Chapter 1934: Unrelated to the Main Plot (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!!! Please Subscribe!!! Please Recommend!!!)

Kase actually doesn’t have a reputation as a mutant outside, just because she rarely uses her abilities, not because she has any discrimination against mutants…Kase is different from others, she is a rebel. When others think mutants are monsters, she thinks mutants are very cool!

Well, this is actually a cover-up. She became an orphan since she was a child, mainly because of this ability. She can’t remember the details, but she only knows that when she was very young, her ability awakened and caused damage, and she became an orphan… Of course, it wasn’t the kind of parents who died, but she was abandoned.

She is very sure of this, so she knew from a very young age that having superpowers is not a good thing, so she has been hiding it. Unfortunately, she was adopted and abandoned again. Let her understand that the reason why she was abandoned is not because she has superpowers… After all, many mutants have parents.

The most famous one is Bojack Horseman.

This one is also a mutant, but he has become a little… weird. He really has a horse head! His feet are still hooves, it’s really the kind of horse that has become a spirit. But there is no doubt that he is a human, or a mutant.

But this guy is very popular recently!

Perhaps in order to cooperate with government propaganda, Hollywood has been promoting mutants in recent years. Don't think that American movies are really free and unregulated. In fact, there has always been supervision, but others have done it more secretly.

If you look at mainstream Hollywood movies, you will find that this is the propaganda department of the United States!

Rewriting history, making up stories, and even making things out of nothing is simply amazing!

It's comparable to the Nazi propaganda machine!

Hollywood movies have made an indelible contribution to the dissemination of American values. The US government is very clear that Hollywood movies can spread American values ​​more effectively than other media and serve US foreign policy more effectively. Therefore, the US side fully supports the development of Hollywood movies. The US government is a strong backing for Hollywood to go global and become the world's film dream factory. The two can be said to cooperate and promote each other. When World War I broke out, the world film industry was still in its infancy. The US government fully noticed the potential power and value of movies beyond commercial interests and began to work with Hollywood in diplomacy. In 1915, Carl Lehmer, the founder of Universal Pictures, had an indissoluble bond with then-US President Wilson. Lehmer convinced Wilson that Hollywood movies not only brought economic benefits, but were also more effective propaganda media than propaganda departments and could serve as a powerful diplomatic tool.

The year 1918 was a key year for the development of Hollywood movies. This year, the film industry was officially recognized as "a basic industry", which meant that even when the US government was financially tight, the industry could obtain financial support to continue operating, thus providing strong support for the booming development of Hollywood movies. Hollywood did not disappoint the expectations of the US government and efficiently carried out the task of shaping the US national image and promoting American values. By the end of World War I, the Hollywood film industry had become an important part of the US "multifunctional national interest aggregate". The collusion between Hollywood and the US government continued to deepen after the end of World War I and reached its peak during World War II when Roosevelt was in power. In 1942, Roosevelt began to try to establish a new government agency, the Office of War Information (OWI), and used film propaganda to keep Americans supporting the war.

At that time, the "Government Information Guide for the Film Industry" issued by the Wartime Information Bureau was implemented by most Hollywood film companies as a reference to convey the war scenes that the US government wanted people to see through the screen. During World War II, Hollywood filmmakers did their best to help the US government export its values, and successively shot a large number of "main theme" movies, which not only condensed the fighting spirit of Americans, but also promoted close relations with allies.

At this time, the ideological attributes of Hollywood movies were vividly reflected. Hollywood fully cooperated with the US government to promote the image of the United States and conduct political propaganda, and this behavior in turn won it more official support. Whenever Hollywood movies need to expand the market, the US government will spare no effort to clear the way for them. From the end of World War II to the time after that, there are countless examples of cooperation between the US military and political circles and Hollywood, and the filming of many war films has received strong "assistance" from the military. The reason why Hollywood can shoot shocking and realistic pictures is not unrelated to the real site conditions and sophisticated weapons and equipment provided by the US military.

