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"We are your Yankee Doodle Dandy come home." This captivating scene from Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July"-starring Tom Cruise as paralyzed Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic-shines a light on how one's love of country can fuel the desire for radical change.
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Tom Cruise delivers a riveting and unforgettable portrayal of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic in Oliver Stone's Academy Award®-winning masterpiece. Based on a true story, the acclaimed film follows the young Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Deeply in love with his country, Kovic returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left, and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick,Tom Berenger, Stephen Baldwin, Tom Sizemore, Willem Dafoe, Raymond J. Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, Caroline Kava, Ed Lauter, Michael Wincott, Jason Gedrick, Lili Taylor
Produced by: A. Kitman Ho
Directed by: Oliver Stone
![Ron Kovic (Born On The Fourth Of July) INTERVIEW 1977 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWVAkM1-Wtk/mqdefault.jpg)
Too many still think patriotism is to support the gorvernment. Wrong.
maybe it is sometimes to support the government. but it's sure not invading a foreign country and telling its people how to run it
@Conservative George which "death camps" and which "innocent people" do you mean exactly?
No it’s about the people and that the ideals this great country was founded on.
@@maxfrankow1238 First of all. The USA is founded on 2 Genozides. Something the Americans keep ignoring quite well.
I still support Trump not Biden
People constantly talk about Top Gun 1 and 2 but either have no knowledge or have forgotten one of the greatest acting performances ever on film. Tom Cruz should have received an Oscar for best actor for this memorable performance.
Exactly
My father served three tours in Vietnam. And we he came back he protested the war. And he was at this protest.
Took him three tours to realize it was wrong?
@@joewhitehead3 agreed, thats a long time to be out deployed. little strange. but like in this movie, he seems to really see the horrid of the war in his second deployment, maybe the same for this commenters father on the third.
@@joewhitehead3most likely drafted. So I don’t think he had a choice
Tom Cruise is so great under Oliver Stones guidance in this it made me cry for real..
Ikr, I felt he should have won the oscar for this.
@@jackdull5699 Yes, I do too.
@@jackdull5699 Agreed. Damn you Daniel Day Lewis
Me too cry
It will never cease to amaze me how stupid people can be. To shout “traitor” at someone who you can *see* has physically given parts of their body up for the country is just unbelievable.
they would rather believe the lies sold out by propaganda and Politicians..
Exactly!!! Real easy to stand on the sidelines and shout,, but if they ever had to grab a gun and fight they would run to mommy with a load of 💩 in there pants… GOD BLESS ALL THE VETERANS WHO FOUGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY AND THANK YOU 🙏
My dad didn't like him. He served. His brother was killed in the Korean War my uncle who I never met
It goes to show that people who are yelling "traitor" have no idea what was it like because they weren't there.
It's because he doesn't believe in the war machine anymore...it's about the mental acceptance not the physical sacrifice. He was saying "the war is a lie" and that is the most dangerous thing to say, by dismantling the lies other young men fall for he was jeapordizing their supply of sacrificial bodies. He wasn't a traitor when he was willing to give his whole body up to war. But he IS when he shows the reality of what that means/looks like.
Oscar-worthy performance by Tom Cruise here.
He lost three Oscars to three British actors in just ten years 😮
Tom Cruise was exemplary in this film but it pales in comparison to DDL performance in my left foot
I'm not a big fan of Tom Cruise, but I must say he did an extraordinary job acting in this film. Of all the movie he was in, this one is the best. *IMHO*
Absolutely. He was snubbed
@Dean Bennington Okay...don't know why you would use "bullshit" but k.
My estranged father is an extra in this scene, he is one of the guys walking in the crowd near tom cruise and he passed away last year before I could ever clear things up with him. I come back to this video every once in a while to look at him and just wonder what could have been.
Damn. Sorry to hear about that. If he only knew...
I'm sorry.
Sorry for your loss
Rest in peace god bless
Tom Cruise was almost born on the 4th of July too. Turns 60 today. 3rd July 2022..... Even though he still looks 30. Stellar performance in this movie, as always.
Yep
if ever there was a Tom Cruise oscar worthy performace, this is it!
There are many come one. I’ve see. This comment made on several of his movies. Be for real
I was on set that day,played a vet,Tom was great,it was like a going back in time,he made us feel like we were there.
