Green Dragon

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="06dd8c02dduajq.jpg"> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">       <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="11" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="11">   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><IMG SRC="0660b0b0.png" border=0 width="11" height="11" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2f096cd0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="205" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Judy & Lutz Perschon</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Judy Lutz Perschon"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >back to</FONT>  <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="At The Movies With Lutz"><U><B>At The Movies With Lutz</B></U></A></div> <div> Green Dragon</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="767" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 248 WIDTH="755"><div> This is not a movie everyone will want to see, but it is a movie everyone should see.  It is a small part of the Vietnam war that is little known.  You can read the story line below and find out that it is certainly not your typical Vietnam war movie.   Of course some say the USA lost the war in Vietnam, I tend to think the US never really fought that war but rather tried to defend South Vietnam.  [As an aside they learned a lesson there that they did not repeat in the Gulf war, with a very different result]  The movie crawls along at a snails pace and at least half the movie requires subtitles.   Patrick Swayze plays a role of camp commander more in the genre of Joy City, but Kieu Chinh really the star of this movie.  The movie is directed by Timothy Linh Bui, who himself at a very young age was in  the camp.  It is obvious there are certain lessons he wants to portray.  This movie probably didn't make it big at the box office or financially, but as Forest Whitaker [who both stars in, and is executive producer of, Green Dragon] points out, there is such a powerful story to tell and it needed to be told.  If you want to see a movie with a little more than Hollywood normally offers, and have a passion for a human drama, rent Green Dragon.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 27 WIDTH="755"><div> Rating  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="0fb15150.gif" border=0 width="21" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 98 WIDTH="755"><div> Storyline from Yahoo:  THE GREEN DRAGON tells the tale of the first wave of Vietnamese refugees who were housed in camps across the southwestern deserts of the United States in 1975. It is really an amalgamation of different stories: of children watching and waiting for their mother to join them; of a camp cook, who paints in his spare time and befriends one young boy; of an ex-translator for the army, who, because of his bilingual skills, assumes a leadership role while he yearns for a lost love; and of the staff sergeant who rules over the camp, speaking through bullhorns and learning about humanity. </div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>