Operation Hollywood: How The Pentagon Shapes And Censors The Movie Industry

Mass Mind Control known as Entertainment

Every year, Hollywood producers ask the Pentagon for help in making films, seeking everything from locations and technical advice from Blackhawk helicopters to 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.

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.

• Category: Tavistock / Esalen Institute,Conspiracies / A secret plan ,Hegelian Dialectic,War/MilitaryIndustrialComplex
• Duration: 52:27
• Date:  2019-05-06 11:51:48
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