 Stanley Kubrick and his daughter Vivian make uncredited appearances as two photographers at a Vietnam massacre site.Kubrick contacted Michael Herr, author of the Vietnam War memoir "Dispatches" (1977), in the spring of 1980 to discuss working on a film about the Holocaust, but he eventually discarded that in favor of a film about the Vietnam War.They met in England, and the director told Herr that he wanted to do a war film but had yet to find a story to adapt.