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In War Movies, Wayne Karlin returns to Vietnam to work on the Vietnamese film, Song of the Stork, in which young Vietnamese film-makers tried to recreate their parents’ war. And Karlin makes a second journey to the old battlefields with his son and a group of young American film-makers who are looking for their fathers’ war--as a new war in Iraq rages. Particularly powerful are the contrasts and connections between the younger and older generations of Vietnamese and Americans and the meditative quality of the narrative as Karlin explores the ironies involved in bridging the gap between past and present, and the blurred overlap of film and reality. As he works on the movie and converses with his former enemies and their children, past and present, illusion and reality, humor and sorrow blend. What is reality? What is fiction?
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War makes for the interesting pairing of Jason Statham and Jet Li. Statham has had some of the most unique fight sequences of the last few years in movies like The Transporter. And Jet Li is probably the most reoognizable pure martial arts star working with Jackie Chan doing mostly comedy and guys like Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal fading into oblivion rapidly. So how does this combination work out?
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War movies, the economist says, made up roughly 18 percent of the top grossing films marketed between 1939 and 2001. “Since 1939, the top money-making films include no fewer than 76 war movies, for an average of better than one a year,” Whitten points out. For example, “Pearl Harbor” was a big attraction in 2001, proof “that wars never go out of date for Hollywood.”
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