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ABCNEWS VideoSource
US Gibson - Actor gives Bush preview of latest movie
02/27/2002
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TAPE: EF02/0162 IN_TIME: 04:16:04 DURATION: 1:15 SOURCES: POOL RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Washington DC - 26 February 2002 SHOTLIST: 1. Actor Mel Gibson and others walk out of White House and towards podium 2. Joseph Galloway, the reporter who co-wrote the book that inspired the movie, "We Were Soldiers Once and Young." 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mel Gibson, Actor: "I personally didn't ever have to go to war. And how could I ever find the experience to truthfully portray that? Well, it was given to me, by association, through reading and then by meeting these men who I came to admire and respect in a great way for the sacrifice they made and understand through their eyes what it is to do that." 4. Galloway 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mel Gibson, Actor: "It's good that this film is out there now I think because it's an acknowledgement of those men and women who sacrificed so much, and perhaps at the time were given the cold shoulder, and this is kind of a healing work more than anything else, and an understanding." 6. Gibson speaking 7. Gibson and others walking back into White House STORYLINE: President Bush invited Mel Gibson to the White House on Tuesday for a viewing of the Hollywood star's new film about a historic battle in the Vietnam War. Gibson's movie, "We Were Soldiers," about a November 14, 1965, battle in Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley, was finished before the terror attacks in the United States and the ensuing war on terrorism. Bush invited Gibson to watch the movie in the White House theatre with Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice. The film depicts roughly 400 U-S soldiers from the 7th Air Cavalry as they took on almost 2,000 enemy troops in one of the most intense fights of the long Vietnam War.
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