You're right.

And the military in movies used to be depicted as inflexible, stubborn, paranoid, incompetent, and usually either "the bad guys" or authorities that impeded the progress of the main characters. (With exceptions; I'm not forgetting about Top Gun).

Then there was a sudden switch, with the military shown with cool gadgets, airplanes, tech, heroics, and generally being glorified. The transition must have happened before the first Transformers, but it was in full swing by then.

Were one of a conspiratorial mind, one would guess massive amounts of money were spent in changing this image.

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sodality2 a day ago | parent | next [-]

No conspiracy necessary. The CIA bought the rights to the 1954 film Animal Farm, modified the ending to fit propagandist ends, and it went undiscovered for four decades. The original Top Gun was intended to recover the image of the US Navy after the Vietnam War. Etc etc etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment...

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iammjm 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Please lets also not forget computer games. Call of Duty, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, oh what a glorious thing to be an american soldier...

	▲	duskdozer 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		America's Army would like to have a word
	▲	ChoGGi 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Press F to pay respects

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DANmode 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So, no conspiracy theory necessary.

	▲	wartywhoa23 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's all straight up conspiracy practice since long, to much cheerful bleating how it isn't.

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Imustaskforhelp 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> No conspiracy necessary. The CIA bought the rights to the 1954 film Animal Farm, modified the ending to fit propagandist ends,

yea, I remember reading the book and then watching the movie and it had differences iirc, its available on youtube for free and I remember some comments talking about the different ending.

IIRC, in the movie, the animals finally kick the pigs out and everything. It was a good ending.

but in the book, there was not a good ending, the humans and the pigs were celebrating together and then ended up fighting in between each other

> Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

This is the last paragraph I found from the book (had to download it via archive.org to find the last para)

So am I correct or is there more to the story?

	▲	InitialLastName 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Confirmed, that's the last paragraph in my 1996 Signet Classics copy.

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meroes 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just rewatched Buffalo Soldiers with Joaquin Phoenix. Really don't think that movie could be made today.

	▲	dv35z 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Such a great and underappreciated movie.

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CamelCaseCondo a day ago | parent | prev [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment...