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Aug 12, 2014 · “Good Morning, Vietnam” – Reports suggest that Williams ad-libbed all of Cronauer’s broadcasts in the the 1987 drama. 8. "Jack" - The film’s director, Francis Ford Coppola, revealed to the...
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- Megan Schaefer
- The Dawn of Good Morning, Vietnam
- Putting Pen to Paper
- Life After (Good Morning) Vietnam
My path to getting to write Good Morning, Vietnam began with Norman Lear. One summer, around 1984 or 1985, I was in Vermont, and I’d heard that Norman Lear was vacationing near a place that I was staying. I’d worked on a show he produced and had met him a couple of times, so I called him up and we got together. He asked what I’d been doing, and I t...
I had to do a lot of research because I didn’t know much about the Vietnam War. A while into writing the script, I wanted to go to Vietnam, but the studio wouldn’t pay for it. As it turned out, you couldn’t go to Vietnam until a few years later anyway. Instead, I went to Bangkok and paid for it myself. I figured if I couldn’t get to the place I was...
I still love the movie. I love what happened with it, and I have great affection for the people who worked on it. I even went to Thailand a couple of years after the release and tried to look up everyone who worked on the movie. Robin, of course, was brilliant. He did a lot of ad-libbing, particularly when he was on the radio. I didn’t like some of...
- Brian Vanhooker
Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the film stars Robin Williams as an Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) DJ who proves hugely popular with the troops, but infuriates his superiors with what they call his "irreverent tendency". The story is loosely based on the experiences of AFRS DJ Adrian Cronauer.
Robin Williams ad-libbed all of Adrian Cronauer's broadcasts. The film was mostly shot in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the time, several hundred male students from the International (American) School of Bangkok (ISB) were recruited as extras to perform in the multitude of shots showing American GI's throughout the film.
Good Morning, Vietnam: Directed by Barry Levinson. With Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tom T. Tran, Chintara Sukapatana. In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.
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- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Barry Levinson
- 1988-01-15
The one-liners and ad-libs distance him from the material and from his fellow actors. Hey, he’s only a visitor here. What is inspired about “Good Morning, Vietnam,” which contains far and away the best work Williams has ever done in a movie, is that his own tactics are turned against him.
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Aug 23, 2022 · "Good Morning, Vietnam" opened in limited release on December 23, 1987, and went wide on January 15, 1988. Though it only wound up snagging one Oscar nomination, it was the one that mattered...
