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Telexx wrote:Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Original 'Gremlins' author Roald Dahl later wrote Cold War propaganda for kidz, just like Brit spook Ian Fleming who wrote 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.'
...you are not demonstrating how Fleming and Dahl are alike (the fact that Dahl worked on material with Fleming does not equal Dahl is like Flaming.)
barracuda wrote:.....Hugh wrote:and also negative framing of the color green since the Green Party had just been officially formed in Europe in '79 and was growing off the environmental movement.
This statement is pure woo, that is to say, it is an assumption without basis in any facts whatsoever. The color green has a millenium-long association with evil, envy, jealousy, sickness and death that has been exploited by artists since, ohh... forever. Are we to take it on faith that any Hollywood movie since 1979 featuring a green monster is making a conscious effort to work against the Green Party?
barracuda wrote:Hugh wrote:notice the shape of the fake lens flare
What is meant by the word "fake" here? Are you saying the lens flare was digitally added?Can you document this? Or is this more baseless assumption?
FWIW, "The specific spatial distribution of the flare depends on the shape of the aperture of the image formation elements. For example, if the lens has a 6-bladed aperture, the flare may have a hexagonal pattern."
Beyond that, do you have any hard evidence that Disney has tried to downplay or disavow their propaganda work during WW2?
It remains one of my favorite college lectures: during a film-history course at Orange Coast College during the late 1990s, professor Steven Valley shared his Kafka-esque ordeal in trying to view propaganda films the Walt Disney Studios produced during World War II. Phone calls to various Disney historians went unanswered, Valley recounted; written requests never reached their destination; visits by Valley to Disney's Burbank archives resulted in trips from one office to another, all to no avail. After months of fruitless inquiry, Disney brass finally relented. They shoved Valley into an unlit basement room, carted in a TV/VCR set, popped in a videocassette containing the desired cartoons, and left him for about three hours. No notes were allowed. No recorders. No questions. Upon the tape's completion, security guards escorted Valley out and told him never to ask for a second screening since it wouldn't happen.
barracuda wrote:Knowledge of their role during the conflict is a commonplace among just about anyone who has any interest in these matters. I have personally been aware of this since early childhood.
barracuda wrote:
The resemblance is not startling.
HMW wrote:Spielberg used 'E.T.' and 'Poltergeist' to apply woo to the meme "missing/left behind" because of General Tighe's damning testimony about US soldiers left behind in Vietnam with the commemoration of the Vietnam Memorial imminent.
Pilots' authentification codes were intentionally destroyed so they couldn't 'phone home.' Hence the slogan of 'E.T.'
Later Tighe was badjacketed in 'Battlestar Galactica as "Saul Tigh."
orz wrote:Also set aside your typical wood for the trees style; forget the CIA controlling lens flares, how about the fact that the post 9/11 re-release had all the guns absurdly digitally removed along with a line referring to terrorism etc?
Hmm, "greys with big eyes." Now how on Earth could that be?
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Telexx wrote:Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Original 'Gremlins' author Roald Dahl later wrote Cold War propaganda for kidz, just like Brit spook Ian Fleming who wrote 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.'
...you are not demonstrating how Fleming and Dahl are alike (the fact that Dahl worked on material with Fleming does not equal Dahl is like Flaming.)
I detect fan defensiveness.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:One MI6 guy working on another MI6 guy's 'James Bond' screenplay AND
a psyops script for kidz (Chitty) almost 20 years after WWII...justifies my statement.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Don't you find it remarkable that both MI6 guys, Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl, wrote Cold War-era stories for kidz that equated factories and capitalism with...candy? Talk about sugar-coating fascism.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:I detect fan defensiveness.
Hugh wrote:One MI6 guy working on another MI6 guy's 'James Bond' screenplay AND
a psyops script for kidz (Chitty) almost 20 years after WWII...justifies my statement.
Don't you find it remarkable that both MI6 guys, Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl, wrote Cold War-era stories for kidz that equated factories and capitalism with...candy? Talk about sugar-coating fascism.
I'm not even going into the gender crap in Dahl's own stories or how they later became psyops counterpropaganda movies. Waste of time at this board.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:I don't have the capability of posting all the screen shots from 'Gremlins' to illustrate the political color psychology. I just searched and found a representative one.
Hugh wrote:barracuda wrote:.....Hugh wrote:and also negative framing of the color green since the Green Party had just been officially formed in Europe in '79 and was growing off the environmental movement.
This statement is pure woo, that is to say, it is an assumption without basis in any facts whatsoever. The color green has a millenium-long association with evil, envy, jealousy, sickness and death that has been exploited by artists since, ohh... forever. Are we to take it on faith that any Hollywood movie since 1979 featuring a green monster is making a conscious effort to work against the Green Party?
Try context - when the movie was released - and drop the straw men.
Plus your assuming I've done no research on my statement is tiresome by now.
Hugh wrote:- The Green Party and environmentalism were seen as a continuation of the Left which the FBI and CIA had gone to lots of trouble to decapitate back during COINTELPRO/CHAOS.
