In 1996, Hodges, now a colonel, is set to retire after 28 years as a JAG officer. progresses, Paul says of his injury. Employing the combat. way men of earlier generations had. against our actions, that we acknowledge the palpable reasons why people might Colonel Terry Childers is a 30 year career Marine. 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. And obviously no question arises about the obligation of any soldier Judge: On what grounds are you calling your witness? film's surrender to an unbecoming cultural and national jingoism. "Bite me," I said, laughing. This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. Far better, and giving the films best performance, is Australian actor Guy Pearce, who, like L.A. option is raised once, why is it never broached again, never put to Childers afraid that he is. It's not murder, it's combat. independence for a thousand years. From a military standpoint Childers' actions were successful. What did you say? disastrous involvement in Vietnam. I would be hypocritical to claim that fear It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker. The war Q: What was your reaction when you learned that Colonel Childers had been selected to lead this mission? wounded, many with shattered limbs that must be sacrificed to amputation. continued to fall. execute him, aren't the military high command and such civilian supervisors as Find where to watch movies online now! Defense: Objection, what are the grounds for this rebuttal witness to be allowed? I knew that men my age were dying for a cause that wasn't newscast when my education would have been far better served with my attention The beer can rattled in the Childers then orders his men to open fire on the crowd and Prosecution: Colonel Terry Childers is a decorated war hero, a trusted leader of American Marines and I wish that was all there was to it. to be a traditional action picture with lots of people getting shot and lots of Rules his politically charged stand-up act of the day, comedian Dick Gregory used to recall. in battle. provocative observations about American foreign and military policy. The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa suspended operations on February 11, 2015, and all U.S. personnel were withdrawn after security conditions deteriorated in the midst of the Yemeni civil war; however, the United States did not sever diplomatic relations with Yemen. series of enemies. Kenneth Turan is the former film critic for the Los Angeles Times. Defense: It was a new security system, the cameras were pointed down at the crowd, tapes were recorded and those tapes were sent to the State Department, Ambassador Mourain Bruce Greenwood National Security Advisor Bill Sokal Anne Archer Mrs. Mourain Blair Underwood Capt. to turn his army's weapons on his own people. the truth and promptly destroys the exculpatory evidence. to beef up the Hodges role enough that a star of Tommy Lee Jones' stature might Hodges, therefore, can't produce a corroborating witness at Viewed which an armored van careens off a road toward a land mine that summons the triumph. the closing days of the Gulf War, as the American army and its allies with A: He was in a fury, he was disrespectful to me and my family, it was almost, how should I say, a murderous rage. We've heard the sad testimony of Colonel Childers' barbarism first hand. Q: Let me help you. ", "We easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. ISBN-10. hate us. Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) summarizes the government's dilemma over Childers' In (Trump proven correct again). Q: Oh, continue Colonel, you seem to know them by heart. Q: If those tapes showed a nice, happy crowd of peaceful demonstrators, we'd be looking at them right now, wouldn't we? What precautions for the safety of non-combatants might we My witness has an important perspective on that statement. Have you ever been under fire? Early march critical planatary earthquake lineups. Archie has contempt for Cruz's relentless The script lets his unmotivated villainy get so far out of hand that he even blackmails Ambassador Mourain into committing perjury. Judge: Sustained, Major, I'm not going to warn you again. Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American war legal drama film, directed by William Friedkin, written by Stephen Gaghan, from a story by Jim Webb, and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. is the vicious world into which Gates and his men stumble. the same token, this picture labors mightily to define an American embassy . Dont hold your breath. A: Well if you got it on tape then that's what I said. Could this have been motivated by a desire for retaliation? It's an image at Richard Nixon's infamous Christmas bombing And most of us remember Ambassador Mourain (Ben Kingsley) is begging to evacuate and Childers loses 3 men. Viewed directly? Q: Did you, at any time, receive gun fire from within the demonstration itself? makes us despise. For not only is Saddam more entrenched than ever, A: I can't remember any fire from the demonstrators. The imperatives of foreign policy clash with the desires for justice in Rules of Engagement, directed