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* ManOnFire: Discussed but not shown when [=McNamara=] describes anti-war protestor Norman Morrison burning himself to death right outside of [=McNamara=]'s office in 1965. (There are no photos or film of Morrison's suicide.)
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* SelfImmolation: Discussed but not shown when [=McNamara=] describes anti-war protestor Norman Morrison burning himself to death right outside of [=McNamara=]'s office in 1965. (There are no photos or film of Morrison's suicide.)
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--> '''[=McNamara=]''' "None of our allies joined us. Not Germany, not Japan, not Britain or France. If we can't convince other countries of similar values of the validity of our cause, we should reexamine our reasoning."
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--> '''[=McNamara=]''' "None None of our allies joined us. Not Germany, not Japan, not Britain or France. If we can't convince other countries of similar values of the validity of our cause, we should be prepared to reexamine our reasoning."
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--> '''[=McNamara=] '''[=McNamara=]''' "None of our allies joined us. Not Germany, not Japan, not Britain or France. If we can't convince other countries of similar values of the validity of our cause, we should reexamine our reasoning."
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--> '''[=McNamara=] "None of our allies joined us. Not Germany, not Japan, not Britain or France. If we can't convince other countries of similar values of the validity of our cause, we should reexamine our reasoning."
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** However, at another point in the film, he comments that the US took an incorrect approach, looking at the war through the lens of Cold War geopolitics, while the Vietnamese saw it as a civil war that other countries involved themselves in.
--> "None of our allies joined us. Not Germany, not Japan, not Britain or France. If we can't convince other countries of similar values of the validity of our cause, we should reexamine our reasoning."
--> "None of our allies joined us. Not Germany, not Japan, not Britain or France. If we can't convince other countries of similar values of the validity of our cause, we should reexamine our reasoning."
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* TheKenBurnsEffect: Errol Morris largely eschews this trope in his works, but he does use it once in a while. [=McNamara=]'s wry story about lunatic American generals who the Russians would conduct secret nuclear tests ''behind the Moon'' is accompanied by two slow zooms onto still pictures of the Moon.
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* TheKenBurnsEffect: Errol Morris largely eschews this trope in his works, but he does use it once in a while. [=McNamara=]'s wry story about lunatic American generals who thought the Russians would conduct secret nuclear tests ''behind the Moon'' is accompanied by two slow zooms onto still pictures of the Moon.
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''The Fog of War'' is a 2003 war documentary about the life of former United States Secretary of Defense, UsefulNotes/RobertSMcNamara, who served in that position under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Through the framework of [=McNamara=]'s eleven "lessons of war", he examines his own career, with special attention given to his tenure as Secretary of Defense and his role managing UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar under Lyndon B. Johnson.
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''The Fog of War'' is a 2003 war documentary about the life of former United States Secretary of Defense, UsefulNotes/RobertSMcNamara, UsefulNotes/RobertMcNamara, who served in that position under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Through the framework of [=McNamara=]'s eleven "lessons of war", he examines his own career, with special attention given to his tenure as Secretary of Defense and his role managing UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar under Lyndon B. Johnson.
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''The Fog of War'' is a 2003 war documentary about the life of former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert S. [=McNamara=], who served in that position under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Through the framework of [=McNamara=]'s eleven "lessons of war", he examines his own career, with special attention given to his tenure as Secretary of Defense and his role managing UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar under Lyndon B. Johnson.
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''The Fog of War'' is a 2003 war documentary about the life of former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert S. [=McNamara=], UsefulNotes/RobertSMcNamara, who served in that position under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Through the framework of [=McNamara=]'s eleven "lessons of war", he examines his own career, with special attention given to his tenure as Secretary of Defense and his role managing UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar under Lyndon B. Johnson.
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''The Fog of War'' is a 2003 war documentary about the life of former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert S. [=McNamara=], who served in that position under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Through the framework of [=McNamara=]'s eleven "lessons of war", he examines his own career, with special attention given to his tenure as Secretary of Defense and his role managing UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar under Lyndon Johnson.
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''The Fog of War'' is a 2003 war documentary about the life of former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert S. [=McNamara=], who served in that position under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Through the framework of [=McNamara=]'s eleven "lessons of war", he examines his own career, with special attention given to his tenure as Secretary of Defense and his role managing UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar under Lyndon B. Johnson.
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* TheVoice: Morris never shows his face but can be heard a couple of times from behind the camera firing questions or comments at [=McNamara=], like when [=McNamara=] mentions American provocations against Cuba and Morris shouts "We tried to invade Cuba!" (The Bay of Pigs operation, which was an embarrassing fiasco.)
