Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda

Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by denton-scratch on Friday January 07, 2022 @05:51AM (#29837606)

I thought this has been common knowledge forever. I mean, if you see before the closing titles something like

  "With grateful thanks to the US Navy and Airforce, without whom this film could not have been made"

then you have to assume that the helpful armed forces at least got approval of the final cut. At any rate, I've always thought that stuff like The Green Berets with John Wayne was pure war propaganda.

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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by lamontcg on Friday January 07, 2022 @06:01PM (#29846135)

Red Dawn and Top Gun.

I guess some people don't realize that stuff like the Transformers movies were all done with help from the US Military as well.

Probably the same people who don't make the connection with the military displays associated with sporting events (and the national anthem and its military theme before domestic sporting events). Stuff like the Blue Angles. It is all very Roman Empire the way we display our weapons of war, but lots of people can't even see it.

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