All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

[rich]

his blog is worthwhile reading

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/

In many ways they were the American model for what Walker was trying to
become in Britain, an independent force that could challenge the big
studios by making popular movies. And in the 1980s Golan and Globus pretty
much invented the modern Action Movie - like the immortal Death Wish IV:
The Crackdown along with comedies like Dumb Dicks - but most notorious was
Delta Force starring Chuck Norris, made in the wake of the hijacking of a
TWA plane in Beirut in 1986.

In 1987 the BBC made a wonderful fly on the wall documentary about Golan
and Globus. It's called The Last Moguls and it is a brilliant peek into the
world of movie deals and trash remakes of the 80s, and this is a good
excuse to show some extracts.

I love the section about the making of Delta Force where Chuck Norris in an
interview explains how the film tries to show what America's response to
Arab terrorism should be in the future:

"I think terrorism is going to get greater all over the world, and I think
it's time we started doing something about it right now rather than waiting
till it gets a lot worse."

The aim of the film, Norris says, is to show America how to do this
retaliation - through what he calls "positive violence". As opposed to
"negative violence" - which is what the terrorists do.

*Along with George Walker's use of film and celebrity to fake profits in
order to do takeover deals, you begin to wonder whether the whole of the
subsequent economic and foreign policy of Britain and the United States
wasn't created by the rubbish movies of the 1980s. *[my italics--RR. Hello,
Vineland]*

*Rich*
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On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 7:05 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Much obliged.
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> An exclusive taster of Adam Curtis's new series about how computers
>> have not liberated us but distorted and simplified our view of the
>> world around us. It starts on Monday May 23 at 9pm on BBC2
>>
>>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/video/2011/may/06/documentary-internet-adam-curtis
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