MICHAEL CAINE - CAINE HATES WAR MOVIES

CAINE HATES WAR MOVIES

Former soldier MICHAEL CAINE refuses to watch war movies because they falsely glamorise conflict. The British Oscar winner, who fought in the Korean War, is uncomfortable with the message war films deliver - that the good guys always survive after killing the enemy. He says, "I can't even see a war film, because they fool everybody, they fool young men. My friend JOHN WAYNE fooled me. I went and saw him and you go out there and kill all the enemy. "Nobody tells you they're gonna kill you. You go out there and slaughter all these terrible people. And it's a terror that you couldn't even impart to anyone else. Infantrymen don't even talk about it to each other because they just know. And I see these guys in Iraq and I think, oh my god, what are we doing?"