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This is a media-age parable inspired by the film Hail, Caesar!.
Cheers,
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Tom Hanks (one of America's two most popular movie-stars) was investing in films about the American 'aesthetic' and as such made movies about American intelligence, American IQ, and American imagination. He made one movie with Meryl Streep about American journalism which featured very authentic period-piece fashions and couture. Hanks was committed to using movie/media to disseminate pro-democratic dialogue regarding aesthetics in the modern age of commerce-based political wisdom. Hanks was a real 'American titan.'
On the 'other-side' of the American culture was the youthful sector, kids, teenagers, and young men and women interested in things like video-games, toys, Facebook, Gap Kids, and free spirit energy motivated fashion sectors such as Kate Hudson's hip fitness-gear company Fabletics, Nickelodeon's presentation of child-friendly cartoons such as Teen Titans Go!, and Chuck E. Cheese's chain of pizza-and-funhouse restaurants across America. In fact, video-game developers were busy designing a new Street Fighter (Capcom) video-game featuring Hudson as the female Cossack-general (warrior) Kloe.
Of course, it wasn't all sunshine and raisins in struggling parts of the world including Eastern Europe and South Africa, where mismanaged commerce, corrupt politics, and questionable 'aesthetics' made kids looking for a 'place in the sun' feel abandoned/lost in the proverbial 'sea of school policy myopia.' How would the democratic half of Earth reach these isolated youngsters simply seeking to embrace the 'American Dream' in this new millennium? Charlize Theron (popular Hollywood actress from South Africa!) decided to sponsor a South African youth-program designed to promote consumerism and American sports-fanfare among youngsters in Johannesburg. Theron's dream was to see that South African youth purchased water-pistols from Amazon.com without thinking too much about 'commerce vanities.' Would these Johannesburg kids enjoy watching NFL-TV from South Africa?
In the Third World countries, undeveloped craftsmanship and poorly-distributed technologies forced laboring women to use basic and somewhat 'backward' tools (kitchen-tools) to prepare meals for their families. The Indian 'boti' (a basic blade-and-board item used for cutting foods on the floor with hand-and-foot), for example, was popular among women in the kitchen but was also responsible for numerous cuts and gashes on hands and feet. Unfortunately, Consumer Reports magazine was nowhere in sight, so these Third World women were as of yet 'untouched' by the 'sheer magic' of commerce-related imagination. How would they be reached (and would they be reached at all)? Would the boti continue to be used as a 'modern Trojan Horse' or would Theron's brand of 'media-engaged idealism' reach the global masses through the new miracles of the world-connected Internet?
Fortunately, Tom Hanks' movie about American journalism (appropriately titled The Post) became a commercial and critical success (though it failed to win any Golden Globe awards!), even though many wondered if it was too controversial with its overt free-speech rhetoric. People around the world (including diplomats at the United Nations) noted how Hanks' film (directed by the great Steven Spielberg!) could symbolize 'new age debates.' This could all turn into some kind of pluralism-friendly world-unifying 'dance' or become some kind of terrorism-catalyzing 'Media-Aesthetics War.' What would Meryl Streep (star of democracy-dissection films such as Lions for Lambs, Sophie's Choice, and The Iron Lady) say?
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Cheers,
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Tom Hanks (one of America's two most popular movie-stars) was investing in films about the American 'aesthetic' and as such made movies about American intelligence, American IQ, and American imagination. He made one movie with Meryl Streep about American journalism which featured very authentic period-piece fashions and couture. Hanks was committed to using movie/media to disseminate pro-democratic dialogue regarding aesthetics in the modern age of commerce-based political wisdom. Hanks was a real 'American titan.'
On the 'other-side' of the American culture was the youthful sector, kids, teenagers, and young men and women interested in things like video-games, toys, Facebook, Gap Kids, and free spirit energy motivated fashion sectors such as Kate Hudson's hip fitness-gear company Fabletics, Nickelodeon's presentation of child-friendly cartoons such as Teen Titans Go!, and Chuck E. Cheese's chain of pizza-and-funhouse restaurants across America. In fact, video-game developers were busy designing a new Street Fighter (Capcom) video-game featuring Hudson as the female Cossack-general (warrior) Kloe.
Of course, it wasn't all sunshine and raisins in struggling parts of the world including Eastern Europe and South Africa, where mismanaged commerce, corrupt politics, and questionable 'aesthetics' made kids looking for a 'place in the sun' feel abandoned/lost in the proverbial 'sea of school policy myopia.' How would the democratic half of Earth reach these isolated youngsters simply seeking to embrace the 'American Dream' in this new millennium? Charlize Theron (popular Hollywood actress from South Africa!) decided to sponsor a South African youth-program designed to promote consumerism and American sports-fanfare among youngsters in Johannesburg. Theron's dream was to see that South African youth purchased water-pistols from Amazon.com without thinking too much about 'commerce vanities.' Would these Johannesburg kids enjoy watching NFL-TV from South Africa?
In the Third World countries, undeveloped craftsmanship and poorly-distributed technologies forced laboring women to use basic and somewhat 'backward' tools (kitchen-tools) to prepare meals for their families. The Indian 'boti' (a basic blade-and-board item used for cutting foods on the floor with hand-and-foot), for example, was popular among women in the kitchen but was also responsible for numerous cuts and gashes on hands and feet. Unfortunately, Consumer Reports magazine was nowhere in sight, so these Third World women were as of yet 'untouched' by the 'sheer magic' of commerce-related imagination. How would they be reached (and would they be reached at all)? Would the boti continue to be used as a 'modern Trojan Horse' or would Theron's brand of 'media-engaged idealism' reach the global masses through the new miracles of the world-connected Internet?
Fortunately, Tom Hanks' movie about American journalism (appropriately titled The Post) became a commercial and critical success (though it failed to win any Golden Globe awards!), even though many wondered if it was too controversial with its overt free-speech rhetoric. People around the world (including diplomats at the United Nations) noted how Hanks' film (directed by the great Steven Spielberg!) could symbolize 'new age debates.' This could all turn into some kind of pluralism-friendly world-unifying 'dance' or become some kind of terrorism-catalyzing 'Media-Aesthetics War.' What would Meryl Streep (star of democracy-dissection films such as Lions for Lambs, Sophie's Choice, and The Iron Lady) say?
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