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Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies
Operation Hollywood(2004) "Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes andCensors the Movies" draws an unsettling analysis of the military'sinfluence on the film industry. This program examines how the development of the motionpicture industry in Hollywood coincided with the US's entry onto the worldstage, on both political and military levels. Hollywood and the Pentagon...mostpeople are intrigued to learn than a relationship exists between these twopillars of American power. Yet the US armed forces foresaw of the benefits insupporting the production of war and combat films when the country's cinema wasstill in its infancy. At the beginning of the 20th century, in the early daysof cinema, the US was still a young, relatively isolated country. Two worldwars later the country could no longer afford to remain insular. The story ofhow America faced up to the world was told by war movies. As journalist and former Hollywood Reporter staffer DavidRobb writes, that's the deal the Pentagon has had with Hollywood since thebirth of the Cold War. The Pentagon has the toys needed to make realistic filmsabout war, terrorism, international intrigue. Collaborating with the brass cansave studios bundles in production expenses. "And all a producer has to doto get that assistance is submit five copies of the script to the Pentagon forapproval, make whatever script changes the Pentagon suggests, film the scriptexactly as approved by the Pentagon and prescreen the finished product forPentagon officials before it's shown to the public." Plenty of producers do so gladly, writes Robb. It's"Hollywood's dirtiest little secret." Robb asserts that JerryBruckheimer, for one, rolls over just about every time the Pentagon calls forscript changes in his big, pro-military films, as when the Navy demanded thatKelly McGillis' character in "Top Gun" be made a civilian contractorto cool down the suggestion that she and Tom Cruise were havingagainst-regulations fun out of uniform. Elsewhere, Robb laments Dan Goldberg'seagerness to please the Pentagon in the course of making "Stripes,"turning a slightly subversive comedy into a not nearly so funny recruitmentposter for the Army.
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