On the one hand, Hollywood has discovered that war films can often make a lot of money and have huge commercial benefits, so it has tried hard to seek military assistance; on the other hand, the US military also attaches great importance to Hollywood's "image charm" that affects the world, so it uses dollars and military equipment to lure Hollywood directors to make films that meet the strategic intentions of the US military and government. Hollywood and the US military leverage each other and take what they need. In the game of interests, both sides maintain a relatively perfect balance between commercial value and the image of the US military. In short, the US government has provided Hollywood with all-round support, laying a solid foundation for Hollywood to dominate the global film industry: in turn, Hollywood movies have served as the best image ambassadors for the United States, and by exporting and spreading its implicit values, they have ideologically "conquered" the people of other countries, removing ideological obstacles for the United States to maintain its global hegemony.

Movies are not just a cultural product. As the most vivid and penetrating propaganda medium packaged by light and shadow technology, movies transcend themselves in that they always carry certain values. Movies convey this value in a way that is easy to entertain and popular with the audience, and directly or indirectly affects the audience's state of mind and mental outlook. Movies do not show any trace of the dissemination of values, but with the help of video narratives to express and disseminate values, the effect is obvious.

Carefully analyze the look and feel of the movie, it contains real, deep, lasting, and touching emotional power. This emotional power is not necessarily fanatical, but it can guide or even influence the audience's value judgment and value pursuit. Although movies are superficially entertaining, commercial and artistic, their basic attribute is their inherent value.

Movies are not simply good-looking pastimes and exciting entertainment, but a medium that continuously transmits values ​​to the outside world. Therefore, film output has become an important part of a country's external communication career. Countries around the world often use movies to shape their national image and spread their thoughts, culture and values. It is undeniable that the United States is particularly successful in spreading values ​​​​through movies. As the largest producer and exporter of contemporary popular culture, the United States has become the "narrator of the world." A powerful weapon for the United States as the "world storyteller" is Hollywood movies. Hollywood movies are an important carrier for exporting and disseminating American values, and their communication effects go far beyond the scope of political and diplomatic propaganda in the general sense.

On the one hand, Hollywood earns huge commercial profits by satisfying the public's viewing interests and selling its film products. On the other hand, Hollywood consciously shoulders the important responsibility of shaping and representing the image of the United States, acting as a sharp tool for cultural penetration and spreading American culture and American style to other countries in the world. Values, achieving a double harvest of box office and value output. The brilliance of Hollywood movies is that they are not shallow-level political propaganda and policy interpretation, but are wrapped in a layer of film and television entertainment and packaged using superb technological means to create shocking audio-visual effects, which have attracted hundreds of millions of people in different countries around the world. Moviegoers are immersed in the sensory enjoyment and aesthetic pleasure brought by the film, quietly using mainstream American ideology to erode their consciousness, ideas, living habits and even their identification with local culture. This kind of erosion will gradually spread and become more and more obvious with the unequal status of both parties in the communication. It will subtly make the audience feel close to and identify with American values, and they will imitate the way of thinking and behavior of the movie characters in their lives, unconsciously. This has created a psychological admiration and yearning for the United States.

In short, Hollywood has built a successful commercial operation model. Many of the movies it produces have smooth visual effects and are favored by the widest audience because they appeal to both refined and popular tastes. However, the most successful thing about Hollywood movies is that they combine the spiritual core with the commercial shell. The organic combination enables the audience to readily accept the American values ​​​​hidden under the surface structure of the film; it uses American values ​​​​to swallow up the value traditions of other parts of the world without resistance, forming a kind of value hegemony.

