Why should BBCi Films readers go and see “Buffalo Soldiers”?
Look, it’s just something really different and even if it’s not to your taste, it’s not going to be like anything you’ve seen before. I guess there are similarities to other satires of the army, like “Catch-22” or “M*A*S*H” or “Doctor Strangelove”, but it’s set in this world of bored soldiers in West Germany that no one will have seen before. Also it’s a movie that I think will make people think and contemplate a few issues and ideas about the nature of warfare and why people want to keep fighting. It looks at the idea that war is something that a lot of people like and want, and if there’s no war they go out and create their own. It’s a different idea to what usually gets presented in military movies. There are American military bases everywhere – it really is an Empire. How close to reality do you think Robert O’Connor’s novel is? I think it’s actually surprisingly close. I started doing some research into it when I was writing the script and I’ve got documents which show things like
