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| writing, tolerance, mp3 2 pac, kwanzaa, federal case law, by eric gilliland, comics, dirty t shirts, salons, brand positioning, whitehouse.gov, political, makaveli cd, personalpublishing, friends, non fiction, warner home video, lawyer marketing, 2pacalypsenow, insulting, movies, | After the film moves to the desert, we meet Swoff's buddies in more detail. riad galayini Again, characters from other, better war films; the riad galayini joker, the earnest guy who wears glasses and listens to tapes from his family, the family man excited about the birth of his new child, the two Latino men who fight over the differences between their riad galayini cultures. "Jarhead" can't really be faulted for including these, because we expect that they will be here. And these scenes are done well. They just don't offer anything new. Once they set out for the desert, the film begins to push the envelope a little, introducing some elements that we haven't seen before. Mendes manages to convey what it was like to sit in the desert and wait, and wait, and wait. But what about this would make it interesting or compelling to an audience? The characters. And this is where the film falls short. |
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| It wants to be the next "Full Metal Jacket" or "Platoon" but lacks the key ingredients to get there. A friend told me that she saw comics the film as well and liked it because it really captured the experience of going to war, ready to defend the country, and then comics sitting around waiting for something to happen. She was in the Army for a while and can attest to the accuracy of that part of the film. I can't. What I can do is comics evaluate if the film works from a narrative and dramatic point of view. It does and it doesn't. The film quickly and efficiently establishes Swoff through a series of brief flashbacks and some voice over narration. We learn that Swoff had a screwed up childhood, but we don't really understand why he would join the Marines. His dad was in Vietnam and we quickly learn that this screwed up his family life. So why would that make Swoff interested in joining the military? It would seem to accomplish just the opposite. Once he arrives at the Marine base, the film becomes a series of scenes that we have seen in other, better films about the military; the abusive drill sergeant, the humiliation of a new recruit, the hard training. |
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