Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill...
Which film was the best and most realistic about Vietnam?
And why were the north Vietnamese refered to as Charlies?
2006-09-25 07:54:12 · 18 answers · asked by pantocool 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Full Metal Jacket is the most realistic of the movies, and the first 45 minutes in boot camp are some of the best scenes in film.
"Việt Cộng", (VC) came from the Vietnamese term for Vietnamese Communist (Việt Nam Cộng Sản) and was popularized by the South Vietnamese government in an effort to downplay the NLF's role as a truly national, not simply communist organization. American forces typically referred to members of the NLF as "Charlie", which comes from the US Armed Forces' phonetic alphabet's pronunciation of VC ("Victor Charlie").
2006-09-25 08:05:02 · answer #1 · answered by gq1412@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charlie is the term for the Vietnamese and the American GI's gave them this nickname. I seen all the movies you listed and I think Apocalypse Now and Hamburger Hill and Boys from company C.
2006-09-25 15:35:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The V.C. were the Viet Cong, the opposing force in the Vietnam conflict. And as you can already see from other posts, Victor Charlie was how they were called over the radio. In radio contact, the military has specific words for each letter. The link below is to a list. Anyway, it got shortened to Charlie, as has been mentioned.
2006-09-25 15:55:21 · answer #3 · answered by Bitsie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My faves are Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. Casualties of War was a really good movie but too graphic for me to watch more than once.
2006-09-25 15:36:20 · answer #4 · answered by mystri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Full Metal Jacket! Love that movie. VC is for Viet Cong or in the milatrary phonetic alphabet victor charlie. thus calling the enemy charlie.
2006-09-25 15:05:48 · answer #5 · answered by Peanuts 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually don't like any but Platoon , after that I only like the Chuck Norris Missing in Action and Rambo movies where the go in and kick azz
In Berlin when it was still devided they hat "Check Point Charlie" when you had to cross over to the russian sector or later on to communist east Germany.
2006-09-25 15:06:35 · answer #6 · answered by Mightymo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Viet Cong was also known as the VC. The radio call signs for VC is Victor Charlie. It got shortened to just "Charlie".
2006-09-25 15:03:55 · answer #7 · answered by Glenn N 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I say its platoon. Best scene....when Barnes leaves defoe behind and they are all in the helicopter and then they see him with a crap load of vietnamese chasing him and he just kneels and puts his hands up towards the sky.....with the song playing and the look on his face I cry every time but it is one of the most memorable scenes.
2006-09-25 15:04:41 · answer #8 · answered by djgirlkimber2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
considering i've only seen one of the three above mentioned films, i can only answer your second question.
"charlie" is a military code name for enemy. it originated from the term "victor charlie", for "v.c.", which are the words used in the phoenetic alphabet....i can't quite remember what the v and c stand for in reference to the enemy, but, to answer your question as to why the Vietnamese were classified as "charlie", it's because they were enemies.
just something i learned in the military.
2006-09-25 15:01:27 · answer #9 · answered by cali_surfer_girl182 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Platoon...also a great sound track.
You know the VC thing by now.
2006-09-26 10:24:33 · answer #10 · answered by Pretorian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