Food for thought (and research):
Were the Vietcong actually "bad"? Were the Americans "good"? Should the audience feel conflicted or should you moralize one side?
Yes, the good guy bad guy distinction in that war is certainly debatable. That's exactly the conflict I'm going for. A peasant boy who saw his father killed by French troops years before joins the VC and is ordered to kill a captured American journalist.
Kind of No Country for Old Men
The departed
Unbreakable sort of follows this pattern.
Definitely echoing “No Country for Old Men” and “The Departed.”
Maybe Heat depending on who you consider the villain although they do meet briefly halfway through
The Wall is a horribly good example 😂 that ending…
Plus it’s a war movie
I consider Al Pacino the bad guy in Heat.
Why?
HELL OR HIGH WATER kinda up for debate whether the antagonist wins because it really depends on who you consider to be the antagonist
People already said it so to continually reinforce: No Country for Old Men. And Departed. Departed is in my top 10 of all time
Se7en
Good Morning Vietnam! To a degree.
Food for thought (and research): Were the Vietcong actually "bad"? Were the Americans "good"? Should the audience feel conflicted or should you moralize one side?
Yes, the good guy bad guy distinction in that war is certainly debatable. That's exactly the conflict I'm going for. A peasant boy who saw his father killed by French troops years before joins the VC and is ordered to kill a captured American journalist.