[pepsi_junkie]

I remember reading an article about 15 years or more ago on the phenomenon of the "vanilla terrorist" in movies. Bottom line, terrorists must be someone whom nobody is offended in seeing portrayed as evil. White males are perfect for this, in Hollywood's view. This article states that this a new phenomenon and replaces the "crazed arab" as the favored bad guy. Who can name three movies in the past 10 years with a crazed arab baddie?

Hollywood's real favorite is the eeeevil rogue military man. I can easily name three of those! Die Hard 2, The Rock, Broken Arrow. join the fun!

[Long Cut]

The last movie featuring crazed Arab terrorists was "True Lies", starring (who else?) Arnold Schwarzenegger. He and his producer were excoriated for it, too.

It made, however, a truckload of $$$.

"I remember reading an article about 15 years or more ago on the phenomenon of the "vanilla terrorist" in movies."

The phenomenon is widely discussed on movie-fan websites. It goes back to the early '90s, and affects ALL mediums' villains. Note that nowadays, even all street gangs are portrayed as "multiracial".

[Long Cut]

" Hollywood's real favorite is the eeeevil rogue military man."

Yep. They also have a penchant for the Evil Rich Capitalist CEO and the Redneck Racist Pig, to name a few. Of course, they have never given up the Nazi or Neo-Nazi, or the Militia Nuts, either. Sometimes, they combine all of the above.

[Denver Ditdat]

Hollywood's real favorite is the eeeevil rogue military man. I can easily name three of those! Die Hard 2, The Rock, Broken Arrow. join the fun!

Crimson Tide, featuring Gene Hackman as the cold hearted, trigger happy skipper of a NOOK-LE-AR submarine. It's a darn good thing Hollywood decided to assign that noble Person of Color Denzel Washington as his XO, cuz without him mean ol' Gene would have started Armageddon.