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* TheVoice: Morris never shows his face but can be heard a couple of times from behind the camera firing yelling questions or comments at [=McNamara=], [=McNamara=] loudly (as [=McNamara=] is 85 at the time of filming and slightly hard of hearing), like when [=McNamara=] mentions American provocations against Cuba and Morris shouts "We tried to invade Cuba!" (The Bay of Pigs operation, which was an embarrassing fiasco.)
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* WorthyAdversary: [=McNamara=] portrays UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and Kruschev as rational, pragmatic counterparts during the UsefulNotes/CubanMissileCrisis.
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* WorthyAdversary: [=McNamara=] portrays UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and Kruschev Nikita Khrushchev as rational, pragmatic counterparts during the UsefulNotes/CubanMissileCrisis.
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--> '''[=McNamara=]''': Our judgment, our understanding, are not adequate. And we kill people unnecessarily.
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* FogOfWar: Near the end as part of his 11th lesson, [=McNamara=] talks about "the fog of war", how war is too complex for humans to understand, how everyone makes mistakes and people at the time don't have the benefit of hindsight.
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* RewindGag: The "domino theory" of the nations of Southeast Asia falling one at a time to Communism is illustrated with a LiteralMetaphor clip of dominoes falling in a line over a map. Late in the film, as [=McNamara=] is talking about "what could have been" and how he made mistakes, there is a CallBack in which the footage is rewound and the dominoes stand back up.
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* TitleDrop: [=McNamara=] specifically mentions "the fog of war" and how war is too complex for human beings to understand what is going on.
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* {{Blipvert}}: Instead of TheKenBurnsEffect Errol Morris uses this, often going through photos onscreen at blinding speed, like a montage where photos of the death and destruction in Vietnam are mixed with pictures of official U.S. Army casualty reports.
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* ManOnFire: Discussed but not shown when [=McNamara=] describes anti-war protestor Norman Morrison burning himself to death right outside of [=McNamara=]'s office in 1965. (There are no photos or film of Morrison's suicide.)
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* CallBack: [=McNamara=]'s first lesson is "Empathize with your enemy", which he cites in the context of the White House trying to understand the POV of the Soviets and Cubans during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later in the film he says "Let me go back a moment", and cites the Cuban Missile Crisis again in the context of Vietnam. [=McNamara=] says that he and the rest of the U.S. government completely failed to understand the mindset of the Vietnamese. He explains that the Americans saw Vietnam through a Cold War anti-Communist prism while the Vietnamese regarded the Americans as the new colonial power replacing the French.
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* CallBack: [=McNamara=]'s first lesson is "Empathize with your enemy", which he cites in the context of the White House trying to understand the POV of the Soviets and Cubans during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later in the film he says "Let me go back a moment", and cites the Cuban Missile Crisis and that first lesson again in the context of Vietnam. [=McNamara=] says that he and the rest of the U.S. government completely failed to understand the mindset of the Vietnamese. He explains that the Americans saw Vietnam through a Cold War anti-Communist prism while the Vietnamese regarded the Americans as the new colonial power replacing the French.
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''The Fog of War'' is a 2003 war documentary about the life of former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert S. [=McNamara=], who served in that position under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Through the framework of [=McNamara=]'s eleven "lessons of war", he examines his own career, with special attention given to his tenure as Secretary of Defense and his role managing UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Secretary of Defence, Robert S. [=McNamara=] and includes his eleven lessons of war. under Lyndon Johnson.
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* ManlyTears: Robert [=McNamara=]'s eyes brim with tears as he describes personally picking out the spot in Arlington National Cemetery where John F. Kennedy would be buried.
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* TalkingHeads: Only one--Robert [=McNamara=] talking about himself and his career.
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* TheKenBurnsEffect: Errol Morris largely eschews this trope in his works, but he does use it once in a while. [=McNamara=]'s wry story about lunatic American generals who the Russians would conduct secret nuclear tests ''behind the Moon'' is accompanied by two slow zooms onto still pictures of the Moon.
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* TheVoice: Morris never shows his face but can be heard a couple of times from behind the camera firing questions or comments at [=McNamara=], like when [=McNamara=] mentions American provocations against Cuba and Morris shouts "We tried to invade Cuba!" (The Bay of Pigs operation, which was an embarrassing fiasco.)
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* ShoutOut: Several parallelisms to Sun Tzu's treatise ''Literature/TheArtOfWar'' are evoked.
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* ShoutOut: Several parallelisms to Sun Tzu's treatise ''Literature/TheArtOfWar'' ''Literature/{{The Art of War|SunTzu}}'' are evoked.
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* WorthyAdversary: [=McNamara=] portrays UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and Kruschev as rational, pragmatic counterparts during the CubanMissileCrisis.
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* WorthyAdversary: [=McNamara=] portrays UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and Kruschev as rational, pragmatic counterparts during the CubanMissileCrisis.UsefulNotes/CubanMissileCrisis.
