Tremendous number of "positiver projection of power" films created in the 80s-00s in the US, propaganda flicks, or action flicks featuring bad actors using one positive element of state power against bad actors or bad parts of state power, but there were positive aspects of state
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oh wait were action movies a response to the cold war???
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oh absolutely, everything from james bond to the original top gun to the rambo films (after first blood), anything that featured the russkies as enemy, we still have films that featuring red chinese or red koreans, but you had shit like Red Dawn, Rocky, Manchurian Candidate, etc
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Literally Rocky IV (if I recall) was a cold war thing. Rocky, the last hope of America, vs. Ivan Drago, an analogy to the super soldier concept - apex genetics (might have been genetically enhanced, if I'm not mistaken).
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