Kill John Wayne 6:33
John Wayne meets his "Heart of Darkness". In reference to the 1968 propaganda film "The Green Berets" that he made in response to the Vietnam War, John Wayne engages in a series of tribulations that involve demonstrations of masculinity, autoeroticism, seduction, castration, and necrophilia. For generations, John Wayne served as the model for young men and soldiers to follow; further widening the gap between Hollywood's perception of war and war's reality. This film specifically references the Vietnam War era, and the complete inversion of the idyllic American mythologies that John Wayne created. Vietnam became the nightmarish version of the American dream, and John Wayne's manly frontier idealisms could not be more out of the place. In the end, the "Duke" can only engage with reality and history in a perverse way.
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