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The novel is told mainly from the viewpoints of three Marines: 2nd Lt.Robert E. Lee Hodges, who comes from a long line of soldiers; "Snake" (no full name given), a squad leader in Hodges' platoon, a tough kid from the streets; and "Senator" (Will Goodrich), an impressionable and sensitive Harvard student who volunteers for service.
Comeuppance Reviews called it "generic Vietnam stuff with all the standard moments and no surprises and nothing memorable." [3]Another review called it "an efficiently crafted film.. a competent rescue mission film giving the audience all the expected motifs within the genre such as suspense and tension within the rescue team."
In a November 2005 New York Times article, David Carr noted that war veteran and writer Joel Turnipseed felt that parts of the film's plot had been taken from his 2002 book Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir without his consent. Jarhead screenwriter William Broyles Jr. claimed that many similarities arise from the retelling of common Marine ...
1 Plot. 2 Production. 3 Fields of Fire II. Toggle Fields of Fire II ... Fields of Fire is a 1987 Australian mini series about cane cutters in Queensland just prior to ...
Kevin Costner has responded to John Mulaney’s amusing summary of Field of Dreams at the Oscars.. During the Academy Awards on Sunday night (10 March), stand-up comedian Mulaney left the audience ...
"Field of Fire" is the 163rd episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 13th episode of the seventh season. The episode first aired the week of February 8, 1999, and was written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe and directed by Tony Dow .
Field of Dreams is a 1989 American sports fantasy drama film written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson, based on Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Shoeless Joe. The film stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield that attracts the ghosts of baseball legends, including Shoeless Joe Jackson ( Ray ...
Chariots of Fire is a 1981 historical sports drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland and produced by David Puttnam.It is based on the true story of two British athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.