This film, in my opinion is a African American version of Deer Hunter. Its sad that it was made 15-20 years too late. As a result it is sorely overlooked. It deserves a lot more recognition, especially the fact that its one of a few films showing African American soldiers experience fighting in Vietnam.
shareThis film, in my opinion is a African American version of Deer Hunter. Its sad that it was made 15-20 years too late. As a result it is sorely overlooked. It deserves a lot more recognition, especially the fact that its one of a few films showing African American soldiers experience fighting in Vietnam.I tend to agree that this is somewhat a variant of the classic film, The Deer Hunter, which by it's own right created a lot of controversy so soon after the war in Vietnam ended. However, the central characters in TDH were from a western Pennsylvania small steel and mining town where the predominiant ethicity was 1st and or 2nd generation Russian-American immigrants, and where Dead Presidents was based on characters from an urban inner-city perspective. And where the cultural and ethnic demographics vastly differed, as much as the time between the making of these two exceptional films. IMO Dead Presidents was a crime-drama, and The Deer Hunter a war-drama, and Oscar award winning epic at that.
in a way I guess I get what you are saying here, basically Deer Hunter was a white man's version of Vietnam and Dead president's would be the black man's version, more or less. yeah i'm all in favor of more recognition for this film.
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This movie has better pacing, war scenes, and is, to me, more interesting than The Deer Hunter.
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