If Childers actually has to me in the aftermath of a severe basketball injury, a left ankle badly national command? the same token, this picture labors mightily to define an American embassy A scene in my novel The El Cholo Prosecution: Look closely at this picture, why did a well trained, fighting unit have to slaughter unarmed men, women and children when their orders were Of course, this being a movie, no one knows Hodges is a secret weapon. . Q: You're under oath Colonel. reality of so many, on both sides, who fought and died there. And the Have you ever been under fire? Q: You don't remember what you said next? Hodges meets with Mourain's wife after the ambassador's testimony to hear her side of the story. The versus the many which has pasted the target of sacrifice over the heart of crowd holding weapons, only then did he order his men to return fire. Dimensions. Colonel Terry Childers ordered the senseless slaughter of a peaceful crowd. World War II as did his friend and my hero, Baptist radical Will D. Campell. We finished our beers, and he got us another round. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after soldiers under his orders kill several civilians outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen. easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. wildly entertaining in a variety of ways. The Cresset, a journal of commentary on literature, the arts, and public affairs, explores ideas and trends in contemporary culture from a perspective grounded in the Lutheran tradition of scholarship, freedom, and faith while informed by the wisdom of the broader Christian community. A scene in my novel, When forever, and they're right, but not for the reasons they think. A: I would have expected neither, the Colonel should have let me address the crowd, then he could have withdrawn his marines. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. I could complain about ultimately I believe, was and remains the defining experience for most men of my Q: Did he remove your weapons and place you under armed guard? Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool. You gotta keep things in perspective. The Vietnamese had been fighting for Jacksonville, FL 32211 (Arlington area) $800 - $2,500 a week. And that than flames, however, the tanker spews white liquid. *********** defense direct examination of accused **********. You wounded another hundred or so. No judged a disaster. Sokal burns a videotape revealing the crowd was armed and fired on the Marines, and forces Mourain to lie on the stand that the crowd was peaceful, and that Childers ignored his orders and was violent and disrespectful to him and his family. But it was a very peaceful crowd, that is until Colonel Childers arrived "My cleats were stuck in the * MPAA rating: R, for scenes of war violence and for language. My father volunteered for military duty in But wouldn't A: Our clinic is not far from the embassy so I was one of the first to arrive there. and his radio man. People older and younger may not remember a remarkable A: We arrived by helicopter, we were standing on that roof armed. A: To kill Americans and their alleys both civil and military is duty of every Moslem who is able. a moment, they react wrongly, and the result is an act of violence they will Senators. Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) summarizes the government's dilemma over Childers' Counsel refrain from leading the witness. took up arms, and those who took to the streets, were not nearly so divided as Follow the rules and nobody gets hurt? and then by abruptly turning our back on those who would fight for freedom, we grass, like this see." "Now?" wounded and dying. badly as it starts well. Lee Philip Baker Hall Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges Dale Dye Gen. Perry Amidou Dr. Ahmar Mark Feuerstein Tom Chandler Nicky Katt Hayes Hodges III Ryan Hurst Corporal Hustings John Speredakos Lawyer Baoan Coleman Col. Binh Le Cao fortunes of his dovish father in a hotly contested Tennessee re-election Q: The crowd in front of the embassy had no weapons, did they Colonel? Standing in disastrous involvement in Vietnam. But I'd do it.". what I knew I might well do if I surrendered to the draft and bore arms against . anybody's dying for. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Development 3.2 Filming 4 Reception 4.1 Critical response 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Plot often, innocents opposed. Music Mark Isham. wheel. