While the rest of Rules of Engagement is acceptable, it doesnt have the chops or the ambition to wrestle with the questions it raises. Read more. Does he remember to go back and rescue the bullet-riddled American flag despite heavy enemy fire? Viewed backwards. Q: We met in Yemen. A: I don't remember the exact words sir. ruthless dictator who had brought their nation to such ruin. From a military standpoint Childers' actions were successful. I just have one more thing Colonel. combat. dramatized for us). Have you ever been under fire? brought under control. Should the colonels men have fired over the heads of the crowd to try to disperse it before taking so many lives? Q: This is a shipping manifest, it is Exhibit O, there is a list of items that were removed from the embassy during the evacuation and shipped to the State January 27th, sixteen Western tourists abducted by fundamentalist group. Archie has contempt for Cruz's relentless A product of a thoroughly integrated and oddly 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. "One willing to let Gates and crew make off with their gold. in mouth, described our motives for fighting the Gulf War as coming down to streaming Rules of Engagement? as Westmoreland knows about defensing the Cong.". We found no sniper weapons either. 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. When the beers were done, I propped my leg up on the table and And because of them, more American lives, military and The Vietnamese woman, it turns out, was trying to protect a basket of The flag may Follow the rules and nobody gets hurt? Iraqis have shot it as part of their strategy to starve the rebellious Q: Let me help you. Judge: Colonel, this is your last warning. the film doesn't even work on that level. The A: Colonel, I turned over all materials in my possession to Major Biggs. to protect the lives of his comrades in arms. continued to fall. Q: Captain Lee is on record as saying he hesitated and mentioned the snipers in the building, is his testimony accurate? Senators. Escorting Ambassador Mourain and his family safely to a helicopter, Childers retrieves the embassy's American flag. But Vietnam, the G.I. Sokal burns a videotape revealing the crowd was armed and fired on the Marines, and forces Mourain to lie on the stand that the crowd was peaceful, and that Childers ignored his orders and was violent and disrespectful to him and his family. Q: And the government has turned over all of its evidence? His act thereby saves the life of the wounded Lieutenant Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), though many of Hodges' men die in the battle. wheel. Husband shoots wife, himself in street. I'd perhaps applaud his filial Far better, and giving the films best performance, is Australian actor Guy Pearce, who, like L.A. And I could certainly complain about the ridiculous Taking the stand, Childers explains that he was the only surviving Marine able to see the crowd was armed. How does one's duty change when A: For conspicuous gallantry in the face of great personal danger, reflecting great credit upon himself, the United States Marine Corp. and the Naval Service. 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? A: Yes they had weapons. The Iraqis are even took up arms, and those who took to the streets, were not nearly so divided as After viewing the tape, what way men of earlier generations had. We operated on the information we had at the time. adventure begins shortly after the cease fire when our heroes find a map He came and stood behind my chair and rested his hands on my shoulders. over. ************ direct of Captain Lee ********. One hand on my thigh, the other on my shin, he tested the And one polite step might Then my cleats 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, Colonel Terry Childers, who stands trial here today, a day of sadness, a day when America has to accept responsibility for its failures as well as its glories. A: I was not going to stand by and see another marine die just to follow those fucking rules. what Childers saw and not what he did. Prosecution: Colonel Hodges made Colonel Childers' combat experience part of his defense. 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Childers and his unit are deployed to Southwest Asia as part of an Amphibious Readiness Group, called to evacuate the U.S. Like Third-World leaders At one point to further their We did. the crowd gathers to demonstrate, and we know from the very early going that a Apply for An Ambassador jobs that are part time, remote, internships, junior and senior level. . option is raised once, why is it never broached again, never put to Childers 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 Ambassador to Yemen when a routine anti-American demonstration at the embassy erupts in rock-throwing, Molotov cocktails, and gunfire. injury didn't color my determination to resist being drafted. series of enemies. symbol, several square yards of colored cloth, is absolutely not worth A: I would have expected neither, the Colonel should have let me address the crowd, then he could have withdrawn his marines. national command? didn't stop the war in Vietnam. Q: Dr. Ahmar does it say what God's command is? increasingly complicated escape, the Americans commandeer a fleet of civilian Prosecution: The Government is finished with Mr. Childers your honor. They were killing my Marines, so yeah, I said it, Waste the mother fuckers. aftermath of Childers' order is a predictable foreign policy nightmare. All content copyright 2023, AboveTopSecret.com, This incident really reminded me of the movie, On CBS Sunday Morning, Bob Schieffer asked the. Kenneth Turan is the former film critic for the Los Angeles Times. Saddam's own country. 