I don't she this is an average Hollywood lib. She exists in the Rogansphere. She's been on the Joe Rogan Show and the Lex Fridman show and the Shawn Ryan show. She focuses on writing military fiction and cop slop. She voluntarily worked with the CIA. It seems more likely that she is a chud and maybe even a fed.

Also it is well known that almost every Hollywood production which features US military equipment, receives financial assistance from the US Military. The Transformers trilogy is a well known example of US military propaganda. Film studios aren't allowed access to US military equipment or locations unless their military handlers approve the script.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Let me have my dramatic exaggeration meow-anarchist

But to be fair, can you name a movie where cia are unapologetically bad guys in the last 15 years?

Like I try to avoid military slop, so I get only tidbits, but we have zero dark thirty - unapologetic cia prop with that chastain fed asset, america fallen - pure mil slop, doubt cia bad there, 007 - lmao, black panther - pro smol bean cia, rest of marvel - same, transformers same. Maybe expanse kinda sorta? But even then, it’s bad apples story. Even killers of the flower moon does some fbi equivocations so like.

If I’m honest i think the last true haters died out in the 80s, at least their movies weren’t successful, so they changed tune. Kinda sorta the rock, maybe, middle of 90s? Ironically by michael bay.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sicario (2015) has the CIA as bad guys who are complete sadists and do evil shit. Unfortunately, it paints the FBI as the good guys who naively think the other alphabet agencies follow the law. Still pretty good. Very suspenseful and Antonio Banderas steals the show. Also unfortunate that he's a zionist. Emily Blunt is in it, too. She was married to John "The CIA is the best thing that ever happened to me" Krasinski. Although, they separated a while ago and are now divorced. I don't think they ever disclosed why, but it was right after October 7th.

[–] pierre_delecto@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

wasnt that benicio del toro?

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Yes lmao sorry I just heard about the Heineken ad where del Toro tells people he's not Banderas and it had the opposite effect on me.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are they painted as bad guys or “doin tuff work to protect democracy”? Because while my memory is fuzzy they aren’t massacring random farmers in their specops shit (also I thought it was jsoc?) the cia guy is this never happened guy to emily blunt, right?

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They start a shootout in the middle of a traffic jam which causes Emily Blunt's character to freak out as she realizes they're CIA doing stuff they shouldn't be. The scene I think you're talking about is where del Toro' character, Alejandro the lawyer turned hitman (a.k.a. sicario), puts a gun to her head and makes her sign a paper vouching they followed protocol.

Josh Brolin's character is the one who is actually CIA who is using Alejandro by turning him loose on people by saying they were involved in Alejandro's family getting murdered. Blunt realizes he lied to her about the people found murdered in the house at the beginning of the film and they haven't been looking for the people responsible at all. He's just using her as cover to operate on US soil. This casts doubt on whether or not he's done the same thing to Alejandro, who massacres an entire family who may or may not be the people responsible for his own family.

The film paints the "making tough decisions to protect democracy" shtick as an excuse for sadism and torture. Brolin's character doesn't give a shit about any of that and gets off on the power he wields over others. When Blunt tries to call him out, he points out he has the backing of the rest of the government. By the end of it, it's obvious the War on Drugs is a failure and all it's done has created a cycle of violence that continues to escalate because it benefits US interests.

But again, it paints the FBI as good people in a bad situation where they try to take the moral high ground. We know that's bullshit because IRL the FBI does evil shit all the time ranging from MK Ultra to wiretapping MLK to Iran-Contra.

Edit: oh I also just remembered The Ghost Writer, although the CIA isn't named until the end of the film.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Antonio Banderas steals the show.

fidel-wut

[–] pierre_delecto@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

che-poggers

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Kill The Messenger from 2014

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

A classic example from From Here to Eternity:

In the novel, Captain Holmes ironically receives his desired promotion, and is transferred out of the company. In the film, Holmes is forced to resign from the Army under threat of court-martial for his ill-treatment of Prewitt. The Army insisted on this change, which the filmmakers reluctantly made. Director Zinnemann later complained that the scene where Holmes is reprimanded was "the worst moment in the film, resembling a recruiting short", and wrote, "It makes me sick every time I see it."

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

Man I hope I don't wake up one day to find Adam replied to one of my tweets

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

he-admit-it