In real life, terrorists are almost always Muslim. In the movie theater, they are anything but. America’s fictional secret agents, covert operatives and rogue cops who play by their own rules have spent more time battling Serbian terrorists than Muslim terrorists. Before September 11 broke up the party, 24’s Jack Bauer was fighting the international menace of Serbian terrorism. Serbian terrorists also showed up in 1999’s Diplomatic Siege when their “Serbian Liberation Front” took over a US embassy and in 1997’s The Peacemaker with George Clooney rushing to stop a Serb from detonating a nuke in New York City. The United States has remained unscathed by Serbian terrorism, though the same can’t be said for Peter Weller, the star of Diplomatic Siege, and Mimi Leder, the director of The Peacemaker, but not by Muslim terrorist attacks. Despite September 11, the Fort Hood Massacre and the Boston Marathon bombings, Hollywood has however resolutely kept its eye on the real threat. Serbian terrorism. This weekend, Ride Along, which features Ice “F___ the Police” Cube playing a cop, knocked Lone Survivor out of the top spot at the box office, and once again takes on the terrible threat of… Serbian terrorism. When the Serbs aren’t available, the North Koreans have to step in. Red Dawn had to switch its army of invaders who conquer America from the Chinese to the North Koreans. North Korea, unlike China, doesn’t pay Hollywood studios money for the movies it imports. But to be on the safe side, when North Koreans attacked the White House in Olympus Has Fallen, the movie specified that they were extremists. Hollywood wouldn’t want to imply that North Korea’s moderate government might be attacking America. Only the Serbs do that.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:44:55 +0000
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