No, I don't think so, and I think this is a very lazy reading Without defending DoD partnerships with Disney movies as a whole, you have to work really hard to find anything actually pro-Air Force in this movie Like, at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I don't think the Air Force actually cares that the message of the movie is ultimately anti-military, but that's because they don't actually generally care ] They're not movie critics The Navy got all excited about Battleship and it was obvious that movie was a laughingstock
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I mean the sad truth is that a movie can be anti military thematically but unless someone looks at the camera and says “the Air Force does war crimes, don’t join up” all those cool shots of planes and pilots hopping out against a sunset still do their job.
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Replying to @OwenAdamsYT @AlexJThomas and
I am fine with saying that what a movie's plot and dialogue and themes say is often very different from what a movie's moment-to-moment imagery says, and that since cinema is a visual medium the latter is often more important But that doesn't negate the former
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @arthur_affect and
Yeah, I loved the movie and its themes, but there's no denying the undercurrent of "even though the USAF was unfair/sexist, it was ultimately worth it because it's an honorable profession". Carol (& Maria) never reckons with the Air Force's actions beyond that.
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Fury even names the Avengers after her Air Force call sign...
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The USAF has had female *pilots* since the 70s but not *combat pilots* The first woman to become a fighter pilot was in 1993, which was probably part of the decision to set Captain Marvel in 1995
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
This conversation has become so weird for me because someone with a way more extreme take on my contribution has picked up the ball and run with it, and it’s like watching a crazy rhetorical domino rally. Is this what being twitter famous is like?
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