Which vet were you?
@@andrewcabral963I’m late, but, comparing this guys face to the vets seen in the scene, I’m pretty sure he’s either the Blond Dude wheeling Kovic or the dude sitting next to him
This stills resonates today, Ron Kovic is a civil rights hero
@Anthony Garibaldi absolutely I agree with you
I love Born On The Fourth Of July 🇺🇸 🙂! Tom Cruise did an amazing performance as Ron Kovic and i felt so sorry for him . This is one of my favorite Based On A True Story and Vietnam War movies 🙂. I give salute to all Vietnam Vets who have served their country and despite everything they have been through .
They didn't "save" their country, they were simply lied to. Vietnam was not a threat to the US, that's what they're protesting/pointing out...
@@samaraisnt Yeah it was really sad .
Ron started as an idealistic kid who taught he would find glory serving his country fighting a war for it. But he only ended up having to kill innocent people and his fellow soldier. He loses his legs, and now has to live the rest of his life broken in every way. What sucks is that after what he gave, nobody even appreciated his sacrifices. Not the Marine Corps, Not his family, not even the Government who made him fight the war in the first place.
Tom Cruise is awesome. And this movie is proof of it.
I was there. And nothing has changed! It's worse now.
What’s worse? Be specific
My uncle Ray ward served with the 5th battalion royal Australian regiment in the Vietnam war and he was a platoon Sargent
Much respect to your uncle! I had the pleasure of fighting alongside some Australian diggers in Afghanistan during my time in the US Army. They were all great men!
This movie blatantly exposed the truth about the military industrial complex and its effects on the western countries governments and the military itself because I support soldiers and the military but I’m personally against the military industrial complex
So true
If people refused to kill each other and stopped calling each other heroes it would end. There is nothing Heroic about going to war. We dont give any special treatment to tommys in the UK unless suscripted.
@@thePVFnews and you guys have no problem serving them you destroyed my country made my family refuges thanks alot America
It really tells us something when even Dwight Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex before leaving office in 1961.
2024 can you hear me now ?
I can relate sooooo much to Tom Cruise in this scene now. The war in Afghanistan was just a reason to fatten the elites pockets.
You want to live in a world run by the US or not? 70 years of relative peace or back to the 'good old days' of never-ending regional conflicts. Yes, a lot of young American and Western allied men have had to sacrifice a lot to keep this system going. But what's the alternative? A lot of kumbaya singing and good times? Get real. Ron Kovic and his ilk are the reason why we can jab around on our iPhones and what have you right now. To believe otherwise is to live in the realm of fantasy. Or maybe you'd prefer to be eating gruel under the auspices of some communistic/fascistic rule.
@@zootsoot2006 😂😂😂
Wrong. That was Iraq. Afghanistan was retaliation for 9/11
@@hellogoodbye4728 did you even deploy there?????
@@hellogoodbye4728 Ben Ladden was not even afghan , he was saoudi ! But America can't bomb its precious ally, that would be a shame, bombing a vulnerable country is much easier. you guys were bloodthirsty for brown blood (still are to some degree), if Jesus camed back in the 2000s he would have have been shot. FYI the terrorists in Afghanistan (not the afghan people !) were trained by the US in the 80s, and they were used in order to fight the USSR and the communists there.
“To fight a poor peasant people with a proud history of resistance”… sounds familiar doesn’t it. Will we ever learn?
Crazy how half of the epic explosive action stars who we thought are only good for action ARE GREAT ACTORS.
We are still fighting a war from 2001 and nobody protests it
Because the media no longer reports on that and put the "war on terror" in total media blackout so no one would know.
because the MID owns both parties now.
Music at the start is "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". It's instrumental version.
A cinematic masterpiece.
I love Tom Cruise for his action movies, but I'd like to see him in more of this. This showed Tom as an actor.
5:04 always cracks me up
lol. people forget how good tom cruise is as an actor.
Brilliant film
One of my favorite movies. I absolutely love this and always watch it when it's on. I remember the first time I saw this and the feeling of exhaustion I felt after the movie. It drained me. Such an emotional roller coaster.
