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Operation Hollywood - How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies (Hardcover, New)
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Operation Hollywood - How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies (Hardcover, New)
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The only thing Hollywood likes more than a good movie is a good
deal. For more than fifty years producers and directors of war and
action movies have been getting a great deal from America's armed
forces by receiving access to billions of dollars worth of military
equipment and personnel for little or no cost. Although this
arrangement considerably lowers a film's budget, the cost in terms
of intellectual freedom can be quite steep. In exchange for access
to sophisticated military hardware and expertise, filmmakers must
agree to censorship from the Pentagon.
As veteran Hollywood journalist David L. Robb shows in this
revealing insider's look into Hollywood's "dirtiest little secret,"
the final product that moviegoers see at the theater is often not
just what the director intends but also what the powers-that-be in
the military want to project about America's armed forces.
Sometimes the censor demands removal of just a few words; other
times whole scenes must be scrapped or completely revised. What
happens if a director refuses the requested changes? Robb quotes a
Pentagon spokesman: "Well I'm taking my toys and I'm going home.
I'm taking my tanks and my troops and my location, and I'm going
home." That can be quite a persuasive threat to a filmmaker trying
to keep his movie within budget.
Robb takes us behind the scenes during the making of many
well-known movies. From The Right Stuff to Top Gun and even Lassie,
the list of movies in which the Pentagon got its way is very long.
Only when a director is determined to spend more money than
necessary to make his own movie without interference, as in the
case of Oliver Stone in the creation of Platoon or Francis Ford
Coppola in Apocalypse Now, is a film released that presents the
director's unalloyed vision.
For anyone who loves movies and cares about freedom of expression,
Operation Hollywood is an engrossing, shocking, and very
entertaining book.
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