‘Act of Valor’: Top to Bottom U.S. Navy Propaganda Film, Uses Active Duty SEALs as Actors, Raw Footage Kept for ‘Training and Other Purposes’
February 4th, 2012Via: Wikipedia:
Act of Valor began as a recruitment video for the U.S. military’s Naval Special Warfare Command. In 2007, Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh of Bandido Brothers Production filmed a video for the Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen SWCC which led the Navy to allow them to use SEALs for Act of Valor. None of the SEALs’ names will appear in the credits of the film.
Relativity Media acquired the rights to the project on June 12, 2011 for $13 million and a $30 million in prints and advertising commitment. Deadline.com called it “the biggest money paid for a finished film with an unknown cast”. The production budget was estimated between $15 million and $18 million.
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The Navy held final cut privileges in order to remove any frames to address security concerns and kept raw footage to use for real-life training and other purposes.
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The core problem in the US of A, among many other deep-seeded pathologies, is the fact that there are millions and millions of people who think this stuff is cool and righteous.
I did too, when I was 12.
Nowadays, this stuff is just a symptom of a very grave sickness that will indeed lead to the death of the organism.
These images provoke so much pride and bravado among the masses of Americans. Until you see the pictures of innocent Iraqi and Afghan citizens massacred by these “heroic” gladiators.
Hail Sparta!