"Reel" Hollywood and Antiwar Films
There has been one exception to the dearth of anti-war films, notably the spate of movies during the Vietnam War era and the loud and large protest against the war. Over 20-some anti-Vietnam War movies were made. One widely popular movie of that genre was "Hair", which was about two young men from a hippie culture coping with the Vietnam War.
A large part of the protests against the Vietnam War was motivated by conscription. Once the draft was ended and the U.S. went to an all-volunteer military, we may never again see an anti-war movement like the one against the Vietnam War. Nor are we likely to see another spate of anti-war movies.
Birth of a New Antiwar Screenplay?
But we still might see a few more anti-war movies as time goes by, and that prospect brings me to this last section of my article. Now an octogenarian, I am starting to wind down my armchair antiwar activism. However, I recently got a spark of new energy from gaining a new e-mail friend I shall call "J.H."
"J.H." is also an antiwar author, was a 1960's hippie draft-dodger, and a high school classmate of Steven Spielberg. "J.H." was a drop-out at Arizona State University. "J.H." later morphed into a happily married man and father with a respectable career of many different jobs, including once being the wine consultant to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Here is what my friend "J.H." says about Dick Cheney: "[I] had ample opportunity to whack him with a 1.5 liter wine bottle and save a million lives...ah, hindsight." Ergo my idea for a screenplay.
Writing screenplays is not my bailiwick, so all I have been able to do so far is to write an idea for a new anti-war movie and then pedal it to screenwriters, hoping one will offer to turn the idea into a full-fledged screenplay that might merit the attention of one or more studios. Here's what I have been pedaling:
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