on this week's episode of now that you're on the left you're not allowed to enjoy any media hey stop it right now presented by second thought we're going to look at hollywood's crucial role in the military industrial complex from marxist analysis of superstructures to foia documents and the propaganda of the american office of war information we're going to examine how it is that the american disease of perpetual war gains public support from our film industry come on it's going to be fun we're doing a marxist analysis of shrek but for all of hollywood so where do we start well a good place to begin talking about all of this is with the department of defense's direct involvement in hollywood movies depiction of the united states and its armed forces to be clear if you go to the dod's website they are very upfront about the fact that they are involved in hollywood productions and in the way scripts for major blockbusters are written what you might not expect is the let's say interesting way they like to phrase that involvement here's what the website reads the defense department has a long-standing relationship with hollywood in fact it's been working with filmmakers for nearly NUMBER_TOKEN years production agreements require the dod to be able to review a rough cut of the film so officials can decide if there are areas that need to be addressed before a film is released while hollywood is paid to tell a compelling story that will make money the dod is looking to tell an accurate story sure we'll get to that last part in a second but first we should get an idea of the actual scale of dod involvement in a series of publicly accessible documents you can get a list of all the movies and tv shows that the dod admits publicly to have contributed to or denied assistance the list goes back decades and what's great about it is that there are little notes about what the dod changed in each of these movies or the reasons they were refused assistance for a good number of these movies it's very clear that in return for access to military equipment and locations which would otherwise be incredibly costly to reproduce for even big budget studios certain storylines and dialogues were altered or removed entirely i've already talked on this channel about the media wing of the us military specifically its influence on twitch and in animated shorts targeting gen z in this video now that's a nice video boy i love that video you better watch that video after you're done with this video i'll tell you right now you won't forget right but that episode is focused on recruiting while that is a major goal of the military's propaganda campaigns and it's meant to make war institutions look wholesome and good it's really just one part of a much bigger project and it's also much more obvious what's going on it's the military saying how the military is great on its own platform not on someone else's platform like a big budget hollywood movie what the foia documents reveal is the much more subtle ways the insinuations the detailed rewrites that don't necessarily make the military look great but that gloss over the realities that make it look bad or that make sure more critical movies have a harder time getting produced that they don't get access to the privileges the pro-military movies do from the military's point of view this kind of favoritism
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN i've already talked on this channel about the media wing of the us military specifically its influence on twitch and in animated shorts targeting gen z in this video now that's a nice video boy i love that video you better watch that video after you're done with this video i'll tell you right now you won't forget right but that episode is END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN