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This is small potatoes, a line item in a marketing budget that includes things like staging exercises to serve as backdrops in Hollywood movies (in exchange for
by olefoo 15y ago
This is small potatoes, a line item in a marketing budget that includes things like staging exercises to serve as backdrops in Hollywood movies (in exchange for tight control of the portrayal of US armed forces in said movies), and recruiting offices in every US city. It would be surprising if an organization that size didn't spend that much on social media.
- jberryman 15y ago+1 for mentioning the influence in Hollywood. Here's a bizarrely chipper account from defense.gov about how it worked for the recent Transformers flick: http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46352 http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46352 I don't really have good links, but from what I recall aside from outliers like Apocalypse Now, Dr. Strangelove, etc. the pentagon usually has its fingers in films that depict the military.
- tedunangst 15y agoCGI may eventually change this, but back in the day, if you were filming Top Gun and you wanted your F-14s to look like real F-14s, you had to work with the people who had real F-14s.