![]() ![]() In the years following Vietnam, the United States military has kept a low profile (insofar as the profile of a superpower's strong arm can be termed "low"), typically making its presence known (via television news) in "sure-fire" operations like the takeover of Grenada or the extraction of Noriega. ![]() For those who are not easily sickened by such visceral, cinematic assaults, films like Black Hawk Down can deliver a powerful, indelible impact. ![]() Images of severed arms, fountaining blood, and spilled intestines have replaced the sterile, romanticized images of so many black-and-white war movies. Replacing them are stories steeped in the gritty reality of combat - violent, bloody, horrific, and chaotic. Gone are the bloodless tales of gallantry which portrayed the battlefield as a place where the fruits of bravery are victory. 1998's Saving Private Ryan introduced a new era of war movies. ![]()
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