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Heartbreak Ridge
1986 · Film · 130 min
Directed by Clint Eastwood
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
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Hey what about Grenada? I remember this movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreak_Ridge celebrating the victory!
US military refused to cooperate filming Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and many other films
The story goes that the US Army refused to cooperate with Heartbreak Ridge once they read the script, but the USMC agreed without reading it. That’s why you’ve got the corrupt supply sergeant, the useless platoon commander, the cowardly company commander, the unit that is forced to repeat basic training and everything else that portrays everyone but Clint Eastwood’s character in a poor light.
> His characters were always divorced ( and possibly misogynist ) , lousy fathers and frankly, assholes. I think that's the charm - the character could say what's on his mind. Embittered, more or less tired of life. Somebody who'd paid the price for all that violence and hubris. This was pretty outrageous at the time.
That's part of the reason I love old-man Clint Eastwood movies - Gran Torino and Heartbreak Ridge, especially.
Also, I think The Shootist is the best John Wayne exemplar of this. And one of the best John Wayne movies, period.