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Lawyers, Guns, and Money movies


Air America is a movie I put in a category I called Lawyers, Guns, and Money movies.
These are adventure or action movies set in third world countries, usually not to serious of movie. The name of this category comes from the famous Warren Zevon song of the same way. My list of Lawyer, Guns, and Money movies include (in no particular order):

Congo
Romancing the Stone
High Risk
Let's get Harry
Captain Ron
Hot Pursuit
Under Fire
Year of Living Dangerously
Proof of Life
Fifty/Fifty
Men of War

There are more but I have do go through my stacks of DVDs and video to find more titles.

I have also put together some mix CDs with Lawyer Guns and Money type songs. I post them if anyone is interested.




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Wouldn't you include Oliver Stone's debut, "Salvador"?

(I actually enjoy Kevin Kline's performance of that song in "Grand Canyon", by the way)

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Yes, my list is not final and additions are welcomed.

Thanks Dave

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Yes, saw it, it would make the list.

Thanks for the imput.

Dave.

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I would appreciate if you posted the list. Thank you.

War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left.

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Stand by. It will take a day or two compose.

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Here is the first of the disks, there are six I'll post the rest later.

Lawyer, Guns, and Money V1.2
1. Warren Zevon – “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”
2. Don Henley – “All She Wants to Do is Dance”
3. Eddy Grant – “Electric Avenue”
4. Duran Duran – “Rio”
5. Midnight Oil – “Blue Sky Mine”
6. Warren Zevon – “Desperados Under The Eaves”
7. Porno for Pyros – “Under the Tahitian Moon”
8. The Rugburns – “War”
9. R.E.M. – “Orange Crush”
10. The Rolling Stones – “Gimme Shelter”
11. Warren Zevon – “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner”
12. U2- “Bullet the Blue Sky (live version)”
13. Dave Matthews Band – “Don’t Drink the Water”
14. Frente! – “Cuscutlan”
15. R.E.M. – “Welcome to the Occupation”
16. Tears For Fears – “Standing on the Corner of the Third World”
17. Warren Zevon – “Mohammed's Radio”

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Hopefully you will include
The Kinks' "In a Foreign Land"
Jimmy Buffett's "Banana Republics"

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Don't know the Kinks song (will check it out), but yes have Jimmy's "Banana Republics" on one of the disks. Will be posting the rest of the disks soon.

Update 16 APR 06
Like the Kinks song I added it to volume 2 disk

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Here are some more disks;

Lawyers, Guns, and Money V2.2
1. Jimmy Buffet - “Lawyers, Guns, and Money (live)”
2. Toto – “Africa”
3. The Nobodys – “No Guarantees in the Western World”
4. Murray Head (Chess Soundtrack) – “Intro/One Night in Bankock”
5. Wall of Voodoo – “Mexican Radio”
6. The Plugz – “El Clavo Y La Cruz”
7. The Clash – “Tommy Gun”
8. Jimmy Buffet – “A Pirate Looks at 40”
9. The Kinks – “In a Foreign Land”
10. Jackson Browne – “Lives in the Balance”
11. Bob Marley and The Wailers – “No Woman No Cry”
12. Dread Zeppelin – “Kingston Celebration”
13. Dead Can Dance – “Cantara”
14. Shakira – “Ojos Asi”
15. Daves Matthews Band – “The Last Stop”
16. Rachid Taha – “Barra Barra”
17. Sting – “Desert Rose”

Lawyers, Guns, and Money V3.1
1. Meatloaf – “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”
2. The Rolling Stones – “Street Fighting Man”
3. Edgar Winter – “Free Ride”
4. The Clash – “Rock the Casbah”
5. Men at Work – “Land Down Under”
6. Duran Duran – “Hungry Like The Wolf”
7. Bob Marley and The Wailers – “Jamming”
8. Jimmy Buffet – “Tampico Trauma”
9. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs – “El Matador”
10. The Plugz - "Secret Agent Man"
11. U2 – “In God’s Country”
12. Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - "Misirlou"
13. The Rolling Stones – “Under Cover of the Night”
14. Bob Marley and The Wailers (with Peter Tosh) “Get Up Stand Up”
15. Jimi Hendrix – “Voodoo Childe”
16. Third World – “Lives in the Balance”
17. Sting – “Fragile”
18. Bob Marley and the Wailers – “Redemption Song”

Three more disks to be posted.

Enjoy
Dave


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Good Morning Vietnam.

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Well crazydave, I do not agree with you at all.
In my opinion, this film is more like a Readers Digest type of condensation of various facts that have been stuck together with some romatic stuff to make it enjoyable for the public at large.

Why do I say so?
I spent about 9 years in Laos, and I personally knew some of the characters that are portrayed in the film. Most of them are dead by now.

Generally speaking, the flying bits are representative of what could happen to any of the Air America pilots, but probably not to any pilot in particular. The partying did happen, because in those days Vientiane was "hotter" than Bangkok.

The little high-lights did happen. By this I mean stuff like the US senator handing his bag to the Lao Air Force chief, the heroin factory in the soft drinks factory, the use of Air America aircraft to transport drugs to Thailand, and the final scene where the cargo plane was overloaded with refugees, etc, etc.

In other words, this is a war/flying movie that belongs in the cathegory of the films based on true events, like "A bridge too far", "The Longest Day", and not like "The Eagle Has Landed".

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where do the lawyers fi in to any of these films?

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