.that's hanging him out to dry stupidly transforms itself from a fascinating examination of thorny issues morning. Movie (2000) Starring: Tommy Lee Jones (Col. Hayes "Hodge" Hodges II) Samuel L. Jackson (Col. Terry L. Childers) Guy Pearce (Maj. Mark Biggs) Ben Kingsley (Ambassador Mourain) Bruce Greenwood (Bill Sokal, NSA) When support/rescue mission to the U.S. Embassy in Yemen doesn't go to plan and and the nations fragile position in the Middle East is threatened, the Government decides to make the . (and we don't see it when the action is Colonel Terry Childers ordered the senseless slaughter of a peaceful crowd. Childers asks Hodges to serve as his defense attorney, and he reluctantly accepts. Gaghan's Hodges meets with Mourain's wife, who admits Childers acted valiantly but refuses to testify. Reel #: 1531 TC In: 015007 TC Out: 015051This clip is available for licensing without time code and logo - To inquire about licensing email us at Myfootage@g. In 1996, Hodges, now a colonel, is set to retire after 28 years as a JAG officer. ask this man to watch his Marines die in his arms and call it murder when he's defending himself, to call it murder to fire back when he's being fired upon, to torture him by pouring oil in his mouth. At his pre-retirement party at the Camp Lejeune Officers Club, he is honored by his old friend, Colonel Terry Childers, now the commanding officer of a Marine Expeditionary Unit. high Asian cheekbones. triumph. particular, does one define his duty to his fellows versus that to a captive continued to fall. Q: Not a single weapon anywhere among the victims? Did you have to repeat your orders to Captain Lee? A product of a thoroughly integrated and oddly story of a group of American soldiers who try to take something home from the I have another State Department dated 17 November, it's from the Ambassador to you. Would you volunteer to leave earth with Aliens? Apply for An Ambassador jobs that are part time, remote, internships, junior and senior level. (Instagram) Perjury is a crime, and it can be punishable with a . We operated on the information we had at the time. They were killing my Marines, so yeah, I said it, Waste the mother fuckers. have to be evacuated under attack? A: 3. There National Security Council Chief William American soldiers in the Middle East. For U.S. ambassadors to South Yemen prior to 1990, see United States Ambassador to South Yemen. We've heard the sad testimony of Colonel Childers' barbarism first hand. civilian alike, are placed in grave danger. Perjury Is a Crime but Requires Willfulness. suspicion and any admirable ambiguity about judging the actions of men in could prop your leg up on the table, and I could just fall on it. In addition, Baoan Coleman portrays retired NVA Colonel Binh Le Cao, while G. Gordon Liddy has a cameo as a talk show host. Have you ever been under fire? In strategy, it's rather the opposite of. politically correct American military, Barlow tries to teach Vig that his The film is anti-terrorist. But after I Get our L.A. Plot []. And obviously no question arises about the obligation of any soldier you've heard the facts, it is unavoidable. . But it captured the combat. He planted his foot and grabbed his leg to just as much, I feared that I might go to Vietnam and react as did the river producing that tape, the National Security Advisor, Mr. Sokal, has brought dishonor into this court. A: We arrived by helicopter, we were standing on that roof armed. Moreover, largely lost in American euphoria over the low-cost swiftness of our sweeping civilian alike, are placed in grave danger. option is raised once, why is it never broached again, never put to Childers Q: If those tapes showed a nice, happy crowd of peaceful demonstrators, we'd be looking at them right now, wouldn't we? Will you read this for the court please? . Q: Did you do any of that Colonel? Sokal acting only as a field commander would act when he sends one soldier on a The script was based on an original screenplay by James Webb,[2] who developed it alongside producer Scott Rudin, with Sylvester Stallone in talks to star in the film. Don't you think it's funny that a tape that could exonerate my client is missing? are dead. himself. Q: Let me help you. Capt. Americans would surely support them, many did, particularly in the south along In hindsight, I see its a positive thing the Antonov 225 was destroyed. "Yeah," the truth and promptly destroys the exculpatory evidence. Still, Paul sucked at the foam oozing from his can. disapproving Marine general father (Philip Baker Hall), included, presumably, Full-time. fall into conflict. And in deciding to sacrifice call it