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10-31-2007, 01:46 PM
AP. Oct 30. Hollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy 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. A spokes person for paramount said “The slogan a real American Hero is offensive to some people, we are tying to appeal to everyone.” He further stated, in Superman Returns the Slogan Truth, Justice and The American Way were taken out of the movie and some people feel that was the right thing to do. We have to make sure no one is offended.
Harriot Meyer, from American Way responded “This why Americans have lost their nationalism, people do not feel proud being American anymore. We are viewed as a weak country and the American people feel weak because we are always bending over to make sure everyone is not offended. America has lost its way”
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 -- is a double-crossing arms dealer. Otherwise one might be tempted to conclude the geniuses at Paramount believe arms dealing itself is evil.
(Just for the record, what did the quintessential American hero, Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine in "Casablanca," do before he opened his eponymous cafe? Yep: gun-runner.)
According to reports in Variety and the aforementioned IGN, the producers explain international marketing would simply prove too difficult for a summer, 2009 film about a heroic U.S. soldier. Thus the need to "eliminate Joe's connection to the U.S. military."
Well, who cares. G.I. Joe is just a toy, right? He was never real. Right?
Paramount will simply turn Joe's name into an acronym. A spokes person for paramount said “The slogan a real American Hero is offensive to some people, we are tying to appeal to everyone.” He further stated, in Superman Returns the Slogan Truth, Justice and The American Way were taken out of the movie and some people feel that was the right thing to do. We have to make sure no one is offended.
Harriot Meyer, from American Way responded “This why Americans have lost their nationalism, people do not feel proud being American anymore. We are viewed as a weak country and the American people feel weak because we are always bending over to make sure everyone is not offended. America has lost its way”
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 -- is a double-crossing arms dealer. Otherwise one might be tempted to conclude the geniuses at Paramount believe arms dealing itself is evil.
(Just for the record, what did the quintessential American hero, Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine in "Casablanca," do before he opened his eponymous cafe? Yep: gun-runner.)
According to reports in Variety and the aforementioned IGN, the producers explain international marketing would simply prove too difficult for a summer, 2009 film about a heroic U.S. soldier. Thus the need to "eliminate Joe's connection to the U.S. military."
Well, who cares. G.I. Joe is just a toy, right? He was never real. Right?