that's supposed to be basically a parody right? the cowboy hat commander who orders it is fucking crazy. I'm sure most Americans missed the point (wow rockets go boooom) but i don't think it's pro-imperialism, it's at least antiwar.
It is 100% satire. They're playing Nazi music while massacring civilians wholesale so the colonel can go surfing with a guy that he's forcing to go surfing with him at gunpoint. IIRC it was that character and scene that made the US military refuse to do their usual thing of providing soldiers and equipment as extras and props for the movie, leaving them to instead rent the helicopters from the Philippines.
I thought it was supposed to be a kind of prelude to Kurtz, like these american military arseholes high on their own superiority and freed from normal restraints will act out as the psychopathic monsters they actually are. Like coming in and blowing up a village full of civilians while playing fucking Wagner just so you can go surfing is kinda the same pathology as starting a crazy jungle murder cult worshipping you as some sort of god
I think the US Army literally showed this scene (and others) to troops to "fire them up" before they invaded Iraq so it's understandable that it often gets stripped if it's context.
Also the Ride of the Valkyries scene is shameless masturbation about the unstoppable might of the American military
that's supposed to be basically a parody right? the cowboy hat commander who orders it is fucking crazy. I'm sure most Americans missed the point (wow rockets go boooom) but i don't think it's pro-imperialism, it's at least antiwar.
It is 100% satire. They're playing Nazi music while massacring civilians wholesale so the colonel can go surfing with a guy that he's forcing to go surfing with him at gunpoint. IIRC it was that character and scene that made the US military refuse to do their usual thing of providing soldiers and equipment as extras and props for the movie, leaving them to instead rent the helicopters from the Philippines.
I thought it was supposed to be a kind of prelude to Kurtz, like these american military arseholes high on their own superiority and freed from normal restraints will act out as the psychopathic monsters they actually are. Like coming in and blowing up a village full of civilians while playing fucking Wagner just so you can go surfing is kinda the same pathology as starting a crazy jungle murder cult worshipping you as some sort of god
It's like poetry, it rhymes, is what I'm saying
Ah, okay. I only saw the scene out of context and chuds cheering over it, so I imagine that colored my view of it.
I think the US Army literally showed this scene (and others) to troops to "fire them up" before they invaded Iraq so it's understandable that it often gets stripped if it's context.
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damn I think it is but I also swear they talked about it like a real thing on the Blowback pod (very good btw)