History in the (re)making

Rating: Null/10 (15 July 2000)

It would be interesting how US reaction would be if the Chinese film industry produced a film concerning the Vietnam war back in the late 60s.
But to add some "drama" they showed typical GIs viciously slaughtering women & children, torturing them,raping them etc. With the film in the can and winning hearty approval to a Chinese audience it was then given to a US distributer.
Question 1. Will the distributer have the nerve to show it?

Question 2. Will the US audience regard it in the same manner & grace as the Patriot (which is, after all only a dramatised Movie according to Gibson, but he would say that wouldn't he)?
Question 3. Will there be outrage by the US Gov. and public alike against those "dirty Commies" and their blatant rewriting of scenes that probably never happened?
I saw The Patriot, and it is by and large a good film of America's fight for Independance. But what marred it was the zealous direction with regards black slaves & of course the Brits. Every successful nation has its skeletons in cupboards, and Britain certainly has its fair share, but I'm pretty sure the scenes depicted so generally in this movie never happened in real life.
Having read many historical books on the British Empire & American Independence over the last few years the conflict was fought in a civil manner with American tactical supremacy & individual courage winning the War from a rather overstretched Brit Army and a tactically weak HQ. But no where did I come across any transcripts from US soldiers or civillians with regards brutal British tactics or happy slaves!
An average film that could have been truly great had it not had to resort to xenophobia & over dramatising.
**/*****