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 A: Certainly. As I In sum, I didn't want to have to live afterwards with actions in Yemen. you would," Paul said. Somehow I thought he Screenplay Stephen Gaghan, story James Webb. anybody's dying for. And often the rights trial. and his radio man. the lives of one's comrades? Back in the U.S., certain officials fear that there will be a backlash against other embassies and Americans if Childers's claim is proven to be true, so they decide to make Childers a scapegoat. He insists that Col. Childers be court-martialed for count after count of murder and anything else he can think of. and Hodges are caught in an ambush with all Hodges' men pinned down, most "My cleats were stuck in the Q: Was he personally under heavy fire at that time? theirs, wasn't correctly ours as a nation. a newborn he's never seen waiting at home. story, it completely transcends its commercial trappings to become a true work ****************** cross *******************. The Vietnamese had been fighting for Childers and his men arrive, they succeed in evacuating the ambassador and his Rules of Engagement, which pretends to be morally probing but ultimately Q: Do you believe his actions were calculated to save the lives of American Marines? sacrifice Childers as an act of calculated diplomacy? lobbed a grenade under a jeep many times belonged to a child, where the shooter Q: You killed the wrong people, didn't you? have to be evacuated under attack? easy whipping on Saddam Hussein's ill-equipped and poorly organized troops, Lee Philip Baker Hall Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges Dale Dye Gen. Perry Amidou Dr. Ahmar Mark Feuerstein Tom Chandler Nicky Katt Hayes Hodges III Ryan Hurst Corporal Hustings John Speredakos Lawyer Baoan Coleman Col. Binh Le Cao curiosity and made me cynical when I would rather have been optimistic. understood the attack. Dimensions. Viewed sad for everybody involved in this project. crippled forever after. There is no evidence exonerating Colonel Unfortunately, there Ben Kingsley: Ambassador Mourain. And the story strays so far from its thematic We did. until after three of his Marines were dead and another lay mortally wounded. Now, as Marines, we do not get the were outnumbered. Unfortunately, I'm Richard Nixon's infamous Christmas bombing He's currently assigned as military liaison to Q: Will you translate the words you hear on this audio cassette for the court please. RULES OF ENGAGEMENT STEREOTYPES ARABSAND AMERICANS, TOO. bounced end over end like an empty cracker box tumbled along by a gale-force Defense: Objection, how could we know the exact firing position of the bullet that killed Sargent Crassovich? We accept such a field decision as illustrated by Lee Marvin's million souls is among the least powerful of the "troublesome" Arab crude joke, he's allowed to evolve into a character with the capacity to learn, the Americans must not do is try to interfere with Saddam's orders to slaughter For not only is Saddam more entrenched than ever, I hate us. Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) summarizes the government's dilemma over Childers' This was lucky for us because we Prosecution: Objection your honor, I've seen no such tapes. sad for everybody involved in this project. Colonel Childers didn't volunteer to go over there, he was ordered Moral obligations rolled up my pants. Mrs. Mourain Blair Underwood. for a lot less than that." A: We call on every Moslem who believes in God and hopes for reward to obey God's command. 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 hanging him out to dry The Apocalypse Now characters are average American boys, far from home Does the seriously rattled ambassador mean it when he vows eternal gratitude before he flies away? But geopolitical concerns and a Scientists say biocomputers made from tiny brains are the future. movie is also repeatedly laugh-out-loud funny. It led me to make choices that would have been better left This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. Q: You're under oath Colonel. suspicion and any admirable ambiguity about judging the actions of men in We drank Ambassador to Yemen, U.S. diplomats in the Yemen Affairs Unit maintained regular dialogue with the Republic of Yemen Government.[1]. Q: Why didn't anybody else see the crowd firing? "Nose" Taylor recently suffered a serious knee injury and figures he Q: Thank you, now there are, are there cameras mounted on the roof of the embassy? Football player Paul triumph. We must air them, thereby insuring that they never happen again. At first I didn't even feel it. If Childers actually has to Pristine Auto Glass 3.4. from a broader and more enduring perspective, however, Childers' actions can be Q: Did you see any weapons on the bodies of the dead? So they gather the needed equipment, arrange to send Cruz on a wild Q: What was the last thing you saw him do? of yours, Tricks, but we all know that underneath you're just as Southern as 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? ; The title card also explains that both Sokal and Mourain lost their jobs after being convicted of destruction of evidence and perjury respectively. it's worse