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Welcome to the machine, globalism. It is all about marketing in a global economy. The ability to sell this movie across the globe. Make no mistake, all Hollywood movies are adjusted for gender, race and nationality in order to sell movies. If the American flag offends the Chinese, don't make the scene, or edit it out. BS for sure, but politically correct in movies translates into mega bucks world wide.
Absolutely. If the movie was only to be shown at Andrews AFB, the flag scene would exist. World wide, forget about it. If it was only to be shown in Africa, Blacks would be portraid in much larger numbers in the movie. Again it really is about the ability to market the movie on a global scale.
Absolutely. If the movie was only to be shown at Andrews AFB, the flag scene would exist. World wide, forget about it. If it was only to be shown in Africa, Blacks would be portraid in much larger numbers in the movie. Again it really is about the ability to market the movie on a global scale.
It's just one of these things. If the movie can't be sold in huge numbers, it won't be made in the first place.
Everyone can dream up the perfect Apollo 11 movie that fits their own perspective. Until they secure the funding and get a script and hustle up actors and whatnot - until they run the risk, put in the work and get the damn movie made - I'll feel free to point out that their complaints are just comments from the sideline.
Obviously the movie that exists in real life will never measure up to the hyperpatriot version with fluttering flags and bald eagles and Nixon-as-statesman shots that some are now busily dreaming up. But it will exist, and their imaginary version won't.
What bothers me is they’re making a movie based upon a historical event and they intentionally chose to leave out the American flag. The astronauts were USA military pilots who went to the moon in a race between USA & USSR. Those are historical facts. Why not rewrite the movie so the first person on the moon is a transgender transsexual multiracial Muslim person
Agreed. I'm surprised they didn't use the crew from Ghostbusters II for this.
If you're going to make a historical movie-make it historically accurate. Otherwise it's just fictional entertainment. Space 1999 might be comparable...
How is removing the flag to make this event into something it was not, not a form of cultural appropriation? Isn't that bayd?
"Ralph Abernathy organized a Poor People's Campaign during the launch of Apollo 11, where he marched to Cape Canaveral with four mules, two wagons and 25 poor African-American families, and he demanded a meeting with Thomas Paine, who was the head of NASA at the time. And they met very dramatically in this field just outside the gates of the Kennedy Space Center, and Abernathy said to Paine, I want you to to turn your science and technology back around and help poor people, African-Americans in the ghetto."
I didn't make it through it. Walked out after Armstrong said
"That's one small step for a self-identified white cis male, one giant leap for humankind."
Why would you go see a movie about the state using funds confiscated at gunpoint? I would have thought you'd be in line for the movie about the space program that was funded without government coercion. OK, so there never was one, but still...
Why would you go see a movie about the state using funds confiscated at gunpoint? I would have thought you'd be in line for the movie about the space program that was funded without government coercion. OK, so there never was one, but still...
I was joking!
Haven't seen it. The government hasn't built a road between my house and the movie theatre yet and god knows I can't build one myself. Concrete only hardens when poured by a government worker.
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