RE: Is Hollywood working together with the Pentagon?

I think Hollywood give the US audience what they want… all they are interested in is making money.
The US public wants to see American heros saving the day. (Not especially unique… British audiences like James Bond…).

The only influence the military have on Hollywood could only come in two ways in my opinion. One is directly simply by financing or subsidising the movie in some way. (ie Top Gun required the support of the USN and the result was basically a love story (Hollywood) and recruitment video (Navy).)
The other way is more subtle via Military advisers… they could probably influence wardrobe, and military tactics, but if a story demanded one character be evil (ie CIA) and dies at the end I doubt the military advisor could influence a change to make them look nicer.

I did notice in Minority Report that instead of the government guy being responsible the bad guy turned out to be the big business guy… not every movie from the US has an evil government conspirasy…

Sauron
🙂 I wasn’t speaking for myself I was speaking for those poor heathens who don’t even have Satellite TV.
(I get CNN, BBC, Sky News Europe, Sky News Australia, and New Zealand Network News… It is amazing the similarities sometimes… of course the numbers are quite different… if we had the US’s unemployment figures we’d all be out of work… if the US had our unemployment figures the current administration would be crowing… etc etc.)