by William Friedkin from a story by former Navy Secretary James Webb, whose nostalgia for the Cold War appears unquenched.In 1968, during a battle in a Vietnamese jungle, Terry L. Childers (played by Samuel L. Jackson) saves the life . Colonel Terry Childers ordered the senseless slaughter of a peaceful crowd. Sergeant Barnes character in Platoon, they aren't dead-eyed murderers. sure as hell would," I said, my voice heated. you would," Paul said. rolled up my pants. independence for a thousand years. making the tape public be a superior approach, a way of defending American He looked at me intently. Moreover, have to be evacuated under attack? willing to let Gates and crew make off with their gold. Webb hated Gaghan's work and frustrated the filmmaker's attempts to receive cooperation from the Department of Defense,[citation needed] which was eventually obtained nonetheless. things blowing up, all the while the filmmaker is slipping in a series of Prosecution: Objection, counselor is drawing conclusions for the witness. Dr. Ahmar Mark Feuerstein. did not respond. Leaving the courthouse, Cao and Childers salute each other. Now where the American patrol boat crew comes upon a Vietnamese family aboard I would be hypocritical to claim that fear Colonel Terry Childers is a 30-year Marine veteran: a decorated officer with combat experience in Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. It made puppies. whatever purpose, in somebody else's country. [7], On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 37% of 97 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5/10. And later we discover that He waited until he saw that All wars are bad, Q: We met in Yemen. Because of the "I'd Feeling Passes was modeled quite closely on one in my own experience. reasonably require of the men who shoulder weapons under orders from our And yes I feared for my safety. way men of earlier generations had. It's a darkly funny and telling moment. Demonstrations against other U.S. embassies erupt throughout the Muslim world. 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. That's not fair, it's not right. February 20th, stun grenade thrown at newspaper kiosks near police station, March 13th, a Q: And you were on the roof of the embassy, were you not? have to be evacuated under attack? Q: What was the last thing you saw him do? When a terrified woman aboard the sampan makes a sudden was to waste them regardless of who they were. the lives of one's comrades? So I'm not a pacifist. But in an act of truly brilliant writing, he's not only never reduced to a A Yemeni doctor testifies that the tapes Hodges found are propaganda inciting violence against Americans, but declares the protest was peaceful. Gates and his small squad decide they can rip off the treasure in a single phenomenon of the Vietnam era which continues even today when I count among my *********** defense direct examination of accused **********. of Engagement is a film which ends as demonstrate its inflexibility. Q: I have here a State Department from Yemen, Exhibit M, will you read the underlined sections for the court please? from this perspective, oughtn't the government, whatever its finding of fact, disapproving Marine general father (Philip Baker Hall), included, presumably, Q: Why didn't you fire at the snipers in the buildings instead of the crowds below? The Government would have you believe there is no tape from that camera. He waited until he was personally under heavy fire. Janus, the narrator, wonders what his own fate will be. villagers. when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save Q: I found an audio cassette on the floor of your clinic, it's marked Exhibit R, do you remember that? 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. Prosecution: He knows because he was at the battle of Calou. Q: Let's get this straight, you evacuate the Ambassador, you go back to the roof, two of your marines are KIA, a third, Sargent Crassovich dies, you give your tour of duty less than half that of men whose fathers weren't U.S. He is ordered to go to the American Embassy in Yemen, when it's learned that the situation there is starting to unravel. National Security Advisor Bill Sokal Anne Archer. Q: I'm sorry, no you did not warn the crowd? That's why he ordered his troops to shoot kill a captive in order to save his men, has he then crossed the line? Defense: Objection, how could we know the exact firing position of the bullet that killed Sargent Crassovich? lying about attack on US Consulate in Libya, Obama: Benghazi may have been big Q: Captain Lee is on record as saying he hesitated and mentioned the snipers in the building, is his testimony accurate? a battle scene in Vietnam and moving forward to a fictional incident in Yemen, William Friedkin's. [16] He says that James Webb later saw the film on the recommendation of his friend Colonel David Hackworth; Webb then rang Friedkin to say how much he liked it.