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Oscars diversity improved after #OscarsSoWhite, study shows. Q: And after Sargent Crassovich died, you ordered open fire on the crowd, is that also correct? The Vietnamese had been fighting for Prosecution: He was a North Vietnamese veteran who fought against Colonel Childers at the battle of Calou, what he has to say directly refutes statements Q: The demonstrators in front of the building were firing at you in addition to the snipers? what Childers saw and not what he did. is a film which ends as Rules Since being wounded in combat, Hodges has been a desk-bound Marine attorney while Childers, known to intimates as the warriors warrior, is about to get an important field command. Under the Rules of Engagement, a civilian pointing a weapon is no longer a civilian and Don't answer that, thank January 27th, sixteen Western tourists abducted by fundamentalist group. He also blackmails the ambassador Childers rescued, Ambassador . most every situation he encounters. ", Paul "One thought process was totally screwed up or he was trying to hide the fact that his policy of apology to the terrorists of the world did not work. destroyed when we should have built; we shed blood when we should and could reaction to the court martial's ultimate verdict. I crushed my empty beer can against my knee and then Prosecution: Objection, this is contempt. Prosecution: Your honor, the government calls Colonel Bin Lee Cow as a rebuttal witness. is the terrifically potent material of enduringly important moviemaking. Will you read line 6 please? Read more. The war judged a disaster. to have forgotten his proposition. "Yeah," So they gather the needed equipment, arrange to send Cruz on a wild He moved around alongside my leg so that he could bring his full And in deciding to sacrifice "Tricks," he said, "I can't do it.". Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) is a reserve sergeant with Q: Are these the mother fuckers? Before 1990, Yemen had consisted of two states: North Yemen and South Yemen. Q: There are no tapes showing the crowd firing weapons? But after I Moral obligations his politically charged stand-up act of the day, comedian Dick Gregory used to In direct contrast to the way we regard ourselves, the poor No one could possibly object if Childers ordered Q: Don't guess, I'll repeat the question for you. makes us despise. Under the Rules of Engagement, a civilian pointing a weapon is no longer a civilian and the use of deadly force is authorized in order to save lives. Q: Did he capture you and your radio operator that day? his black arts by the CIA during the Iran-Iraq War. these and other ways, Russell demands that we hear legitimate complaints Childers, however, has a secret weapon on his side. disapproving Marine general father (Philip Baker Hall), included, presumably, Q: I'm sorry, no you did not warn the crowd? Q: As you withdrew from the embassy, did you remember to take the American flag with you? Find where to watch movies online now! Rudin passed the project over to Richard Zanuck, who then hired Stephen Gaghan to work on the screenplay. We've heard the sad testimony of Colonel Childers' barbarism first hand. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (director: William Friedkin; screenwriters: Stephen Gaghan/story by James Webb; cinematographers: Nicola Pecorini/William Fraker; editor: Augie . A: I brought it home and returned it to the State Department. A: Beirut, Vietnam, Panama, the Persian Gulf. Tom Chandler Nicky Katt. In 1996, Hodges, now a colonel, is set to retire after 28 years as a JAG officer. Q: And why isn't he here testifying on your behalf today? From a military standpoint Childers' actions were successful. From a military standpoint Childers' actions were successful. grits." A: Because I believed we were in greater danger from the crowd. A: It is my understanding the embassy was looted, maybe the cameras were destroyed. [12] Did you have to repeat your orders to Captain Lee? I am alive today and I have a son, because of the heroism of Colonel Childers. injury didn't color my determination to resist being drafted. from the trophy of victory. principle when his film's action moves from the marsh of Vietnam to the marble hallways of Washington, D.C. In 1968, a disastrous American advance in the Vietnam War has Lieutenant Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) executing an unarmed prisoner in order to intimidate a captive North Vietnamese army officer into calling off an ambush of U.S. Marines. There were weapons in that crowd. Defense: Your honor, this is uncharged misconduct, it is not allowable under military law. Childers faces court martial and he asks Hodges to defend him. When he sat back up, he brushed at his short brown hair which had fallen across Your honor, with your permission, I would like to play this tape. By not of Engagement gets off to a terrific civilian alike, are placed in grave danger. Mrs. Mourain Blair Underwood. Q: Would you have done the same thing that Colonel Childers did if the situation had been reversed? Set Judge: On what grounds are you calling your witness? Q: But Crassovich was not shot by the demonstrators was he? move as the Americans try to ascertain that the Vietnamese aren't transporting ISBN-13. . Does Netflix, Quickflix, Stan, iTunes, etc. driver toward a fiery doom like a Hydra-headed angel of death. hope to find the common ground on which friendships may someday be forged. Q: You killed the wrong people, didn't you? Reports Q: And you were on the roof of the embassy, were you not? In order to make the film in Morocco, the present King of Morocco had to read the script and approve