which version of mash was more military friendly the show or the movie
I just can't tell.
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The movie was an enormous middle finger to the army, the Vietnam War and conservatives as a whole. The TV show at least tried to humanize certain aspects of the U.S. military.
That's what I think. The movie was basically an F U to war.
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The movie was basically an F U to war.
To war, AND to the U.S. Army. Just look at how the characters who are regular army are represented: Henry Blake was a bumbling oaf, Frank Burns was a sanctimonious hypocrite, Hot Lips was a befuddled, by-the-book, promiscuous nutjob, General Hammond was an incompetent, skirt-chasing, competitive hot-head, Colonel Merrill was a clumsy, nearsighted simpleton. And so on.
On the flip side, we have characters like Hawkeye, Trapper, Duke, Radar, Ugly John, Painless and the whole gang, who are generally all pricks... with Father Mulcahy and Volman being the only good people in camp... but are perceived as heroes because they go against the rules and regulations. Despite cheating in the football game and acting like idiots in the Japanese hospital, this gang is still looked upon as the good guys, even though they aren't that GOOD.
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