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>Entire big budget franchises with Hollywood actors, like the Bourne series for example, make the CIA look outright evil. They look like a realpolitik organiza
by boomboomsubban 6y ago
>Entire big budget franchises with Hollywood actors, like the Bourne series for example, make the CIA look outright evil.
They look like a realpolitik organization that is extremely capable, creating numerous super spies, ultimately full of people with integrity like Bourne who quits when his conscience tells him to.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoI’m not sure we watched the same films, because the CIA certainly doesn’t look capable in the Bourne series. The original point was that propaganda makes the CIA look like heroes, which is a far cry from realpolitik.
- boomboomsubban 6y ago>I’m not sure we watched the same films, because the CIA certainly doesn’t look capable in the Bourne series. Bourne is the hero and is also CIA, and at every turn they are able to keep up with him. You leave with the impression that good guys can join the CIA and curb the necessary evil the CIA is involved with. Do you think more people leave thinking Bourne and thus the CIA are badass or that the CIA are evil and need to be destroyed?
- ceilingcorner 6y agoI think you will find this essay insightful, specifically the part comparing Bond to Bourne: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2015/09/20/bourne-aesthetic/ http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2015/09/20/bourne-aesthetic/
- boomboomsubban 6y agoNot particularly. I don't disagree with the assessment, I just doubt most people use that to draw the conclusion that the CIA is bad. While they may not identify with Bourne as they would have Bond, they won't argue Bourne shouldn't have been developed by the CIA.