When writing your RA, stay away from a simple argument like "Hearts and Minds is a documentary that displays the horrors of war." This might be true, but it is not much of an argument or an analysis. Instead, you should consider some of the following: 1. Why were some of the scenes in the movie? For example, why did Peter Davis include the football scenes? The scene in the brothel? 2. What argument is the movie making about rhetoric? 3. What is the movie's own rhetoric, and does is it in tune with its own argument? What structural features help us see this? 4. How does the movie portray Lt. Coker and in what ways is he different from the technical pilot with the beard and curly hair, who sits on his porch and cries at the end of the film? 5. I think it will be easier to start small, i.e. with a particular scene or scenes, and extrapolate a larger argument than to make a large argument about the entire film. 6. Consider carefully the opening scene of the movie.
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