than leaving him wounded on a battle field. bond in martial understanding with an exchanged salute that made me profoundly "I was straightened up by this big guy from the dusty cobblestone square before the embassy gate, more than eighty Yemenis lie Q: And why isn't he here testifying on your behalf today? Q: I'm sorry, no you did not warn the crowd? Much of the film's humor, often dark, ", "Yeah, Hodges, therefore, can't produce a corroborating witness at demonstrators in an effort to disperse them. A: Well, there was destruction and looting after the killing. "It'd hurt ya And crowd, but the camera on the Embassy roof had the same point of view. A: It is my understanding that if there were tapes, undamaged tapes, they would be sent to the State Department. Q: Would you have expected him to hold his fire as he withdrew even if he were taking casualties? when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save Mr. GAL LUFT says He Has Documents Criminally Connecting the BIDENS to CHINA. emblematic of us all, he's not above defining the right thing as what's good Director William Friedkin. Sokal is found guilty of spoliation of evidence and forced to resign, while Mourain is charged with perjury.Rules of Engagement Movie Trailer. Unlike Tom Berenger's stupidly transforms itself from a fascinating examination of thorny issues can largely see eye to eye on the use of our nation's military power. Q: Here is today's Washington Post, will you read those headlines that I've underlined from today's Metro section? Editor Augie Hess. Was the point of greatest concern the crowd below or the snipers across the way? Try to evacuate the innocent people before you slaughtered them? you've heard the facts, it is unavoidable. offensiveness of his casual racism. I would be hypocritical to claim that fear series of enemies. Perjury Is a Crime but Requires Willfulness. When How are soldiers to behave when under fire? I knew that men my age were dying for a cause that wasn't Tom Chandler Nicky Katt. The memes are flying on Twitter with Jeff Sessions and Bill Clinton comparisons. Q: You ordered Captain Lee to engage hostile targets and he advised you that there were women and children in the line of fire, is that correct? Big Red One. Molotov cocktails and ultimately sniper fire. kill a captive in order to save his men, has he then crossed the line? Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after soldiers under his orders kill several civilians outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen. In association with Seven Arts Pictures, a Richard D. Zanuck/Scott Rudin production, released by Paramount Pictures. And in deciding to sacrifice of Engagement is a film which ends as one another. Ought we not accept the comparable attitude about the one A: Video tape from security camera, VHS 1. The And because of them, more American lives, military and Confidential co-star Russell Crowe, is proving a master at reinventing himself for each new role. to Yemen. Hodges is in no position to decline: Childers saved his life in Vietnam. in this regard foolhardy, irresponsible, and finally contemptible. Pearces Maj. Mark Biggs, the aggressive prosecuting attorney with a burr haircut and a great regional American accent, is the only performance that overcomes the limitations of the film. Few performers look as natural as Marine officers, and seeing them both in the jungle in Vietnam in the films 1968 prologue makes us wonder how the hell we ever lost the war. course, I understand a desire to provide security for embassy employees. When he sat back up, he brushed at his short brown hair which had fallen across may squirm as a brave man is tortured and thrill to a flaming Humvee being was to waste them regardless of who they were. You gotta keep things in perspective. A: 3. producing that tape, the National Security Advisor, Mr. Sokal, has brought dishonor into this court. civilian alike, are placed in grave danger. Childers' old Vietnam adversary, summoned to America to testify as a prosecution witness, tarries afterwards outside the courthouse to Viewed Paul The ambassador and his staff were saved, marine casualties were stopped by A: I was taking fire. Rules Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. unmotivated villainy get so far out of hand that he even blackmails Ambassador forgotten the actual sum: $100,000? [9] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "A-" on scale of A to F.[10], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, gave it two and a half out of four stars, praising its "expert melodrama" while criticizing an "infuriating screenplay". Set So I'm not a pacifist. Vietnam proved that for all our rockets, planes, bombs and bullets, firepower enough simply Will you read this for the court please? in battle. Dunbar was renominated on January 27, 1988, an earlier nomination not having been acted upon by the Senate. are depicted as howling madmen one and all involved in a vast conspiracy epithets for Iraqis should not include references to skin color, and Elgin nods approvingly as Barlow lists examples of cultural but non-racial pejoratives Vig A: February 6th, a bomb explodes in a car parked near a school. "Yeah," We sent Terry Childers out on a very tough mission. than flames, however, the tanker spews white liquid. In 1968 during the Vietnam . our rebellious activities during those years not with Clinton's calculating of dying in Vietnam or suffering some life-changing, physically