glk [none/use name] to Movies & TV • 4 years agoApocalypse Now is colonialist propaganda. It frames desertion as an orientalist power trip instead of joining your comrades fighting imperialism.message-squaremessage-square28 fedilinkarrow-up140file-text
arrow-up140message-squareApocalypse Now is colonialist propaganda. It frames desertion as an orientalist power trip instead of joining your comrades fighting imperialism.glk [none/use name] to Movies & TV • 4 years agomessage-square28 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareOffline [none/use name]hexbear7·4 years agoSTRUGGLE SESSION: I'M PRETTY SURE KURTZ WAS ALSO BASED ON THE FRENCH ASSHOLES WHO USED HMONG AS GRASSROOTS AUXILIARIES, A PRACTICE THE US COPIED WHICH IS AT THE HEART OF MUCH OF THE BOAT PEOPLES PROBLEM. link
minus-squaresagarmatha [none/use name]hexbear3·4 years agothere is a cut scene with the French in it so I don’t think your take holds up link
minus-squaresagarmatha [none/use name]hexbear1·edit-24 years agothat scene has the protagonist staying in a french farm with Hmong auxiliaries also present, it’s in the director’s cut link
STRUGGLE SESSION: I'M PRETTY SURE KURTZ WAS ALSO BASED ON THE FRENCH ASSHOLES WHO USED HMONG AS GRASSROOTS AUXILIARIES, A PRACTICE THE US COPIED WHICH IS AT THE HEART OF MUCH OF THE BOAT PEOPLES PROBLEM.
there is a cut scene with the French in it so I don’t think your take holds up
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that scene has the protagonist staying in a french farm with Hmong auxiliaries also present, it’s in the director’s cut