Product Placement
I found it curious that a couple weekends ago tens of millions of Americans paid a lot of money to root for a group of persons whose purpose is to seek glory and eternal life while fighting the established government. This government brings order to things, but is corrupted and cruel, mainly for attempting to elliminate certain rouge persons. These persons, if they hope to survive, have no hope but to band together and fight for their freedom against the oppressors. If they succeed, they will be able to continue terrorizing the world while being governed by a strict moral code. If they fail, the world will be ruled by the materialistic, evil western government.
So... how much do you want to bet Al Queda paid Disney for such prominent product placement?
On a sort of serious note, in the US we are used to such...inconsistencies (?) in our entertainment, but the movie is doing very well internationally. One wonders how such messages are taken in, say, Indonesia, or Egypt.
Labels: Irony
posted by Secretwallaby @ 1:41 AM
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4 Comments:
Indonesians love pirates!
Side note: the pirates in the disney film Swiss Family Robinson speak Indonesian.
Ha! The irony - I love it! Although, if you think about it, the "pirates" in the movie didn't really do piratey things except dress and talk like them.
I just read a short history about Pirates, and they were pretty brutal, nasty people that generally didn't live very long.
The best parts of the book were the parts where the British killed all the Pirates! There were some really awesome British sea captains in the Navy at the time, and the pirates just couldn't compete when the British finally cracked down.
They done got blown out of the water, and quick, too. Piracy in the Atlantic shipping lanes just basically ended within two years of the crack-down starting.
That's a pretty good insight, didn't think of it that way before. Phil posted something awhile back about how terrorist should be tried under the same laws that tried pirates, so that makes sense:)
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