Hollywood's Love Affairs With Surveillance Analysis

When you hear surveillance you think cameras, videos, and eavesdropping, but the Hollywood meaning is protecting all mankind for the better. Author Wille Osterweil, a magazine journalist, of “Hollywood’s Love Affairs with Surveillance” written on 12 May 2014, claims that Hollywood makes surveillance seem like a casual dilemma, although the people are blinded to what Hollywood is really doing. Wille uses movies like Captain America, RoboCop, and The Hunger Games to foreshadow the scenes and the effects they give their audience; allowing them to believe that surveillance is a helpful tool to all governmental activity and the citizens. Osterweil also adds that tactics used by Hollywood are very subtle, without notice, and many people are

When Willie includes the movie Robocop, he notes that surveillance robots were scene to be very helpful by the way they “lowered crime rate.” The goal of the “sponsers” of the film was to get Congress to see how the public really admires these robots and have to take action towards making it a reality. While that may seem like a very perusing argument, its just a movie! let alone a fiction story. Willie admits, “ The conflict driving the film’s plot is a totally false dilemma, because the use of unmanned drones by the state…”( Osterweil 3) By implying this, he is arguing that producers will do anything to get their hands on equipment to better their films. Which is has been proven to be true, because producers main objective is to be the number one film out there. Many times they allow propaganda to be added to their films by the government, just so they can use real tanks and army based weapons to make their films look “cooler” as they imply. They have all these major companies promoting social issues in their films, whether it be surveillance or not these companies will do what it takes to get the people to notice. Wille is absolutely correct many these Sponsors (political activist) are just after making social issues well noticed and to make the government a stronger weapon towards the