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Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA

18 points by lsh 7y ago

leed25d 7y ago
That sucks, right? Now, who do you think is paying them to do that?
- hindsightbias 7y ago
  We are. The gun lobby hasn’t paid a dime to Hollywood to make gun violence prevalent throughout the medium. John Wick double taps a hundred guys and we gladly hand over our money. The Pentagon is just facilitating consumer demand with the handshake that they get to be the good guys, like John Wayne was when killing those other pesky non-white people.
alias_neo 7y ago
Is this a surprise to Americans (genuine question)? It's plain as day that Hollywood films are strongly designed to influence the American's perception of war and their position in it/contribution to it when you watch it as a non-american. That's before we even get into the "flag tax". The more films you watch over the years the more cringeworthy it gets. Whether that's the whole one-man-army, or some other recipe, it feels like the viewer is being treated like an idiot.
- lowdose 7y ago
  Add cigaret smoking and alcohol consumption at every emotional turn in the narrative because that's "how people behave in the western world".
Harvey_6 7y ago
Probably, because the US wars on behalf of Israel. Is this news to anyone at this point? I'm sure we all know it's not Koreans or Eskimos running Hollywood.
- Nasrudith 7y ago
  That is a deeply stupid trope and conspiracy. War for profit, the glorification of war, and even propaganda have long predated the very existence of Judaism. The whole concept is a feudal peasant propaganda going onwards like a zombie or a stray bullet, propelled onward through the centuries by absolute unthinking fools. Everyone except a royal essentially was stuck blaming some scapegoat for problems like the king's advisors but not the king himself without getting their whole family brutally murdered. In the European case that was generally the Jews but the Chinese and others had eunuchs because they didn't have any descendants to get offended on their behalf.
dasKrokodil 7y ago
The essence of this article might not be hugely surprising to anyone, but it's still good that they did all the FoI requests and everything.
notlukesky 7y ago
These types of relationships in Hollywood is well documented in the recursive movie Argo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film) https://www.wired.com/2007/04/feat-cia/ https://www.wired.com/2007/04/feat-cia/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688163025/ref=as_li_ss_til?imprToken=-yJXNV-zyuc.ya-u1QuDPA&slotNum=0&tag=slatmaga-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=w61&creativeASIN=0688163025&adid=1KDQS75WP88HYMY6Z8PV& https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688163025/ref=as_li_ss_til?imprTo...

18 points by lsh 7y ago

leed25d 7y ago

That sucks, right? Now, who do you think is paying them to do that?

hindsightbias 7y ago
We are. The gun lobby hasn’t paid a dime to Hollywood to make gun violence prevalent throughout the medium. John Wick double taps a hundred guys and we gladly hand over our money. The Pentagon is just facilitating consumer demand with the handshake that they get to be the good guys, like John Wayne was when killing those other pesky non-white people.

alias_neo 7y ago

Is this a surprise to Americans (genuine question)? It's plain as day that Hollywood films are strongly designed to influence the American's perception of war and their position in it/contribution to it when you watch it as a non-american. That's before we even get into the "flag tax". The more films you watch over the years the more cringeworthy it gets. Whether that's the whole one-man-army, or some other recipe, it feels like the viewer is being treated like an idiot.

lowdose 7y ago
Add cigaret smoking and alcohol consumption at every emotional turn in the narrative because that's "how people behave in the western world".

Harvey_6 7y ago

Probably, because the US wars on behalf of Israel. Is this news to anyone at this point? I'm sure we all know it's not Koreans or Eskimos running Hollywood.

Nasrudith 7y ago
That is a deeply stupid trope and conspiracy. War for profit, the glorification of war, and even propaganda have long predated the very existence of Judaism. The whole concept is a feudal peasant propaganda going onwards like a zombie or a stray bullet, propelled onward through the centuries by absolute unthinking fools. Everyone except a royal essentially was stuck blaming some scapegoat for problems like the king's advisors but not the king himself without getting their whole family brutally murdered. In the European case that was generally the Jews but the Chinese and others had eunuchs because they didn't have any descendants to get offended on their behalf.

dasKrokodil 7y ago

The essence of this article might not be hugely surprising to anyone, but it's still good that they did all the FoI requests and everything.

notlukesky 7y ago

These types of relationships in Hollywood is well documented in the recursive movie Argo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film) https://www.wired.com/2007/04/feat-cia/ https://www.wired.com/2007/04/feat-cia/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688163025/ref=as_li_ss_til?imprToken=-yJXNV-zyuc.ya-u1QuDPA&slotNum=0&tag=slatmaga-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=w61&creativeASIN=0688163025&adid=1KDQS75WP88HYMY6Z8PV& https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688163025/ref=as_li_ss_til?imprTo...