Posted on 07/20/2006 10:15:51 AM PDT by siddude
April 30th, 2005 will be the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the question remains, "When will we have a chance to tell our stories about what happened to the millions of Vietnamese people whose lives were forever changed after that day?" How long will we allow Hollywood to tell their versions about the Vietnam war, where Vietnamese people are faceless, nameless background objects instead of three-dimensional living, breathing people whose lives are directly torn by war? In the last 30 years, the world has never known about the millions of Vietnamese who were imprisoned and tortured in "re-education camps," or the millions of other Vietnamese who fled Vietnam by boat, suffering drought, starvation, rape and pillaging by pirates. No American film has ever been made about these struggles and sacrifices, so the question is "Why not?"
(Excerpt) Read more at journeyfromthefall.com ...
Gee. Was it John Kerry or Jane Fonda?
I wonder.
The only movie made about the aftermath of our retreat was "The Killing Fields", and that spends most of its time focused on how bad the journalist feels.
For a generation Hollywood has cranked out movies in which Viet Nam vets are psychos, serial killers, drug smugglers, rapists, misfits, drug addicts, wife beaters, hermits eaten up by guilt, losers all.
Then there are the movies where we go back to Viet Nam and this time we really kick butt, like the Rambo movies and others like them.
Pathetic.
Its about time someone writes the other side of it, the propaganda war that defeated us in the streets of America, and the millions who died when we abandoned them. Millions. The concentration camps, the killing fields, the thousands who flung themselves into the sea. The Joan Baez's, the Fondas, the gutless politicians, the subversives of the day all have the blood of millions on their hands. They will never be clean of it.
I don't know, but my wife and her family have quite a story to tell.
" No American film has ever been made about these struggles and sacrifices, so the question is "Why not?"
Guilt. The libs in Hollyweird don't want to face the truth. Some even deny that we were treated poorly on our return.
I am going to get a copy of this when it is available.
That and it puts communism in a bad light, and we all know what a utopia it would be to have true communism.
Maybe they might go to the premiere!
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Where are the blogs for the Vietnamese who opposed the communists?
There is no true communism--a scam to convince others that authoritarian rule has the best interests of all people at heart. Plebes living in huts while socialist rulers live in palaces. Not much different then the kings of ancient times.
Those who oppose communism have their networks. And people who oppose communists in Vietnam have also been targeted for kidnapping and murder here in the US even today. Sounds farfetched, but it does go on.
Someone needs to write these stories down, even if they aren't made public right away.
I was being facetious, but liberals believe if only communism had good leaders it would work. But the communist system is inherently corrupt.
With all the stuff the Vietnamese people went through, the war, the escape, getting to America, getting on their feet and becoming successful, it would almost have to be made into a miniseries. A two-hour movie would not do it justice.
Or a hundred miniseries, or books, or articles.
I'm just saying that someone should record these stories before they are lost. Let future generations decide what to do with them.
When will this be released to the public?
Libs in hollywood, and libs in Washington, will fight this movie to the death.
"When will this be released to the public?"
Well, the only thing they are having difficulty with is the distribution. A lot of distributors do not think this is profitable for them. So, they are still shopping around and are doing the film festival circuit. They are thinking of getting it self-distributed. I think there's a market for this.
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