Iron Man and Transformers Were Censored by US Military For Getting Too Close To The Truth

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http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/07/iron-man-and-transformers-were-censored-by-us-military-for-getting-too-close-to-the-truth/

Iron Man and Transformers Were Censored by US Military For Getting Too Close To The Truth
July 13, 2015 10:44 am·

It sounds almost unimaginable, but it isn’t the script of a new Hollywood movie: the Pentagon has literally forced movie producers to turn villains into heroes, add U.S. Military rescues, as well as changing scenes that they deem “sensitive.”

Producers and directors say they are literally being forced to re-write scripts. If the United States Department of Defense deems their content ­inappropriate, the changes are strongly “suggested.”

The relevant files about this military involvement in Hollywood, from the California-based Department of Defense Entertainment Liaison Office were released after a Freedom of Information Act request by Bath University’s Dr Matthew Alford, whose research focuses on the relationship between entertainment, political power, and propaganda in the United States.

The 1,400-page military document can be downloaded as the 2004-5 weekly reports here and the 2005-6 weekly reports here.

The sheer size of the DOD’s involvement in the entertainment industry is mind-boggling. The full DOD film list details just how much the military has involved itself in Hollywood.

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[razorman]

1. What censored? We can't get away from the damned things.

That crap is in the theatres and on TV virtually all the time.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Content = propaganda nt

[jtuck004]

3. ROFL - people are paying to get into movies. They think it's entertainment, but it's training. n/t

[Betty Karlson]

4. How predictable, in hindsight. eom

[BrotherIvan]

5. The US military also provides funding and equipment for pro-military movies

Your tax dollars at work. See: Zero Dark Thirty.

[bemildred]

6. Yep. nt

[KoKo]

7. K&R..

[needledriver]

8. What's up with the poutrage?

This is a ridiculous claim.

The U.S. military doesn't want you to say bad things about them in your movie. If you want to make a movie that is all about how bad and evil the U.S. Military is you are welcome to BUT you are not going to be able to get in to an army base or an aircraft carrier or use tanks or helicopters or soldiers in your movie. You can pay for it all yourself. That's not censorship. That's negotiation.

[yurbud]

9. we have an apolitical military, so if they do bad things, it's politicians faults.

[MrScorpio]

10. Which is why the latest Godzilla movie turned out to be a DoD recruitment poster. nt