The Green Berets Movie Analysis

The movie The Green Berets was made with the intention to show America what was happening in Vietnam and the reason for the United States involvement in the war. It was the first and only pro-war picture in its depiction of United States intervention to suppress the spread of Communism and cruelty of the South Vietnamese. In 1968, the American people were growing tired of the war. The media loved to report the negative and give very little positive facts. Families wanted their loved ones’ home and many protests were going on because of the senseless war.
John Wayne stars as Colonel Mike Kirby, leader of the Special Forces known as the Green Berets, and also is co-director of the film. Kirby picks two A-teams of Green Beret soldiers to go to Vietnam to build and control a base camp under development and to kidnap a North Vietnamese General. Progress of the camp turned out to be fairly troublesome because of continuous Vietcong mortar assaults. Before the camp is complete, it goes under full-scale assault. The movie received many awards, but more impressive was the director’s ability to slip so many persuasive ideas into the movie. Arriving in Vietnam, Kirby has a run-in with an anti-war newspaper reporter, George Beckworth, played by David Janssen. Beckworth is against the war and tells Kirby the United States should not be in South East Asia. This is not how the media was portraying the war back in the United States. They loved to report the negative and give very little …show more content…
The first of many was indicated by retaliation. This implied if the US troops assembled a camp in the wilderness, the Vietcong would construct one. The film additionally demonstrated the risk of the booby traps set up in the wilderness. Numerous times the soldiers saw the traps go off from above, beneath, and right in front