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Hamburger Hill

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Hamburger Hill
bloody Viet Nam battle over strategically worthless objective (1969). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 631]
See : Folly


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In Hamburger Hill, 2002, another battle scene that stages the act of painting as conflict, a soldier's hand--the body part that is the locus of artistic facility--is blown apart, turned into a bloom of expressionistic paint.
Despite all the obvious nods to classic war films--from the graceful aerial scenes and surreal moments of muddy perception in Apocalypse Now to the band-of-brothers sentimentality expressed in Hamburger Hill and Full Metal Jacket--Scott manages his biggest jabs at fuzzy intelligence gathering, the impotent U.
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