🇲🇹 Top Gun Sequel Serves As A Sweet New Piece Of U.S. Military Propaganda

As the rebooted sequel of Top Gun will hit theaters soon, it’s important to know how and why the movie was made in the first place, and aside from the financial incentives, the movie serves as a great piece of military propaganda. The film is a constant commercial for the military’s most valuable and sophisticated pieces of weapon technology, painting the Navy and the military as a whole as a global force for good while making the job look thrilling and appealing to their target young male demographic. John Iadarola and Caroline Johnson discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

“Here comes Tom Cruise’s Maverick again, breaking the rules, pushing the limits, buzzing the control tower, then flashing his toothy grin and getting away with it like it’s still 1986. As with its smash-hit predecessor, though, there is one set of rules Top Gun: Maverick scrupulously obeys: those of the US navy – without its fighter planes, bases, aircraft carriers and full-on cooperation the Top Gun movies would never exist.

It is no secret that the Department of Defense (DoD) willingly and frequently collaborates with the entertainment industry, including loaning out its most expensive toys. But that cooperation comes at a price, and it is not just financial. The DoD manages its screen image so carefully, some have suggested it is in effect an unnamed co-producer on thousands of movies, to the extent that Hollywood is operating as its propaganda machine.

There is very little in Top Gun: Maverick to dispel such suspicions. As with its predecessor, it is an advertisement for the US military’s professionalism, its sophisticated hardware and its ethos of … let’s call it masculine camaraderie. Top Gun was 1986’s highest grossing movie in the US, and it cast the navy in such a good light, they set up information tables outside some cinemas. According to estimates, recruitment across the US military jumped by 500% that year.”

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