(November 11, 2024 at 7:03 am)arewethereyet Wrote:(November 11, 2024 at 6:52 am)Belacqua Wrote: It's well documented that the Pentagon works actively with Hollywood to portray the military and US policy in general in a positive light. A movie like Top Gun couldn't get made without active government support, and couldn't get that support without serving as a commercial for the military.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E...nt_complex
I don't know if this is directly related to what you're talking about here, but there's no doubt that a huge industry like Hollywood, which serves as "soft power" foreign policy, is heavily mixed up with the government.
There are many links and references in the Wikipedia article.
I'll have to watch "Top Gun" again as I didn't realize it was really a documentary.
It pains me to admit it, but he's right. There's that Broken-clock theory at work. Of course it's not a documentary; movies like that do serve as ads for the military. How successful, as ads, they are is open to question, but they certainly paint a picture of the military which is, shall we say, not entirely realistic -- and usually erring to the positive.
