1. Like all great wars, the conflict between North Korea and Hollywood had a complex pre-history.
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2. It's no accident that North Korea is incensed over a movie. Totalitarian dictatorships always aware of the power of cinema.
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3. Film is the totalitarian art form par excellence: think of "Triumph of the Will" or the many classics of Stalinist cinema.
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4. As mentioned earlier Kim Jong-il kidnapped film director and his wife so they would make series of monster movieshttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulgasari
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5. RT @alanjonesxxxv Don't forget the book Kim Jong-Il wrote about art of cinema.
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6. Conversely, over last 20 years Hollywood has found it very convenient to cast North Korea as enemy in films.
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7. In countless movies (Team American, Red Dawn, The Interview), North Korea is enemy, either buffoonishly evil or just evil
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8. North Korea makes a convenient villain because unlike China or Islamic world it isn't a market for globalized film industry.
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@BeaulieuJA Sure, North Korea is horrible dictatorship but it's not global threat which can take over USA (as in Red Dawn).
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