Good Morning, Vietnam
| Movie | |
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| German title | Good Morning, Vietnam |
| Original title | Good Morning, Vietnam |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Barry Levinson |
| script |
Mitch Markowitch , Adrian Cronauer |
| production |
Mark Johnson , Larry Brezner |
| music | Alex North |
| camera | Peter Sova |
| cut | Stu Linder |
| occupation | |
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Good Morning, Vietnam is a feature film by Barry Levinson from the year 1987 through a US AFN - radio host in Saigon during the Vietnam War . The film is based on the biography of AFN presenter Adrian Cronauer , who co-wrote the script. Cronauer is portrayed by Robin Williams , who won a Golden Globe for it and received an Oscar nomination. The film was produced by Touchstone Pictures and the German dubbing was done by Berliner Synchron GmbH.
plot
Adrian Cronauer came to Vietnam in 1965 as the new unconventional AFN radio presenter to go on air for the US Army . Due to his humorous way of moderating and his penchant for popular rock 'n' roll , on the one hand he quickly wins a large fan base among the soldiers and on the other hand generates reluctance among his direct superiors, Lieutenant Steven Hauk and Sergeant Major Dickerson, for his disrespectful and subversive manner estimate. One day he mocks Richard Nixon by broadcasting a bogus interview. His superiors are upset, but Cronauer is backed by his colleagues and Brigadier General Taylor.
One day Cronauer sees a young Vietnamese woman in town, and he is immediately fascinated. He speaks to her, but she evades him by getting into a taxi and driving away. Cronauer quickly buys a bike and follows her. He ends up in a language school, where she is apparently taking a conversation course in English. He bribes the English teacher to take over his lessons in the hope of getting to the beautiful woman. After class, he learns her name from her brother Tuan, who was also in the classroom: Trinh. At the same time, however, he learns that Vietnamese customs forbid a young woman from simply coming into contact with a stranger. Cronauer then befriends her brother, as he understands that he has to get to know Trinh's family in order to get to know them. Cronauer goes with Tuan to Jimmy Wah's bar, which is almost exclusively visited by American soldiers. There, of course, Tuan is noticed and a fight breaks out when two GIs try to kick Tuan out, whereupon Cronauer defends him.
A few days later, when Cronauer is again sitting in Jimmy Wah's bar, he is lured out of the building by Tuan just before the bar explodes. It was an attack by the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam , which Cronauer narrowly escaped. He realizes how at risk the Americans are in Saigon, and he wants to report about it on his radio show. But he is forbidden from any form of reporting - all incoming messages must first be approved by two censors.
Cronauer first starts one of his usual shows, but then tells about the bomb attack. Dickerson then interrupts his current broadcast by turning off the power. Cronauer is then on leave as a moderator and is represented by Lieutenant Steven Hauk, who considers himself a great comedian.
In his free time, Cronauer visits Trinh and her family in their village outside Saigon. Trinh tells him there that their friendship has no future because they lived in two different worlds. These contacts give Cronauer an ever deeper insight into the situation in Vietnam and the injustice of the war.
Back in Saigon, Brigadier General Taylor released Cronauer's broadcast because thousands of his fans wrote and called and almost no one liked Hauk. Due to the recent emotional experiences, however, Cronauer has lost interest in the show and no longer wants to moderate. His colleague Edward Garlick can only change his mind when they encounter a troop transport. There Cronauer got in direct contact with soldiers who all know and love his program, and he noticed how important his programs are as a contribution to the motivation of the troops and how important his job is to him. He starts to moderate again.
One day when he and Garlick want to visit soldiers at the front to interview them, he is betrayed by Sgt. Major Dickerson: he deliberately sends them on a route taken by the enemy in the hope of getting rid of him. You are driving over a land mine on this road . The explosion throws the car off the road and rolls down an embankment. The two survive, hide from the Viet Cong and are found some time later by Trinh's brother Tuan, who went looking for them because Cronauer did not appear at the conversation class. Together they walk through the jungle until they are found by a helicopter and taken away.
