84C MoPic
7 /10 1 Votes
Duration Country United States | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama, War Language EnglishVietnamese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Patrick Sheane Duncan Release date April 7, 1989 (1989-04-07) Cast Jonathan Emerson (LT), Nicholas Cascone (Easy), Jason Tomlins (Pretty boy), Christopher Burgard (Hammer), (Cracker)Similar movies Forrest Gump , First Blood , Rambo: First Blood Part II , The Veteran , Uncommon Valor , Cobra Mission 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
84C MoPic (also known as 84 Charlie MoPic) is a 1989 American independent war film drama by Patrick Sheane Duncan.
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Story
The film is created as a mock-up documentary of a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) mission during the Vietnam War. The point of view is from a camera following a LRRP team on a five-day patrol deep in "Indian Country" (territory controlled by the North Vietnamese). The cameraman is nicknamed "MoPic" by the team, because of his alphanumeric military occupational specialty, 84C20, Motion Picture Specialist. The supposedly routine mission, however, goes wrong and eventually turns into a struggle for survival.
Cast
Production
The movie was filmed on a low budget in Southern California. The film is one of the earlier examples of found footage, a style famously implemented by The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity.
Reception
The film received three nominations:
Listed among recommended Viet Nam war films in a blog post on Council on Foreign Relations
References
84C MoPic Wikipedia84C MoPic IMDb 84C MoPic themoviedb.org