Vietnam Film. Coming Home. 1978 Lukes Speech (Jon Voight)

The first, and quite possibly one of the best film about Vietnam. Dealing with veterans adating to normal life upon their return. In this closing clip from the film, Luke, played by Jon Voight delivers an emotional speech to a high-school audience about the cost of war, which Voight wrote most of himself. The plot follows a love triangle among a young woman, her Marine husband and the paralyzed Vietnam War veteran she meets while her husband is overseas. Fonda and Voight won Academy Awards for their performances. During the filming of Coming Home, Voight reportedly began to obsess over his character, refusing to get out of the wheelchair when scenes had ended, and asking the director, Hal Ashby: “Why don’t you just get Al Pacino?“ In spite of his self-doubt, the performance won Voight the Oscar, in large part because of a monologue at the end: an emotional speech to a high-school audience about the cost of war, which Voight wrote most of himself. “That was a scene that