After seeing PRIVATE RYAN, it seemed to be no different than any of the more "simplistic" earlier film you cited in your post. The Americans were good guys, the Germans all bad--the same black hat/white hat mentality of any stock western or war film. === David Ezell Department of History, Technology and Society Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html