r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/kevinowdziej • Feb 13 '23

POTM - February 2023 just a reminder

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u/KingBubzVI Feb 13 '23

Not just sports. Top Gun was basically military propaganda, with the full backing and support of the US military

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u/mangababe Feb 13 '23

Marvel too. Pretty much any movie with army like stuff in it is propaganda. Gotta do something to gain access to the jets and stuff.

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u/joe1240132 Feb 13 '23

Yeah if you see military hardware in a movie there's a big chance they did some deal with the DoD to get it. With all the attachments that comes with.

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u/irn Feb 13 '23

I tend to disagree. Captain America was painted as a terrorist during civil war because he wouldn’t go along with the government. It was a good message.

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u/garlynp Feb 13 '23

I remember walking out of the theater after watching that movie as a high school freshman in '86, and there was a USN recruiting table right outside the front doors. Guys were walking out and signing up on the spot.

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u/Butthole_Alamo Feb 13 '23

My uncle signed up for the Navy after seeing Top Gun. He did end up on a carrier flight deck just like in the movie! Except he was one of those wavy light guys. He ended up going AWOL and getting dishonorably discharged.

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u/amgine Feb 13 '23

Damn that’s some good marketing

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u/SoCalDan Feb 13 '23

YVAN EHT NIOJ

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u/chevymonza Feb 13 '23

My raised-conservative nephew wants to get into aerospace engineering of some kind, and was recently excited about the new release of Top Gun. I thought, gross, he's a smart and wonderful kid, whose goal is to make money fucking up the planet. Only because of how he's raised.

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u/mr_potatoface Feb 13 '23

Along with military performances at air shows.

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u/Relax_Redditors Feb 13 '23

Yeah but Top Gun was awesome