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WEDNESDAY,FEB.27,2002
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Partly to mostly cloudy, warming conditions.
35 25 Colder with a chance for snow.
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BY THOMAS AND MOZLEY
War movies ride patriotism
AP Movie Writer
LOS ANGELES — Long before Sept. 11, movie studios had rediscovered their love of the soldier. A rush of military dramas shot before the terrorist attacks are now riding a wave of public patriotism at its highest level since World War II.
By chance, Hollywood already had chosen to revisit notions of duty, honor, camaraderie and sacrifice in a range of combat arenas, from World War II and Vietnam to Somalia and Bosnia.
The courage-under-fire themes of Black Hawk Down, Behind Enemy Lines, Hart's War, and the upcoming We Were Soldiers and Windtalkers would do John Wayne proud.
While generally projecting the U.S. military in a good light, the films are not so much exercises in flag-waving as they are acclama-
tions of the fraternity of fighting.
"These guys went over there with ideals and pride and desire to be the vanguard of freedoms most of us take for granted," said Mel Gibson, who stars in We Soldiers as Lt. Col Hal Moore, a commander in the first big battle against the North Vietnamese in 1965.
"Once they got there, they were under siege, backs to the wall. They didn't eat or drink or sleep. Basically, it became that they were fighting for each other. It's not mom or apple pie you're fighting for, it's the guy next to you."
The call to arms for fresh war films came after a period of indifference toward the soldiery during the self-absorbed 1980s and early '90s. Cartoonish action heroes ruled the adventure genre, and the big war movie of the '80s was Platoon, which presented Vietnam troops in an ugly light.
Platoon came after more than a decade of disillusionment with federal authority after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam pullout. Then, the military came to seem less relevant after the Soviet Union crumbled and the Pentagon closed bases.
"It was not the most popular thing in the world to be a soldier then," said Rod Lurie, a 1984 West Point graduate who directed last year's military prison drama The Last Castle.
In the mid-1990s, ceremonies, books and news coverage of the 50th anniversary of D-Day and the end of World War II rekindled appreciation for veterans. Tom Brokaw's World War II best-seller The Greatest Generation and Steven Spielberg's Normandy invasion epic Saving Private Ryan put human faces on that war for a generation that had not lived through it.
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