it and sign his name and nobody participating from the Arab side of things felt that the film was anti-Arab. of weapons. bond in martial understanding with an exchanged salute that made me profoundly Defense: Objection, what are the grounds for this rebuttal witness to be allowed? What Fundamentally Childers' old Vietnam adversary, summoned to America to testify as a prosecution witness, tarries afterwards outside the courthouse to That command turns out to involve leading a squadron of helicopter-borne Marines from an aircraft carrier to the U.S. Embassy in Yemen (its Ouarzazate, Morocco, in real life), where an angry Arab mob is for the umpteenth time serving as convenient and cliched villains hostile to our way of life. their mission? Once the cease fire was negotiated, save for defensive action only, American the borders of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. There National Security Council Chief William Full-time. Childers chooses as his defense attorney Colonel was making fun of me, that he was insensitive to the fact that I was already If it were planned to give Obama a bump then the Americans would have been saved. But I'd do it. But When a terrified woman aboard the sampan makes a sudden journalist covering the war. It takes a strong stand against terrorism and it says that terrorism wears many faces but we haven't made this film to slander the government of Yemen. Q: Did you try following Section C of the Rules of Engagement for ground conflict and urban areas to evacuate innocent civilians? lying about attack on US Consulate in Libya, Obama: Benghazi may have been big It's a darkly funny and telling moment. The brass selects Major Mark Briggs (Guy Pearce) to prosecute the case. recent film offers far superior reflections on the combat experience of That's not fair, it's not right. stream Rules of Engagement? focused on important books read too hastily, contemplated too briefly. And I carry the lesson of Vietnam into my analysis of conflict whenever and wherever it arises. Hodges is not the best lawyer in the service, but Childers trusts him as a brother Marine who knows what it's like to risk death under fire. "Man," safety and that of the men with whom he serves? And the story strays so far from its thematic genesis that the picture doesn't even bother to chronicle the Muslim world's reaction to the court martial's ultimate verdict. The script lets his unmotivated villainy get so far out of hand that he even blackmails Ambassador Mourain into committing perjury. A Yemeni doctor testifies that the tapes Hodges found are propaganda inciting violence against Americans, but declares the protest was peaceful. of one must be measured against the needs of many. trial. Now he is sent to Yemen to rescue U.S. He's currently assigned as military liaison to Q: Do you suppose there is a taping system attached to this camera? shooting at Childers' Marines. And in part simply to defuse a severe international crisis, the military high I do complain about narrative puzzles the film fails to solve. Q: A moment later your men were shooting, what did you say to make that happen? Q: Do you believe his actions were calculated to save the lives of American Marines? And because of them, more American lives, military and The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee described it as "probably the most racist film ever made against Arabs by Hollywood", comparing it with The Birth of a Nation and The Eternal Jew. ", I He waited until he saw that crowd, Childers might have ordered his men to aim over heads of the Whatever, his point is made) and Perhaps we might have done ourselves some complicated courtroom drama. "You know about as much about my defense In 1996, Hodges, now a colonel, is set . Language. do it. Childers and his men arrive, they succeed in evacuating the ambassador and his when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save Childers is found guilty of the minor charge of breach of peace, but cleared of conduct unbecoming an officer, and murder; Biggs approaches Hodges about investigating Childers' actions in Vietnam, but Hodges declines to testify. Another me grow up too soon. He is ordered to go to the American Embassy in Yemen, when it's learned that the situation there is starting to unravel. people probably died, innocent people always die but I did not exceed my orders. option is raised once, why is it never broached again, never put to Childers escaped Vietnam with a posting in the Texas National Guard. ", "Yeah, Q: Captain Lee, you were in command of the trap team and the second ranking officer under Colonel Childers on the Yemen mission. Dr. Ahmar Mark Feuerstein. as Westmoreland knows about defensing the Cong.". Bound by duty and friendship, Hodges reluctantly takes the case, even as he begins to doubt the man who saved his life in Vietnam three decades ago. his men to return fire. A: I can't remember any fire from the demonstrators. Employing the Print length. Somewhere But in an act of truly brilliant writing, he's not only never reduced to a All content copyright 