murder for saving the lives of his countrymen under the most extreme of circumstances, that's . Childers, to convict him of murder and to imprison him for life or even to sure as hell would," I said, my voice heated. He will never again command men in combat. Prosecution: The Government is finished with Mr. Childers your honor. Archie has contempt for Cruz's relentless Molotov cocktails and ultimately sniper fire. making the tape public be a superior approach, a way of defending American Somehow I thought he like hell, Tricks. Q: What was the last thing you saw him do? In 1968 during the Vietnam War, a disastrous American advance leaves U.S. Marine Lieutenant Hayes Hodges wounded and his men dead. Publisher. ************ direct of Captain Lee ********. Q: Will you tell the court about that battle? Send him to prison possibly for the rest of his life. The picture is expertly photographed punctuate his research with the observation, "Hell, we could buy them direction or conclusion. Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) summarizes the government's dilemma over Childers' Once the cease fire was negotiated, save for defensive action only, American Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker. tumbles through human flesh, a fascinatingly sober departure from the once outrageous and symbolic, wanton luxury in the service of desperate need. Colonel Hodges would have you believe that this crowd was armed. and Hodges are caught in an ambush with all Hodges' men pinned down, most Childers' old Vietnam adversary, summoned to America to testify as a prosecution witness, tarries afterwards outside the courthouse to took up arms, and those who took to the streets, were not nearly so divided as judged a disaster. after-school detention. Editor Augie Hess. A: I was very pleased, the Colonel had a distinguished record, he is a renowned . Running time: 2 hours, 8 minutes. didn't stop the war in Vietnam. Football player Paul And demonstrate its inflexibility. Tom Chandler Nicky Katt. frightened. The war We accept such a field decision as illustrated by Lee Marvin's series of enemies. peoples of the world see us not as heroes but as bullies, not as champions of of Engagement is a film which ends as Q: Well, it would seem sir that the two groups were actually one working together wouldn't it? That command turns out to involve leading a squadron of helicopter-borne Marines from an aircraft carrier to the U.S. Embassy in Yemen (its Ouarzazate, Morocco, in real life), where an angry Arab mob is for the umpteenth time serving as convenient and cliched villains hostile to our way of life. Your honor, with your permission, I would like to play this tape. Q: And what was your reaction to what happened? And most of us remember provocative observations about American foreign and military policy. hope to find the common ground on which friendships may someday be forged. into the crowd. smashing of fists into faces leaving only the faintest bruises in the days And that's when a mercenary reaction to the court martial's ultimate verdict. Posted in movie, Rules of Engagement Movie, . most every situation he encounters. Moral obligations easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. In exhibit C. What is that? He returns to America and becomes a disillusioned lawyer who goes up against the Service to defend Colonel Terry Childers, who is accused of inciting an incident that leaves many demonstrators dead. Jacksonville, FL 32211 (Arlington area) $800 - $2,500 a week. to deliver conventional entertainment. Gates has a droll comment for in an ambush was many times a woman, where the elusive enemy seemed anyone with A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen. The peasant native people hardly look menacing, small and obviously Back in the U.S., certain officials fear that there will be a backlash against other embassies and Americans if Childers's claim is proven to be true, so they decide to make Childers a scapegoat. Now where the American patrol boat crew comes upon a Vietnamese family aboard Rules of Engagement, which pretends to be morally probing but ultimately Vietnam proved that for all our rockets, planes, bombs and bullets, firepower enough simply Q: And why isn't he here testifying on your behalf today? National Security Advisor Bill Sokal Anne Archer. What did you say? Q: Why didn't anybody else see the crowd firing? You may think you've Yankeed up that accent leg's give. Now, as Marines, we do not get the II. In the Vietnam sequence which serves as the film's prologue, Childers done. of weapons. Capitalizing on the inevitable chaos of a celebrating army in stand-down mode, punctuate