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Vietnam War returning to the screen
Posted by Editor on October 27, 2007
FILM NOTES
◊ Oliver Stone, director of such movies as JFK and last year’s well-received World Trade Center, originally rose to fame directing films about the Vietnam War. His Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July remain among the best movies about that troubling conflict. Now, according to various reports, he plans to return to the Vietnam theme. This time, Stone’s focus will be on one of the most disturbing events in that war, the incident known as the My Lai Massacre.
The project, called Pinkville, is set to feature actors Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, and Woody Harrelson. Given the raging debate about war in Iraq, the context is certainly eyebrow-raising.
Dave McGown said
I was assigned to the Americal Div PIO Office at the time. We put out a division magazine, and I have the issue with the article on “Operation Pinkville”. As it happened, the issue
came out right around the time Lt. Calley and others were being escorted into the Adjutant General’s “Court House” which usually sat empty and quiet just a horseshoe throw from the PIO hooch. (There was a volleyball net in between.) No one knew what was going on next door…classified. But, my cynicism was reaffirmed when later I compared the official description we published with the fall-out that ensued. PS. I don’t remember anyone as old as Bruce or Woody except for a very few top brass or senior NCOs.