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Regarding the scene from Apocalypse Now, I believe John Pilger's book "Distant Voices" relates an attempt to get the writer and director to cough up about the factual basis for the limb amputations. As I recall, the reply from the screenwriter consisted of a series of staccato anti communist statements in block capitals. On 14 Sep 2012, at 20:21, Joshua Fiero <trinkle.trin...@gmail.com> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > Longtime lurker on this list. Haven't done much posting, because I don't > feel I have much to add most of the time, but in this case, I feel > compelled to point out that this incident, with the hacking-off of > vaccinated arms by the NLF, is straight out of the film Apocalypse Now > (related by one of the characters as a monologue). I don't know if that > means it isn't true, but the film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum claims the > story has no basis in fact, for what that's worth. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
