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This 27-minute retrospective documentary offers a pretty engrossing and informative glimpse into the making of Walter Hill's excellent bayou-set thriller "Southern Comfort." Walter Hill specifically states that he didn't make the film as a metaphor for America's involvement in the Vietnam war, although producer/co-writer David Giler and cast member Keith Carradine say otherwise. Lewis Smith admits that he was excited about doing the movie since it was his film debut. Peter Coyote relates a funny story about how the German woman dog handler tried (and failed) to scare him with her dogs and reveals that he thought Hill was trying to romanticize the violence with his use of slow motion. Everyone talks about how making the film in the actual Louisiana swamps made it a difficult shoot due to the miserably cold weather. Moreover, we also find out that the sequence with the wild dogs attacking the National Guardsman had to be reshot. In addition, the film is discussed as a modern-day Western populated with archetypes who represent various aspects of the male persona. Recommended viewing for fans of the movie.