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I did not know ...

I admit my ignorance. And now the thing is not beautiful. The situation then gets worse when you consider that they are passionate about cinema. In fact, I call "fierce moviegoer ... I feel worse.

Oh well, I did not know ... Wait, though, I have an excuse, that is ... maybe.

the war movies I do not I can see. Not that I do not like the genre, then, has several masterpieces, some of them have even seen. The problem is that the war movies make me sick.

Not so much for the possible, and often unavoidable, bloody scenes (watch horror splatter without batting an eye) but rather the awareness that these events actually happened, the real wars fought by real men, real in the trenches, in jungles where the real death, not when it came to taking away the life of a take, but forever.

So all this realism I charge accumulates on the stomach and finished the film I feel like the giant Atlas of mythology, forced to take the whole world on his shoulders, made even heavier by the stupidity and irrational hatred of men.

I fear however that my over-sensitivity that he may judge how little alibi.

Basically anything I imagined, but I did not know that the Pentagon had, just Los Angeles a representative office, to which directors and producers of war films can apply for any eventuality .

must admit that when you turn the newsreels of a military expert advice is more valuable than ever, besides the fact that the army could use the original media is certainly add value to the film. This is why the Pentagon proves very happy to cooperate. Often free or at least a rental prices are very reasonable. One thing, however, in return asks, demands the possibility read the script, just to make sure that the U.S. arsenal will not be used to support anti-militarist argument.

who accepts to put the army in a patriotic and positive light, given it is seen as a reliable institution with great generosity.

who refuses must fend for themselves, which means almost always give up or resign themselves to a film production of low quality, or abandon "the Mecca of cinema" and move abroad. And that's what happened, for example, in the 70s to Francis Ford Coppola which to shoot "Apocalypse Now " had to go and rent in Manila Philippine Army helicopters and armored vehicles for American production.

The attentions of the Pentagon also explain, as pointed out by Marcello Foa, the constant attention of Hollywood for the military issues and the precision with which they are identified from time to time enemies: the days of the Cold War were the Soviets, then Iraqis are now, the terrorists, the North Koreans. And this is why, ever since the First World War the Most governments, and Washington in particular, were able to identify in the cinema a means of communication that can profoundly affect the community , thanks to its immense power of fascination.

In 1942 Franklin Delano Roosevelt summoned to the White House the greatest film of the time (by John Ford to Frank Capra ) urging them to boost the morale of the country that was preparing to enter the Second World War .

The same thing George W. did Bush after the terrorist attacks of ' September 11, 2001. The Hollywood Directive which would due do, and it stuck, please do not foment are the clash of civilizations, but to accentuate the atmosphere of national unity by insisting on fighting terrorism.

At the beginning of 2002 was thus blocked the release of "Collateral Damage " by Andrew Davis and "The Sum of tens ion " by Phil Alden Robinson , both focused on attacks prepared by Palestinian terrorists on U.S. territory. To avert the risk of indiscriminate criminalization of Arabs and Muslims in America, given the very delicate time, in "The Sum of All Fears " the bad guys are transformed in nostalgic Nazis were defeated thanks to the alliance between states that share the war on terror, among them there is also the enemy of the past, Russia. The new morality was thus perfectly in tune with the efforts of American diplomats, thesis, in early 2002 to create a great global coalition against Al Qaeda.

The long arm of the Government to the cinema is thus not something from another era.