*And to think, as a country, we didn't learn our lesson. We made the same mistake in Iraq and Afghanistan for 20 years. And now we're going into PaIestine, Ukraine, and Taiwan next. Smh.*
South Korea too
I want to thank Tom cruise & Oliver stone for bringing to light the challenges & issues which sadly have been sickeningly repeated in the UK sadly & actually shockingly covered up & rewarded in certain. I have been on the end of a state funded national state funded conspiracy during which I have have tried to take my own life..😢thankfully I have been supported by a consortium of men who have put aside their business interests to ensure I have stayed alive & my freedom is intact I swear to god these men are my heroes 🇺🇸 & I will never forget what they have done for me, my only wish is that some I can say thank you & repay they faith they have in me , they are the real heroes as well as the people they employ 👏💯🙏🇺🇸⭐️
Tom Cruise best actor there is !!!
"Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism"
- Howard Zinn
As 🇺🇸 continues to deal with the evacuation of 🇦🇫 , this scene reminds us of the hardships that wounded soldiers are suffering right now.
These poor men were forced to serve, used up and then cast aside like expendable machines that broke down and no longer have use. Such a travesty how these brave men were treated.
I agree, but Ron wanted to join and even his father was against it.
This scene, like many others scenes in BOTFOJ, show you why TC should have won the Academy Award for Best Actor instead of Golden statue hog Daniel Day Lewis!
Nah, Daniel was phenomenal in My left foot
"cause he's a brit.
@@martitinkovich4489 that's rascist
@@paolodechipiece1027 brits aren't a race puppy dog.
Tom Cruise is amazing I love him so much
As far as Iam concerned Tom Cruise did win the Academy Award for Best
Actor. 🏆
I'm sad I just found out about this movie. Definitely watching it today. Just got done watching "Full Metal Jacket" again for probably the 4th time by now(no pun intended) but this looks great.
Let records show that he still loved his country
I WAS BORN ON 15TH AUGUST. Independence day of India 🇮🇳 and my life story is similar.............It's like PROPHECY 👍
I just want to tell every Vietnam vet... welcome home.
Vietnam Vet: *protests*
Right-Winger: “You hate America!”
Vet: “Did you serve?”
RW: *Crickets*
🤬 the government better learn from their mistakes.
It was cold calculated decision, WAR = PROFIT.
60’s 70’s was the time when even Americans began to wake up
Magnificent valour.
Tom Cruise was fantastic in this movie, if one likes him or not.
Independence Day speech tomorrow?!?
Wars are started by men with power, but are fought for by men with weapons, and its those who have neither suffer the most.
Tom met Ron who was a councilman in O .C
As a wise yet crazy man once said "Here's to high treason."
I am not from the U.S. but my understanding of why the U.S.A. got involved in foreign conflicts thousands of miles away after WW2 is because of all of the infrastructure and manufacturing of military hardware during WW2 was too big a business to cut off after WW2 so they started getting involved in Korea,Vietnam to justify the spending of billions of dollars in military hardware and the dead soldiers were just collateral damage. Was there any investigation done into the lobbyists who strongarmed Johnson into going to Vietnam in the first place?
This is not why the US got involved in foreign conflicts after WW2. Most of American industry after the war converted to regular non-war based production after the war. Also, most of the left over equipment from WW2 was scrapped or proved to be obsolete not long after the war. The basic reason why the US got involved in foreign conflicts was that there was a legitimate concern (or paranoia depending on how you look at it) about the spread of communism. But for the case of Vietnam, you really have to learn the history starting back to at least the WW2 period, when it was a French colony/territory. After WW2 the French wanted it back in part, b/c they were afraid of becoming irrelevant compared to larger and much more powerful nations like the US and USSR. The US supported that effort even though at the time Ho Chi Minh himself was a big admirer of the US. The French and the British would be unsuccessful at holding onto their colonial territories after the war. The US was still very much paranoid/afraid of the effects on the spread of communism. JFK made the mistake of getting us involved and then President Johnson made the unforgivable MISTAKES of trying to run a war from his office, making us fight 1 hand tied behind our backs, with no real objectives or path towards victory. So that's the basic summary in my opinion. Oliver Stone's documentary "The Untold History of the United States" is good and so is Ken Burn's' 18-hour documentary "The Vietnam War".
