rambo III

[alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr]

well, i guess the prescience theme was just a good way of ending the
article. but it is true that hollywood can be another spokesperson
for the government, as long as government policy is popular that is.

remember rambo III? hey, back then, fighting the big bad commies,
everybody liked the same muslim afghanis everybody now hates. i was
reading reviews basically saying that back then, rambo was actually
helping afghanis and not the taliban. yeah right. you can see
american history in american cinema too, and propaganda, i think
that's the point they were trying to make in that le monde article;
funny to
see that the US wasn't so hot about supporting massoud, who had
nothing against america.
and he got killed by the taliban on september 10th 2001...

greg


PM> alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr wrote:

>> hey i thought it was funny.
>> i'm not sure how that should help us imagine what the US is going to
>> do in irak though.
>> actually imagining US action from austin powers is pretty gross... ;p
>>
>> greg

PM> I was just trying to be as tongue in cheek as the ending of the LeMonde article.  I
PM> don't mean that none of the article was meant seriously, but the thing of it is,  the
PM> American mood and the President's war plans change much too rapidly for  Hollywood to
PM> keep up with.  Is some movie mogul, for example,  prescient enough to already have in
PM> the pipeline anything as timely as "Network" was a quarter century ago? "The attorney
PM> general is eroding our civil liberties and we're not going to take it anymore." See
PM> this morning's  N.Y. Times:

PM> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/politics/24ASHC.html

PM> P.

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>> PM> Where is everybody?  Hope the Goldmember mention wasn't too gross.
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