3. The Vietnamese Women's representation in American war films
In contrast to Vietnamese films, the presence of Vietnamese women in American films reflects a variety of approaches in Western culture and hegemonic attitudes toward the appearance and stereotype of the Vietnamese people. They are unspoilt, unspoken, and mostly uncivilized people, who, as Westrup explains, are "lack of humanity", which is common in American films about the war .
These fictional women are often considered dangerous villains but are often too feminine to appear in brief and intense scenes that reflect the divide between Western expectations of Vietnamese feminine traditions and the brutality of war . The West believed that Asian women were often passive, tender, …show more content…
The old, typical thoughts have changed, the expectations and reality of the war give them experiences that differ from the description of the media.
On the one hand, Vietnamese women appear with a feminine, sexy motif that is associated with their work as a prostitute in Full Metal Jacket (1984). Or they appear as dumb people, no image, only identified through the work done like washing, selling in Apocalypse Now (1979). Sometimes they show up with aprons and cones, Apocalypse Now, or they are victims of sexual assault in helplessness in the Casualties of War. (1989). More than any other Vietnamese film to date, the Casualties of War show that sexual instinct can become a murderous instinct
In Apocalypse Now, images of Vietnamese women are unknown. From the American lens, Vietnam is not a country but just a name for a war. The people there have completely no face, personality, voice, all like a strange Vietnam appeared in the film Coppola, although the film scene is Vietnam. They are street traders, teachers, farmers and warriors. They are displayed in Apocalypse Now as remote numbers; So all the viewers realize …show more content…
In some scenes, we can see pictures of women shooting. In Full Metal Jacket, in a ruined city, a Viet Cong appeared suddenly, fighting alone to death. In the American lenses, the way the guerrillas fight without dying is a suicidal, stupid and insane type of fight. They do not see it as a heroic fight, which suggests that it is the crazy behavior of the barbarians. Therefore, it is said that in the eyes of Americans, Vietnamese women only appear with two images: seductive and destructive .
Characters like the sniper in the Full Metal Jacket evoke images of the war that can be seen from countless sources, but considering the women's report in the NLF in the 1960s, The thought of a feminine, brutal foe in Vietnam was first introduced that described the role of women in war by using erotic but less common examples of violence to describe movement and its tactical illustration
In contrast to Vietnamese films, the presence of Vietnamese women in American films reflects a variety of approaches in Western culture and hegemonic attitudes toward the appearance and stereotype of the Vietnamese people. They are unspoilt, unspoken, and mostly uncivilized people, who, as Westrup explains, are "lack of humanity", which is common in American films about the war .
These fictional women are often considered dangerous villains but are often too feminine to appear in brief and intense scenes that reflect the divide between Western expectations of Vietnamese feminine traditions and the brutality of war . The West believed that Asian women were often passive, tender, …show more content…
The old, typical thoughts have changed, the expectations and reality of the war give them experiences that differ from the description of the media.
On the one hand, Vietnamese women appear with a feminine, sexy motif that is associated with their work as a prostitute in Full Metal Jacket (1984). Or they appear as dumb people, no image, only identified through the work done like washing, selling in Apocalypse Now (1979). Sometimes they show up with aprons and cones, Apocalypse Now, or they are victims of sexual assault in helplessness in the Casualties of War. (1989). More than any other Vietnamese film to date, the Casualties of War show that sexual instinct can become a murderous instinct
In Apocalypse Now, images of Vietnamese women are unknown. From the American lens, Vietnam is not a country but just a name for a war. The people there have completely no face, personality, voice, all like a strange Vietnam appeared in the film Coppola, although the film scene is Vietnam. They are street traders, teachers, farmers and warriors. They are displayed in Apocalypse Now as remote numbers; So all the viewers realize …show more content…
In some scenes, we can see pictures of women shooting. In Full Metal Jacket, in a ruined city, a Viet Cong appeared suddenly, fighting alone to death. In the American lenses, the way the guerrillas fight without dying is a suicidal, stupid and insane type of fight. They do not see it as a heroic fight, which suggests that it is the crazy behavior of the barbarians. Therefore, it is said that in the eyes of Americans, Vietnamese women only appear with two images: seductive and destructive .
Characters like the sniper in the Full Metal Jacket evoke images of the war that can be seen from countless sources, but considering the women's report in the NLF in the 1960s, The thought of a feminine, brutal foe in Vietnam was first introduced that described the role of women in war by using erotic but less common examples of violence to describe movement and its tactical illustration