Hollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toyRead the whole friggin' thing.
line, Joe's -- well, "G.I." -- identity needs to be replaced by membership in an "international force based in Brussels." The IGN Entertainment news site reports
Paramount is considering replacing our "real American hero" with "Action Man,"
member of an "international operations team."
Paramount will simply turn Joe's name into an acronym.
The show biz newspaper Variety reports:"G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer."Well, thank goodness the villain -- no need to offend anyone by making our villains Arabs, Muslims, or foreign dictators of any stripe these days, though apparently Presbyterians who talk like Scottie on "Star Trek" are still OK ...
As Reliapundit says, "Sheesh."
Brainwashing the next generation. That's what this is!
ReplyDeleteYep.
ReplyDeleteIt's disgusting. I grew up learning about WWII from my father (who fought in it), and this generations grows up learning, what amount to, fables about the UN "peacekeeping missions."
The most ideal way I can think of to protest this is to go and download Konami's old video game based on GI Joe from 1992. To do that, go to CoolRom and look for the right arcade emulator component, then go to the main file for the game and when the download button appears, you can begin to download the game. And, if you'd like to see what the game is like up front, here's a video recording on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I know, Paramount may have a Captain America movie in the projects, but if this is how they're going to depict the Joes, then I don't have many big hopes for a movie based on the Star Spangled Avenger.