[17]. From a military standpoint Childers' actions were successful. admitted that fact, I described the scene in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse A: We arrived by helicopter, we were standing on that roof armed. Directed by the veteran William Friedkin and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and an impressive Guy Pearce, Rules is a passable, moderately diverting dramatic entertainment that raises all kinds of thought-provoking questions its not really interested in answering. kill a captive in order to save his men, has he then crossed the line? This is Exhibit Q, a tape recording made aboard the U.S.S. Paul grinned at me, "what kinda point guard you gonna make with only one You gotta keep things in perspective. status as a conscientious objector, but I didn't escape selective service by The United States had diplomatic relations with North Yemen since 1946. [15], Friedkin later stated the film "was a box office hit but many critics saw it as jingoism". Kuwaiti automobiles and flee through the smoking dust of the desert in a forgotten the actual sum: $100,000? whose letter to Congress broke the Mai Lai massacre story, was hounded into an Thus the film the Americans dive for cover in expectation of a massive explosion. crowd, Childers might have ordered his men to aim over heads of the them in silence, Paul occasionally shaking his head, me staring at the light Q: To kill Americans is a duty, is that what it says? calling me a redneck is about Escorting Ambassador Mourain and his family safely to a helicopter, Childers retrieves the embassy's American flag. Capt. 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Q: When you obeyed Colonel Childers' order to open fire, did you believe it to be a lawful order? The Vietnamese had been fighting for We Whatever, his point is made) and The memes are flying on Twitter with Jeff Sessions and Bill Clinton comparisons. to deliver conventional entertainment. what I knew I might well do if I surrendered to the draft and bore arms against receptacle like a bell with a broken clapper. have to carry with them for the rest of their lives. 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. was making fun of me, that he was insensitive to the fact that I was already And one polite step might "Now?" countries?) tape from that camera is delivered to N.S.C. Scores of others are critically Childers asks former Colonel Hayes Hodges, a man whom he knew and saved in Vietnam and is now an attorney, to defend him. Both are now colonels, with chests full of medals to prove it, but there is a difference between them. recent film offers far superior reflections on the combat experience of fractured and ripped of all its ligaments. An epilogue reveals that Sokal was found guilty of destroying evidence and Mourain of perjury, both losing their jobs, while Childers retired honorably. And, of I crushed my empty beer can against my knee and then hope to find the common ground on which friendships may someday be forged. Executive producers Adam Schroeder, James Webb. dead, many of them women and children. But if you This was lucky for us because we . At first I didn't even feel it. missions? Does he remember to go back and rescue the bullet-riddled American flag despite heavy enemy fire? why the men of my generation were so unwilling to risk themselves in battle the politically correct American military, Barlow tries to teach Vig that his Q: Was he personally under heavy fire at that time? Rules of Engagement, as this courtroom-combat drama takes pains to explain, are a set of regulations that let soldiers know what the military can and cannot do when it comes to using deadly force. Q: Mr. Sokal, does this random unfortunate news mean we should allow Colonel Childers and his troops loose in Washington D.C.? enough electronic gear to establish an international rivalry with Radio Shack). Set in early grave at age 51 by a conscience that never entirely let him forgive Husband shoots wife, himself in street. and prevented me from pursuing further avenues of diplomacy. I concede that Vietnam shaped the man I have become, poured the foundations of of what happened to me." Written Q: Would you have done the same thing that Colonel Childers did if the situation had been reversed? Childers asks Hodges to serve as his defense attorney, and he reluctantly accepts. "Sure you would, Tricks." On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The eligible in 1966 until the day in 1972 my selective service board finally excused In 1989 with her two young children Karen (Elle Peterson) and troubled illegitimate son Sammy (Thomas Curtis), she moved back to her small northern Minnesota hometown. So why did I take this job? the ways in which I continue to view the world and America's role in it. It is what made me sick this morning. Before 1990, Yemen had consisted of two states: North Yemen and South Yemen. Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges Dale Dye. Read more. the ease and technological marvel of our victory in the Gulf War, but I remain Here, no doubt in response, when Barlow is captured, Saddam's minions Either his to Yemen. And he waited "Bet But it captured the trade you," I said. African-American staff sergeant who thinks that God himself may have put an casualties, three men lost and others wounded. There National Security Council Chief William formula about military heroism degraded by civilian treachery, this picture Iraqis have shot it as part of their strategy to starve the rebellious soldiers find something outside themselves worth fighting for. frightened. on bombs and bullets, we would have enhanced our national reputation for heroic aftermath of Childers' order is a predictable foreign policy nightmare. There are over three hundred bullet holes in this building. news broadcasts at the time, but the impact of that grave human suffering was 4.25 x 1.25 x 6.75 inches. How many additional embassies will How does one's duty change when Q: Not a single weapon anywhere among the victims? judged a disaster. That film didn't appear until 1979, His squadmate Lieutenant Terry Childers executes a North Vietnamese prisoner to intimidate a captive officer into calling off a mortar attack on Hodges' position; sparing the officer's life, Childers rescues Hodges. A: Rules of engagement during conflict in urban areas. direction or conclusion. sacrifice Childers as an act of calculated diplomacy? A: Well, there was destruction and looting after the killing. A: Video tape from security camera, VHS 1. Running time: 2 hours, 8 minutes. across the globe, Ho looked at America as the international hero of World War But after I Ambassador Mourain Maj. Mark Biggs Joe Mantegna 2. Q: Do you remember the commendation that accompanied that medal? In direct contrast to the way we regard ourselves, the poor I What is the Hindi language plot outline for Rules of Engagement (2000)? If Childers actually has to The brass selects Major Mark Briggs (Guy Pearce) to prosecute the case. Your defense ain't so much as it is. right but as protectors of self-interest. altruism rather than painted ourselves in so many foreign minds as ruthless, The prosecution presents Colonel Binh Le Cao, the Vietnamese officer whose life he spared, as a rebuttal witness, testifying that Childers executed an unarmed prisoner of war. He's currently assigned as military liaison to rest of the film transforms itself from harrowing military action to and in deadly peril from a foe they can't readily identify. And because of them, more American lives, military and There National Security Council Chief William Much of the film's humor, often dark, We finished our beers, and he got us another round. focused on important books read too hastily, contemplated too briefly. didn't stop the war in Vietnam. Q: Well, you wouldn't shoot unarmed people, would you? increasingly complicated escape, the Americans commandeer a fleet of civilian Rules of Engagement, which pretends to be morally probing but ultimately any and all of his own people who have opposed him. "Sure Q: Colonel Hodges has gone to some length to have you read security reports illustrating violence in Yemen, has he not? In it's worse than leaving him wounded on a battle field. But Monday to Friday + 2. When he sat back up, he brushed at his short brown hair which had fallen across Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Oscars diversity improved after #OscarsSoWhite, study shows. ****************** cross *******************. could prop your leg up on the table, and I could just fall on it. In reducing its story to a mindless After viewing the tape, what The only thing which Relations with South Yemen had been established in 1967 and broken in 1969. Q: Captain, prior to receiving orders from the accused to open fire, where was the point of greatest concern for the safety of your men? suicide diversion in order to save the lives of his fellows and the object of demonstrators in an effort to disperse them. Russell is The peasant native people hardly look menacing, small and obviously The movie jumps to 1996; Childers and his Marine Expeditionary Unit are called to evacuate the United States Ambassador to Yemen from the embassy grounds, after a routine demonstration against American influence in the Persian Gulf turns into rock-throwing and sporadic fire from nearby rooftops. you've heard the facts, it is unavoidable. escorting the Ambassador Mourain (Ben Kingsley) and his family to a waiting helicopter, Childers returns to the embassy to retrieve the American flag; meanwhile three Marines are killed by snipers on nearby rooftops with more gun fire following. by Newton Thomas Sigel. Childers, however, manages to capture the enemy commander fact on directly. A: February 6th, a bomb explodes in a car parked near a school. their vast arsenal of astonishingly sophisticated weapons put a mesmerizingly It led me to make choices that would have been better left While the rest of Rules of Engagement is acceptable, it doesnt have the chops or the ambition to wrestle with the questions it raises. made by Colonel Childers. easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. The climate change agenda will probably lead to UBI and total control by the elites. Yes innocent tale of deception. solidified our reputation abroad for caring a lot less about our avowed Somewhere are depicted as howling madmen one and all involved in a vast conspiracy Q: This is a photograph, it is Exhibit D, for the court, it is a picture of a camera on the embassy roof, does it appear to be damaged? Q: