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Adrian Miles:
I think you're right; in the interest of brevity I misrepresented the
war, and I apologize. I only wanted to bring Kubrick into the American
film camp, which, as someone just reminded me, he always is/was.
John Hoppe
On Sun, 9 Oct 1994, Adrian Miles wrote:
> Apologies for being totally off subject but I feel uncomfortable about
> letting it go uncommented, being symptomatic of the U.S.centric nature of
> this list.
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> John Hoppe wrote (re: American films)
> >Full Metal Jacket (yes, Kubrick is a Brit, but so what? Vietnam was an
> > American War)
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> Well, quite a few Australians and I think New Zealander's fought and died
> in this 'American' war, I believe the French might have a different view
> and well, weren't there some Vietnamese in there somewhere too?
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> Adrian Miles
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