Happy Birthday, Wanda June is a play by Kurt Vonnegut, and a 1971 film adaptation, directed by Mark Robson.
The opening of this play is "This is a simple minded play about men who enjoy killing, and those who don't." It's a play written in the 1970's as a protest to the Vietnam War and remains relevent today in light of the Iraq War, but it is anti-war, anti-machoism in general. It also deeply explores how the perception of things like heroes cha...
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June is a play by Kurt Vonnegut, and a 1971 film adaptation, directed by Mark Robson.
The opening of this play is "This is a simple minded play about men who enjoy killing, and those who don't." It's a play written in the 1970's as a protest to the Vietnam War and remains relevent today in light of the Iraq War, but it is anti-war, anti-machoism in general. It also deeply explores how the perception of things like heroes change with time. It is a tragedy but it is also one of Vonnegut's finest comedies, mixing tragic downfall with Vonnegut's sly ironic dark wit.
Big game hunter, war hero and famous soldier Harold Ryan returns home to America, after having been presumed dead for several years. During the war he killed over 200 men and women, and countless more animals - for sport. He was in the Amazon Rainforest hunting for diamonds with Colonal Looseleaf Harper, a WW2 slow-witted aviation hero who had the unhappy task of dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki....
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