About a decade ago, late one night while browsing the internet, I came across a blog post (on a now defunct site) about Hollywood films which could not be made after the events of September 11, 2001. Anyway, the first movie in that short list was ‘Fight Club” which had a strong anti-consumerist message and one final scene in which the protagonist rigs up and blows up a bunch of skyscrapers in the downtown of some American city. The second movie in that list was ‘Starship Troopers’ which pokes fun at American style propaganda and the elite desire to get involved in expensive, endless and un-winnable wars in arid areas. It was also prescient about how the government would blame one unexpected and spectacular “terrorist” strike on some barely known group living far away and how they would then use that event to justify a massive and unwinnable war in an arid part of the world.
Dune, Islam, Arab Nationalism and Star Wars
Dune, Islam, Arab Nationalism and Star Wars
Dune, Islam, Arab Nationalism and Star Wars
About a decade ago, late one night while browsing the internet, I came across a blog post (on a now defunct site) about Hollywood films which could not be made after the events of September 11, 2001. Anyway, the first movie in that short list was ‘Fight Club” which had a strong anti-consumerist message and one final scene in which the protagonist rigs up and blows up a bunch of skyscrapers in the downtown of some American city. The second movie in that list was ‘Starship Troopers’ which pokes fun at American style propaganda and the elite desire to get involved in expensive, endless and un-winnable wars in arid areas. It was also prescient about how the government would blame one unexpected and spectacular “terrorist” strike on some barely known group living far away and how they would then use that event to justify a massive and unwinnable war in an arid part of the world.