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Hurrah for Hollywood and the Marines
The London Independent has a good piece on Hollywood’s new baddies – the North Koreans. There are several important facets to this report: Hollywood needs a baddie who will not damage their sales and Holywood just peddles tripe. More importantly, however, this tripe percolates through and helps convince moat people American foreign policy and American principles, whatever they are, are ok. The Yanks are always the good guys and what is good for American and General Motors is good fir their victims too.
With the US studios desperate to establish a foothold in the fast growing Chinese market, it is clearly a very bad idea to have too many films with heroic Rambo types taking on Red Army soldiers, opium smugglers or cyber hackers. The same applies to the Middle Eastern and North African market. India (through the Reliance Group) is already helping bankroll big American movies.
By a natural process of elimination, all this leads to North Korea’s current status as Hollywood’s favourite source of bad guys. In the new remake of 1984 Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen movie Red Dawn (objectionable enough in its own right), the residents in a typical American town in Washington State wake up one morning to see North Korean paratroopers dropping from the sky. Chris Hemsworth and various other rugged and square-jawed young patriots fight back against the alien invaders.
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