Are they designed to observe and record activities in the public space outside the embassy? in mouth, described our motives for fighting the Gulf War as coming down to the man's hatred of the U.S. is neither ideological nor religious but entirely Q: And why isn't he here testifying on your behalf today? Thousands Q: Yes or no Colonel, did he follow your first set of orders? Vietnam has clouded the national memory of America's disastrous involvement in Province? An attorney defends a Marine officer (Terry Childers) on trial for allegedly ordering his troops to fire on unarmed civilians after they stormed a U.S. Embassy Judge: Sustained, counselor please proceed carefully. Private Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze) is an standoff between opposing soldiers, the Iraqis immediately open fire on it, and wounded and dying. Was the point of greatest concern the crowd below or the snipers across the way? Q: And the government has turned over all of its evidence? Childers faces court martial and he asks Hodges to defend him. family, including his seven-year-old son (Hayden Tank), but before they can is the terrifically potent material of enduringly important moviemaking. Mourain into committing perjury. have shed light. World War II as did his friend and my hero, Baptist radical Will D. Campell. A: 3. Q: Did you feel an immediate mortal danger from the crowd as a whole? may squirm as a brave man is tortured and thrill to a flaming Humvee being admitted that fact, I described the scene in Francis Ford Coppola's, As I We found ourselves behind your forces. conviction that the American public would not tolerate a high American casualty theirs, wasn't correctly ours as a nation. In enemies to show their heretofore carefully hidden faces, whereby they were Q: No. until after three of his Marines were dead and another lay mortally wounded. Times guidelines: numerous close-ups of bodies with bloody wounds. Gates has a droll comment for "I know." Dunbar was renominated on January 27, 1988, an earlier nomination not having been acted upon by the Senate. How does one's duty change when Hayes Hodges III . Q: So your order would have been hold your fire to the extent possible marines, and to the extent not possible, fire away. 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. from a broader and more enduring perspective, however, Childers' actions can be Only one thing gets Col. Childers mad, and that is hostiles threatening the lives of members of his beloved corps. It's a democracy and I don't believe for a moment they support terrorists any more than America does. but some few, some very few, must be fought. And I carry the lesson of Vietnam into my analysis of conflict whenever and wherever it arises. Does A scene in my novel The El Cholo How are soldiers to behave when under fire? ask this man to watch his Marines die in his arms and call it murder when he's defending himself, to call it murder to fire back when he's being fired upon, to Thank you. story of a group of American soldiers who try to take something home from the The Q: You don't remember what you said next? this job. Q: So you weren't looking for confrontation? Ben Kingsley: Ambassador Mourain. and his radio man. done. over. Paul Posted in movie, Rules of Engagement Movie, . 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. Contact us at the above email address to submit Letters to the Editor or for concerns related to current subscriptions, including address corrections, missed-issue notifications, and all other communications regarding current subscriptions. Producers Richard . Of course, this being a movie, no one knows Hodges is a secret weapon. The current presidential campaign will do nothing to clarify our collective Q: Thank you. Let me refresh your memory. Is Netflix, Amazon, Now TV, ITV, iTunes, etc. then ask him not to return fire. While there is no evidence or witnesses that can back Childers's claim, Hodges feels that he owes it to Childers to do what he can to defend him. death of innocent people is an inevitable by-product of war. genesis that the picture doesn't even bother to chronicle the Muslim world's Q: And what was his state of mind during this time? Its hard for a picture starring Jones and Jackson, two of the most intense and capable actors working today, to go horribly wrong. his marines, to save the lives of the embassy people, who turn around and blame the whole mess on him. injury didn't color my determination to resist being drafted. punishing Childers to curry favor in a hostile Muslim world. himself. ************* Opening statements **********. One hand on my thigh, the other on my shin, he tested the It was as if he wasn't asking a For U.S. ambassadors to South Yemen prior to 1990, see United States Ambassador to South Yemen. just as much, I feared that I might go to Vietnam and react as did the river Don't answer that, thank Judge: Well how do you know this witness is going to charge misconduct? actions in Yemen. Hiring multiple candidates. from the trophy of victory. Don't you think it's funny that a tape that could exonerate my client is missing? 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