@@jcbryant4200 Hi. A very good and detailed explanation but surely lobbyists from Lockheed, Bell helicopter and other big munitions and supply chain manufacturers influence the U.S. government to this day to get involved in foreign conflicts? I understand why the U.S got involved in the middle east, it was to protect their oil interests after the emergency fuel crisis. Ultimately they did not get to control or put in place a puppet government in Iran. Getting a foothold in Iran was the highest priority in the 1980s 1990s.
@@jcbryant4200 one hand tied behind your backs my ass you bombed Vietnam to hell still lost 😂
Happy birthday Tom♥️🎉
At least they know WHO they're protesting and why.
*1, 2, 3, 4 WE DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING WAR!*
I always thought international humanitarian law prohibited subjecting people to human torture without people's consent or without the due process of law... I do believe what the Vietnam war was fighting for, and its unfortunate that freedom lost, but the draft part of all of it wasn't ethical. It would've been ok if, for example, if the only people allowed to go to Vietnam were soldiers who knew what they were getting into and on their own consent faught for freedom THEN it would've been A-OK !
Four very happyness ! ✌♣️🍩💛😀
Can anybody please tell me what tune are they whistleing?
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
To me Vietnam was not a righteous war, WWII was, The Nazi’s were evil, but in regards to the Vietnam war, it was messed up how these veterans were treated when they came back, it was terrible, we had no business there, none.
Yep that's why Oliver Stone wrote and directed Platoon making his point across. He actually volunteered for combat in Vietnam but God bless him he survived it!!!
Shame on all who treat veterans that way
And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home
Argh... Nixon never drinked a duff in his life.
land of the free, home of the brave 🥺🥺🥺
In 1941 Japan started to advance to Indo-China and Burma. American government didn't tolerate it and established oil embargo to Japan. Japan didn't have another choice but to attack USA. And ordinary Americans went to draft offices with no protest. They were fighting hard and gladfully dying for that Vietnam will stop being under a Japanese occupant boot and get returned back under the French colonialist boot. Besides other things ordinary Americans were dying for Stalin's GULAG, French colonial empire and British colonial empire. And they are proud of their participation in that war. WW2 movies are all full of patriotic pathos.
20 years later Americans were called to fight for the same Vietnam, but now this Vietnam to be free. And the same Americans rebelled and resented: oh no, we'll be fighting for someone to be free? What a dirty cause! This is a criminal war!
I always dreamed of having my son 21st birthday with this movie playing on the big screen. I’ve never seen this motion picture. He was born on Independence Day (08) just like the star actor. But now that I think about it. My son behaves like the actor. Very nasty personality. What’s wrong with people that are born on July 3rd?
The IDF soldiers should Watch this Film
Same for the Russkies...
Demonizing the Republicans, when it was the Democrats who started and expanded the Vietnam war…
And Kovic murdered a fellow marine and a bunch of children, then blamed the government. I’m not pro government, but personal accountability is important.
Cruise was great in this movie but for me dafoe really drove the point home. Typically people think they understand but just like law and order Stabler says there’s no right nor wrong it’s just gray.
🥲 sad story.
You never saw Tricky Dick or L.B.J. stepping up as Master Chef leading those men in Vietnam.
Its amazing to see veterans being called traitors by a bunch of suits with soft hands.
Right, and years later their children and grandchildren are ignorant and entitled yuppies and MAGA people.
Funny Nixon was the one who got us out of Vietnam…. Good ol’ Hollywood
No, he actually didn't. The Vietcong ended it. The fighting still went on until 1975 of April. Good ol' History
@@petrinajc yeah I know you’re right you must be a history teacher
@@sappermade6012 It’s called read a book
He just like me fr fr ong no cap💀
This scene sickens me its really where America began loosing
Such a lousy, pointless war, even a total patriot like Kovic turned against it.
Hi !
I am looking for the song whistling at the very start of this scene.
Great movie btw 👍🏻
Its a Hymm where the words are often changed - however the hymm is called ''the animals went in two by two, hurrah, hurrah'' referring to Noahs Arch.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Halloween kills trailer when?
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leave him alone please . He's a American
almost like it was tom talking
I fucking hate people sometimes
It was wrong of Mr. Kovic to wave the flag upside down and to scream the f word. But I sympathize with how he feels.
I think he has earned that right. Who are you to say he doesn't.
