Vietnam War Film Legacy

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Vietnam War cinema

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The Vietnam War produced classic Hollywood films — and hardly any classic female roles

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The Vietnam War produced some of the most unforgettable films of the late 1970s and 1980s .

Few, however, had classic, or even three -dimensional, female characters.

While these films were almost exclusively about how war dehumanized men, the opposite was true of Vietnamese films about the conflict.

Kubrick ’s memorable 1987 “ Full Metal Jacket ” contains two brief, stereotypical scenes involving sex workers.

The most interesting scene involving a female character comes during battle, where a sniper targeting U.S. troops turns out to be a terrified girl in pigtails.

“She goes from suffering, to suffering more, and then gets killed — that's her arc,” says Bui .

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