Propaganda Film Good Morning Vietnam

The movie Good Morning Vietnam directed by Barry Levinson is a propaganda film showing how the radio could possibly be used to persuade the American’s viewpoints on the war (by not stating all of the issues that are going on in the war), all while having a comedic sense to the movie. The movie is about a disc jockey named Adrian Cronauer is brought to Vietnam to bring his comical sense to Armed Forces Radio. Good Morning Vietnam, is a propaganda film showing how the radio could possibly be used to persuade the American’s viewpoints on the war, all while having a comedic sense to the movie.He turned the previous dull radio station around and it became very popular with the troops. While doing his radio performance, Cronauer put his creative and witty twist on the radio and it pleased many of the troops who were used to the normal blasé host.

But Cronauer free-spiritedness led to conflict with Sgt. Major Dickerson and Lt. Steven Hauk who already had an agenda for Cronauer to follow. They did not want Cronauer to play music, or run the radio show his way. While he is off the air, he tries to meet a Vietnamese woman, he saw at a bar. He ends up going through a series of stages to meet this girl including meeting her brother Tuan; who stated he would introduce Cronauer to his sister. Cronauer and Tuan end up building a strong friendship, especially after they both experience brushes with death and war experiences, that end up not being heard by the public. In the end, Tuan is suspected of being a terrorist, putting Cronauer in disbelief, and eventually forcing Tuan to disappear and Cronauer leaves the radio