I always thought it was a geeky reference to Risk.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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megan walker - Jan 26, 2009 11:05:10 am PST #9692 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2009 11:07:48 am PST #9693 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Korea. There too. But my knowledge of history is very erratic.
brenda m - Jan 26, 2009 11:09:57 am PST #9694 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
“The U.S. has broken the second rule of war. That is, don’t go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don’t march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself.”
Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery (Viscount Alamein) in 1962 (spoken of the US approach to the Vietnam War) Quoted in Chalfont’s Montgomery of Alamein.
Kathy A - Jan 26, 2009 11:11:20 am PST #9695 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I couldn't make it through the recap. Neon text on black = instant headache.
I love the Mutant Reviewers from Hell, but this has always been my major complaint with their site. They've got some wonderfully snarky reviews and articles that I've been forced to do a cut-and-paste with so I can read it on a white background.
It had never occurred to me that it was anything other than Vietnam.
Me, too.
Steph L. - Jan 26, 2009 11:15:00 am PST #9696 of 10000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Huh, I always assumed Russia, too.
Kathy A - Jan 26, 2009 11:21:57 am PST #9697 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Don't forget that, as the writer of that recap points out, Goldman first wrote TPB in 1973, so I guessed the Vietnam connection was primary in his mind. It does apply nicely to just about every invasion of Asia as well, though.
Sean K - Jan 26, 2009 11:32:35 am PST #9698 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
So, we're all correct. And yeah, considering when the book was written and who directed the movie, I now think it was referencing both.
beekaytee - Jan 26, 2009 11:41:07 am PST #9699 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
I thought that was kind of a truism - that a land war in Asia never goes well, not for U.S., France, Russia, etc. So yes, Vietnam, but more like the history of Western intervention in Asia since 1700 or something.
This was my thinking.
Side note: Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade is one of my favorite books ever. Among many things, he gave me the phrase 'that was a movie moment' to describe inconceivable (see what I did there?) coincidences.
Jessica - Jan 26, 2009 11:50:13 am PST #9700 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Is that the one with the rant about how people in movies never look in their wallet before pulling out money to pay taxis? And all of his examples of how that would go down in real life are about Mel Gibson? "This is a dollar, you Australian asshole!"
Polter-Cow - Jan 26, 2009 11:50:56 am PST #9701 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
who directed the movie
What's Rob Reiner's Vietnam connection?