The movie “Good Morning Vietnam” was a film about Army soldiers during the Vietnam War. Adrian Cronauer was in the Air Force and came to the Army in Vietnam to do a radio show. When Adrian did the show his humor, and personality changed the whole perspective of the men in the Army. He made the guys laugh, and gave them something enjoyable to listen to. This movie displayed how important language, personality, humor, and perception can be to people, and how it can affect their lives. The guys that would be on the radio before Adrian were extremely boring, and hard to listen to. When Adrian first arrived in Vietnam he was listening to the guy on the radio, and said that anything he says can put people to sleep. People were not excited …show more content…
Language is the formal grammatical structure of words. This movie is a good example of parole. Parole is how people actually use language, usually informal and not grammatically correct. In the movie the Army’s higher ranking officers wanted Adrian to speak formally, and professionally. Adrian was able to connect with the soldiers by using informal phrases. Adrian Spoke to the guys like they were regular people, not soldiers, and they were able to relate and listen with enjoyment. Adrian used a low code of language, which is also informal and usually grammatically incorrect. Most people usually talk in low code, but in the Army it is expected that people talk in high code. Adrian was able to connect with the soldiers by talking, and telling his stories, and jokes in low …show more content…
Communication is one of the most important skills in life. This movie teaches how important it is to have a great personality when communicating with people. People looked up to Adrian, because of his communication skills. He was able to use verbal and nonverbal communication all the time, that made his use of language incredible. I think having a good sense of humor is important in life. This movie showed how important humor can be, and how it can change people 's perception of a situation. One of the higher ranking soldiers did not agree with what Adrian would say on the radio, even thought it was making the soldiers happy. Adrian did what he thought was right and would say his sometimes inappropriate jokes, and play music that was not allowed. He knew what was more entertaining and better for the troops, and he followed what he believed in. I can relate to Adrian’s experience being on the radio. I was asked to be on the radio about one year ago. I was nervous at first unlike Adrian; he was very confident on the radio. Once I started talking I became confident and outgoing. I was making people laugh and told a lot of jokes, just like Adrian did on the
The movie Bernie is true story of a murder committed in Carthage, Texas in 1996. What set this crime apart from other murders was the reaction of the citizens. Bernie Tiede shot and killed Marjorie Nugent in November 1996. The people of Carthage were more worried about Bernie’s fate than his act of murdering Marjorie.
The Vietnam War has become a focal point of the Sixties. Known as the first televised war, American citizens quickly became consumed with every aspect of the war. In a sense, they could not simply “turn off” the war. A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo is a firsthand account of this horrific war that tore our nation apart. Throughout this autobiography, there were several sections that grabbed my attention. I found Caputo’s use of stark comparisons and vivid imagery, particularly captivating in that, those scenes forced me to reflect on my own feelings about the war. These scenes also caused me to look at the Vietnam War from the perspective of a soldier, which is not a perspective I had previously considered. In particular, Caputo’s account of
of the soldiers on the front lines. He describes the Vietnam War from the point of
Tim O’Brien shows that the effects of the Vietnam War can differ depending on the person. For Rat, those effects meant loosing his innocence and his exposure to death sent him into a sad mental state. For Azar, it can be concluded that the effects of the war and his exposure to death made him realize that not everything was a joke and that it is not always best to be cruel and bitter. These soldiers experienced turning points, ultimately shaping them into different men with different personalities.
Vietnam was a highly debated war among citizens of the United States. This war was like no other with regards to how it affected people on the home front. In past war’s, the population of the United States mainly supported the war and admired soldiers for their courage. During the Vietnam War, citizens of the U.S. had a contradictory view than in the past. This dilemma of not having the support of the people originates from the culture and the time period.
Hillstrom, Kevin and Hillstrom, L.C. (1998). The Vietnam Experience: a Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs and Films. Wesport, CT: Greenwood Press, Inc.
