It’s also known as synonymology!
I got yew?
Only if he promises to enter the stage this way.
...and Loki’s new trailer is anything but ‘low-key’!
No, they’re just perpetuating lies about the goodness of the American military apparatus in spreading Justice™ around the world and the necessity of American might, including torturing, maiming, and murdering furriners and brown people. Including Zero Dark Thirty which was explicitly informed by lies that the CIA…
Yeah I’d love to see someone grill any of the actors on that terrible Sorkin Chicago 7 movie lol. No leftist was happy with that piece of shit, it basically co-opted a group of leftists to make a centrist liberal propaganda movie, but no one involved was asked any tough questions about it.
If the film is receiving Air Force support and has a deal to do Air Force advertisements with the main star, it is Air Force propaganda. It was constructed specifically around the fact that the Air Force was having trouble recruiting women, so the whole idea of it was to show a character overcoming obstacles to…
Michael Bay is often a military propagandist yes. I just picked random examples. However, especially given the production practices used on them I don’t think it can be denied that Captain Marvel and Zero Dark Thirty were explicitly propaganda films.
They ran Air Force ads before the film bud. They had Larson literally sitting with Air Force captains and shit and talking about how they wanted to make a film that would honor them. You’re not looking very closely if you don’t think that a film that had an extensive deal with the Air Force wasn’t at least partly…
they’re white knighting the airforce online on their own dime and it apparently hasn’t occurred to them that they may have been had by an extremely well oiled propaganda machine.
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.
Jesus, two years later and I’m never going to stop feeling vicariously embarrassed by people calling Captain Marvel’s 90 seconds of air force content that’s entirely about how they’re a bunch of misogynist pricks ‘military propaganda’.
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.
“It was more to do with marketing tie-ins than the film’s content”
I mean, they did pay to run Air Force commercials before the film:
I mean, I don’t disagree with the criticism per se, but I don’t know how anyone squares this moral righteousness over an actor taking a role with the fact that actors taking roles in pro-military propaganda blockbusters like Captain Marvel and Zero Dark Thirty never receive a fraction of this criticism. In fact, we’re…
Now you want an X-Men crossover?