Hollywood relentlessly demonizes our enemies *UPDATED*

Hollywood just came out with another movie that relentlessly demonizes the enemy — which would be a good thing if the Hollywood types had figured out that America’s enemy is radical Islam, which has been very open about its desire to kill our citizens and take over our government. The problem with Hollywood — again — is that it’s the gang that doesn’t want to shoot straight. In its latest action adventure movie, The Incredible Hulk, the enemy isn’t old-fashioned Communism (a la Indiana Jones), it isn’t radical Islam (a la no movie ever made), it isn’t men from Mars (which at least has the excuse of being cute and 1950s retro). No, it’s . . . well, read this for yourself (emphasis mine):

As a concession to the existence of the previous “Hulk” movie – though every aspect of it, from the look and the casting on down has been reconceived – we find Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) as a man already coping with his hulkness. Like Dr. Jekyll or a someone in 12-step recovery, Bruce is just trying to get by, one day at a time, working in a Brazilian bottling plant by day and taking private classes in anger management and self-discipline. He knows that if he gets angry, if his heart rate gets up to 200, he will turn into a tremendous green muscle man and start taking apart everything and everybody.

But Bruce is a man on the run. He may want to slip beneath the radar and live with his condition until he can be cured, but the U.S. government – in the person of General Ross (William Hurt) – has other ideas. The Army wants to study Bruce and figure out the science behind what’s happening to him, so as to create other Hulks. They want to weaponize the Hulk technology.

There you have it — the Hollywood set has concluded that the meanest, cruelest, most amoral enemy (because that’s always what the enemy is in a fantasy action adventure movie) is the American military. In Hollywood-land, nobody is more evil than the boy or girl next door who signs up to defend our freedoms. I hope that movie tanks, big-time.

UPDATE:  My bad — and a very girlie one at that.  Thanks to all the comments left educating me about the Hulk’s perpetual battle with the American military — a battle that’s been going since his creation in the Vietnam era.  I had no idea, not having been a Hulk fan in my youth (although I liked Bill Bixby).  I was more Archie and Richie Rich, to be honest.

Having said that, I’m going to go all lawyer-like now and claim that my original point can still exist, sort of — namely, that Hollywood likes having the American military as the enemy.  Hollywood could easily have changed the enemy here, given that we are at War and that Hollywood keeps saying “we support the troops.”  Certainly, in other remakes, Hollywood has been happy to change the enemy.  I think that the Manchurian Candidate is a good example of modern Hollywood’s adaptability — old enemy, Communists; new enemy, American corporations.  Nevertheless, with this movie, Hollywood was happy to go big budget with the same target the comic book created during the Vietnam War — the American Army.

I’ll freely admit that my new, updated, informed argument does not work as well as my original, ignorant point, but I still think the new Incredible Hulk movie works as another indictment of Hollywood’s disdain for and fear of America’s troops