tailieunhanh - The Vietnam syndrome in forrest gump movie script

The collected data are analyzed on the basis of Fairclough’s threedimensional framework for critical discourse analysis (CDA). The study aims to reveal the different aspects of the syndrome considered as a psychological trauma expressing in many factors such as the topic, the plot, the characters, the setting, the genre, the theme songs, and the language of the whole movie. Moreover, the movie script exposes a long period of problematic and tragic time in the history of the United States. | VNU Journal of Foreign Studies 2019 135-145 135 DISCUSSION THE VIETNAM SYNDROME IN FORREST GUMP MOVIE SCRIPT Trinh Thi Van Nguyen Hong Van Nguyen Thi Thu Phuc Department of Foreign Languages Hanoi University of Mining and Geology Duc Thang Bac Tu Liem Hanoi Vietnam Received 15 March 2019 Revised 16 September 2019 Accepted 22 December 2019 Abstract Considered the most controversial war in the 20th century the Vietnam War deeply divides the American society. Especially it causes the Vietnam Syndrome which still is an obsession of American people until today. The research is carried out on a movie script of one of the most famous Hollywood films about the Vietnam War Forrest Gump. The collected data are analyzed on the basis of Fairclough s threedimensional framework for critical discourse analysis CDA . The study aims to reveal the different aspects of the syndrome considered as a psychological trauma expressing in many factors such as the topic the plot the characters the setting the genre the theme songs and the language of the whole movie. Moreover the movie script exposes a long period of problematic and tragic time in the history of the United States. Keywords critical discourse analysis Vietnam Syndrome movie script Vietnam War American Studies 1. Introduction The term Vietnam Syndrome or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD was first used in the early 1970s to describe the physical and psychological symptoms of veterans coming back from the Vietnam War. By the end of the 1970s the Vietnam Syndrome was no longer a purely medical term and it came to have a political meaning coined by Henry Kissinger and popularized by Ronald Reagan to describe the US s reluctance to send troops into combat situations overseas. This happened because the US was afraid that they would get bogged down in a quagmire again like they did in Vietnam and this would lead to a loss of support for the government. The Vietnam Syndrome also led to Corresponding author. Tel. .