Many people identified themselves with Russia and Russian culture even though they never even set foot in Russia . It happens after having the Russian potrayed as the enemies in basically all American movies.
Sure in the end the F-14 blows up the Mig, but it's a close battle nonetheless and the Mig looks just as cool as the F14,
The point is that if we don't want to deal with neo-Nazi or the Nazi symbolism that disturbs us, then it should not be brought up every 5 minutes in schools and movies and culture in general.
If 1 billion people watches "inglorious Bastards" or "Valkyrie", sure 95% will side with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, but there will always be 5% who'd root for the opposition. 5% of 1bn people is 50 million people.
Of the 50 million people who root for Nazi in movies there will be some 50,000 who think that such a powerful movement had to be onto something and decide to become sympathizers.
Nazi is just a name given to racists/nationalists with extra steps. They just hated jews and believed in pure race. If you don't teach about nazis in schools that hypothetical 5% will still be nazi like but not attached to strict nazi 'ruleset' and symbols, but we just can call them extremists. And it's not like people don't have access to internet, mein kampf can be found without much effort even if prohibited in many countries. And tbh teaching about nazi atrocities leads to 5% creation of nazis sounds like something pulled from air without proofs
> > And tbh teaching about nazi atrocities leads to 5% creation of nazis sounds like something pulled from air without proofs
Russians are painted as evil as Nazi in American movies and yet I love MIGs and everything I know about MIGs and AKs and their resilence I learned from movies.
A movie needs to depict close contest in order to be entertaining (even if the good guys eventually win). A close contest always brings PR to the losing side as well.
Easy to fix - make sure all movie villains are drawn from fantasy - dark lords (black robes, sinister metallic masks), eldritch abominations (lots of eyestalks & tentacles, no sign of bones nor clothing), fire-breathing dragons, ...
Sure in the end the F-14 blows up the Mig, but it's a close battle nonetheless and the Mig looks just as cool as the F14,
The point is that if we don't want to deal with neo-Nazi or the Nazi symbolism that disturbs us, then it should not be brought up every 5 minutes in schools and movies and culture in general.
If 1 billion people watches "inglorious Bastards" or "Valkyrie", sure 95% will side with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, but there will always be 5% who'd root for the opposition. 5% of 1bn people is 50 million people.
Of the 50 million people who root for Nazi in movies there will be some 50,000 who think that such a powerful movement had to be onto something and decide to become sympathizers.