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...created his consultancy, Warriors Inc., in 1985 out of distaste for what he considered the metaphorical rambling of such films as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter and for the revenge fantasies of the Rambo genre. Not only was the drama phony (soldiers surfing through an artillery attack in Apocalypse Now) and the detail wrong (Sylvester Stallone launching rockets with the radio button on a helicopter control stick) but an essential point of view was missing. "The story that needs to come out," Dye says, "is the human one: what happened to the people who fought...
...reception of Platoon shows, there is a market for the truth. Writer-Director Stone was there, for a 15-month tour which won him two wounds, a silver star and the memories he now brings to paying audiences. There have been other powerful films about Vietnam, including The Deer Hunter and the semi-surreal masterpiece Apocalypse Now. But unlike those films, Platoon is at its best when it forgets "art" and acts as eyewitness...
...species of reptiles and amphibians and 115 species of mammals. Among the trees is the project's namesake, the guanacaste, whose branches can stretch over an acre of land and whose trunk soars 100 ft. Spider, howling and white-faced monkeys swing through the forest canopy. White-tailed deer and peccaries (a kind of wild pig) forage in the underbrush. Jaguars, ocelots, coyotes and gray foxes roam the woods at night. Ridley turtles nest on the park's Pacific beaches. Says Janzen: "Virtually all the species that were there when the Spaniards hit are still around...
...conflict and eccentricity. The chemistry of rehearsals has lately been altered, for instance, by the absence of a popular soprano, who lives someplace called Katydid Lane and who is celebrated for crawling around her living room in her nightgown lest her appearance in the picture window scare off visiting deer. The chemistry is also different because Ethel Brandon, who directed the choir for 38 years, is now back in the congregation after an illness, a 90-year-old soprano belting out The Church Triumphant...
...ventriloquism, going over the diaphragm and the hard palate, the teeth and the tongue. You can say the letter d without moving your lips, but you cannot say the letter b. Nearly anyone could be a ventriloquist if one's dummy talked like this: "How 'dout a dottle of deer?" Substituting a barely perceptible th sound, Isaacson said "Boston baked beans" without moving his lips, and you could have sworn you heard the b's. People scribbled...