20 years in the past I discovered myself utilizing an web cafe in Clapham, south London, when my laptop computer crashed. 1 / 4 of an hour later a person logged on subsequent to me. It was John Pilger.
He defined that he was virtually sure that he was being tracked by “the powers that be. These round us from on excessive.” I went on to satisfy the very affable Pilger there a number of occasions. I informed him how a lot I admired The Quiet Mutiny (1970), his first movie, made for Granada ITV’s weekly collection World in Motion, about US conscripts within the Vietnam warfare.
Its helicopter and Miss America pageant sequences later impressed extra glorified variations in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979). The Quiet Mutiny additionally led to Barry Levinson’s Good Morning Vietnam (1987) in regards to the DJ Adrian Cronauer’s satirical antics on air to the frontline troops, as performed by the late Robin Williams. The true-life Cronauer opens The Quiet Mutiny in full throttle, yelling: “Good Morning Vietnam!’’
