A compilation of narrative film scenes and sequences featuring the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in the Vietnam War from the 60s-70s.
Through the Hollywood romanticization of America's failure in Vietnam, propaganda and modern portrayals of the North Vietnamese perspective of the Vietnam War, almost little to none have ever tried to portray the full Vietnamese perspective in a respectful light. Usually the North Vietnamese are portrayed as effeminate and inhumane, and the South Vietnamese ARVN as careless and weak fighters.
Rarely has the South Vietnamese perspective, other than the Viet Cong, been portrayed in one of the most famous wars about them.
Only books such as Lotus and the Storm and The Sympathizer have tried to capture that, but not really in film.
I have only found two South Vietnamese films made during the war, using their military, to help with the film. One, the Purple Horizon, which was shown throughout Asia and won a nomination in a Taiwanese film festival. There could be more South Vietnamese perspective films, but I could not find any other ones that feature the ARVN fighting.
To try to make a South Vietnamese film today would be impossible due to its unpopularity in both Vietnam and the United States, as well as the funding and faith for the project.
It is interesting to note how although both were funded by the South Vietnamese military, it was not as overblown in some propagandist message as one might usually associate military/government funded projects. It was very expressive, but sometimes confused in its messages, especially Purple Horizon which had an ending that felt incomplete and more about how conflicting love is.
Films:
Người tình không chân dung; The Faceless Lover (1973)
- Takes place in the 1970s
Phim Chân Trời Tím; The Purple Horizon (1971)
- Takes place in the 1960s during the many coups in the South
- Since its first premiere in 1971, a classic Republic of Vietnam (1954-1975) war romance feature based on a fiction novel by military writer, Van-Quang. The film was lost for more than 4 decades when the communist forces took Saigon, Republic of Vietnam's capital, on April 30th, 1975. Digitized and restored from surviving 35mm prints archived by Japan film studio Imagica Lab; now transferred to UCLA Film and TV Archive.
Watch in 1080p on Amazon:
www.amazon.com/Chan-Troi-Tim-Purple-Horizon/dp/B0779KPC8M
I forgot that there's also the film, Land of Sorrows, Đất khổ, starring a famous Viet song writer on here that is also from the South Vietnamese perspective: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uGtCuiTG6RA.html
there is a movie made in Hong Kong that's part of a crime series called A Better Tomorrow III - Love and Death in Saigon, which happens to be set during the last days of the Republic of Vietnam, but is all about over the top action.
Also one of the scenes used napalm from a Cessna A-37 Dragonfly from the ARVN airforce (RVNAF) which would be hard to recreate now lmao.
CPL Phi is South Vietnam's Rambo
I wish there was an IMDB firearms page on these two movies on what types of weapons and equipment the ARVN use in these films.
The Viet Cong seem to be using the American weapons in the Purple Horizon.
Right off the bat I know there's the Patton tanks, Huey Helicopters, Dragonfly Jet fighter bombers, Tiger Stripe and ERDL camo uniforms.
Only the Faceless Lover featured Americans and mentioning Thieu
7 мар 2021
