Book · 2007 · Fiction
The Green Berets
The Amazing Story of the U. S. Army's Elite Special Forces Unit
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He writes this book, The Green Berets, which is like it's like on the bestseller list for more than a year. It's a huge hit.
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The Green Berets by Robin Moore is a bestselling nonfiction book detailing the author's experiences embedding with United States Special Forces during the Vietnam War. Robert Evans mentioned the book on Behind the Bastards while examining the life and cultural impact of John Wayne. Evans explained that Robin Moore achieved massive commercial success when the book spent more than a year on bestseller lists. However, Evans also discussed how the subsequent film adaptation, which was inspired by Moore's work and beloved by figures like Jack Idema, bore very little resemblance to the original text. The podcast host suggested that these major screenplay changes might have been part of an agreement Moore made with the government to keep sensitive, classified material out of the public eye while still allowing the project to be brought to the big screen as a major Hollywood motion picture.
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Robert Evans He writes this book, The Green Berets, which is like it's like on the bestseller list for more than a year.… 3
“He writes this book, The Green Berets, which is like it's like on the bestseller list for more than a year. It's a huge hit.”
“And the screenplay has very little to do with Robin Moore's book. That's again, some people will allege part of the agreement he made with the government where like I'll adapt this into a movie”
“Now Moore was the author of the book The Green Berets, which that John Wayne movie that Jackadema had loved as a kid was based on.”