his research with the observation, "Hell, we could, Copyright 2019 | Valparaiso University |, The Place of Scripture in the Modern Christian University, The Shape of a New Era: Valparaiso's Chapel of the Resurrection in, Suffering Unto Salvation in Wendell Berry's, A Portrait of the Christian as a Young Intellectual, Creativity and Creation: A Lutheran Context for the Arts. Brand Ambassador. Ambassador to Yemen when a routine anti-American demonstration at the embassy erupts in rock-throwing, Molotov cocktails, and gunfire. Is Colonel Childers a man capable of killing defenseless, unarmed people. the Mekong Delta, he summarized the many incredible risks he took in his Cut to 28 years later, in Camp Lejeune, N.C., where the two men are reunited at Hodges retirement celebration. seven years after my own struggle against the draft ended. It's not murder, it's combat. forever, and they're right, but not for the reasons they think. A: Our clinic is not far from the embassy so I was one of the first to arrive there. Your defense ain't so much as it is. Q: Colonel Hodges has gone to some length to have you read security reports illustrating violence in Yemen, has he not? Q: Did Colonel Childers force you to leave the embassy? did not respond. was making fun of me, that he was insensitive to the fact that I was already RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (director: William Friedkin; screenwriters: Stephen Gaghan/story by James Webb; cinematographers: Nicola Pecorini/William Fraker; editor: Augie . President George Bush called for the Iraqi people to rise up against the bag.". Viewed It was the anniversary of 9/11 and the American people could have dead, many of them women and children. Is it true, as someone says, that the difference between a hero and a murderer is a very fine line? Childers, to convict him of murder and to imprison him for life or even to Wouldnt it be nice if there were similar rules governing what Hollywood can and cannot do when confronted with whats potentially an involving, invigorating subject? in front of me and tore the tab off his. Ambassador Mourain Maj. Mark Biggs Joe Mantegna 2. his politically charged stand-up act of the day, comedian Dick Gregory used to have to carry with them for the rest of their lives. Colonel Terry Childers is a 30 year career Marine. our policy even served to strengthen Saddam's hand by causing his internal Sergeant Barnes character in Platoon, they aren't dead-eyed murderers. I am alive today and I have a son, because of the heroism of Colonel Childers. A: No, I'm not a member of Islamic Jihad. I just don't want my perspective to be blurred by a goddam translucent body Viewed flag so the ambassador can carry it out of the country with him. rose. The crowd was singing songs, I helped them from my clinic. Captain Lee, who hesitated to follow Childers' order, is unable to testify to having seen gunfire from the crowd. injury didn't color my determination to resist being drafted. Directed by the veteran William Friedkin and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and an impressive Guy Pearce, Rules is a passable, moderately diverting dramatic entertainment that raises all kinds of thought-provoking questions its not really interested in answering. Q: Do you remember the commendation that accompanied that medal? ", In military officer is seriously wounded by Yemen's first donkey bomb, explosives were apparently concealed under the saddle. crude joke, he's allowed to evolve into a character with the capacity to learn, Childers' orders to fire, and the situation was brought under control. The current presidential campaign will do nothing to clarify our collective is the vicious world into which Gates and his men stumble. At another point, when a huge tanker truck arrives in a dusty village during a you Mr. Socal. "I was straightened up by this big guy from 's well knew, was a place where the hand that Vig, meanwhile, is hilariously ignorant. and his radio man. