Robin Williams tried his best

Elza 2021-11-14 08:01:24

Watching the movie, listening to the most repeated line in it, "We are here to help you!" This line finally came out of Robin Williams' helpless mouth. However, the positions, the cannons, the trenches, the military helicopters, the soldiers armed to the teeth, the blood and tears of the Vietnamese accusing them, all of which are in sharp contrast to the sentence "We are here to help you!".

I don’t know what the original soundtrack of the movie is like. I always feel that for Williams, that sentence is not true, it is a kind of irony, especially when the boy told that his relative was killed by the US military and added that he regretted saving. After he is gone! Williams said that I thought I made friends, but I didn't expect it to be an enemy!

Listening to this, I can't help but think of Trump's US policy towards China today: We are friends, and we have a very good relationship, so that you can be my loyal servant. Is the United States always so self-righteous? Singing a high-profile while doing something indiscriminately?

No matter how hard Robin Williams works, he sympathizes with the Vietnamese, teaches them more English, mingles with them, violates broadcasting discipline, and jokes about the president, he will not be able to change the fact that they are for the Vietnamese. , Is the occupying army, is the aggressor. They can never truly integrate into Vietnamese society and become friends of Vietnamese people. This is caused by the purpose they came here.

This movie is hypocritical and hypocritical. Robin Williams did his best. His role has brought a change to the US military in Vietnam, boosting morale and improving their combat effectiveness. This also means that more Vietnamese will die under the American gunfire. This is clearly an undesirable result for Williams's role. But what should we do? Can he change anything? He can't do anything, and he can't change anything.

By the way, the other highlights in this movie are mainly actors. In the second part of the Terminator, the guard in the mental hospital is the same person who was turned into the same by the robot. Here I saw the truth. Those two identical people were not drawn by special cases, but twin brothers. It was a pleasant surprise. !

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Good Morning, Vietnam quotes

  • Edward Garlick: [to Cronauer as they arrive at Jimmy Wah's] We're here, sir... Jimmy Wah's.

    [they exit the Jeep and enter]

    Edward Garlick: This is the place where we like to hang out, sir.

    Adrian Cronauer: Real homey... in an opium kind of way.

    Edward Garlick: [as Jimmy spots them] That's Jimmy Wah. He owns the place.

    Jimmy Wah: Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!

    [to Cronauer]

    Jimmy Wah: Now you say hi to me then you smile!

    [both smile and say hi weakly]

    Jimmy Wah: And you two Earl want a couple beer?

    Edward Garlick: We'd love a couple beers, Jimmy.

    [Jimmy waves them to a table]

    Adrian Cronauer: Why are our names Earl?

    Edward Garlick: He calls everybody Earl.

    Adrian Cronauer: [they sit down] Is it me, or is Jimmy light in the loafers?

    Edward Garlick: Let me put it to you this way. He's got this thing for Walter Brennan. He says he wants to buy naked photographs of the actor? For three years, he's been trying.

  • Jimmy Wah: [Jimmy brings Cronauer and Garlick their beers] There your beer!

    Edward Garlick: Thank you Jimmy.

    Jimmy Wah: [discreetly] Any movement on the Walter Brennan thing?

    Edward Garlick: No... and it doesn't look good, Jimmy.

    Jimmy Wah: He look good to me!