Why did the guy in the military uniform snap out and attack that dancing woman for no reason at the private party?
shareHe was traumatised from Vietnam, drunk, and was probably used to just grabbing random women and abusing them whilst serving. I'm pretty sure some GIs did some bad stuff to the locals during that conflict.
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That scene has always been pretty disturbing to me.
Brilliantly acted and shot.
thank you for your reply... yes it is a great scene. one of the first of many movie scenes to show post traumatic stress. hurt locker won best picture by making a movie entirely about it. scorsese was way ahead of his time.
shareMy opinion is that she must have said something to him, maybe turn down him on a dance, all the PTSD and liquor fueling within him, he snaps and tries to have his way. We don't have all the details but that's how I interpreted the scene, of course it could be he had a flashback to his service in vietnam, but I find it's probably a mixture of her turning him down and him snapping
shareI assumed it was a former girlfriend and he was just drunk and angry at seeing her with someone else.
I get the impression she didn't know him at all, nor he her. There's no interaction between them, he just goes for her, and she doesn't say anything to him, just tries to get away. I think if they knew each other they'd have said something to each other. Plus the guys saying "you're in America now" makes it sound like they're essentially saying "this kind of thing might have gone on in Vietnam, but you can't do it here."
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Funny, I've seen this film a dozen times and I always assumed the girl was Asian and he had some sort of flashback. But looking at the cast list it appears to be an actress named Juli Andelman. The name doesn't sound Asian and her credits don't appear to be either, though I can't find a picture.
I'll have to watch this again
She's definitely not asian as she is the character that Charlie then has a slow dance with as she's falling asleep to that Johnny Ace song (Forever my Darling I think it's called) and that girl's not asian.
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Yes, you're right I just watched it last night. Strange how the memory works
shareThe sweet song on the jukebox must have been a great factor, too, presumably reminding the dude of happy old days and his innocence lost somewhere in the jungles. Feelings of sadness and regret he´ll then try to smother, suppress with an outburst of sexual violence. A pretty typical emotionally traumatized vet there, one might say.
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No definitive answer since everyone posting on here says "presumably," "I assume," and "I guess," before each post. It was one of the many "wait, did I fall asleep a minute and miss something" moments I experienced during this odd movie.
shareOkay, then definitively he attacked her because he was a traumatised vietnam veteran who was repeating behaviour that he had previously perpetrated whilst serving.
Of course, just because I say that definitively doesn't mean it's not a matter of opinion, but that is mine.
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PTSD from the war. It's obvious. Even if she did reject a dance, is that the way you go about it? The guy was seriously traumatized from the war.
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