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Originally Posted by The Reaper
And Hollywood loved them, along with the Vietnam anti-war swill like "Casualties of War" and Iraq trash like "The Hurt Locker."
Funny when those who make the movies that define history for the majority of viewers have such a bias against it and zero experience in one. Then their peers proclaim the greatness of the works while stereotyping the vets as evil, heartless, deranged, or murderers.
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Ms. Bigelow made clear her personal position on OIF at the conclusing of her acceptance speech for best director at the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday, March 7, 2010. She said:
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And I’d just like to dedicate this to the women and men in the military who risk their lives on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world. And may they come home safe. Thank you.
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IMO,
Zero Dark Thirty made clearer her position on GWOT, her agreement with the way America is fighting it, and her unqualified admiration for Americans in armed service. I think the fact that the directors' branch of the Academy did not nominate her for best director reflects a broader ambivalence in Hollywood IRT Bush the Younger's leadership in GWOT but not hostility towards those who fight it.*
I also believe that if one casts a slightly broader net to include the small screen (television), it becomes increasingly difficult to find evidence that veterans are demonized as they were in the 1970s and early 1980s. For example, the two most watched dramas on television,
NCIS and
NCIS: LA, have veterans as central characters. While
Person of Interest does not draw the audience it deserves, and
The Unit could not IMO overcome the impact of the 2007-08 WGA strike nor the controversies centering around Eric Haney nor Shawn Ryan's focus on
The Shield, multiple storylines of both series emphasized the virtue of armed service.
YMMV.
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* This interpretation does not discount the possiblity that Ms. Bigelow also experienced that year some backlash generated by Megan Ellison and the sensibilities she brings to movie making.