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Anonymous, M.A.S.H. takes place in the fifties. It's about the Korean War and there wasn't much feminism in the Korean War. Do you want him to lie? Maybe you do.
But I love the film and I have since I first saw it. It's a work of genius.
It's not about Vietnam but it felt like it was when it came out, and that made a difference in how we saw the war.
For example, we saw all that blood. You weren't supposed to show all that blood in war movies. War movies were about courage and honor, not about blood.
But here was a war movie covered in war blood, with doctors in war blood up to their elbows.
It was a very powerfully symbolic thing to see in 1970 when we were struggling to get out of Vietnam.
Altman joined the NORML Advisory Board in 2002.
He'll be missed by a lot of people, that's for sure. But luckily we still have his films.