- Spielberg uses color symbolism just like any other state propagandist.
Black vs white, commie red...then Leftie Green was added to the list.
Spielberg used red-white-and-blue schemes quite a bit in the Reagan death squad 80s when Vietnam Syndrome was still being pumped out of the nationalist ballast tanks.
Hugh wrote:-Perhaps you should know more about how I analyze CIA-Hollywood bilge.
Hugh wrote:Besides the 'Gremlins' movie, for example, I have several picture books of the movie.
This is the case with many of the Spielberg-Lucas-Disney CIA movies I analyze. Because these producers are top shelf USG psyops and you can learn the game from them.
I also try to find the original book a movie is based on to compare and contrast. Like Dahl's original 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' versus the movie version where "Charlie" had to be omitted because it was slang for the commie enemy in Vietnam giving us instead 'Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.' The book has an amazingly long poem against television that was almost disappeared in the movie, for instance.
This tells me more about Dahl's own bent for literacy rather than indicating a non-militarist purity.
Hugh wrote:Movies are also marketed as smaller story books (either graphics or more commonly film stills), coloring books, spin-off character tales, and, of course, figurines and dolls.
These smaller books are very important to the psyops campaign as tangible. These are how I analyzed Dora the Explorer, not by the videos.
Each of the book versions is basically Psyops Concentrate, a collection of propaganda posters carefully chosen to transmit the symbols, semantic differential, positive/negative framing, role models, sanctioned values, and somatic markers...that are the framework of the real time film presentation.
By examining each of the different product versions of a movie (including remakes) I can see what is consistently represented as psyops cues.
The variations are also informative. Some will turn up in the coloring book but not the movie. Probably because coloring in pictures provides more intense focus and exploits sensory-motor development, a highly desired level of neurological involvement and the reason why spooks want boys out playing sports to become warriors, not just watching. See 'Hook.'
But I don't just analyze a movie by itself. There are other psyops products marketed concurrently that are often massaging the same themes.
Hugh wrote:So when CIA-Disney's 'The Black Hole' (1979) picture book does heavy negative framing of green and includes a pictogram telling us the Kremlin controls the Green Party...and CIA-Spielberg does heavy negative framing of green in a thinly veiled allegory about containing communism...
AND I've noted all the color schemes Spielberg uses in all his films and the book stills...I can conclude that the specific statement I made about use of color in 'Gremlins' (1984) is entirely congruent with all other information.
Hugh wrote:barracuda wrote:Hugh wrote:notice the shape of the fake lens flare
What is meant by the word "fake" here? Are you saying the lens flare was digitally added?Can you document this? Or is this more baseless assumption?
Yes, it was added to a key somatic marker, and emotional highlight.
Carefully timed, not a coincidence.
I took a photo off the TV and went to a couple of camera shops to show the old guys behind the counter. They agreed that it was added.
There are such things as pentagonal flares but in tandem with a BELL shape and with that timing? Psyops.
Hugh wrote:Before I noticed this one, I'd already found many uses of subliminal pentagons, especially by Spielberg. They are in Tom Hanks movies (such the shill) and CIA-Disney picture books. Not uncommon. So it's just another one.
Why did you just ignore the BELL shaped one I mentioned?
Does that one impede relishing blanket dismissal and scorn?
Hugh wrote:barracuda wrote:Beyond that, do you have any hard evidence that Disney has tried to downplay or disavow their propaganda work during WW2?
It used to be hard to get ahold of their WWII pieces.
There's an essay online about a professor going to Disney to see some WWII stuff in their vault. They acted like he was trying to steal nuclear secrets.
http://www.ocweekly.com/2004-06-10/film ... -on-earth/It remains one of my favorite college lectures: during a film-history course at Orange Coast College during the late 1990s, professor Steven Valley shared his Kafka-esque ordeal in trying to view propaganda films the Walt Disney Studios produced during World War II. Phone calls to various Disney historians went unanswered, Valley recounted; written requests never reached their destination; visits by Valley to Disney's Burbank archives resulted in trips from one office to another, all to no avail. After months of fruitless inquiry, Disney brass finally relented. They shoved Valley into an unlit basement room, carted in a TV/VCR set, popped in a videocassette containing the desired cartoons, and left him for about three hours. No notes were allowed. No recorders. No questions. Upon the tape's completion, security guards escorted Valley out and told him never to ask for a second screening since it wouldn't happen.
barracuda wrote:Knowledge of their role during the conflict is a commonplace among just about anyone who has any interest in these matters. I have personally been aware of this since early childhood.
This was not a static situation. It changed with...context.
It used to be easy to point at WWII USG work as good citizenship.
But then in 1971 'How to Read Donald Duck' by Chilean scholars exposed Disney for what it is, psyops. The book was successfully kept out of the US for a few years and during the 80s and 90s the WWII work was downplayed.
Eventually it became a better tactic to just let the stuff be seen and not make a big deal out of it.
Later CIA-Disney co-opted the word and named their video game division "Propaganda Games."
http://propagandagames.go.com/propagand ... isney.html
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