Playlist:
Operation Hollywood: How
The Pentagon Shapes & Censors
The Movies
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA606B7FF24C60698
"studios in the post-Top Gun era instituted an unstated rule telling screenwriters & directors to get military cooperation "or forget about making the picture.", 25 years later, how '
Top Gun' made
America love war
http://tinyurl.com/3v89xqm
--
U.S. Army Commercial Targets PG13 XMen
Audience
-- The Pentagon
Channel presents "The
Reel Military.
Straight from the war-horses mouth.
--
Act Of
Valor Film Described As '
Beyond Propaganda'
--
Nobel Peace laureates vs
NBC scandalous reality show
Politics & Hollywood's images are linked. They reinforce one another.
Policy enforces mythical images; mythical images help enforce policy.
Jack Valenti, president of the
Motion Picture Association of America, has said, quote, "
Washington & Hollywood spring from the same
DNA," end-quote. -
JACK SHAHEEN, director of
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a
People
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5DDB6E8FD4710C14
From the documentary, "Hollywood &
The War Machine",
Michael Moore, on the reason people haven't gone to see films with an anti-war bent as of late:
"We know we're complicit in this.
We know that our tax dollars are going to fund the killing of civilians,
using predator drones now in
Pakistan to kill innocent civilians.
And after working hard all week to go to the movie theater on a Friday night and be reminded that you are a part of the
annihilators
..."
Playlist:
Returning Fire: Interventions In
Video Game Culture
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6C7789075C00895A
--
Army Training Video Games Tech In
Kids Homes
Today
"60-70% of Army Video Game Simulation
Technology in Our Kids Homes Today", (like
CryEngine 3)! ~
Military contractor, Intelligent
Decisions Director,
Floyd West
-- Army Trains W/
Call Of Duty
"
It's a great training product.
I've had 'em link the Xboxes together and the sergeant will actually train his teams with the
Modern Warfare game." ~
Call of Duty representative, lead military adviser, lieutenant colonel,
Hank Keirsey
-- Army PR & Video Games @
Elementary Schools!
(six in ten current
US soldiers entered the military as teenagers)
http://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/recruiting-children
.htm
-- GamePro: Video Games Are Most
Effective Army Recruitment
Tool
-- Sony Trademarked
Shock & Awe Amid Iraq War ~ Militainment:
Rise Of
The Video Game
Sony was founded by a former naval lieutenant named
Akio Morita and a defense contractor named
Masaru Ibuka.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sony_Corp
.aspx
FedEx and Pepsi Are Top
Defense Contractors? 5
Corporate Brands Making a Killing on America's
Wars (Sony)
http://tinyurl.com/SonyANET
--
Microsoft Flight Simulator &
US Army Business Partnership
(Lawmakers heavily invested in defense) (
Microsoft)
http://tinyurl.com/m5mgo8h
--
Halo As
Official Tool For Army Recruitment & PR
-- Sega produced training simulator for Lockheed-Martin
SErvice GAmes:"
Air Force vet
David Rosen founds company, makes (pro)military commercial and simulation games to this day.
http://tinyurl.com/SegaMilitary
--
Atari's
Battlezone & US Army Business Partnership
In the
1960s,
The Inventor of video games
Ralph Baer worked for defense contractor
Sanders Associates.
http://tinyurl.com/mw69tc4
Sanders licensed the technology to Magnavox, which introduced the
Odyssey system in
1972.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders_Associates
-- US Army Commercial Targets
Video Gamers
--
Violent Games Harm Children's
Brains -
Study(s)
-- Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (
1 Corinthians 15:33)
Every year, Hollywood producers ask the
Pentagon for help in making films, seeking everything from locations and technical advice to
Blackhawk helicopters and nuclear-powered submarines.
The military will happily oblige, it says in an army handbook, so long as the movie "aid[s] in the recruiting and retention of personnel."
The producers want to make money; the
Defense Department wants to make propaganda. Former
Hollywood Reporter staffer Robb explores the conflicts resulting from these negotiations in this illuminating though sometimes tedious study of the military-entertainment complex over the last 50 years. Robb shows how, in the
Nicholas Cage film
Windtalkers, the
Marine Corps strong-armed producers into deleting a scene where a
Marine pries gold teeth from a dead
Japanese soldier (a historically accurate detail).
At its worst, the author argues, the Pentagon unscrupulously targets children; Robb reveals how the Defense Department helped insert military story lines into the
Mickey Mouse Club. To help, Robb suggests a schedule of uniform fees by which producers could rent aircraft carriers,
F-16s & the like. It's an intriguing idea, though producers can go it alone: as Robb points out, blockbusters
Forrest Gump,
An Officer & a Gentleman &
Platoon were all made without military assistance.
Psalm 11:5,34:14
Bless!
- published: 27 May 2012
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