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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about We Were Soldiers |
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Set in the beginning of the Vietnam War, We Were Soldiers tells the story of LT. GEN Hal Moore, the battle in the Ia Drang Valley, and the hardships that the Americans went through in an exciting dramatization.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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Mel Gibson's finest hour, this is a true story of war in the early days of the US-Vietnam war, at a time when new tactics and new strategies were required. The outstanding veteran Col. Hal Moore leads his special helicopter cavalry, well trained and well equipped, into a new type of warfare. The fighting is savage and realistic. Both sides are portrayed sympathetically. When the US army boys score their first outstanding victory in the heart of enemy territory the scene is set for the later war. The humiliated Vietnamese commander and a few of his staff survive to survey the great piles of his men's' bodies. His grim comment sums it all up: 'What a tragedy - they will think they have won a great victory'. The war was to continue, and to this day, they endure.
--Michael JR Jose, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of We Were Soldiers |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 15%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 35%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
Specific to
- Vietnam
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
- senior military
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- skinny (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Other Asian
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Southeast Asia
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- hundreds
- thousands
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 4 ()
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- frying (cooking)
- flamed
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
Is this movie based on a
- book
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