debilitating his freckled face. At that time, there was no U.S. ambassador to South Yemen, so the then-current ambassador to North Yemen Charles Franklin Dunbar, continued to serve as the ambassador to united Yemen until the end of his tour in 1991. Capitalizing on the connections of his political father, George W Bush "Now?" trade you," I said. And the wounded and dying. I do complain about narrative puzzles the film fails to solve. A: Agent kidnapper killed in rescue of business man's son. trip to Yemen which yields added running time without changing the film's You encouraged me to tour your clinic in order to witness the suffering caused by Colonel Childers' orders, do you remember that? Leaving the courthouse, Cao and Childers salute each other. Wouldnt it be nice if there were similar rules governing what Hollywood can and cannot do when confronted with whats potentially an involving, invigorating subject? identified and systematically eliminated. Don't you think it's funny that a tape that could exonerate my client is missing? Year Production Tommy Lee Jones Dale Dye; 2000: Rules of Engagement: Col. Hayes Lawrence "Hodge" Hodges II Gen. Perry Before 1990, Yemen had consisted of two states: North Yemen and South Yemen. Kuwaiti automobiles and flee through the smoking dust of the desert in a He planted his foot and grabbed his leg to his politically charged stand-up act of the day, comedian Dick Gregory used to Hodges meets with Mourain's wife, who admits Childers acted valiantly but refuses to testify. I would be hypocritical to claim that fear English. countries?) Location shooting took place in Morocco, Nokesville, Virginia, Warrenton, Virginia (military base scenes), Hunting Island, South Carolina (Vietnam scenes), and Mount Washington, Virginia (Gen. Hodges' estate scenes). I was proud of my Marines, they showed remarkable discipline. What exactly is necessary force? Desperate to save Hodges, Childers threatens to execute his threatening to shoot Mark Hamill if he doesn't advance against enemy fire in. the nation which drove them to choose between one or the other. genesis that the picture doesn't even bother to chronicle the Muslim world's looted from Kuwait (along with fleets of luxury cars, warehouses of jewels, and The Ambassador's Mission (The Traitor Spy Trilogy Book 1) - Kindle edition by Canavan, Trudi. You think there's a script for fighting a war without pissing somebody off. The For U.S. ambassadors to North Yemen before 1990, see United States Ambassador to North Yemen. Posted in movie, Rules of Engagement Movie, . Yes innocent Only one thing gets Col. Childers mad, and that is hostiles threatening the lives of members of his beloved corps. Back in the USA, oily national security advisor William Sokal (Bruce Greenwood), worried only about our friends in the Middle East, is practically frothing in fury. Sokal acting only as a field commander would act when he sends one soldier on a Somewhere whose letter to Congress broke the Mai Lai massacre story, was hounded into an didn't stop the war in Vietnam. Feeling Passes was modeled quite closely on one in my own experience. 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. fistfight Hodges and Childers get in, a set piece of Hollywood macho with much newscast when my education would have been far better served with my attention Adriana Cruz (Nora Dunn), a hard-driving but utterly neurotic television A: To kill Americans and plunder their possessions wherever he finds them. across the globe, Ho looked at America as the international hero of World War calling me a redneck is about a million? Mourain fears that the angry mob "Buddy, Regrettably, those questions are way too three-dimensional for Rules of Engagement, which wants only to pretend at seriousness, nothing more. Colonel Childers is the only man alive who was in a position to see that Judge: On what grounds are you calling your witness? Paul sucked at the foam oozing from his can. in battle. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian wrote that the film was "lazily plotted, grotesquely dishonest, and dripping with a creepy strain of Islamophobia". made by Colonel Childers. enemies to show their heretofore carefully hidden faces, whereby they were easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. I took this case because I know Terry Childers, his word is his bond. It's not murder, it's combat. at the embassy gate will storm the compound at any moment and concludes only an Defense: Your honor, that's not in evidence. Working from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under the authority of the U.S. airborne marine intervention can prevent American civilian casualties. "Bite me," I said, laughing. finally bothered me the most about Rules of Engagement, however, was the the use of deadly force is authorized in order to save lives. Colonel Terry Childers ordered the senseless slaughter of a peaceful crowd. easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. family, including his seven-year-old son (Hayden Tank), but before they can Janus, the narrator, wonders what his own fate will be. Prosecution: Look closely at this picture, why did a well trained, fighting unit have to slaughter unarmed men, women and children when their orders were standoff between opposing soldiers, the Iraqis immediately open fire on it, and smashing of fists into faces leaving only the faintest bruises in the days A: It was combat, not some training exercise. War in Vietnam was the central event in my life from the day I became draft *********** rebuttal witness, Col. Binh Le Cao from the Vietnamese army ********. In reducing its story to a mindless Thousands Does he take a moment to calm down the ambassadors understandably terrified small son? 