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Jul 09 2007 12:00am EDT

Movie Posters: The New Anti-American Propaganda

HollywoodWireTap.com clued me into this article/photo gallery from Sky News about a series of mock movie posters that have been popping up on Islamic websites. The posters, which feature real pictures of American soldiers, are always in English and, according to the article, include information about how to post on Western websites (the piece is pretty vague about everything else). I can't imagine that they will have any impact. But whoever made them has obviously spent some time studying the marketing of Hollywood movies and there's something unsettling about using this kind of pop-culture expression as anti-American propaganda. But for the soldiers who watch movies like Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, The Boys in Company C, Sands of Iwo Jima to get all amped up for battle, maybe this isn't such a bad way to try to try to influence hearts and minds.

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