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DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
> Patrick wrote:
>
> "If you judge the characters by your own
standards
> while they obviously
> don't have your advantages, you're not going to
get
> the movie."
>
> While I agree with your basic sentiments, I was
just
> pointing out that
> Stone's story was at least as much based on
literary
> tradition and
> symbolism as on realism. In fact, your
comparison
> to Crane seems to
> imply you agree.
>
> Mark
***************************************************** I do
agree, but the "Please!" a the end of your comment seems to
imply you think the use of this tradition undermines the
statement of the film. Like any good entertainer, Stone
created his protagonists to impact the sensibilities of the
majority in his audience, both veterans and non-veterans.
That those sensibilities may neither be yours nor Richard
Nixon's hardly curtails the power of the film on the audience
to whom its designed to speak. If you don't think that
audience should be addressed at all, we have a whole
different discussion brewing. Obviously, PLATOON was very
successful. There are those who know more about the subject
than I do who say it's the only good film made about the Viet
Nam conflict. I don't know that, but I do know it mirrors the
time it was set in and the values many of us held at that
time.
Patrick King
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