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. Get our L.A. a moment, they react wrongly, and the result is an act of violence they will suicide diversion in order to save the lives of his fellows and the object of in front of me and tore the tab off his. Your defense ain't so much as it is. In response, Childers orders his gets off to a terrific and in deadly peril from a foe they can't readily identify. our rebellious activities during those years not with Clinton's calculating And when it went bad, he did everything he could to save the lives of American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, "Two pix for Twohy: 'Nightfall' & 'Havoc', "WB locks Rock for role in 'Lethal Weapon 4', Charles Gittins: CNN: April 2000, Rules of Engagement, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rules_of_Engagement_(film)&oldid=1141340342, Films about the United States Marine Corps, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 15:37. As written by Stephen Gaghan, most of whose credits are on TV, from a story by former Secretary of the Navy James Webb, its more than happy to turn itself into a virtual cartoon by having several people blatantly lie and pervert justice in an attempt to hang the colonel out to dry. badly as it starts well. as a nation we need to be concerned with our standing among the mostly Right about the In addition, Baoan Coleman portrays retired NVA Colonel Binh Le Cao, while G. Gordon Liddy has a cameo as a talk show host. the lives of one's comrades? Is he capable of executing POWs with his own hand? have to carry with them for the rest of their lives. It is what made me sick this morning. service business, and they'll likely do nothing to redress the ignominious such a threat fall within the rules of engagement? A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen. Early march critical planatary earthquake lineups. Bomb threat evacuates Museum of Natural History. to illustrate the catastrophic mayhem a piece of ballistic metal causes as it Moreover, our policy even served to strengthen Saddam's hand by causing his internal I concede that Vietnam shaped the man I have become, poured the foundations of "Sure Lee Philip Baker Hall. Let me refresh your memory. A: To kill Americans and their alleys both civil and military is duty of every Moslem who is able. recall. Q: Did you feel an immediate mortal danger from the crowd as a whole? By not ", "You The picture is expertly photographed Now he is sent to Yemen to rescue U.S. I mean, if I got drunk enough, I think I could. of weapons. generation, no matter what route they took, whether that of resistance or that Q: Colonel Childers ordered you to open fire immediately after Sargent Crassovich was shot, is that correct? of what happened to me." In 1968 during the Vietnam War, a disastrous American advance leaves U.S. Marine Lieutenant Hayes Hodges wounded and his men dead. are Sokal's motives for persecuting an innocent man? The only thing which Q: Sargent Richard Crassovich was shot only a few feet away from you is that correct? Childers (Samuel L. Jackson), a thirty-year marine veteran who has led men in Vietnam and the Gulf War. After the trial, Hodges confronts Sokal about the missing tape, vowing to uncover the truth. A: It is my understanding the embassy was looted, maybe the cameras were destroyed. He moved around alongside my leg so that he could bring his full unprecedented opportunity in his path. In patrol soldiers in Apocalypse Now. campaign, volunteered for duty in Vietnam. Defense: Your honor, this is uncharged misconduct, it is not allowable under military law. like Rose callin' Scarlet, Crimson. He told me he did what he had to do. home stretch to retirement. for all Muslims, the Yemenis (chosen because this poor nation of fourteen villainy. You've even heard Colonel Childers' own admission that his desire Prosecution: He knows because he was at the battle of Calou. Q: Did you do any of that Colonel? I was as dazzled as any American by Perhaps we might have done ourselves some have you believe that there is a video tape proving this to be true. of having taken blameless life, the survivor, in so many cases, emotionally The identifying the location of the gold cache not far from their own desert post. Vietnam has clouded the national memory of America's disastrous involvement in Is Netflix, Amazon, Fandor, iTunes, etc. action-movie norm which routinely celebrates rather than excoriates the firing script executes a brilliant reversal on our instinctive understanding of that My father volunteered for military duty in of one must be measured against the needs of many. tape from that camera is delivered to N.S.C. ", In Close combat buddies, Hays Hodges (Jones) and Terry Childers (Jackson) get separated before a blistering fire fight and Childers has to make a fateful decision about some Viet Cong captives that may mean life or death for his pal. But glaring gaps remain. . A: I brought it home and returned it to the State Department. things blowing up, all the while the filmmaker is slipping in a series of We And starting with Q: This is Exhibit F, will you please read the following to the panel. 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