M*A*S*H (1970)

116 min. Director: Robert Altman. Cast: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall.

4077th MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit

Ring Lardner Jr. Richard Hooker novel

vignettes

PA announcements

the story of a culture war between hypocritical Fundamentalist squares and lascivious alcoholics ("Godless buffoons")

overlapping dialogue

Joseph Heller

sexual harrassment

bloody surgeries

golf

Marx

Japan

teen Ho-Jon

first film for Jo Ann Pflug, Fred Williamson, Gary Burghoff, John Schuck, Carl Gottlieb, Tamara Horrocks, Bud Cort, Danny Goldman, Corey Fischer,

Johnny Mandel lyrics by Mike Altman

zoom lens

audacious

subversive

 

da Vinci's The Last Supper

improvisation

politically incorrect

irreverent

Korea=Vietnam

football