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The Unholy Crusade
Title: The Unholy Crusade
Category: History
Details: Words: 780 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Unholy Crusade
The Unholy Crusade
Religion is a canopy under which American culture and
society thrives. Its extension reaches the boundaries of
such cultural mainstreams as movies, television, and
music. Oliver Stone's 1986 war film Platoon is an example
of the religious subtleties and overtones that appear in
various American genres. Stone not only uses religious
themes to portray the Vietnam War, but manipulates the war
to show the decadence of American society.
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…showed last 75 words of 780 total…events that transpired during the war,
but many religious aspects also. The movie was not only
ground breaking in the sense that it represented a neutral
view of America versus Communism, but it was insightful to
the religious undertones of all wars. By using religious
themes throughout key parts of the movie, Stone
illustrates the decadence that American society is heading
towards. This decadence is one factor that led to the
American ineffectiveness in Vietnam.
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