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Although released two summers too late to help the last-hurrah presidential campaign of World War II hero Bob Dole, Saving Private Ryan did create the template for the Mogadishu bloodbath of Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001) and the gruesome Battle of la Drang in Randall Wallace's We Were Soldiers (2002), both movies that, fortuitously opening during the war against the Taliban, were publicly endorsed by the Bush administration. Recounts Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down (the book on which the film of the same title was based): "Aidid and his lieutenants knew that if they could bring down a chopper, the Rangers would move to protect its crew. After an exclusive screening of Black Hawk Down for lawmakers and Pentagon officials, Washington expressed its glowing approval of the film. |
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