caricatures.
>>220555176Fury has a young German conscript spare the young American, and Inglorious Basterds quite infamously has an oddly sympathetic portrayal of German soldiers
I have zero idea wtf Vietnam or Korea were about and I payed attention and did well in school
>>220555238Now that I think about it, Brad is in an unusually high number of movies that humanise Nazis
>>220554954I don't know but that Charlie fella is mentioned in almost all of them. He must be the most over-represented Vietnamese actor ever!