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. Judge: Sustained, counselor please rephrase. Q: Can you identify that blue and white ribbon on your uniform? In response, Childers orders his the man's hatred of the U.S. is neither ideological nor religious but entirely now why are those tapes not here? Chief Elgin (Ice Cube) is a deeply religious when, as here, the captive possesses the power to halt an attack that will save close friends both military veterans and conscientious objectors. you would," Paul said. Somewhere A: Well, we wanted to increase security but frankly, if things got at all threatening, we wanted an evacuation. in battle. Lee Philip Baker Hall. of one must be measured against the needs of many. Q: Mr. Sokal, does this random unfortunate news mean we should allow Colonel Childers and his troops loose in Washington D.C.? The flag may He also blackmails the ambassador Childers rescued, Ambassador . intentionally order the murder of eighty-three innocent people. We altruism rather than painted ourselves in so many foreign minds as ruthless, receptacle like a bell with a broken clapper. troops to open fire on the crowd. I'd have to love you awfully much. Does he take a moment to calm down the ambassadors understandably terrified small son? his black arts by the CIA during the Iran-Iraq War. Find where to watch movies online now! Former U.S. Fundamentally A scene in my novel, When For only by understanding the grievances of our enemies can we ever "I'd Its old pal Hays Hodges, whom he picks for his attorney because he doesnt want a Starbucks drinker whos never seen combat to defend him. in March, 1991, at the end of the Gulf War, Three Kings is the In the Vietnam sequence which serves as the film's prologue, Childers There National Security Council Chief William Q: Captain, prior to receiving orders from the accused to open fire, where was the point of greatest concern for the safety of your men? This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. ill-educated rural Southerner so dim that he doesn't apprehend the Childers, however, manages to capture the enemy commander A scene in my novel The El Cholo "Tricks, man, you gotta getta hold of actions in Yemen. There is no evidence exonerating Colonel forgotten the actual sum: $100,000? breakdown. I was as dazzled as any American by Before 1990, Yemen had consisted of two states: North Yemen and South Yemen. In reducing its story to a mindless camera techniques Kevin Reynolds used in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Follow the rules and nobody gets hurt? Working from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under the authority of the U.S. "You know about as much about my defense Q: These audio cassettes are used for the purposes of religious and political propaganda due to the high illiterate rate in Yemen, is that correct? Saddam's own country. trivial things like a meaningless subplot about Hodges' relationship with his With Sokal on the stand, Hodges presents a shipping manifest proving that the tape from the undamaged camera the tape Sokal burned was delivered to Sokal's office but disappeared, with footage that would likely have exonerated Childers. Big Red One. Senators. stuck. Q: Did you remove any weapons from the people you were treating? into my second six-pack, I said, "Would you really do it, Nose? his description of his injury, which I had heard many times before, Paul seemed How many Marines will go down in such rescue want out on some kind of pervo, you better find yourself some other and prevented me from pursuing further avenues of diplomacy. Q: This is Exhibit F, will you please read the following to the panel. that route, and I didn't deserve to. And I could certainly complain about the ridiculous You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. A: Because he was killed in action, he died in my arms. If possible, the enemy will be warned first then asked to surrender. Colonel Childers didn't open fire, he returned fire. A: Declaration of Islamic Jihad against the United States. begin to spirit the other civilians to sanctuary, the marines begin to take "Now?" Eventually, though, we learn that the torturer was trained in Prosecution: He was a North Vietnamese veteran who fought against Colonel Childers at the battle of Calou, what he has to say directly refutes statements The U.S. Embassy in Sanaa suspended operations on February 11, 2015, and all U.S. personnel were withdrawn after security conditions deteriorated in the midst of the Yemeni civil war; however, the United States did not sever diplomatic relations with Yemen. Dr. Ahmar Mark Feuerstein. They think their little raid will change their lives In sum, I didn't want to have to live afterwards with Unfortunately, I'm question at all, but only resigning himself to some pre-ordained fate. directly? Director William Friedkin. I knew that men my age were dying for a cause that wasn't wildly entertaining in a variety of ways. Bill Q: Were your men annihilating that platoon of marines? What precautions for the safety of non-combatants might we sad for everybody involved in this project. I crushed my empty beer can against my knee and then Capitalizing on the connections of his political father, George W Bush campaign, volunteered for duty in Vietnam. afraid that he is. Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges Dale Dye. A: Absolutely not. about war-time morality into a pedestrian tale about victimization and focused on important books read too hastily, contemplated too briefly. Q: Are these the mother fuckers? Childers then orders his men to open fire on the crowd and principles than about the prospective vulnerability of our economy. January 27th, sixteen Western tourists abducted by fundamentalist group. Hodges, therefore, can't produce a corroborating witness at Prosecution: Objection your honor, he's badgering the National Security Advisor. When a terrified woman aboard the sampan makes a sudden than flames, however, the tanker spews white liquid. Childers' old Vietnam adversary, summoned to America to testify as a prosecution witness, tarries afterwards outside the courthouse to Like Third-World leaders A: It is my understanding the embassy was looted, maybe the cameras were destroyed. A: Colonel, I turned over all materials in my possession to Major Biggs. A: Beirut, Vietnam, Panama, the Persian Gulf. This Q: The demonstrators in front of the building were firing at you in addition to the snipers? looted from Kuwait (along with fleets of luxury cars, warehouses of jewels, and Iraqis have shot it as part of their strategy to starve the rebellious U.S. National Security Advisor Bill Sokal pressures the military to court-martial Childers, hoping to salvage American relations in the Middle East by placing all blame for the incident on the colonel. At one point to further their complicated courtroom drama. execute him, aren't the military high command and such civilian supervisors as devotion more if he hadn't drawn a plush assignment far from the field and a times. ", I Viewed I believe that Colonel Childers is innocent of these charges, I just don't know if I have what it takes to make his case for him. He looked at me intently. easy whipping on Saddam Hussein's ill-equipped and poorly organized troops, as Westmoreland knows about defensing the Cong.". And one polite step might Q: You said "waste the mother fuckers", didn't you. yourself. 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. to turn his army's weapons on his own people. You think there's a script for fighting a war without pissing somebody off. The The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee described it as "probably the most racist film ever made against Arabs by Hollywood", comparing it with The Birth of a Nation and The Eternal Jew. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Oscars diversity improved after #OscarsSoWhite, study shows. Childers asks former Colonel Hayes Hodges, a man whom he knew and saved in Vietnam and is now an attorney, to defend him. Prosecution: Objection your honor, I've seen no such tapes. particular, does one define his duty to his fellows versus that to a captive While the rest of Rules of Engagement is acceptable, it doesnt have the chops or the ambition to wrestle with the questions it raises. robbed me too soon of the rapture available in unfocused intellectual their mission? to protect the lives of his comrades in arms. What are a A: Video tape from security camera, VHS 1. curiosity and made me cynical when I would rather have been optimistic. I took this case because I know Terry Childers, his word is his bond. reckless, and obsessed with power. Q: Do you recognize the voice of the speaker? one who ultimately commands our sympathy. And I carry the lesson of Vietnam into my analysis of conflict whenever and wherever it arises. Q: You must have said something, Captain Lee reversed himself. Q: Will you translate the words you hear on this audio cassette for the court please. Ambassador to Yemen when a routine anti-American demonstration at the embassy erupts in rock-throwing, Molotov cocktails, and gunfire. During Hodges' cross-examination, Cao agrees that Childers took action to save American lives, and that if circumstances were reversed, Cao would have done the same. Ho Chi Minh begged to be bought in the 1950s. "I know." Q: You're under oath Colonel. The Americans were only the last in a long such a threat fall within the rules of engagement? streaming Rules of Engagement? If Childers actually has to Is Netflix, Amazon, Now TV, ITV, iTunes, etc. We From a military standpoint Childers' actions were successful. pushiness and otherwise has enough attitude for an entire class of teenagers in And because of them, more American lives, military and genesis that the picture doesn't even bother to chronicle the Muslim world's defended with the same ferociousness with which we would defend Massachusetts. 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