so it to be lit up with the limelight to feel aggrieved or vindictive in such circumstances. i hope you all take that to heart. thank you. [applause] >> thanks for coming in now let's give one more round of applause. [applause]

>> american cinema has had a profound effect even from the beginning of a vision of war has not been to war but but perseus needed to defeat if anybody with both directly at him would turn to stone so with the the

cave in to look at a shield to see the reflection then he could outwit him to defeat him. movies mirror the reality themselves. but now we talk about the beginning of cinema itself. and they ran about 60 seconds it was called tearing down the spanish flag with the spanish-american war people could not get enough imagine to see it that wasn't exactly a true. but the people who made the movie did was from new york city to fill a spanish flag to be lowered and in the background was not really

havana that milliken is if we were there. is extraordinarily popular that they could put their new polls and the nickelodeon to watch over and over again. >> that with propaganda there are movies that have a of a greater type of propaganda. but neither was his take in then we get steven spielberg saving private ryan.

you may say it has propaganda but when it is mostly a movie about the war in the image of war still indicative is the style that is an option. the you can make a film that gets the right. ended always trumps getting a right. to build that sense of the vietnam war. and that you don't know exactly what it is. and that is what happened then you take the movie called it said year hunter the idea of russian roulette

, that didn't happen in committee people but these they got right in another sense. fantasy and realism were smiles appreciate the experience of war. rather it is fantasy when it is understood it is only a movie but on the other hand it is much more visceral with the clinton eastwood movie when you go to see americans viper in the 1940's were the only wound is the upper or wounded baja you will see in this role is exploding bone fragments an disburdening blood. that is the kind of thing that is in there.

mash is about the korean war but it was made during the vietnam war. in what he was doing with that movie is more about the attitudes and the culture of the people that were watching in when it turned into a tv show we had a womanizer who becomes a feminist we have a change in relation to the current culture that is called accessible and admirable about those the in the madness that we call war. >> but almost no director

would say ordinate to making that. war film. there is something to be shown. "rambo" is an example that took the vietnam era for the america of public was sylvester stallone taught us we're not happy the way the war was waged there is something to be said for individual heroism. lake "rambo" par one, two, three not the heroism you had seen had you been there at that time. but this is the of movies. what you want to see is a larger than life sarah

people said john wayne was great at playing john wayne. is not a of a realistic movie about you would you mind -- he will achieve of but that was managed in a way that hollywood created. >> students have been taught to analyze film. they see the movie isn't quite a different way. or somebody from 1964. each of the audiences change. many believe that he showed

the anti-war field to use that as evidence of wage she wore. and then to feel that patent -- patton was the litmus test. . .