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No Hollywood films about the korea war

The intriguing thing to me is that when hollywood produce films about ww2,vietnam war,iraq war again and again,but no one single film about korea war(1950-1953),why is that?


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Just a guess...but WW2 was a decisive American victory over what the world knows was an evil empire.

Vietnam was the central event that shaped and defined a tumultuous generation of Americans.  It was a backdrop behind the civil rights movement, the emerging popularity of illegal narcotics, a radical youth culture, the assaniation of JFK, the moon landing, etc, and it was also the first time the US lost a war.

The Korean war had no such decisive outcome, the reasons for war and the war itself were not debated as stridently. The enemy was not so obviously evil, and the outcome was basically a stalemate. The communists were not able to conquer Korea, but the Allies were not able to destroy them either.

 As for Hollywood, I guess this doesn't make for such emotionally charged subject matter, not unlike the Spanish American War, the war of 1812, the countless Indian Wars, etc.

However, I can't help but wonder if the current events in North Korea might not spark an interest in Korean war.


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I was late for work this morning, because I got stuck in Zeno's paradox

There is a whole article on the subject at koreanwar.com. There are a few movies on the Korean war, but I guess it wasn't an apealing enough subject (or perhaps the movies didn't make enough money to warrant making more). The Korean war does not have any of the mystique or appeal of other wars like the Vietnam war or WW2.


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What about MASH?


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Films were made in the 50s about Korea - "Pork Chop Hill" with Gregory Peck is a brilliant war movie. Obviously, "The Manchurian Candidate" had Korea as a backdrop.



From the way Hollywood seems to operate, a single ground-breaking film is needed to whet the interest. There had been no significant films about WW2 until "Saving Private Ryan" came along, then there was a steady trickle of such films.


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No WWII movies ??!? The Longest Day? The Bridge on the River Kwai?


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I meant to type 'there had been no significant WW2