After more time and experience O’Brien never fully gets used to the humor but understands that jokes are other soldiers’ way of coping as dreams and stories are used by O’Brien to cope with his own personal experiences. It wasn’t long into his first days in Vietnam that the memory of Linda would resurface. This memory resurfaces after being with his platoon for just four days. O’Brien and his group encounter a small amount of sniper fire and even though no one was hurt, an air strike was called and soon after O’Brien had his next experience with mortality.
Adrian Cronauer, played by Robin Williams, is United States Air Force sergeant and a talented radio Disk Jockey. In 1965, General Taylor hears one of Cronauer’s shows over Armed Forces radio in the island of Crete, and requests that he transfers his show to Vietnam so that he could be a confidence booster to these people during the time of war. Hauk adheres to strict Army guidelines in terms of humor and music pr...
The impact of the Vietnam War upon the soldiers who fought there was huge. The experience forever changed how they would think and act for the rest of their lives. One of the main reasons for this was there was little to no understanding by the soldiers as to why they were fighting this war. They felt they were killing innocent people, farmers, poor hard working people, women, and children were among their victims. Many of the returning soldiers could not fall back in to their old life styles. First they felt guilt for surviving many of their brothers in arms. Second they were haunted by the atrocities of war. Some soldiers could not go back to the mental state of peacetime. Then there were soldiers Tim O’Brien meant while in the war that he wrote the book “The Things They Carried,” that showed how important the role of story telling was to soldiers. The role of stories was important because it gave them an outlet and that outlet was needed both inside and outside the war in order to keep their metal state in check.
The movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is based in the 1970s. It depicts the highly male dominated broadcast team and shows the shake up when a woman is hired as a reporter and has aspirations of becoming an anchor the television station. The particular scene shows Ron Burgundy is flustered because Veronica Coringstone is impeding on his masculinity. Burgundy exemplifies hegemonic masculinity by explaining he is a man and a professional, when Coringstone says he his acting like a baby he takes offense and explains he is a man and he his ultimately better than a women because indeed he is a man. Burgundy states, “'I’m a man who discovered the wheel, and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a 1/3 the size of us...It's science (Robertson, McKay, 2004). The clip also depicts Burgundy’s desire for Coringstone to be the typical submissive female he is used to. The articles will identify the gender stereotypes and access if they are true or false based on the research.
In conclusion the soldiers use dark humor, daydreaming, and violent actions which all allow an escape from the horrors they had to go through in Vietnam. These coping mechanisms allowed the men to continue to fight and survive the war. They wouldn’t have been able to carry on if it wasn’t for the outlets these methods provided. Without humor, daydreaming, and violent actions, the war would have been unbearable for the men, and detrimental to their lives going forward.
In former Civil Rights Activist, Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “Beyond Vietnam-- A Time to Break Silence”, he asserts that the war in Vietnam is utterly immoral and has a far negative implication, not only for Vietnam but for the United States as well. In this speech, King uses three main rhetorical devices, in order to strengthen his position on this war. The three main rhetorical devices: ethos, pathos, and logos, are universally considered as the three necessary tools of persuasion in literature.
The film Good Morning, Vietnam' is made based on a true story. Set in Saigon in 1965, the movie introduces us to Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams), an Air Force disc jockey who has been flown in from another assignment to a post at the center of the escalating conflict in Vietnam. The character is based on a real deejay who ran afoul of the military authorities in Saigon because of the on-air liberties he took with regard to matters of style and language and musical taste.
Vietnam was a struggle which, in all honesty, the United States should never have been involved in. North Vietnam was battling for ownership of South Vietnam, so that they would be a unified communist nation. To prevent the domino effect and the further spread of communism, the U.S. held on to the Truman Doctrine and stood behind the South Vietnamese leader, Diem.
To start with, I do not want to narrowly define language as merely verbal communication. Language is far broader than that. In a few seconds a person walking past you on the street could tell you more about themselves with a sincere smile than they could with a few rushed words. Language encompasses all aspects of communication that enhance the level of our interaction. The tone in our voice demonstrating our feelings on a topic or our body language indicating our level of interest are just as important in interaction as verbally communicating content. There for I define language as any act that is involved in the interaction between two or more people.