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Aug 10, 2019 · Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan is now showing in cinemas. Actor Travis Fimmel plays Major Harry Smith during the Battle of the Long Tan . Photograph: @jasinboland/Suppled
Aug 8, 2019 · In “Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan,” a filmmaker’s dramatization has earned both praise and pushback from the soldiers who survived the attack 53 years ago.
- The Battle from Both Sides
- Tactical Confrontations
- Expanding The Myth
No one doubts the bravery of the men who fought at Long Tan, and the respect they are due. But the film repeats some statistics that are the subject of considerable debate. The failure to acknowledge this debate obscures the complexity of the battle, and the military skill on both sides. The official Australian War Memorial history To Long Tanestim...
There has also been a running debate in the veteran community about whether D Company wandered into an ambush. Chamberlain’s examinations of intelligence and a complex variety of Vietnamese sources suggest that the battle was a result of a Viet Cong (VC) tactic to “lure the tiger from the mountain” to fight the force of a new Australian base where ...
Commemorative storytelling in Australia tends to valorise tactical confrontations - individuals and small units engaging in direct hostilities to defeat enemies and hold terrain. Danger Close is emblematic of this type of narrative. But this attachment to decontextualised small unit actions might not always be the best way forward for understanding...
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Harking back to the type of nationalistic war films that dominated screens during the Reagan era, Kriv Stenders’ film “Danger Close” is a stirring tribute to the soldiers from Australia and New Zealand that gave their lives in the largely forgotten Battle of Long Tan. Yet, despite these noble intentions, the film is unfortunately flat and by-the-numbers, […]
English. Budget. $24 million AUD [1] Box office. $2 million [2] Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan is a 2019 Australian war film about the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War. It is directed by Kriv Stenders and stars Travis Fimmel .
- $2 million
- August 8, 2019 (Australia)
- $24 million AUD
- Caitlin Yeo
Nov 18, 2019 · From director Kriv Stenders and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, the war drama Danger Close tells the story of the Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam in 1966. Major Harry Smith ( Travis Fimmel) and his ...
Nov 7, 2019 · From director Kriv Stenders and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, the new Australian film, Danger Close, sets out to depict the remarkable, yet relatively unknown, true story of 1966’s Battle of Long Tan. A small company of 108 Australian soldiers in Vietnam, half of whom are conscripts, are faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, as they are ...
