The end result, reports Galloway, is a movie that's ''85 percent reality, 15 percent Hollywood.'' The 85 percent includes passages of unflinching violence that owe a debt to the envelope-pushing ''Saving Private Ryan''; one shot lingers on the grotesque head injuries suffered by Pvt. Jimmy Nakayama during a napalm attack. ''That guy has been my personal nightmare for 36 years,'' says Galloway. ''I met the actor one day while they were applying the makeup. He tried to shake my hand. I couldn't even raise my arm.''
As for the 15 percent, one notably changed sequence has Moore's wife (played by Madeleine Stowe) delivering telegrams informing soldiers' wives of their husbands' deaths. In truth, Mrs. Moore was notified beforehand who was getting a telegram, then showed up to provide solace. Nonetheless, Moore says ''Soldiers'' ''captures the battle, in all its intensity. It captures the love of soldiers for each other. And it certainly captures my grief.''
His mission accomplished, Wallace says he's now mulling a project that's less bloody. ''I keep saying I'm going to do some quiet love story next.'' Then he looks at the video monitors, with those choppers and their blazing howitzers. ''But it's going to take a lot to wean myself away from something like this.''
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