[Alberta's Child]

Another Freeper pointed out the other day that there's a reason Hollywood diminishes U.S. influence in its movies even in cases like this where the movie is based on a true story that is distinctly American from top to bottom.

Hollywood is increasingly catering to an international audience, and therefore looks to make movies as bland and inclusive as possible.

We should probably enjoy this movie while we can. When they remake it 25 years from now, Neil Armstrong will be a black guy and Buzz Aldrin will be an Asian woman.

[Williams]

Bingo, I think the flag is not there so the movie can sell in China.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Another Freeper pointed out the other day that there's a reason Hollywood diminishes U.S. influence in its movies even in cases like this where the movie is based on a true story that is distinctly American from top to bottom."

I was amazed a few years ago at the end of George Clooney's, "Monuments Men," which was based on the true story of the American, British and French art historians who were commissioned to form an allied unit tasked with relocating and returning arts and antiquities looted by the Nazis. The Western allies were frantically racing against the Soviets who were trying to seize as much as they could strictly for reparations. In one of the final scenes they track down a mother load of art that had been secreted away in a salt mine and got as much as they could out of there. When the Soviet team arrived, the were greeted by a huge US flag left there as a big, "FU." I was pleasantly stunned that a scene like that made it to the screen in a movie with Cloony and Damon.

[Gay State Conservative]

I just watched an analysis of Saving Private Ryan the other day.In his analysis the guy pointed out several factual errors that Speilberg made...one being in the opening scene where our guys were in the boats on the way to the beach.In that scene the Sailor skippering the boat was clearly an American.In real life the Sailors skippering those boats were British...which would make sense given that they're sailing from a British port.

If I was a Brit I'd be curious to hear Speilberg's explanation for that factual error.

I've read that at least one person associated with this film (can't recall who) said that the US flag was deleted because this was a "human achievement" rather than an American one.

Spielberg's omission may,or may not,have been intentional.But the deletion of the American flag was *absolutely* intentional.

Feel free to see it if you wish...that's cool.But I'll be too busy.

[EdnaMode]

That’s probably why they bash Trump and America. It plays well overseas.