ramble81@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 hours agoIf the Bond franchise hadn't been sold to Amazon, it was possible we could have seen a movie with the US as the bad guy.message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down12
arrow-up1135arrow-down1message-squareIf the Bond franchise hadn't been sold to Amazon, it was possible we could have seen a movie with the US as the bad guy.ramble81@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 hours agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·10 hours agoThere’s lot of American movies where the American government is the bad guys… The thing with cops and military, is they only cooperate with production if they’re the good guys. So it saves money on props like vehicles, uniforms, advisors, etc. But still, loads of shows and movies still have the American government as the baddies
minus-squareDavel23@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 hours agoIt’s rare that the government as a whole is depicted as evil and the “bad guy”. It’s usually rogue elements within the government like a corrupt senator or one specific agency
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 hours agoAnd there’s another (real!) American fighting them
There’s lot of American movies where the American government is the bad guys…
The thing with cops and military, is they only cooperate with production if they’re the good guys.
So it saves money on props like vehicles, uniforms, advisors, etc.
But still, loads of shows and movies still have the American government as the baddies
It’s rare that the government as a whole is depicted as evil and the “bad guy”. It’s usually rogue elements within the government like a corrupt senator or one specific agency
And there’s another (real!) American fighting them