Southern Comfort (film)

Southern Comfort was directed in 1981 by Walter Hill, working from a script by Hill, longtime collaborator David Giler, and Michael Kane. It starred Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Peter Coyote, Fred Ward and Brion James.

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1981 - Walter Hill - David Giler - Keith Carradine - Powers Boothe - Peter Coyote - Fred Ward - Brion James

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Set in 1973, the film features a Louisiana National Guard patrol on weekend manoeuvres in bayou country. Members of the patrol (portrayed as initially brutish, violent and arrogant) frighten local Cajun hunters by firing (blank) automatic weapons indiscriminately. The hunters retaliate over the course of the movie by hunting down the patrol member by member.

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Louisiana - National Guard - Bayou - Cajun

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The movie stands as a not altogether subtle critical allegory of US military presence in Vietnam, though it functions efficiently as an action piece in its own right. As such, it may be compared with such movies as the John Boorman film Deliverance, and more arguably the John McTiernan 1987 thriller Predator.

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Vietnam - John Boorman - Deliverance - John McTiernan - 1987 - Predator

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The film is supported by an atmospheric soundtrack by longstanding Hill collaborator Ry Cooder.

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The title was meant ironically, and its use was licensed by the makers of the spirit liquor of the same name.

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