An entertainment medium. So, how do you present this material to an audience and make it entertaining . And that really, uh a big credit goes to hal ashby, because he has the kind of nonsequitur sense of humor and he lays back on certain issues. Paraplegics could be very grim. Guys returning from the war in the state i was in could be very grim. A wife having to go through both sides of the triangle could be very grim. But ashbys got a great way of handling that. A sarcastic touch in there, from time to time. The humor is there, but at the same time, its real. Its really the only way to approach subject matter for the thing we were trying to say like that. What the movie really is about is the war at home. It was a war that we all saw on television. Every night for ten years, we saw what was going on. But you never saw what went on with these guys when they came home if they came home. Yes. Hundreds and thousands in this country. The thing im proudest of is its the most collaborative e
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