Hollywood movies have directly or indirectly participated in the shaping of American values ​​and exported them to other countries in a covert manner, having a real impact on the values ​​of people in various countries. By tracing the development history of Hollywood, we can find that the rise of Hollywood into the world's film dream factory coincides with the rise of the United States as a superpower and the United States' vigorous promotion of public diplomacy including the export of values. In this regard, Hollywood movies are undoubtedly an important part of American cultural soft power—Hollywood benefits from government support, market operations, and the promotion of diverse immigrant cultures in exporting American values. First of all, we can feel the strong comprehensive strength of the United States through Hollywood movies, and at the same time, we can also recognize the strong support of the U.S. government from its vigorous development. The interaction between Hollywood and state power is reflected in many historical facts such as policies, legislation, institutional settings, personnel activities, and presidential remarks. Hollywood has never been far away from politics, and American politics and American movies reflect each other because "Hollywood has been too deeply integrated into American culture and can no longer escape American politics."

Secondly, the political communication mechanism of Hollywood movies fully reflects the dual interaction between the state and the market. The state and the market are different organizational forms of power. They construct and influence each other, forming an interrelated but close and complex relationship. Hollywood movies are in the middle of this binary interaction.

So despite Hollywood’s appearance of five or six people, in fact, what they want to film really depends on what the government wants them to film.

Whatever the government needs, they are the vanguard of the government.

For example, the government wanted to claim black people, so a large number of black films appeared. Many of the films even seemed to be losing money, but the major production companies just made them! Do you really think those people are stupid? No!

They are not stupid, on the contrary they are smart. As long as you look carefully, you will find that the movie business is actually not profitable! At least it's not as profitable as imagined, and behind those movie companies are big conglomerates.

For them, movies bring them profits and they are naturally happy. Making money? No one is happy, but that’s it.

Because they make more money in other businesses,

If you lose money on a movie, how much more can you lose? So even though those movies seem to have a box office of over 1 billion, to the big guys behind the scenes, this amount of money is nothing. How much can it cost after paying taxes, box office sharing and other messy deductions?

What they value is the things behind the scenes. Movies won’t bring much profit, but the influence they bring is more valuable than the box office!

Is it because those executives are blind!

Don’t they know that black Snow White is ugly? Don’t they know that dreadlocked mermaids are rubbish?

They know it clearly, but they can’t promote it. After all, they don’t even bother to watch such things. It really doesn’t matter to them whether they make more or less money or even lose more or less money. Anyway, there are plenty of places to make up for it!

The government has begun to pay attention to mutants?

Okay! Let’s shoot mutants!

Whatever is epic and moving, whatever.

Isn’t it just to change the direction of public opinion? They are old players and are really familiar with this set.

Since they want to transform mutants, of course they have to find real mutants. And they can’t be the kind of mutants with deep hatred... At the beginning, it’s a bit provocative. We have to wait until the direction of public opinion has completely changed and needs to be deepened before finding this kind of person. To put it bluntly, it’s just selling misery.

Then Bojack Horseman was chosen.

Although Bojack was born tragically, to be honest, his life is not tragic. His father is a big rancher, rich! He is also educated, otherwise he would have suspected that his mother had an abnormal relationship with horses. Otherwise, how could such a thing be born.

At the same time, his parents are very open-minded. After Bojack was born, they were indeed shocked, but they soon accepted that their child was different.

Then they began to do everything possible to raise the child and give him the best.

Because they were afraid that he would be bullied, they let him grow up on the ranch, taught him to read and write, and took care of everything. Even for fear that he would think too much, the two did not plan to have children, but only raised him. After all, they were still young, and at least they could raise Bojack to sixty years old.

At the same time, their neighbors and helpers were all good people. Although they were shocked at the first time, they soon regarded Bojack as a good child.

Although there were not many friends of the same age, life was not bad.

Later, he could even walk around the town freely (because his daddy was the biggest landowner in the town, and the whole town's land belonged to them! Including the school, hospital, train station, and even supermarkets and small shops, they all belonged to them. The whole town actually worked for them! Who dared not to give them face?)

Then Hollywood took a fancy to him, not only putting his story on the screen, but also letting him be the leading actor and screenwriter!

The most popular thing now is this superstar with a horse's head!

I'm getting off topic. Anyway, Keith didn't like the name of a mutant before, but as she grew up and became rebellious, she liked the name of a mutant instead. It's a pity... her ability is too disappointing!