@@rondavis2791 Certain actions of his were still unjustified.
bravely brave sir robin, rode forth from Camelot, he was not afraid to die OH brave sir robin ..
The Vietnam vets got a bum wrap...
Very true. Republicans who didn’t serve; they got deferments.
❤💗💖💝💘
January 27, 1973 - The U.S., South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and Viet Cong signed a peace treaty officially ending the war and beginning the withdrawal of all American forces. Yet, there was a condition that, if the North restarted hostilities, the U.S. would resupply the South on a piece-by-piece basis. We knew that the North would do just that, and they did within months.
However, due to these protests back home and the strong opposition to the war, the U.S. turned its back on the South Vietnamese people.
We lied to them and allowed the North to completely conquer the South. In doing so, the northern communists murdered and raped millions and sent still more to communist "reeducation camps." That was what we were fighting against. And, we lost.
What I find strange today is how so many people are still against the war, even seeming to side with our enemy.
I have no problem disagreeing with a war or conflict. Of course, we should always be cautious when considering taking military action. Some wars are justified while others are not. Some actions in warfare are justified while others are not.
However, when there's such a blatant opposition to a conflict where the intent was to protect the life and freedom of a weaker people, I wonder what the motive is for said opposition. We lost plenty more soldiers in WWII, yet that wasn't opposed to such a degree. If you mean to tell me the motive for opposing Vietnam was due to the massive loss of life, that's nonsense.
For me, I oppose Vietnam, not for the military action, but for the political restrictions and limitations on the use of force that essentially made victory impossible.
Unless you count the Cambodian genocide, which was ultimately stopped by North Vietnam, your numbers are off.
@@rumble2468 what does the US do when Cambodia has a genocidal government and antagonizing Vietnam. GIVE THE GENOCIDERS MORE MONEY TO OWN THEM VIETS!
Hi there, so I understand that you think that the Americans came to protect the life and freedom of a weaker people ?? What makes you think like that ?? Because of the treaty of Geneva in 1954, my nation was splitted at the 17th parallel. And right after that, the Americans entered South Vietnam and helped to establish the Republic of Vietnam. The parallel was supposed to be a temporary border and a demilitarized zone. However, because of the action from the Americans, it has became a border that seperated our country for years before 1975. Therefore, I believe that the desire of my people to unify our state was absolutely right. And during the war, the Americans had commited lots of war crime, murdering my countrymen in cold blood. The Americans brutally murdered hundreds of people at Mỹ Lai village in Quảng Ngãi. The Americans bombed and murdered hundreds of innocent people in Hanoi on Christmas of 1972. The Americans sprayed the Agent Orange chemical substance and left pains for the Vietnamese people for generation. The Americans tortured and murdered in cold blood lots of Vietnamese soldiers. Doesn't sound like the Americans fight for freedom, right ??
And please, I want to know the proof that the North Vietnamese raped and murdered millions like you mentioned. And lets just say that if it was true, were the Americans any better ?
To put it simply, the Americans hate communism, and they came to Vietnam to stop it from spreading.
I hope you will read this comment. Thank you !!
There's no more miserable and animalistic demeanor than chanting crowds...
Tom Delonge sent me
iraq??????
Am I the only one who thought of Sam Rockwell when I saw the thumbnail?
holy shit cant unsee
Lol love that dude
John Barry's music goes perfectly with the scene"s climax!!!
John Williams in point of fact.
@@sspdirect02 cuál es el nombre de marcha militar?
Indoctrination is one hell of a drug.
For some one who is supposed to be authentic, tom cruise should have grown his hair and beard for part of this movie. The wig looks ....well fake,so does his beard....🤷🏻♂️
I like Daniel Day-Lewis but he should’ve won
America is not a country, but a continent...
there is no continent named America. There is North America and South America which are continents. Its common knowledge that the United States of America is commonly called America for short and if you're from the U.S. people would call you an American not a United Statesian.
"Ukraine! Ukraine! Ukraine!"
GOP hasn't changed a bit I guess
They aren't war mongers anymore
Hey, look.... an actual peaceful protest...
Man... they don't make hem like they used to
Protests during these days definitely could get violent.
Did you see what followed after this scene when the violent cops attack the protesters? It's non violent until the Billy clubs start swinging and the tear gas flying through the air
USA is so screwed!