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why is this detail even in the movie? seems like an easy conflict to avoid by omission
by hrkfmud50k 3y ago
why is this detail even in the movie? seems like an easy conflict to avoid by omission
- thebigjewbowski 3y agoI just logged in to post the same thing — seems odd.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoit's paid propaganda (paid meaning tax credits and gatekept access to financing, distribution). hollywood movies exist for shareholder profit, making money for changes like this easily accepted and even incentivized. see also the changes they routinely make to meet complex rules around including enough british actors for lucrative british tax credits, and extrapolate more globally. the defense against this in this thread can be summarized as "it doesn't matter" or "it's not that much" while it is what's happening
- crooked-v 3y agoI can think of far fewer films that include detailed political world maps than exclude them, though.
- tomjakubowski 3y agoI don't mean to contradict you, your comment just made a good opening to post the world map from the movie. The map is really (really…) not detailed, and honestly I find it hard to identify the problem border in it off the coast of "Asia". Somebody on Twitter pointed out the sea border around Greenland is controversial as well, something about fishing rights. https://images2.imgbox.com/81/a9/mSlNXz7I_o.jpeg https://images2.imgbox.com/81/a9/mSlNXz7I_o.jpeg
- rambojohnson 3y agosure, but that's just one example...
- thebigjewbowski 3y agoWow. That’s really something. I’m sure at least some of us here recall professors being investigated and fired for not disclosing relationships with China. I’m also guessing none of this is disclosed by movie studios?
- wahnfrieden 3y agowhat hollywood does for US imperialism is also shameful and obfuscated. studios work closely with military and CIA and no it is not disclosed as propaganda.
- pie420 3y agoChinese censors demand stuff like this be included in exchange for access to the Chinese market, and hollywood grovels.