I'm sure you remember how 'The Sum of All Fears' had the villians re-oriented from the book's realistic portrayal of the followers of the Religion of Peace® to "European Neo-Nazis."
As far as I can figure out the reasoning, to the atheists (universally) of Jewish descent (primarily) that make the decisions in Hollywood, resurgent Nazis are a more credible threat than, say, Islamic terrorists, or totalitarian Communists. The fact that Nazis were beaten but good 60 years ago and have never dared show their toothbrush mustaches in public again, while the commies have killed 100 million and the Muslim religion hundreds of thousands in that same period, seems to have made no impression. (Nor the fact that those two ideologies are no kinder to Jews than Hitler was). The movies always come back to Nazis for villains.
Other good, reliable, Hollywood villians include scientists and businessmen, indistunguishable from Nazis to the average person raised on TV.
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And that is the very reason I did not see "The Sum of All Fears". Enjoyed the book but refused to see the movie. A PC version of a Clancey novel. No thanks.