The Bellum blog is a project of the Stanford Review dealing with geopolitics and international security. They recently asked me some questions about Hollywood war movies and I answered with my usual mealy-mouthed ambiguity: “To my mind, even if you make a great film, if it endangers American troops in the field fighting to defend you, well, congratulations, you won the Oscar, but as a human being, you’re trash.”
Read the whole interview here.
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