The Boys in Company C (1978)
Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.
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The sports metaphor in war is used so often as to verge on cliche unless it is a means to make some other point, as in Don Delillo's novel Endzone, Robert Altman's 1970 film M*A*S*H, or Sidney J. Furie's 1978 The Boys in Company C. In U-571, though, the metaphor functions as an end in itself.