Hue 1968

[Pinetree]

This looks like it might be pretty good:

Michael Mann to Direct Vietnam War Limited Series 'Hue 1968' for FX

[JasonPratt]

 :o

So... it'll be about the last of mo' Hue-cans.



(I should clarify that, despite my joke, that's one of my favorite films, and I'm very interested in the project.)

[Staggerwing]

More like the Hue of the Gun.

[Sir Slash]

It sounds good but could be a tough series to do true justice to. But... Where there's a will, there's a Hue. Next.

[JasonPratt]

Hue're's MD? He should be interested in this news!  :bd:

[mirth]

Hue to go guys!

[Sir Slash]

Makes me think of the song, "The Hue We Were". Too easy?

[Staggerwing]

"Carry on my Hue ward son"?

[Nefaro]

The intertwined characters include a seemingly innocent schoolgirl on a bike, whose heart had hardened her into a revolutionary after her sister was executed, leading her to help smuggle weapons; a former NFL tackle who became a U.S. Marine colonel and tactician; a Buddhist poet turned Vietcong commissar; an American civilian meeting his Vietnamese fiancée's family; a math teacher from Hanoi in the North Vietnamese Army; a Marine captain radio operator from Pennsylvania, who immersed himself in local culture and language and then found himself unable to convince his supervisors that Hue had been over-run by conventional infantry; President Lyndon Johnson in his pajamas in the White House with Gen. Westmoreland, a sleepover guest who presented a rosy view of progress in Vietnam. The limited series will follow Bowden's narrative structure to make understandable why bloody events unfolded the way they did and made clear that Vietnam was an unwinnable war for the U.S

I wonder how much fictional 'Hollywood' will be added to it.

That snippet makes it sound like they'll try to jazz up the character drama a large amount.   :-\

[JasonPratt]

I wonder how much fictional 'Hollywood' will be added to it.

Considering that we did win the Battle of Hue, quite decisively, and that we did in fact win the war (in the sense that our goals were to destroy the Viet Cong as an effective group and force the NVA to stop invading), I'm going to guess that "ma[king] clear that Vietnam was an unwinnable war for the U.S" is part of the fictional Hollywooding.  ::)

That the NVA regrouped, restocked with modern Soviet weapons, and quickly curbstomped the next Vietnam war against ARVN a few years later without us, doesn't mean we lost the first time.

I'll be curious to what degree the VC and/or NVA are whitewashed, too.

That said, a politically messy ground-eye view is both realistic (to at least some degree) and good drama.  O0

[Nefaro]

I wonder how much fictional 'Hollywood' will be added to it.

Considering that we did win the Battle of Hue, quite decisively, and that we did in fact win the war (in the sense that our goals were to destroy the Viet Cong as an effective group and force the NVA to stop invading), I'm going to guess that "ma[king] clear that Vietnam was an unwinnable war for the U.S" is part of the fictional Hollywooding.  ::)

That the NVA regrouped, restocked with modern Soviet weapons, and quickly curbstomped the next Vietnam war against ARVN a few years later without us, doesn't mean we lost the first time.

I'll be curious to what degree the VC and/or NVA are whitewashed, too.

That said, a politically messy ground-eye view is both realistic (to at least some degree) and good drama.  O0

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