Back at the broadcasting station in Saigon, Cronauer was suspended from duty by his superior Dickerson after it became known that Tuan, who was sitting with him in the helicopter, belonged to the Vietnamese resistance and was wanted as a "terrorist". Even Brigadier General Taylor, despite all the sympathy, can no longer give Cronauer any support: he should return to the United States . Taylor knows what Dickerson did, even if he can't prove it, and his malevolent behavior has long been evident. For these reasons, he arranged for his sentence to be transferred to Guam .
Cronauer has no choice but to leave, but is still trying to track down and warn Tuan. This first runs away from him, then there is an emotional debate. Tuan explains his motives for the attack on the GI pub: Many of his relatives were killed by Americans.
Finally, Cronauer says goodbye to all the Vietnamese friends he made during his five-month stay in Saigon with a softball game that he had promised them all along (however, these are not real softballs, but honeydew melons). He will then be taken to the airport to be flown to the United States. As a farewell, he gives his colleague Garlick a tape with the wish to play it on the radio, which he does. It is a particularly subversive farewell program by Cronauer.
synchronization
The German dubbing was commissioned by Berliner Synchron , Arne Elsholtz was responsible for the dialogue direction and the German dialogue book .
| role | actor | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Adrian Cronauer | Robin Williams | Peer Augustinski |
| Edward "Eddie" Montesquieu Garlick | Forest Whitaker | Tobias Master |
| Brigadier General Taylor | Noble Willingham | Arnold Marquis |
| Sergeant Major Dickerson | JT Walsh | Joachim Kerzel |
| 2nd Lieutenant Steven Hauk | Bruno Kirby | Santiago Ziesmer |
| Marty Lee Dreiwitz | Robert Wuhl | Thomas Danneberg |
| Pvt. Abersold | Richard Edson | Thomas Petruo |
| Radio censors | Stanton twins | Gerd Duwner |
reception
Unlike many other popular films about the Vietnam War ( Apocalypse Now , Platoon or Full Metal Jacket ), this film does not focus on the fighting, but on the GIs involved and the civilian population of Saigon at the time. In this comedy , funny scenes alternate with thought-provoking scenes. A striking scene is in which bomb explosions and other acts of war, silently in the picture, are accompanied by Louis Armstrong's ballad What a Wonderful World , which was actually only recorded in 1967 and therefore does not match the time of the action (1965). Also Ballad of a Thin Man (1966) by Bob Dylan is one of them. The overall mood conveyed by the soundtrack can, despite its few deviations, be described as authentic. Although the film does not want to portray the military events in Vietnam precisely in a documentary way, it tries to convey its absurdity , of which Cronauer was one of the victims.
criticism
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Good Morning, Vietnam was largely rated positively by the critics and Robin Williams' performance was particularly praised.
" Good Morning, Vietnam has proven that Robin Williams can do good acting in the same film and still be hilarious."
“Make no mistake: Mr. Williams's portrayal, though full of exuberant comedy, is the work of a serious actor. Good Morning, Vietnam is a "one-man tour de force". "
“A tragic comedy that is convincing thanks to the great play of its main actor, which is characterized by sympathy for the victims on both sides of this war. Despite its humor and sometimes breathtaking tempo, it is a thought-provoking film. "
Soundtrack
Awards
- 1988 Golden Globe : Best Actor (Comedy / Musical): Robin Williams
- 1988 Oscar nomination: Best Actor: Robin Williams
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- Good Morning, Vietnam in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Good Morning, Vietnam at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Good Morning, Vietnam at Metacritic (English)
- Good Morning, Vietnam in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article about Cronauer on Historynet.com
- ↑ a b Good Morning, Vietnam. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 29, 2017 .
- ↑ a b [1] at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on September 19, 2014
- ↑ Good Morning, Vietnam in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Good Morning Vietnam, BlueRay Review
- ^ New York Times - Movie Review , archived from archive.org on October 13, 2014; Film: 'Good Morning, Vietnam' in New York Times December 23, 1987 (payment barrier)
- ^ Good Morning, Vietnam in the Lexicon of International Films