Studying Waltz with Bashir (Studying Films) by Giulia Miller

Author:Giulia Miller [Miller, Giulia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Criticism, Video/History &#38, Reviews, Video/Guides &#38, PER004030, PER004020, Performing Arts/Film &#38
Publisher: Auteur
Published: 2017-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Think of the most mind-boggling scene in a war film – say the one in Apocalypse Now where a shirtless Robert Duvall proclaims (as bombs fall and fires rage) ‘I love the smell of napalm in the morning’…Now, ratchet that up ten times, and that’s what to expect from this juggernaut of a film.9

The association with Apocalypse Now is a pertinent, not just because of the direct references Folman makes about the film (including his own surfing on the beach scene), but because of the similarities between Israel and America’s respective cultural responses to Lebanon and Vietnam. First, unlike the Second World War, which American popular memory has always perceived as the ‘good war’ – fighting fascism and restoring democracy – perceptions of Vietnam were altogether more ambivalent. Though, initially, US involvement was validated in the eyes of the public by ideological concerns, this changed very quickly and public opinion reflected an increasingly anti-war stance. While very few American films dealt with Vietnam during the time of the conflict, Chapman writes that once it had ended in 1975 this all changed. Indeed, for Hollywood the 1980s became the Vietnam decade.10 Of course, one of the most well-known of these films is Apocalypse Now, released in 1979.

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