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Your Favorite Movies Were CIA Propaganda [video]
- echelon_musk 7mo agoThis is why I thoroughly enjoyed the Wonder Man TV show reboot, watching the entire show in one sitting. They played within the constraints they had but also managed to also make similar points.
- aaron695 7mo ago[dead]
- hulitu 7mo agoMaybe yours. But yes, a lot of US movies are propaganda. That's why most of them are mediocre, to say the least.
- lazide 7mo agoMediocre from an art perspective, amazing from a $$$ and global cultural impact perspective. The USSR fell as much because of Jeans and Coca-Coca-Cola as anything else.
- zbikowski 7mo agoCan't watch the video at the moment, so here's a fun tidbit about everyone's favorite propaganda piece, Top Gun: 94,878 people enlisted in the Navy in fiscal year 1985/86 compared to 87,593 the previous year (~8.3%). Enlistment then fell 2.1% the next year[0]. The Navy's general advertising budget nearly doubled in this time, so it's hard to attribute it to the movie, but I can't help but think it had some effect. It certainly made me think flying fighter jets was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. [0] https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/maverick-top-gun-stat-turns-out-to-be-a-real-goose/ https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/maverick-top-gun-stat-turns...