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. > > John Hoppe wrote (re: American films) > >Full Metal Jacket (yes, Kubrick is a Brit, but so what? Vietnam was an > > American War) > > 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? > > Adrian Miles >