Orson Welles.  There are two goddamn Es in his name.  He at least deserved that much respect, even if we must talk about his wine commercials. 

Ah how I miss the days when the site’s writers knew how to spell the surname of one of the greatest film directors ever known.

I agree that it’s punching down and a mediocre take at BEST, but I think it’s far easier for sheltered liberals to draw a line from South Park to a political movement than to confront the reality of how basic some of these things are to American political thought. Partly because we have raised expectations of Parker…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if people are taking their moral lessons and political views form a cartoon that prominently features a talking piece of shit (or really any TV program for that matter) it is not the show that is sick, but the society.

South Park is, was, and always has been a pretty damned entertaining (at best) show invested with WAAAAAAAAAY the fuck more sociopolitical weight than it was ever intended to bear.

Excellent points, well made. It’s (obviously) not something I’ve thought very hard about and if it’s an action movie I don’t even really look for a message or morals. I like the Marvel stuff because it looks cool (especially that purple colour they use) and some of the fights are impressively staged. But I suppose if…

It’s literally funded by the Air Force.

I think it’s a lot to do with them making videos for the military as part of the Captain Marvel shoot (Brie Larson at least shot some in costume) and also that the Pentagon gives Marvel military weapons and vehicles as props as long as they get a look at the script / runs and gets a say. It’s a bit chilling. 

https://www.cbr.com/captain-marvel-mcu-military-relationship/

marvel/disney literally collaborates with the department of defense on the movies they make. they receive money and equipment in exchange for depicting the military in a positive light. anything you see has been directly signed off on by the military industrial complex.

After the whole deal with SHIELD and now SWORD, I have no idea how people can say the MCU is free of propagandist elements.

If it goes through the armed forces PR dept, which all of the Marvel movies do for sure, then it’s propaganda.  That’s what propaganda is.  

What about a movie like Top Gun, which wasn’t produced by the military but was heavily influenced by the military (including the right to review and censor the script)? The Navy’s intention to use Top Gun for recruiting purposes and it’s resounding success in that regard is well documented.

Okay, but you still have to point out which elements in the movie are actually pro-military. “The Air Force would never approve a script that painted them negatively” doesn’t really mesh with the fact that the movie paints them negatively.

Except to the target of audience of potential recruits, showing the Air Force as misogynist dicks may be a positive (“A place where I can be a REAL man!”). The fact is the Air Force approved the script, so they must think it is a net positive for them.

Well with the former you just end up killing all the babies when they grow up any way, so I'd call it a wash.

Are you from the US? They ran ads for the Air Force before the film played in theaters and on television (at least after the films release) using footage from the film.

I think the Air Force (as well as the military in general) has canny and up to date philosophies on marketing and branding. They used the movie to acknowledge the sexism in their past (the implicit message being AF has evolved since then) and simultaneously celebrate female aviators (it is literally the subject of a…

Except MCU films, because they have zero propaganda, apparently. 

I support aborting our troops!