25 Movies That Are Basically Propaganda
Everyone likes a movie with a message. But what if the real message is secretly hidden? Plenty of your favorite movies are thinly-veiled...
Published 2 years ago in Wow
Everyone likes a movie with a message. But what if the real message is secretly hidden?
Plenty of your favorite movies are thinly-veiled propaganda. And here are a few of the worst offenders!
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Oh man, there was a "documentary" a while back called "What the Bleep Do We Know?" that advertised itself as a science documentary exploring the weirdness of quantum physics. It sounded cool and I actually went and saw it in the theater.
Turns out it was a flat-out scam promoting the ideas of a new age cult called the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. A handful of physicists were duped into appearing and heavily edited to appear as though they agreed with the cult's message. I've never felt so cheated leaving a theater.-u/NotABonobo16
If you see anything along the lines of "the producers would like to thank xyz branch of the US military..." it means the Pentagon got to rewrite the movie. There's a group called the Pentagon Film Office. They coordinate with high-level movie production companies. If you agree to portray the military the way they want, they'll lend you millions in military equipment. The military gets a boost to recruiting and retention in return. But the catch is that they get to redline your script. They've ruined a lot of good movies.
There was a forgettable Nicolas Cage movie a few years back called Windtalkers. If you read the original script, it was darker, and showed the Americans in general and the marine Marines specifically in a rather negative light. But by the time the Pentagon Film Office got through with it it was another generic celebrity vehicle. This happens all of the time. The really twisted part is that production companies will make concessions even if they can't get support for that particular movie.
Like Forrest Gump originally had a lot more Vietnam stuff in it. They brought up this program where the Army experimented with recruiting the mentally disabled. It really happened, but the military didn't want to talk about it in a Tom Hanks movie. Even though the producers couldn't twist the script enough to get it approved, the producers still took that part of the movie out to stay on the military's good side. -u/Sparky_Valentine23
Red Dawn (the 2012 one) was supposed to be about China being the invaders, but China said if they were to air the movie it would not only be banned in China, but the rest of the movies from that film company would also be permanently banned from China, which is a bigger market than the US.Originally Disney was going to do a movie about the persecution of the Fulon Going group, but again China said it would ban Disney movies because it would paint China negatively, so instead Disney made Mulan.Their propaganda machine effects what we create, making the US complacent and willing to work with China and their propaganda.-u/magarkle
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The Pursuit of Happiness. It's the American dream: If only you work hard enough you might end up along with those other rich people at Wall Street who all definitely got there by hard work. All the while you witness the rampant poverty and lack of social structure and equality in America, but it's all okay because one guy, who is lucky enough to be born a genius and can solve Rubik's cubes and who totally ignores his son, cries at the end because he got a job.-u/eric4047
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