9. Tellingly, remake of Red Dawn originally supposed to feature China as enemy but changed in production to North Korea.
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10. Correction: Red Dawn changed in POST-production to shift from Chinese enemy to North Korean one.
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11. In making these anti-North Korean films, Hollywood thought it was playing it safe: what possible repercussions could there be?
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12. Shouldn't need to say this, but for the pedants: yes, North Korea horrible dictatorship.
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13. But as horrible as North Korea is, its not a global threat -- and there is a real problem with presenting it as a global threat.
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14. Making a movie like the Red Dawn remake plays into both paranoia and self-important fantasies of North Korean elite.
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15. Now, in making movies Hollywood shouldn't be thinking about their geo-political repercussions or how North Korean elite will react.
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16. But there is curious overlap between N. Korea's usefulness to Hollywood as villain & N. Korean elites feeling they are big global player
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17. Ultimately, the problem is that North Korea was an easy & cheap laugh for Hollywood,
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@speechboy71 True. It's not Hollywood's job to do political commentary, it's their job to make good movies (at which they often fail).
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