Comments on: Collateral Damage of Full Metal Jacket http://pacificties.org/2012/06/04/collateral-damage-of-full-metal-jackets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=collateral-damage-of-full-metal-jackets UCLA's Asian and Pacific Islander Newsmagazine Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:56:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fred Farkle http://pacificties.org/2012/06/04/collateral-damage-of-full-metal-jackets/#comment-6391 Fred Farkle Sat, 22 Sep 2012 01:21:44 +0000 http://pacificties.org/?p=3069#comment-6391 "you got girlfriend Vietnam?" Oh, come ON! The movie is about the war in all it's dehumanizing, disgusting, perverted, insane, indefensible aspects. You actually care whether the Da Nang Hooker is Chinese or Vietnamese? Would it have been better or worse if the actress was Vietnamese? You're obviously missing the broader point. There WERE tons of hooers like this character in Vietnam. It was TERRIBLE whatnthevwar did to the Vietnamese people, AND to the US soldiers who fought there. Both are victims. The movie isn't about the resilience and ultimate triumph of the Vietnamese people, so of course it's going to be frozen in time, dummy! Just because you CAN write a blog, doesn't give you an excuse for sloppy thinking. Me NOT love your posting long time. Fred from Peoria “you got girlfriend Vietnam?”

Oh, come ON! The movie is about the war in all it’s dehumanizing, disgusting, perverted, insane, indefensible aspects.

You actually care whether the Da Nang Hooker is Chinese or Vietnamese? Would it have been better or worse if the actress was Vietnamese? You’re obviously missing the broader point. There WERE tons of hooers like this character in Vietnam. It was TERRIBLE whatnthevwar did to the Vietnamese people, AND to the US soldiers who fought there. Both are victims.

The movie isn’t about the resilience and ultimate triumph of the Vietnamese people, so of course it’s going to be frozen in time, dummy!

Just because you CAN write a blog, doesn’t give you an excuse for sloppy thinking. Me NOT love your posting long time.

Fred from Peoria

]]> By: d.r http://pacificties.org/2012/06/04/collateral-damage-of-full-metal-jackets/#comment-5909 d.r Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:37:23 +0000 http://pacificties.org/?p=3069#comment-5909 Pathetic blog.Hey,did you ever think maybe...just maybe,Papillon Soo Soo was chosen,because a vietnamese actress wasn't available?Nice how you spin that into encouraging stereotypes.Also,the film was told from the marines perspective,kubrick was an american filmmaker.Did you expect him to work with a vietnamese cast,and make a movie from the vietnamese perspective?Im sure if he was a vietnamese filmmaker who used ''white man'' stereotypes,you wouldn't say a word..would you?And interestingly,kubrick never sympathizes with american OR vietnamese viewpoints.Random brutality from each side of the conflict is shown in the vietnam part of the film.Best example:In one scene you see a blood thirsty marine shooting vietnamese farmers from a helicopter,then in the next,shows dead south vietnamese buried alive by the N.V.A.Kubrick captured a moment of incomprehensible times,in which most u.s troops did view ALL of the vietnamese as the enemy. Pathetic blog.Hey,did you ever think maybe…just maybe,Papillon Soo Soo was chosen,because a vietnamese actress wasn’t available?Nice how you spin that into encouraging stereotypes.Also,the film was told from the marines perspective,kubrick was an american filmmaker.Did you expect him to work with a vietnamese cast,and make a movie from the vietnamese perspective?Im sure if he was a vietnamese filmmaker who used ”white man” stereotypes,you wouldn’t say a word..would you?And interestingly,kubrick never sympathizes with american OR vietnamese viewpoints.Random brutality from each side of the conflict is shown in the vietnam part of the film.Best example:In one scene you see a blood thirsty marine shooting vietnamese farmers from a helicopter,then in the next,shows dead south vietnamese buried alive by the N.V.A.Kubrick captured a moment of incomprehensible times,in which most u.s troops did view ALL of the vietnamese as the enemy.

]]> By: Dave Reisenwitz http://pacificties.org/2012/06/04/collateral-damage-of-full-metal-jackets/#comment-5557 Dave Reisenwitz Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:34:06 +0000 http://pacificties.org/?p=3069#comment-5557 I took a different take of Full Metal Jacket. I agree with what you say about the content, but, and I guess I am a bit weird,in that I took the film as being your message. It held a mirror up to us (the distant caucasians)and what we saw (or should have)is what you said. I am now thinkg that this is not the message that the majority of the films U.S. audience saw. That may have been the case, and that is repugnant. If the mirror held up by the film failed to deliver, then we as a nation need the type of direct approach that you took. Keep up the good work. I took a different take of Full Metal Jacket. I agree with what you say about the content, but, and I guess I am a bit weird,in that I took the film as being your message. It held a mirror up to us (the distant caucasians)and what we saw (or should have)is what you said. I am now thinkg that this is not the message that the majority of the films U.S. audience saw. That may have been the case, and that is repugnant. If the mirror held up by the film failed to deliver, then we as a nation need the type of direct approach that you took. Keep up the good work.

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