I missed this: "The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors." rbth.com/arts/334143-pu…
I am into the bizarrely beautiful nihilistic war films they are making in Russia. Everybody dies in the end but damn, those special effects, colors, camera angles and lighting. Aleksey Sidorov's T-34 from 2019
This Russian heroic viewpoint even applied to crassly propaganda film like "Shugalei" the story of a fuckerlist caught in Libya trying to meddle in elections.
Shugalei is just one part of the Russian hybrid warfare tactic turned movie hero. A pretty decent film on Wagner like mercenaries in CAR is called "The Tourist" Again a reasonable propaganda film to watch to understand how much we suck in this area now.
America still makes unabashed propaganda films. Even if all of the topics didn't age well.
We just came out of a dark era in which the Bannonesque idea of throwing intellectual shit at the wall and calling it a film passed for propaganda. One of my favorites was paid for by pool boy aficionado Liberty University.
The great writer/director John Milius spawned a daughter who made this flick. Will this be the legacy archeologists find to explain the odd cult that rose up and died out?
The 80's had some decent propaganda films like Rambo shot in Israel to sub for Afghanistan and Red Scorpion. Of the modern propaganda flicks I would Black Hawk Down and Top Gun are pretty decent. liveabout.com/top-films-used…
So what were the defining propaganda films from the left and right that defined the last ten years? 12 Strong, 13 Hours, Lone Survivor, Act of Valor? Zero Dark Thirty We have yet to truly define the GWOT or Trump era in a decent propaganda film. phillyvoice.com/four-seasons-t…
So rack up some Russian propaganda this weekend. One not to miss is Sergei Bondarchuk's War & Peace from 1966 supposedly the most expensive mini series ever made. Before there were special effects.

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