Research On American And Vietnamese Movies About Vietnam War

The Vietnam War, also known in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America(1967 – 1975) is one of the most important wars in the 20 th century. The Vietnam War not only left our people with great loss and grief, but also inculcate a deep mental wound in the mind and history of America. Regarding the Vietnam War, Americans has a complex and contradicted feeling. Even after the war ended, people still could not seem to accept all the information and announcements from the Government and artists had their own way of expressing their feelings about it. They objectively recreated those feelings and provided people with a visual and multidimensional perspective to understand this war and the answer to the big question ―What is the nature of the war?‖. Unlike American, Vietnam has a long history of struggling, fighting for freedom and independence, which lasted thousands of years. Therefore, films on the subject of wars in Vietnam are essentially cinematic, mainly about the wars against France and America, focusing on representing the heroic image of the soldiers and the ardent patriotism of Vietnamese people. The represented themes are closely associated with patriotism and nationalism.Whether in America or Vietnam, the Vietnam War remains a popular topic for cinema. These films are excellent and research-worthy – both in terms of quantity and quality. This thesis will, through the statistics and comparative analysis of the literature on the subject of the Vietnam War, combined with the study of history, cinema culture and the visual language of cinema, using materials research method, comparative method and case research method, to assess the cinematic works of Vietnam and America on the Vietnam War to see the differences in perceptions, production methods and style, thereby draw conclusions and useful lessons Vietnam war cinema.