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The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film featuring John Wayne George Takei David Janssen Jim Hutton and Aldo Ray nominally based on the eponymous 1965 book by Robin Moore t hough the screenplay has little relation to the book. Thematically The Green Berets is strongly anti-communist and pro-Saigon.

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The basic plot is that Colonel Mike Kirby (John Wayne) takes over command of The Green Berets in Vietnam and when he deploys journalist George Beckworth (David Janssen pre-Harry O) goes with him .

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His source material (largely discarded for the final screenplay) was a gung-ho novel by Robin Moore The Green Berets based on Moore's experiences with Special Forces in Vietnam in 1963. Wayne .

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The Green Berets is an exciting war film that was lambasted by critics who at the time of its release opposed the war in Vietnam. Wayne's role is similar to his part in The Longest Day (1963) but .

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That includes one especially embarrassing gaffe: the final scene in which Wayne and another Green Beret are walking along the beach as the sun sets over the South China Sea–in the East. The film starts at 1:00 p.m. at the library located at 104 S. Michigan Ave. It will be preceded by a brief talk by the historian Jason Waak.

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The final scene of the movie has Col. Kirby and the little Vietnamese boy supposedly on the beach at Da Nang Vietnam. Kirby is saying "The future of 'nam is you kid" and the camera pans out to the sea and the sun is going down.

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The Green Berets (1968) John Wayne's second directorial effort The Green Berets was met with much controversy when first released in 1968.While The Alamo (1960) was received with some critical derision the Vietnam War epic was lambasted by most critics for its simplistic depiction of the conflict.

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Much comment is made on the fact that this final scene is filmed at sunset with the sun apparently setting into the East (all the open sea water around Vietnam is to the East or South). That observation has provided plenty of ammo for critics claiming that The Green Berets ' visuals are as cockeyed as its politics.

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But ironically the scene that garners Green Berets inclusion in this list isn't one of violence but one of tenderness. At the end of the movie John Wayne stands on the beach with a young South .

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In the scene there is a large green leaf over her left shoulder from the bushes behind her. Later they take one last rest before the choppers arrive to take them. Lynn is scene sitting on a rock in the background. John Wayne looks at her and her brother in law. The scene cuts to her again and its the same clip from the previous rest period .

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Another scene has Murray singing “Ballad of the Green Berets” while engaging in war with the creature. The classic final scene shows the gopher celebrating his outwitting Murray by dancing to .

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In 1976 battling the cancer that would kill him John Wayne stepped in front of the camera for one final face-off. The result was 'The Shootist’ a rich and elegiac western and says Philip .

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Sun sets in the east in the final scene. Priceless. . Seem like there was a nude scene with the Asian gal in it. . Duke Wayne and the Green Berets [Re .

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But for fans of John Wayne The Green Berets is significant because it is one of his most personal projects and genuinely reflects his true feelings about the Vietnam situation. It also holds the dubious distinction of being the only pro-war film made in the sixties and is justly famous for a hilarious gaffe in the final scene: the film ends .

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The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film set in Vietnam featuring John Wayne Jim Hutton David Janssen Aldo Ray Patrick Wayne George Takei and Jack Soo based on the 1965 novel by Robin Moore. Much of the film was shot in the summer of 1967.

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The Green Berets. The movie flop The . Even down to the final scene the film is remembered for the “sun setting in the east” however Vietnam has no shoreline to watch the sun set into the .

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As a movie "The Green Berets" has a hard ideology of anti-communism and shows the newfangled Special Forces as a sort of elite brotherhood consecrated to fight against it. I think a lot of the hate directed against this movie comes from the surity of Kirby's (meaning John Wayne's) beliefs. They are rock-solid and not up for debate or negotiation.

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In the book the Green Berets had been described as cruel adventurers with a lack of principles so a lot of changes were made. Unfortunately some of them made things even worse. The best example is the way an infamous torture scene (a Vietnamese officer torturing a Viet Cong POW) is treated.

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The final part of the Green Beret culture-fest in the 1965-1968 period came with the Hollywood film The Green Berets which also used a choral version of the Barry Sadler song. Interest in making a Holly- wood movie on the Green Berets began when Columbia Pictures purchased the film rights to Robin Moore’s book even before the book was .

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Even if a lower-ranking soldier were accepted for SF training he would hold a higher rank after earning the green beret (at least specialist or sergeant E-5 as demonstrated in the A-teams in the film.) Simply put the Green Berets have never had PFCs as members.

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Miklós Rózsa never agreed with the politics of the movie The Green Berets (1968) but by that time in his career he no longer had the luxury of picking and choosing his movie projects -- if he wanted to do any film work at all he had to consider even the improbable ones such as this. Rózsa's contribution to the finished film is debatable .