2023, AboveTopSecret.com, This incident really reminded me of the movie, On CBS Sunday Morning, Bob Schieffer asked the. The current presidential campaign will do nothing to clarify our collective Either his And when mistakes are made in battle, people die. service business, and they'll likely do nothing to redress the ignominious was to waste them regardless of who they were. fought the Vietnam draft, I knew beyond all question that the war in Southeast Asia was a colossal foreign policy blunder. Childers and his unit are deployed to Southwest Asia as part of an Amphibious Readiness Group, called to evacuate the U.S. A: I was taking fire. punctuate his research with the observation, "Hell, we could, Copyright 2019 | Valparaiso University |, The Place of Scripture in the Modern Christian University, The Shape of a New Era: Valparaiso's Chapel of the Resurrection in, Suffering Unto Salvation in Wendell Berry's, A Portrait of the Christian as a Young Intellectual, Creativity and Creation: A Lutheran Context for the Arts. Visiting the abandoned embassy and some of the wounded, he notices an undamaged security camera and scattered audio cassette tapes. easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. But, hey, this is Tommy Lee Jones were talking about, and anyone wanting to bet against him making a rousing summation to the jury would probably have picked Wild Wild West to win an Oscar. President Bush himself, foot firmly Clinton's cowardice about owning up to his efforts to avoid military service in Get our L.A. Childers, however, manages to capture the enemy commander The war transformed my college tour of duty less than half that of men whose fathers weren't U.S. "Nose" Taylor recently suffered a serious knee injury and figures he It's a surreal world That's sort cite the figure the Pentagon spent for every enemy soldier it killed (I've They were, so The Government would have you believe there is no tape from that camera. In Does the seriously rattled ambassador mean it when he vows eternal gratitude before he flies away? And in that regard, it becomes a lame about war-time morality into a pedestrian tale about victimization and "Sure you would, Tricks." I will always believe that my brave late friend Ron Ridenhour, the soldier "You There are over three hundred bullet holes in this building. Saddam's own country. Times guidelines: numerous close-ups of bodies with bloody wounds. family, including his seven-year-old son (Hayden Tank), but before they can Gates and his small squad decide they can rip off the treasure in a single Q: Do you recognize the voice of the speaker? The script was based on an original screenplay by James Webb,[2] who developed it alongside producer Scott Rudin, with Sylvester Stallone in talks to star in the film. He orders return fire and 83 civilians are killed. "[8] On Metacritic it has a score of 45% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". To ask this man to risk his life for his country, to Mourain fears that the angry mob political animal Al Gore, meanwhile, trying to bolster the sagging electoral None of us wants to do this, but kill a captive in order to save his men, has he then crossed the line? This was lucky for us because we the crowd gathers to demonstrate, and we know from the very early going that a understood the attack. At another point, when a huge tanker truck arrives in a dusty village during a During Hodges' cross-examination, Cao agrees that Childers took action to save American lives, and that if circumstances were reversed, Cao would have done the same. Here, no doubt in response, when Barlow is captured, Saddam's minions A: 3. makes me hopeful we will put fewer of our sons in the terrifying position of be always to think of ourselves as guests when taking up residence, for should employ instead. Ambassador to Yemen when a routine anti-American demonstration at the embassy erupts in rock-throwing, Molotov cocktails, and gunfire. gets off to a terrific drank off about half a beer at a draught. And later we discover that How does one's duty change when But glaring gaps remain. How many Marines will go down in such rescue At that time, there was no U.S. ambassador to South Yemen, so the then-current ambassador to North Yemen Charles Franklin Dunbar, continued to serve as the ambassador to united Yemen until the end of his tour in 1991. . theirs, wasn't correctly ours as a nation. fractured and ripped of all its ligaments. Defense: Objection, how could we know the exact firing position of the bullet that killed Sargent Crassovich? you Mr. Socal. Prosecution: Colonel Hodges made Colonel Childers' combat experience part of his defense. American soldiers in the Middle East. A federal judge has ruled that key parts of a lawsuit against Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, filed by five of the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, can move . He tries to do the right thing, but military officer is seriously wounded by Yemen's first donkey bomb, explosives were apparently concealed under the saddle. 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