{"id":32410,"date":"2018-03-16T06:51:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32410"},"modified":"2018-03-16T06:51:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:51:49","slug":"the-pentagon-hollywoods-successful-and-deadly-propaganda-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32410","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon & Hollywood\u2019s successful and deadly propaganda alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon & Hollywood\u2019s successful and deadly propaganda alliance<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Pentagon helps Hollywood to make money and, in turn, Hollywood churns out effective propaganda for the brutal American war machine.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The US has the largest military budget in the world, spending over $611 billion \u2013 far larger than any other nation on Earth. The US military also has at their disposal the most successful propaganda apparatus the world has ever known\u2026 Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Since their collaboration on the first Best Picture winner \u2018Wings<\/em>\u2019 in 1927, the US military has used Hollywood to manufacture and shape its public image in over 1,800 films and TV shows. Hollywood has, in turn, used military hardware in their films and TV shows to make gobs and gobs of money. A plethora of movies like \u2018Lone Survivor<\/em>,\u2019 \u2018Captain Philips<\/em>,\u2019 and even blockbuster franchises like \u2018Transformers<\/em>\u2019 and Marvel, DC and X-Men superhero movies have agreed to cede creative control in exchange for use of US military hardware over the years.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s #<\/span>Oscars90<\/span><\/a> Sunday and did you know the #<\/span>DoD<\/span><\/a> works with #<\/span>Hollywood<\/span><\/a> to ensure the #<\/span>military<\/span><\/a> is correctly portrayed in films? Find out howthese partnerships work: https:\/\/<\/span>go.usa.gov\/xneSX<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a>.
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In order to obtain cooperation from the Department of Defense (DoD), producers must sign contracts that guarantee a military approved version of the script makes it to the big screen. In return for signing away creative control, Hollywood producers save tens of millions of dollars from their budgets on military equipment, service members to operate the equipment, and expensive location fees.<\/p>\n

Capt. Russell Coons, director of the Navy Office of Information West, told<\/a> Al Jazeera what the military expects for their cooperation: \u201cWe\u2019re not going to support a program that disgraces a uniform or presents us in a compromising way<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Phil Strub, the DOD chief Hollywood liaison, says<\/a> the guidelines are clear. \u201cIf the filmmakers are willing to negotiate with us to resolve our script concerns, usually we\u2019ll reach an agreement. If not, filmmakers are free to press on without military assistance.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Pentagon & Hollywood\u2019s successful and deadly propaganda alliance \u00a9 U.S. Army The Pentagon helps Hollywood to make money and, in turn, Hollywood churns out effective propaganda for the brutal American war machine. The US has the largest military budget in the world, spending over $611 billion \u2013 far larger than any other nation on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[6033,19302,620,655,8114],"class_list":["post-32410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-pentagon","tag-propaganda","tag-rt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32411,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32410\/revisions\/32411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}