The portrayal of the United States in foreign cinema today is a topic worthy of a student thesis. For example The Host (pictured left), is the number one grossing movie in the history of South Korea, and portrays the United States military as responsible for the creation of Godzilla-like monster that wrecks havoc in Seoul. Valley of the Wolves: Iraq broke box-office records in Turkey, depicting American soldiers massacring civilians and selling the organs of Iraqi prisoners to a Jewish doctor (played by Nick Nolte - see the trailer). 28 Weeks Later, produced in England, has the American military occupying a plague-infected London (in an area similar to the Iraqi Green Zone), and killing the good locals when no longer able to contain the sickness (see the trailer).All three of these countries - South Korea, Turkey and England - are considered United State's allies. I wonder what the movies are like in Iran.
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You raise interesting points, Harris. However I must disagree with you when you say the following:
"For example The Host (pictured right)"
More like, "The Host (pictured left)" etc
Please get your facts right, you dumb-dumb.
Turnabout is fair play. We've been depicting all Middle-Easterners and Russians as terrorists for years. Not that I'm particularly offended by that, mind you, but we shouldn't complain when they portray us as imperialist thugs.
The views of the South Koreans towards Americans are especially disheartening, conisdering the fact that if not US Military presence in the DMZ, they would have been invaded and bombed by their Northern bretheren.
I say we leave the ingrateful motherfuckers, and let them handle thier own defense.
not quite the reaction I was looking for Judah, but good to have you aboard.
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