The
Pentagon helps Hollywood to make money and, in turn, Hollywood churns
out effective propaganda for the brutal American war machine.
The US
has the largest military budget in the world, spending over $611
billion – far larger than any other nation on Earth. The US
military also has at their disposal the most successful propaganda
apparatus the world has ever known… Hollywood.
Since
their collaboration on the first Best Picture winner ‘Wings’ in
1927, the US military has used Hollywood to manufacture and shape its
public image in over 1,800 films and TV shows. Hollywood has, in
turn, used military hardware in their films and TV shows to make gobs
and gobs of money. A plethora of movies like ‘Lone Survivor,’
‘Captain Philips,’ and even blockbuster franchises like
‘Transformers’ and Marvel, DC and X-Men superhero movies have
agreed to cede creative control in exchange for use of US military
hardware over the years.
In order
to obtain cooperation from the Department of Defense (DoD), producers
must sign contracts that guarantee a military approved version of the
script makes it to the big screen. In return for signing away
creative control, Hollywood producers save tens of millions of
dollars from their budgets on military equipment, service members to
operate the equipment, and expensive location fees.
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