John Wayne is an icon immortalized in history, he was the prototype of what the White American man was supposed to be; confident, brave, and brooding. Wayne represented hard work, success, and traditionalism on screen. But behind the smoke screen he was a misogynist, racist and one dimensional, living inside of a black and white world. In the film Green Beret based on a book a man named General Kirby leds the Anti-War reporter through Vietnam. The ironic thing about the movie Green Beret is the fact that the book with the same name is an Anti-War. It describes all of the unauthorized things done by the actual Green Beret’s, “In the book, Green Berets lead patrols, scorn their corrupt Vietnamese allies, torture prisoners as the first step …show more content…
In the film Green Beret's, pro-war film released during the Vietnam War, the American soldiers were portrayed as saviors saving the Vietnamese people from evil communist bastards. In the film Wayne is playing the same character he has played over and over again, Wayne's was in all aspects a patriot and definitely anti-Communist, he was in fact he produced, directed, and starred in the panned The Green Beret. During the 1960’s if you were like Wayne, “a true red-blooded American,” you were good. If you were not then your labled as a gook, red skin, feminist or whatever negative connotation the existed in Wayne’s black and white world. American culture in the United States during the 1960’s reeked of misogyny and machismo. “They have the right to work wherever they want to as long as they have dinner ready when you get home.” A women had one place in America, which was at home being a mindless slave for her husband and children. And that reflected on screen, if John Wayne wasn’t f*cking you then you had no place in his movie. Women were portrayed as mindless, helpless, falling for Wayne for no particular reason, the only women in the film was portrayed as a seductress and condemned whore. During the Vietnam War women were degraded and strong during a time when many of their fathers, husbands and sons was being