If you watch an American film about the US military, the chances are good that it None be an anti -war controversy. US productions that have soldiers and military equipment and/or explore the internal affairs of US armed services usually need to work with the Pentagon to make a film made. The army, the Navy, the Marines, etc., often provide film production with uniforms, vehicles, weapons, and even training for their actors, under the forecast of the military to allow him to approve the script. War films, of course, can be made without US military approval, but if they are critical of the US armed forces in any way, the government will openly use them.

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It is easy to find hit movies that destroy the military. "Captain Marvel", for examplecame hand in hand with Air Force recruitment videosAnd even some films that claim to be for pacifism - see "Haxval Ridge" - conclude celebration of violence anyway. Meanwhile, some films - like "Hidden Life" by Terrence Malik or "All Quiet on the Western Front" on Edward Berger - are emphasized against the very notion of war and do not make the troop's experiences look too pink.

However, when the soldiers themselves go to see these films, they are probably disinterested in the political views of the directors or the collaboration that the studio could do with the Pentagon. They will probably enjoy the films that the soldiers see as people and look for films that exactly capture both the negative and positive aspects of their gigs as government -sponsored weapons.

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Case in point: Clint Eastwood's 1986 "Heartbreak Ridge", Riff's "Twelve High", where the retired marinka is called back into action to flog naughty in shape. The army hated the "crest of the heart". According to the article in the Los Angeles TimesThe soldiers wanted that.

In "Heartbreak Ridge", Eastwood plays Tom highway (as in "My Road or Highway"), a former marinka that is thought to have been aging from the modern army. Despite this, he is called back to the service and is given a gradual gig of training at extremely hopeless reconnaissance, will soon be sent to Granada. The line fell into bad behavior because their previous commander was indifferent to their success. Soldiers (Mario van PiBs among them) are really icing in shape, and the highway runs a campaign to rescue trapped Americans captured by the Cubans.

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This sounds like a typical pro-in-war patriotism Rah-Rah, a usual type of film made during the Reagan administration. Strangely, the army hated him. According to the LA Times article, the Marines canceled the benefit of "Heart Ridge" in a local YMCA after witnessing Eastwood's film. Also, the real marines that appeared in the background of the film removed their loans. What beef was the sea corpses with "Heart Reef?" Eastwood's character, Tom Highway, seems to have not wanted. This was a character who was in a careless way, doing things like shooting weapons over the heads of his trainees to get used to the sound. He also barked orders and opened openly, that the sea corps did not want to see them in the mainstream feature film. Note that "Heart Ridge" came out the previous year The cruel "full metal jacket of Stanley Kubrick".

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The article in the Los Angeles Times also noted that the ordinary, active marines they saw wanted it. They pointed out that the hugging between the soldiers (obviously) is even more common in real life than in the film and that "old -fashioned" stereotypes like Tom Highway were 100% realistic.

The Marines were even asked if they would choose a different actor to show a marine corpus exercise instructor such as nails, but everyone said Eastwood, one of the cinema's masculinity, was perfect. The higher windows in the corpus that opposed the "heart Ridge" were clearly trying to discuss the military's public image. They opposed it because the "heart Ridge" actually faced realism.

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There were some unrealistic elements that the active marines noticed. It seems that the undisciplined platoon was a cartoon out of characters for Marines, even the one who was poorly trained. They also said that even Callow Marine's leaders were not as attractive as those shown in Eastwood's film.

Eastwood called on the Sea Corps in an article in the LA Times, noting that the cancellation of YMCA's benefits is incessant just because they opposed certain elements of his film. After all, it was pro-war at the end of the day and showed the soldiers working at best. As Eastwood said:

"It is a shame that the charity must lose money because of someone who has a bee below the back end. "

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It is interesting to note how much it has changed since World War II. In the movie Johnon Wayne in 1949 "Sands of Ivoimima", Wayne is seen as a fever rifle butt in the face of the inferior officer. That kind of work will make him stand out from the army in real life, but the consultants of that film considered it good. At the end of the day, it's all just about the image and publicity.