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China’s new “Top Gun” normalises war with America
- millzlane 3y agoI don't think China or the world for that matter wants that smoke.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago> “Born to Fly” is the highest-profile flick of this type to normalise the notion that the present-day PLA’s mission is to fight and kill Americans. Meanwhile in Hollywood: >> It is defended by ... and fifth-generation Su-57 fighters as well as older F-14 Tomcats. Makes me wonder who could be the people manning Su-57 and F-14? Martians? > Told by radio that they are in an area under China’s jurisdiction, the foreigners retort: “We can come and go whenever we want.” Ask the recipients of the US' bombs for the last 30 years how they feel about that. > <small>PLA</small> Really? > Alas, “Born to Fly” is closer in spirit to the first “Top Gun”. That film from 1986 shows obnoxious young pilots helping a hegemonic America enforce its will, without concern for the niceties of international law. It's quite amusing to see this after all that bashing of evil Sino filmmakers.
- ianburrell 3y agoThe opponent in new Top Gun was Iran. They are only country with F-14. Iran recently made deal with Russia to buy Su-53. It is possible they could buy Su-57. But would have to be alternate universe where that happened and US didn't develop F-35 or any naval stealth fighter.
- meepmorp 3y agoI think the Su-35 deal includes tech transfer, which helps their domestic aircraft development advance past the variations-on-the-F5 stage. I doubt we'll ever see a production Su-57 run, and yes I know they're supposedly in serial production, but I'm skeptical it'll get past handcrafting each one.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoYou missed implied '/s'.
- rtikulit 3y agoSmall caps is a typographic technique to balance the appearance of strings of capitals in predominantly lowercase running text. The Economist is applying their style guide. I checked. It's not a subtle dis.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoThe problem is what it shows as lowercase to me. But if you say it show as small capsthen it's my FF with disabled fonts. Which is still strange.
- EyeSayUntoThee 3y agohttps://archive.is/OWt3s https://archive.is/OWt3s (bypasses the paywall so you can actually read the article)
- Haga 3y ago[dead]
- engineer_22 3y agoHow can an American watch the film?
- dirtyid 3y agoChinese Top gun... normalizes war by being about... test pilots not engaged in actual war. Meanwhile, American Top Gun... attacks Iran. That said, I'm lowkey looking forward to when US/PRC media industry goes gloves off and start depicting WW3 with each other. It's probably not going to improve the discourse, but at worthwhile to show some costs to populace. Get on it Modern Warfare.
- engineer_22 3y agoIt's all in good fun
- sneed_chucker 3y agoFwiw, in the US we have decades of movies/books/games normalizing war with Russia
- seidoger 3y agoRocky IV always comes to mind as a (the?) prime example of this in film.
- sneed_chucker 3y agoThat, or Red Dawn
- engineer_22 3y agoWolverines!