we didn t dealt with that. we kill him, walk away, no discussion about it. what i m hearing is there s this strain of the supremacy of violence and vigilanteism that runs through hollywood all the way through. that s been the money-making thing. the films i do are the counter. they re in the minority by far. the platoon movie which came out against the m.i.a. movie and recognized, but a brief period. i did born on the fourth of july the same way. but by the mid- 90s, the pendulum was going back the other way. when we discovered the world war ii generation we made d-day and saving private ryan, we made d-day the climax of world war ii. that was an interesting moment, the triumphalism of george bush, the first, bill clinton precedes it by a year or two. if you look at bush, the second, he was influenced by the