What is the name of the theme song of the American movie "We Were Soldiers"?

Album name: We Were Soldiers

Music type: Film and television soundtrack

Record company: Sony

Release date: 2002-02-25

Resource quality: 320k mp3

Album introduction:

"We Were Soldiers" is based on retired US Army Major General Harold Moore The autobiographical best-selling novel written by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway: "We Were Young Soldiers - Ia Drang Valley - A Battle that Changed the Vietnam War" (We Were Soldiers Once.. and Young: Ia Drang: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam). The film tells the true story of what happened when the U.S. military invaded the Ia Drang Valley in the central highlands of Vietnam in 1965 at the beginning of the Vietnam War.

Under blind command, 450 soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army landed in the center of the North Vietnamese army assembly without any knowledge or preparation. The North Vietnamese had already deployed more than 2,000 troops around the landing site, and the soldiers of the first battalion had to face enemies nearly five times their size. Although they had powerful long-range and aerial firepower support behind them, they were outnumbered and the officers and soldiers of the first battalion had to engage in an extremely painful battle for survival.

Fortunately, the North Vietnamese troops had limited intelligence and their command was very cautious, and they did not seize the opportunity to sneak in and annihilate the entire camp in one fell swoop. After two days of fighting with more than a hundred casualties, the 1st Battalion was finally able to leave the battlefield and return to base with the 2nd Battalion who came to relieve the siege. However, due to the lack of experience of the commander of the second battalion on the way, he ordered the column that had been dragged to a length of 500 yards in the jungle to stop advancing just for the purpose of interrogating two prisoners of war. With weak firepower, they ran into the North Vietnamese force. In the fierce battle, the first battalion was almost wiped out.

The commander of the 1st Battalion at the time, Commander Harold Moore, and reporter Josephine Galway personally experienced and recorded this battle. This was also the first major casualty of the US military in the Vietnam battlefield, and it had a very significant impact on the future change of the US military's attitude towards the Vietnam War. However, this film does not focus on the description of the general environment and background of the Vietnam War. Instead, it reveals the courage and spirit of American soldiers during the war through the eyes of individual officers and soldiers. This is the style of heroism that director and screenwriter Randall Wallace and protagonist Mel Gibson are good at expressing. The fearless spirit of facing death and the touching friendship in the military camp will become the themes of this Vietnam War film adapted from real events.

Film Review

Randall Wallace once successfully created the magnificent script of "Pearl Harbor". Although critics gave "Pearl Harbor" mixed reviews, Wallace decided to continue the unfinished war in his mind and teamed up with Mel Gibson to enter the Vietnam War battlefield that was once the biggest scar on the United States.

This is not the first time that Wallace and Gibson have collaborated. In the 1995 film "Brave Heart" that made Mel Gibson famous, Randall Wallace presided over the script work and created the resolute and courageous image of the Scottish hero Wallace.

The combination of these two people has no doubt about their ability to create outstanding works. But at the same time, it cannot be ignored that since "Saving Private Ryan", war heroism has completely replaced the anti-war sentiment since the 1970s and has become the new trend in Hollywood.

The anti-war artistic style of criticism, questioning and satire that people were familiar with and admired in Vietnam War films such as "Platoon", "Full Metal Jacket" and "Apocalypse Now" has become outdated. Watching "U-571", "At the Gate" and "Pearl Harbor" unfold one climax of World War II after another, "We Were Soldiers" also turned to the tragic and heroic tone of war that has been popular in recent years to render this film. However, whether such an operating model can continue to be artistically successful while being commercially successful is the most worrying issue for this film.

Album list:

01 For You

02 Some Mother's Son

03 Fall Out

04 Soldier

05 Good Man

06 The Beautiful

07 My Dear Old Friend

08 I Believe

09 The Widowing Field

10 Not So Distant Day

11 Didn't I