“Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies” Your ideas?
Morteza asked:
the book review says:
Most people are completely unaware of how Hollywood has become a propaganda arm for the American military. That dirty little secret is exposed at length by David L. Robb in his book Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies. An award-winning freelance journalist whose work has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times, Robb has produced an incredible work. After reading it, the kindest description I can come up with of what has been going on is “outrageous.”
Movie makers willing to create recruitment films for the military are given a financial edge over those who aren’t willing to do that and who are more critical. Sometimes scripts are “sold” to the military on the idea that they will serve as recruitment and propaganda pieces.
David L. Robb cites a number of examples where the military has actually tried to get directors to contradict history in order to make the military look better. For example, in Kevin Costner’s film about the Cuban Missile Crisis, several generals end up looking like complete idiots. This portrayal is fully supported by the historical record and John F. Kennedy’s tapes of his meetings with military leaders. The Pentagon, however, wouldn’t provide assistance unless the film made the generals look better than they really were. According to the Pentagon, telling the truth was a form of historical revisionism.
Military interference in popular entertainment isn’t limited to movies. Robb is able to document how episodes of Lassie and The Mickey Mouse Club were rewritten at the direction of the Pentagon in order to make the military more attractive to children. Whole generations of America’s youth have, unbeknownst to them or their parents, grown up on entertainment adjusted in order to serve the purposes of military propaganda. The goal of the military has, quite simply, been to make the armed forces look good (even if that means better than the reality) and encourage young people to sign up.
read the full review at:
http://atheism.about.com/od/bookreviews/fr/OperationHolly_2.htm
is it good or bad and why should it be so? is there anything to hide?
Jeff Englehart being in Iraq war since 2001 admits it and so do many other soldiers. they believe what is shown on big screen has nothing to do with the facts in a war.
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5 Responses to ““Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies” Your ideas?”
In the USA you do not have a free media.
This is of course, bad.
What is this North Korea?!……Anyways. People should be smart enough to distinguish entertainment and historical facts. As far as military enlistment goes, that is up to the individual himself and is supposed to be his choice.
I think correct to an extent. Youtube is a marketplace for independent thinkers. Try producing a movie and see what gets censored.
It’s bad. It gives us so much false images that we begin to believe in. In WW II Reagan made morale boosting movies. And, to some degree I agree. But when we get these types of wrong images from the cradle to the grave along with the media blitz of bs stories we, as a population, are making decisions upon falsehoods. A democratic nation can not function on a base of lies and that is what we’re doing today.
i think that sending these soldiers is wrong..i will undestand if they defend there country from another ennemie, but here there government is teh ennemie, they are sending soldiers and take them from there life, there families for something only there government feeld its coorect, which btw we all know that usa has one purpose to take petrol or steal something, but of course not for helping countries…
nways, everyday we just understand why we used to hear about soldiers who cut there legg, hurt themselves when they hear that they should go outside there countries.
yes movies are something and reality is another thing…these young boys shouldnt at all join the army….they will end up with depression and hurt there bodies and for what?? NOTHING….too bad.