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I. The Johnson administration was approached by John Wayne after he
learned that the film rights to The Green Berets were still available. The novel,
written by Robin Moore, chronicled the activities of the Sp^ial Forces in
Vietnam. Although Moore’s book was criticized by some military officials,
Wayne used the story as a means to tell the story of fighting men in Vietnam.
Lawrence H. Suid, Guts and Glory: Great American War Movies (Reading,
Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1978) 221-230.
Z Duane Byrge, "Born on the Fourth o f July," The Hollywood Reporter 15 Dec.
1986:1,23; Stuart Kalwans, "Film." The Nation 1 Jan., 1990:28.
3. Suid, 221-222.
4. A1 Auster and Leonard Quart, How the War Was Remembered: Hollywood &
Vietnam (New York: Praeger Pub., 1988) 31.
5. Peter Mdnerney, "Apocalypse Then: Hollwood looks back at Vietnam,"
Film Quarterly (Winter 1979-80): 22.
6. A1 Auster and Leonard Quart, "Hollywood and Vietnam: The Triumph of
the Will," Cineaste 9 (Spring 1979): 4.
7. Lance Morrow, "A Bloody Rite of Passage," Time 15 April 1985:23.
8. Gilbert Adair, Vietnam on Film: From the Green Berets to Apocalypse Now
(New York: Proteus Books, 1981) 151.
9. The concepts of myths and dreams are found in many of Campbell's works.
For example: The Hero With a Thousand Faces (New York: Bollingen Series
XCII, Pantheon Books, 1949): The Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers, ed. Betty
Sue Rowers (New York: E>oubleday, 1988).
10. John Heilman, American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam (New York:
Columbia UP 1986) ix.
I I. Walter Rsher, "Reaffirmation and Subversion of the American Dream,"
Quarterly Journal of Speech (April 1973): 161.
12. I.C. Jarvie, Movies as Social Criticism (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press Inc.,
1978) X.
13. Janice Hocker Rushing and Thomas S. Frentz, "The Rhetoric of 'Rocky': A
Social Value Model of Criticism," Western Journal of Speech Communication, 2
(Spring 1978): 65.
14^ Dan Nimmo and James E. Combs, Mediated Political Realities (New York:
Longman, 1983) 105.
15. Adair 45.
16. James C. Wilson, Vietnam in Prose and Film (Jefferson, NC: McFarland
Co., Inc., 1982) 102.
17. Rushing and Frentz 65.
18. Harold^hechter and Jonna G. Semeiks, "Leatherstocking in 'Nam: Rambo,
Ratoon, and the American Frontier Myth," Journal of Popular Culture, 24.4
(Spring 1991): 19.
ISf. Pat McGilligan, "Point Man," Film Comment 23 (1987): 18.
20. David Ansen, "Bringing it all Back Home," Newsrveek 25 Dec. 1989:74; Ron
Kovic, Born on the Fourtn ^ Ju ly (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976) 193-4.
21. Rushing and Frentz 6/.
22. Rushing and Frentz 70.
23. Rushing and Frentz 67.
24. Fisher 161.
25. Fisher 161.
26. Congressional Record 18 July 1967:19119.
27. Wilson 74.