jpJul 12, 2025
The Green Berets (1968) is the last gasp of WWII-style war propaganda — a jingoistic fairytale made in the shadow of a war that shattered the myths it tries to uphold. In this essay, I compare it to Olivier’s Henry V and the revisionist war films that followed.
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https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/the-green-berets-and-the-last-gasp-of-american-war-mythology/
The Green Berets and the Last Gasp of American War Mythology

The unintended takeaway from John Wayne’s The Green Berets (1968) is that the Emperor — or, in this case, the Duke — has no clothes. This movie puts Wayne in the same conversation with Laurence Oli…

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Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.

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