#Famous vietnam photo gun to head movie#
In Roeper’s video review he says, “The most offensive and gutsy joke in the movie is a Vietnam War visual reference that takes place over the closing credits.” After all, The Hangover Part II takes place in Bangkok, 612 miles from Ho Chi Minh City and it has nothing to do with the Vietnam War so why recreate the photo? I guess I was in denial because former “At the Movies” duo, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, weren’t as quick to dismiss the photo.Įbert writes in his review, “ is a raunch fest, yes, but not an offense against humanity (except for that photo, which is a desecration of one of the two most famous photos to come out of the Vietnam War).” When I saw it, I thought to myself, Nah, that couldn’t have been an example of the Hangover boys mocking one of the most famous photos to come out of the Vietnam War in which a man was actually killed. It’s brief, but I saw it and I wasn’t alone, though reactions to the photo seem to vary. Two characters from the film (I’m sorry, I don’t remember which characters they were, maybe someone can help us out in the comments) recreate the photo with one holding a gun to the head of the other.
Among the debauchery on display there is what appears to be a recreation of Eddie Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning photo you see above. In case you don’t know what I’m referring to, at the end of The Hangover Part II, just like the first film, there is a photo montage of what really went down during the forgotten night the film revolves around. General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon
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