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Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American war legal drama film directed by William Friedkin, written by Stephen Gaghan, from a story by Jim Webb, and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after Marines under his orders kill a large number of civilians outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen.
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War happens to be the phenomenon with greatest discrepancy between how it is portrayed in Hollywood films and how it is in real life. That was especially so in the period between the fall of Berlin Wall and the fall of WTC towers, during which Hollywood’s prime audience in USA and other Western countries was least likely to be affected by it directly. In those time war was something abstract, either portrayed as som…More
